Our Story

Steve Zan

What is your nickname? My kids, and increasingly their friends, call me Dage. I’m not sure how that came about!

What were you doing before Enablo? I headed up the Internal Communications and Organisational Change team at Vanguard, and before that was the General Manager of Marketing Delivery at National Australia Bank.

What’s your vision of employee experience for the future? Employee experience is not about free food and office perks but connecting, empowering, trusting, and valuing your people. The real trick is achieving this aspiration regardless of where, when, and how your people work. And I’ve had first-hand experience of the competitive advantage a connected, enabled, and trusted workforce brings to their organization.

What excites you most about Enablo? Enablo excites me because we are on the frontline of the future of work. Every day I have the privilege of working with customers who positively impact their bottom line by making work better for their people by valuing collaboration, connection, and community.

How do you continue to grow and develop as a leader? I’ve developed a habit of continuous learning through reading, completing courses, or having conversations with people I admire from all walks of life. One of my favorite sayings is that every day is a school day, and curiosity is one of the key traits I look for in members of the Enablo team.

Dave Nixon

Dave’s one of our three Co-founders. An enterprise collaboration engineer and problem solver at heart, he has experience across the tech industry working for the likes of Google, PwC and Cloud Sherpas.

What’s your nickname? “DNix” is my most used nickname. “3AM Dave” is used on the odd occasion. I’ll explain that one some other time.

What were you doing before Enablo? I worked in a variety of roles and companies across the tech industry such as management consulting at PwC, solution architecture at Google. The common thread is the enjoyment of helping clients solve problems. 

What is the thing you’re proudest of at Enablo? Growing the company well beyond the three co-founders and having a tribe of great colleagues just as enthusiastic and empowered to help clients deliver a step change in their employee experience and enable new ways of working. 

What’s your vision of Employee Experience for the future? My vision for EX remains concentrated on three core pillars: delivering ‘engaging’, ‘empowering’, and ‘effortless’ experiences. Effortless experiences are where I see the most room for improvement. I’d love to use a single, unified interface to perform all of my basic day jobs to be done (e.g. actioning to-dos, expenses, approvals, forms). I want to subtract the volume of apps in my life, not add. And I want to be able to have that experience on the device of my choosing, from the location of my choosing.

How do you continue to grow and develop as a leader? Unlearning. I love learning and experimenting with new concepts, frameworks and practices. As technology and work practices constantly evolve, so too does my collaboration toolkit and mindset.

Mark Wyman

One of our three Co-founder’s, Mark’s an innovative engineer with extensive experience across the tech industry working for the likes of PwC, Cloud Sherpas, and more.

What’s your nickname? Why

What were you doing before Enablo? At PwC getting to solve a number of exciting problems in the Innovation and Disruption team primarily using Google technologies.

What is the thing you’re proudest of at Enablo? Enabling some of the most amazing customers and brands with an equally amazing team that supports them! 

What’s your vision of Employee Experience for the future? Given the change to SaaS, employee experience technology is more fragmented than ever before. With Enablo’s services and add-on apps, we are excited to make  Workplace a true platform beyond comms that allows us to tie every piece of an employees experience together to make it seamless while providing insights back to the organisation so that they can continue to improve their employees experience, especially now with the change to remote working.

How do you continue to grow and develop as a leader? By making a whole lot of mistakes. Leadership is hard and not something that comes naturally. I like building things, having tangible outcomes, leadership is different. But having people around me vested in seeing me become a better leader, being open to constructive criticism and being able to take ownership and learn from your mistakes is a good roadmap for becoming a successful leader, I think.

Kappy Prasad

Kate Williams

One of Enablo’s talented Experience Directors, Kate helps customers like Super Retail Group, Afterpay and Virgin Australia deliver best-in-class employee experiences through Workplace. With a career in tech across Customer Success, Marketing and Comms roles, Kate is passionate about helping organisations transform culture, build a rich, inclusive and connected community and future-proof their communications. 

What’s your nickname? ‘Kris Cross’

What were you doing before Enablo? In the past, I’ve worked in the tech industry, across Customer Success, Marketing and Comms roles. I’m passionate about creating best-in-class customer experiences and telling amazing customer stories.

What’s your favourite thing about working for Enablo? Definitely the people, Enablers are the most talented and kind people! I also love helping organisations transform their culture, building communities of passionate, connected people and being part of the #futureofwork. It’s exciting to see how the world is changing so rapidly and how that is reflected on our work environment, especially in 2020.

What’s your vision of Employee Experience for the future? Employee experience and culture will be more important than ever post-2020! It will demand better, more transparent communication and more visible, authentic leadership. Organisations will need to have a people-first mentality paired with human-first technology to attract great talent and succeed long-term.

What app do you wish existed? More custom interior design apps using virtual reality and augmented reality. There’s so much opportunity there!

Lotte Niens

Lotte’s a passionate communications expert who loves to help companies transform into communities. She’s worked in different communication and education roles across a number of industries including telco and retail. Lotte’s particularly passionate about employee experience and loves inspiring others to build great experiences. 

What’s your nickname? Moskou (long story – but mostly due to my  haircut)

What were you doing before Enablo? Cleaning nappies 🙂  – I joined Enablo right after finishing my maternity leave. Before that I worked for nbn as the Corporate communications and digital Lead. Here I rolled out Workplace four years ago, managed the platform and was responsible for driving the digital employee experience.

What’s your favourite thing about working for Enablo? Without a doubt – the people I work with. This team is so full of knowledge and excitement which really inspires me to do my best work. Next to our wonderful team, I also love the work I get to do with clients. Every company has its own unique challenges and I get excited about solving them using my expertise and knowledge.

