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St Clare’s College is a Catholic school, educating girls from Year 7 to Year 12. Rich in history, St Clare’s was established in 1884. We honour our Catholic heritage and the teachings of St Clare and St Francis of Assisi.
The College has a collective vision that is committed to future-focused learning. This is complemented by our focus on the ‘knowledge arts’, which consists of learning to learn, critical thinking, collaboration, the skills of inquiry, communication, reasoning, problem-solving and creativity. We believe that these components combine to be integral to a student's success.
We encourage each student to connect with their academic passions and interests, by offering a personalised learning program, delivered in a positive environment that inspires excellence and fosters leadership.
St Clare’s teachers are dynamic educators who approach learning holistically, delivered in our flexible and interactive learning spaces. We provide learning opportunities beyond the classroom, partnering with tertiary institutions, industry and the broader community. The College also provides gifted education and targeted learning programs to cater for students with a wide range of interests and abilities.
St Clare’s College is committed to remaining at the forefront of contemporary pedagogical practices and seeks to ensure that we are positioned as a leading centre of learning excellence. We believe it is our duty and privilege to prepare and equip students for the challenges and opportunities that await them beyond the school gates.
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Tower 4, Level 16, 727 Collins Street, Docklands, VIC 3008
St Clare’s College is a Catholic school, educating girls from Year 7 to Year 12. Rich in history, St Clare’s was established in 1884. We honour our Catholic heritage and the teachings of St Clare and St Francis of Assisi.
The College has a collective vision that is committed to future-focused learning. This is complemented by our focus on the ‘knowledge arts’, which consists of learning to learn, critical thinking, collaboration, the skills of inquiry, communication, reasoning, problem-solving and creativity. We believe that these components combine to be integral to a student's success.
We encourage each student to connect with their academic passions and interests, by offering a personalised learning program, delivered in a positive environment that inspires excellence and fosters leadership.
St Clare’s teachers are dynamic educators who approach learning holistically, delivered in our flexible and interactive learning spaces. We provide learning opportunities beyond the classroom, partnering with tertiary institutions, industry and the broader community. The College also provides gifted education and targeted learning programs to cater for students with a wide range of interests and abilities.
St Clare’s College is committed to remaining at the forefront of contemporary pedagogical practices and seeks to ensure that we are positioned as a leading centre of learning excellence. We believe it is our duty and privilege to prepare and equip students for the challenges and opportunities that await them beyond the school gates.
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This includes a full commitment to the use of strengths to help their people “be real” and become authentic leaders. The Leading for Performance Program uses evidence-based strengths methodology to help leaders define their talents and aim them into powerful and unique capabilities. The program is deployed to regional leadership teams to enhance the social learning experience, and help leaders form powerful strength-based partnerships with their colleagues to achieve greater productivity and engagement.
Leaders complete Gallup’s Clifton Strengths assessment and receive a thorough debrief with a strengths coach – in fact, Tradelink now directly employs a globally certified Gallup coach – and the learning journey progresses with a series of facilitated virtual sessions, targeted coaching, on-the-job reflection activities as well as a graduation assessment.
Crucially, strengths leadership isn’t a one-off learning program: it is a systemic change to the way the organization looks at leadership, performance, and talent. Leading for Performance is a leader-led, team-based, and story driven experience that successfully shifts the narrative to a new way of conceptualizing leadership to drive performance. The program has been delivered to over 80 leaders in the last 12 months, with the involvement of a range of internal stakeholders and accredited strengths experts. And the results have been exceptional, so much so that the success of the program has been noted outside Tradelink, with other businesses planning to pick up the same model.
It’s clear that whether on the frontline, in one of the branches, or enabling the company behind the scenes, Tradelink’s people have the greatest impact on its present and future success – and Tradelink understands their value. Committed to building a thriving, daring, curious, connected and customer-focused culture that is underpinned by learning and strength-based leadership, Tradelink is a business positioned for growth. In fact, the ability for anyone to begin or progress a career with Tradelink is a key people-priority. And there’s never been a better time to join the Tradelink team: with clear vision, strategy and people frameworks, the company’s progress is remarkable.
