About Us

Claire Holland
Senior Associate - Babel Fish Group

 Claire is an experienced educator, trainer, researcher, and practitioner in individual and workplace performance enhancement. With PhD thesis exploring aspects of positive psychology with anxiety and stress, Claire specializes in conflict management, engagement and communication. As a facilitator and coach, Claire works with groups in facilitated sessions and individuals in performance enhancement coaching to deepen understanding about situations and contexts and develop communication and action plans. Claire is also a nationally accredited mediator and accredited conflict coach.

Sascha Rixon PhD
Senior Associate - Babel Fish Group

Sascha is an experienced consultant, facilitator, educator, and well-being practitioner with over 15 years’ experience working in management consulting and teaching, learning, and research in the higher education sector. She has a varied academic background (including a Science degree, a PhD in Organisational Behaviour and Linguistics, and a Master of Counselling) and draws upon this diverse knowledge base in her work.

Sascha is passionate about inclusive and respectful workplace communication. She has extensive experience researching and working with healthcare professionals to explore and improve healthcare communication. Three themes that characterise Sascha’s career include developing others, community building, and catalysing change.

Sascha seeks to help facilitate more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisations. She is a member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) Qld Diversity and Inclusion forum, and the Diversity Practitioners Association (DPA).

Karin Knoester
Senior Associate - Babel Fish Group

With broad experience in the public and not for profit sector, Karin has spent the past 20 years in senior executive roles with both World Vision Australia and the Gawler Foundation Inc.  She is a member of the CEO Institute and currently she sits on the Board of the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in Australia and is an active mentor to men and women who aspire to leadership.

Karin has international experience in the areas of training and coaching having worked in these capacities in Hong Kong, Bangkok and New Zealand.

In her spare time Karin can be found trekking or scuba diving in some of the world’s most pristine environments.

Angela Lewis PhD
Associate - Babel Fish Group

Dr Angela Lewis is a skilled workplace and university educator and facilitator. For the past 20 years she has been involved in presenting IT classes and workshops in both the government and corporate sector and works on various project teams as required. This has given her a rich field of experience in IT rollouts, the implementation of new systems and the management of change. Many years of classroom facilitation in both Australia and Asia ensure she has a diverse range of experience and her style of delivery is relaxed and inclusive.

Angela Lewis was awarded a PhD from Deakin University in 2006, is an AITD Accredited Training Practitioner, holds the latest TAA40104 has a Masters degree in Education and is a registered counsellor. She acts as education advisor to both the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors and the Australian Counselling Association.

Bob Dick
Associate

In the distant past Bob Dick has been shop assistant, electrician, draftsperson, recruitment officer, and industrial psychologist. For the past 30 years he has been academic, publisher, consultant, and facilitator. Currently, independent scholarship, consultancy and facilitation take up much of his time.

His consultancy and facilitation is varied, but is primarily directed towards community development and organisation development. He also helps people learn action research, qualitative evaluation, change management, and the communication and facilitation skills which are a foundation for these. In this work he uses highly participative methods to help others to improve their practice while also trying always to improve his own. He lives in the leafy western suburbs of Brisbane with his partner of 31 years, Camilla, in a house frequently overrun by grandchildren.

Simon Kneebone
Associate

Studying psychology and working as a youth worker in Port Adelaide led Simon to establish himself as a cartoonist and illustrator. Using graphics, cartoons and humour to capture and communicate ideas has been the essence of his work with a wide range of community and other organizations for over 25 years.

Simon has worked with many facilitators creating cartoon records of events in a variety of facilitation settings. Developing his graphic facilitation skills is one of Simon’s on-going challenges!

Andrew Rixon PhD
Founder and Director - Babel Fish Group

Andrew Rixon PhD DTM is a leadership coach, researcher and educator with particular interest and passion for innovation, leadership and change. Founder of Babel Fish Group, a boutique management consulting company specialising in positive approaches to leadership and change. Andrew has worked across diverse industry and organisations within Australia and internationally across the US, UK and Asia.

Andrew is the lead author of “Communicating with RESPECT: An action learning approach for health professionals” and founded in 2009 The Story Conference, a highly successful national conference series that focuses on the use and application of story and narrative approaches within organisations and communities.

With significant educator experience across Australian business schools including University of Melbourne, Monash University, Swinburne University and James Cook University. Andrew is a Faculty Member at Griffith Business School.