What’s your vision of Employee Experience for the future? These current uncertain times have placed a spotlight on the need for corporate resilience and the ability to embrace virtual collaboration tools and practices. I believe the future of employee experience is fluid and employees seamlessly flow between different apps and tools. Transparency, authenticity and connectivity will be crucial for companies to continue to innovate and adapt quickly.

What is the achievement you’re most proud of and why? My 5 minutes of fame when I was on the Dutch version of “So You Think You Can Dance”. Not so much because I love the spotlight (although I secretly do), mostly because it was an amazing achievement after an incredibly hard time.  I spent over 3 years in a wheelchair and on crutches after a bad injury and was told I might not walk 

Rob Burden

Rob has more than 20 years of experience creating Data-Driven Customer Experiences. He started his career in London in the post-Dot.com crash working in Digital Technology Start Up’s including his own Digital Music eCommerce Business, later moving into Performance focused Digital Agencies and most recently working in Blue Chip corporates.

Rob’s career journey across start-ups, agencies and blue chips has had a common thread around the convergence of data, technology and people to deliver highly effective Customer Experiences that continuously evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of customers and organisations.

What is your nickname? Rob

What were you doing before Enablo? Working as the Head of Digital Marketing for Latitude Financial Services, my role encompassed the delivery of BAU personalised customer communications and leading the evolution of Latitude’s customer communications capability (technology, people and processes).

What’s your vision of employee experience for the future? The future of work will see more people working fully remotely and companies becoming even more reliant on technology solutions to drive collaboration, connection, a sense of purpose and a more human-centric approach to each of their employee’s working days. Employees will become more engaged and effective at their jobs, and companies will have more in-depth insights into each of their employees to help them mould a more personalised and effective employee experience.

What excites you most about Enablo? Enablo’s secret sauce is bringing together market-leading technology and superior expertise to design tailored solutions that solve companies’ key needs to drive hybrid employee engagement, employee retention, agility and speed of information flow across their organisations. Outside of the offering and being at the forefront of the Future of Work; coming to work each day to work with smart, enthusiastic and fun people that support each other and want to do great work is hugely refreshing.

What’s the one thing you couldn’t live without? Breathing! Without it we would not be able to survive; with it, you can change your physical state in minutes, by using different breathing techniques I can manage my reaction to the world around me and be a more effective human.

Dave Nixon

Dave’s one of our three Co-founders. An enterprise collaboration engineer and problem solver at heart, he has experience across the tech industry working for the likes of Google, PwC and Cloud Sherpas.

What’s your nickname? “DNix” is my most used nickname. “3AM Dave” is used on the odd occasion. I’ll explain that one some other time.

What were you doing before Enablo? I worked in a variety of roles and companies across the tech industry such as management consulting at PwC, solution architecture at Google. The common thread is the enjoyment of helping clients solve problems. 

What is the thing you’re proudest of at Enablo? Growing the company well beyond the three co-founders and having a tribe of great colleagues just as enthusiastic and empowered to help clients deliver a step change in their employee experience and enable new ways of working. 

What’s your vision of Employee Experience for the future? My vision for EX remains concentrated on three core pillars: delivering ‘engaging’, ‘empowering’, and ‘effortless’ experiences. Effortless experiences are where I see the most room for improvement. I’d love to use a single, unified interface to perform all of my basic day jobs to be done (e.g. actioning to-dos, expenses, approvals, forms). I want to subtract the volume of apps in my life, not add. And I want to be able to have that experience on the device of my choosing, from the location of my choosing.

How do you continue to grow and develop as a leader? Unlearning. I love learning and experimenting with new concepts, frameworks and practices. As technology and work practices constantly evolve, so too does my collaboration toolkit and mindset.

Mark Wyman

One of our three Co-founder’s, Mark’s an innovative engineer with extensive experience across the tech industry working for the likes of PwC, Cloud Sherpas, and more.

What’s your nickname? Why

What were you doing before Enablo? At PwC getting to solve a number of exciting problems in the Innovation and Disruption team primarily using Google technologies.

What is the thing you’re proudest of at Enablo? Enabling some of the most amazing customers and brands with an equally amazing team that supports them! 

What’s your vision of Employee Experience for the future? Given the change to SaaS, employee experience technology is more fragmented than ever before. With Enablo’s services and add-on apps, we are excited to make  Workplace a true platform beyond comms that allows us to tie every piece of an employees experience together to make it seamless while providing insights back to the organisation so that they can continue to improve their employees experience, especially now with the change to remote working.

How do you continue to grow and develop as a leader? By making a whole lot of mistakes. Leadership is hard and not something that comes naturally. I like building things, having tangible outcomes, leadership is different. But having people around me vested in seeing me become a better leader, being open to constructive criticism and being able to take ownership and learn from your mistakes is a good roadmap for becoming a successful leader, I think.

Eran Gil

CEO, AllCloud

Serial Entrepreneur, investor and board member of early/growth stage start-ups.

Michael Cohn

Managing Partner, Overline VC

Founder-operator with the singular mission of helping all-star founders make it through the gauntlet—from concept on a whiteboard, to a sustainable business at scale. 

Thomas Hackett

Director at PKF Hacketts

Career spanning the commercial sector in banking and finance. Specializing in corporate advisory. 

Daragh McGrath

Cofounder of Enablo Daragh has been fortunate to work for, or partner with, some of the world’s most widely recognized technology companies to help customers digitize their world of work.

What’s your nickname? Dadge or DJ – depending on who you ask.

What were you doing before Enablo? I was working at Microsoft, managing one of their largest Azure customers globally.

What is the thing you’re proudest of at Enablo? The strength of our partnership with Meta.

What’s your vision of Employee Experience for the future? Having all companies feeling like a community, no matter where in the world you work from.

What’s the most important risk you took and why? Quitting my nice paying job to take a bet on building a business around Workplace when almost no-one had heard about it.