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Darcy R. Merkur
Personal Injury
Michael L. Bennett
Personal Injury
Sloan H. Mandel
Personal Injury
David F. MacDonald
Personal Injury
Leonard H. Kunka
Personal Injury
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Vikki Spencer
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Luke Naish
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Aleks Mladenovic is a partner in the Personal Injury Group at Thomson Rogers with a particular focus on health law, medical malpractice and personal injury litigation. He has represented personal injury plaintiffs at the trial and appellate court levels. Aleks has authored numerous articles on litigation and the importance of the litigation process in ensuring safety in medical care. He is a member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, The Advocates’ Society and the Medical-Legal Society. Prior to joining Thomson Rogers, Aleks worked in the United States and Canada on behalf of physicians in medical negligence matters. As such, Aleks has a keen understanding of both sides in personal injury matters and medical cases in particular.
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Aleks Mladenovic
Darcy Merkur is a partner at Thomson Rogers. As a trauma lawyer and a Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation, Darcy handles a multitude of complex, serious personal injury cases on behalf of accident victims and their families and has had many great successes. He has built a reputation as an innovator in the personal injury field having designed a revolutionary computer program for use in quantifying personal injury claims titled “The Ontario Personal Injury Damages Calculator.” Darcy is proud to hold numerous prestigious credentials and is the only lawyer in Canada Certified as a Brain Injury Specialist by the Brain Injury Association of America.
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Darcy R. Merkur
Michael Bennett was admitted to the Law Society of Ontario in 2000. Since that time, he has worked exclusively in the field of Personal Injury Law. In his first two years of practice, Michael represented several insurance companies and the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee. Michael has now restricted his practice to the representation of injured persons and their families. Michael has appeared before the Ontario Court of Appeal, Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Financial Services Commission of Ontario, the Licencing Appeals Tribunal and other regulatory bodies on subjects concerning insurance coverage, benefit entitlements, the rights and responsibilities of insurers and Catastrophic Impairment issues. Michael is willing to go the extra mile to see clients receive the treatment they require and deserve with a special interest in complicated orthopaedic injuries, brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. Michael Bennett has worked at Thomson Rogers since 2002 and has been a partner since 2008.
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Michael L. Bennett
Sloan Mandel is a senior partner at the law firm Thomson Rogers. His practice focuses exclusively on personal injury and medical malpractice litigation on behalf of plaintiffs. Sloan has been published extensively in both medical and legal texts and journals. He is a past member of the Ontario Bar Association Health Law Executive and regularly lectures doctors, lawyers, and health care professionals at a variety of educational seminars. Sloan has a wealth of court and litigation experience, achieving some of Ontario’s largest personal injury and medical malpractice settlements and judgements.
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Sloan H. Mandel
David MacDonald is a senior partner at Thomson Rogers. He takes pride in working with his clients and engaging excellent rehabilitation professionals, devoting his full efforts to help his clients recover, work towards restoring meaningful and productive lives and receive maximum compensation for their losses. David MacDonald is a trial lawyer who conducted Toronto’s first personal injury paperless iPad trial. He has been going to trial and settling catastrophic plaintiff personal injury cases and helping car, pedestrian, ATV, motorcycle and boating accident victims who have suffered catastrophic injuries for more than twenty-five years. David has led as a board member of Peel Halton, Toronto and Hamilton Brain Injury Associations. In 2003, the Ontario government selected David from all personal injury lawyers in the province and appointed him to the Superintendent’s Executive Committee to implement Ontario’s Auto Reforms. David publishes and lectures to lawyers, adjusters and health care professionals on Catastrophic Injury Determination across the province.
