Kylie Van Luyn is a purpose-driven employment services leader, with a strategic mind and person-centric heart. As someone with extensive history in executive leadership, working with a wide range of not for profit and NGOs in the employment, disability and social enterprise sectors, Kylie is on a mission to make a difference and a champion for those who are less advantaged in society.

Kylie often speaks on panels and on stage about how to embrace Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace.

Currently Kylie is the Director of Employment Services & Social Enterprise at Settlement Services International (SSI), a Keynote Speaker, and the 2019 Telstra Business Women’s Awards Finalist. She currently leads three employment programs at SSI. The Disability Employment Services (DES) Program, The Refugee Employment Support Program (RESP), and The ParentsNext program.

In this podcast episode, Kylie talks about:
1. What it's like leading a team in employment services.
2. Important decisions she makes as a leader.
3. The impact she and her team are making in changing jobseekers' lives.
4. Stories of individuals whose lives have been changed.
5. The different employment services contracts she works on.
6. The misconceptions about disability employment.
7. The advice she gives to organisations about embracing diversity and inclusion.
8. Why diversity without inclusion is a problem.
9. Her leadership advice for current and future employment services leaders.
10. Her purpose and why for working in employment services.

You can connect with Kylie van Luyn on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylie-van-luyn-420931b2/

You can find out more about SSI Employment Services: hhttps://www.ssi.org.au/services/employment

To find out more about the training, coaching and consulting we provide to employment service providers you can go here: https://www.employmentservicestraining.com/