Meet Our CEO

Portrait of Kooyoora CEO Fiona Boyle a middle-aged woman with shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a patterned blouse, standing outdoors with blurred green foliage in the background.

Fiona Boyle

Fiona, our CEO, is a registered psychologist with business management qualifications and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Before joining Kooyoora, she served as CEO of Gippsland Centre against Sexual Assault for over 9 years, where she initially worked as a Counsellor/Advocate and Senior Clinician. Her experience led her to focus on understanding the well-being of individuals, teams, and organisations, given her responsibility for an organisation primarily dealing with trauma.

Fiona's background includes work in private practice, community health settings, and therapeutic programmes, including working with children who have experienced family violence and victims of crime. She has also provided professional supervision to therapists and mentoring to CEOs.

She takes pride in her advocacy work, particularly in establishing multidisciplinary centres in Gippsland and across the state. Fiona has also contributed to giving children a voice in out-of-home care and child protection care planning meetings.

Meet Our Board

Our committed governance board comprises passionate individuals dedicated to combating child neglect and abuse, playing a pivotal role in advancing our mission. They wholeheartedly dedicate relentless efforts to create a brighter future for children in Australia and New Zealand.

Portrait of Kooyoora Board Member Damian Neylon a middle-aged man with glasses, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and tie, against a gray background.

Damian Neylon LL.B. B.Comm. (Kooyoora Chair)

Damian Neylon has practised as a lawyer for over 35 years, principally in commercial and estate disputes. Damian has had considerable Board experience. From 2007 to 2016 Damian was a Board Member of Anglicare Victoria and was the Chair of the Board between 2009 and 2016. Damian was also a member of the Committee of Management of Banksia Palliative Care Inc. from 1994 to 2014 as well as being the President of the Committee for a number of years.

Kooyoora Board Member Bruce Thompson. A man with glasses smiling outdoors in front of buildings, trees, and a partly cloudy sky.

Bruce Thompson B.App.Sci, CRFS, FANZSRS, FAPSR, FThorSoc, PhD

Professor Thompson is Head of the Melbourne School of Health Sciences. Bruce currently serves on Boards of both not for profit and ASX listed companies.

Kooyoora Board Member Alison Goss. A woman with shoulder-length auburn hair smiling, wearing a floral-patterned top and earrings, against a gray background.

Alison Goss B Adult Learning and Development, MComm (HR Management)

Alison Goss is Director, Organisational Development at Ambulance Victoria. Alison is a Human Resources professional.

Alison is a highly accomplished senior leader with extensive strategic and operational experience in talent, culture, capability, business partnering, change management, policy, and recruitment.

Kooyoora Board Member Dr. Leanne Beagley. A woman with wavy dark hair wearing a black blazer and white top, smiling at the camera.

Dr. Leanne Beagley Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology/Organisational Dynamics) PhD RMIT

  • Master of Laws (Human Security Law), LLM ANU

  • Graduate of the AICD (Australian Institute of Company Directors)

  • Master of Business Leadership MBL RMIT

  • Graduate Diploma Family Therapy, RMIT

  • Bachelor Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) LaTrobe

Leanne has broad clinical, policy, governance and leadership experience within the mental health, primary health care and social services sectors. She is particularly focused on the development and inclusion of lived experience voices and wisdom in all our work. She seeks to work at the interface of human disadvantage and she is interested in the dynamics of power and what drives the tactics of exclusion particularly at an organisational level.

Carly Edwards (LLB)

Carly is an accomplished public sector leader, policy specialist and lawyer with over 20 years of experience advising ministers, executives and senior decision-makers. She has extensive experience leading major reform programs, navigating complex policy and legislative environments, and delivering outcomes through periods of significant change. Carly is recognised for strategic leadership, influential stakeholder engagement and the ability to translate complex issues into clear, actionable advice.