Personal Injury
David F. MacDonald
Leonard Kunka has been a partner at Thomson Rogers since 1989. Leonard’s litigation practice is dedicated to helping victims and families who are coping with the effects of a serious injury. Leonard has extensive trial experience, successfully representing seriously injured individuals and their families, in all types of injury cases. His litigation department includes an experienced and caring group of law clerks and legal assistants who work with him as a team to achieve the best possible results for his clients. Leonard’s father suffered a devastating traumatic brain injury many years ago. Living with a family member who was recovering from a traumatic brain injury has given him a unique understanding of the challenges faced by an individual with a head injury. This experience has also created in him, compassion and empathy for injured persons and their families.
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Leonard H. Kunka
Nadia Golenkova is an experienced HR and L&D professional with a passion for delivering high-impact and contemporary organisational solutions. With a master’s degree in business and over 15 years of experience, she contextualises capability development into broader organisational strategy. She is currently leading Tradelink’s digital learning and leadership transformation journey. Experienced across multiple industries including manufacturing, engineering and construction, financial services, and technology, she can balance best-fit solutions with innovative and contemporary practice. Strongly committed to the advancement of the HR profession, she serves on the AHRI State Council and lectures for the Executive MBA Program with QUT.
Learning & Development Manager
Nadia Golenkova
Vikki Spencer is a commercially focused people and performance leader overseeing the strategic and operational functions of HR to create an engaged, innovative and agile workplace that attracts the best talent. Her role at Tradelink includes supporting the business with all HR needs from talent and performance development through to culture, engagement, succession planning, and reward. She has led initiatives that span restructures and change, talent development, HRIS, remuneration strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and leadership development. She brings over 17 years of experience in the HR field and holds a postgraduate diploma in HR from the University of Auckland.
Head of People & Performance
Vikki Spencer
Paul Dudney is an experienced business leader with strong business development experience within established and start-up businesses. He has worked for Australia’s leading retail companies right across Australia, taking leadership roles across all critical retail business disciplines. At Tradelink, he leads the retail branch network, the company’s largest commercial function,
and is responsible for over 1,000 people. His commitment to excellence, drive for growth, and passion for strengths-based leadership has shaped the transformation of this critical function and continues to set new standards.
He is completing an MBA at the University of Notre Dame.
General Manager, Operations
Paul Dudney
Luke Naish is an accomplished executive with over
20 years of experience across the Australian and New Zealand markets with significant senior leadership experience in consumer electronics, retail trade, telecommunications, distribution and bulk goods retail. He has led the successful transformations of some of Australia’s most recognisable brands. His versatility, energy and active communication style has built a strong “can do” culture amongst his teams. At Tradelink, Luke puts significant emphasis on implementing a customer-centric retail environment through a relentless focus on service and team empowerment. He holds a Bachelor
of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours.
Executive General Manager
Luke Naish
You can’t get a more down-to-earth industry than plumbing, and Tradelink’s “Real People. Always” mindset shows a commitment to helping their people lead and perform with authenticity!
With over 150+ years of experience, 1,350 dedicated and passionate team members,
and a rapidly growing network of over 220 branches in every state and territory, Tradelink is established and trusted in the industry – but they’re not done yet.
A national plumbing retail and distribution business servicing SME and commercial plumbing, building, housing and civil construction industries, Tradelink has a clear vision of its path forward and an aggressive strategic agenda to get there. Tradelink, which is also part of the Fletcher Building group, a multinational business that is manufacturing
Nadia Golenkova
Learning & Development
Manager
Vikki Spencer
Head of People
& Performance
Paul Dudney
General Manager, Operations
Luke Naish
Executive
General Manager
Leadership
Nadia Golenkova is an experienced HR and L&D professional with a passion for delivering high-impact and contemporary organisational solutions. With a master’s degree in business and over 15 years of experience, she contextualises capability development into broader organisational strategy. She is currently leading Tradelink’s digital learning and leadership transformation journey. Experienced across multiple industries including manufacturing, engineering and construction, financial services, and technology, she can balance best-fit solutions with innovative and contemporary practice. Strongly committed to the advancement of the HR profession, she serves on the AHRI State Council and lectures for the Executive MBA Program with QUT.
Learning & Development Manager
Nadia Golenkova
Vikki Spencer is a commercially focused people
and performance leader overseeing the strategic and operational functions of HR to create an engaged, innovative and agile workplace that attracts the best talent. Her role at Tradelink includes supporting the business with all HR needs from talent and performance development through to culture, engagement, succession planning, and reward. She has led initiatives that span restructures and change, talent development, HRIS, remuneration strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and leadership development. She brings over 17 years of experience in the HR field and holds a postgraduate diploma in HR from the University of Auckland.
Head of People & Performance
Vikki Spencer
Paul Dudney is an experienced business leader with strong business development experience within established and start-up businesses. He has worked for Australia’s leading retail companies right across Australia, taking leadership roles across all critical retail business disciplines. At Tradelink, he leads the retail branch network, the company’s largest commercial function, and is responsible for over 1,000 people.
His commitment to excellence, drive for growth, and passion for strengths-based leadership has shaped the transformation of this critical function and continues to set new standards. He is completing an MBA at the University of Notre Dame.
General Manager, Operations
Paul Dudney
Luke Naish is an accomplished executive with over
20 years of experience across the Australian and New Zealand markets with significant senior leadership experience in consumer electronics, retail trade, telecommunications, distribution and bulk goods retail. He has led the successful transformations of some of Australia’s most recognisable brands. His versatility, energy and active communication style has built a strong “can do” culture amongst his teams. At Tradelink, Luke puts significant emphasis on implementing a customer-centric retail environment through a relentless focus on service and team empowerment. He holds a Bachelor of Economics
and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours.
Executive General Manager
Luke Naish
Nadia Golenkova
Learning & Development Manager
Vikki Spencer
Head of People
& Performance
Paul Dudney
General Manager, Operations
Luke Naish
Executive
General Manager
Leadership
Learning & Development Manager
Nadia Golenkova
Head of People & Performance
Vikki Spencer
General Manager, Operations
Paul Dudney
Luke Naish is an accomplished executive with over 20 years of experience across the Australian and New Zealand markets with significant senior leadership experience in consumer electronics, retail trade, telecommunications, distribution and bulk goods retail. He has led the successful transformations of some of Australia’s most recognisable brands. His versatility, energy and active communication style has built a strong “can do” culture amongst his teams. At Tradelink, Luke puts significant emphasis on implementing a customer-centric retail environment through a relentless focus on service and team empowerment. He holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours.
Executive General Manager
Luke Naish
Paul Dudney is an experienced business leader with strong business development experience within established and start-up businesses. He has worked for Australia’s leading retail companies right across Australia, taking leadership roles across all critical retail business disciplines. At Tradelink, he leads the retail branch network, the company’s largest commercial function, and is responsible for over 1,000 people. His commitment to excellence, drive for growth, and passion for strengths-based leadership has shaped the transformation of this critical function and continues to set new standards. He is completing an MBA at the University of Notre Dame.
Vikki Spencer is a commercially focused people and performance leader overseeing the strategic and operational functions of HR to create an engaged, innovative and agile workplace that attracts the best talent. Her role at Tradelink includes supporting the business with all HR needs from talent and performance development through to culture, engagement, succession planning,
and reward. She has led initiatives that span restructures and change, talent development, HRIS, remuneration strategy, mergers and acquisitions,
and leadership development. She brings over 17 years of experience in the HR field and holds a postgraduate diploma in HR from the University of Auckland.
Nadia Golenkova is an experienced
HR and L&D professional with a passion for delivering high-impact and contemporary organisational solutions. With a master’s degree in business
and over 15 years of experience, she contextualises capability development into broader organisational strategy. She is currently leading Tradelink’s digital learning and leadership transformation journey. Experienced across multiple industries including manufacturing, engineering and construction, financial services, and technology, she can balance best-fit solutions with innovative and contemporary practice. Strongly committed to the advancement of the HR profession, she serves on the AHRI State Council and lectures for the Executive MBA Program with QUT.