Merle has 25 years of senior leadership roles in the technology sector across multi-disciplines. Her experience spans corporate marketing, leadership development, culture & reputation, corporate social responsibility and global environmental sustainability. She holds a BA Honours and Masters in Psychology as well as being a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Merle is accredited in Myers Briggs Type Inventory, Hogan Assessment Inventories, and Barrett’s Cultural Transformation Tools and is also a qualified yoga instructor.
She runs her own business and brings to her work a unique blend of corporate knowledge and experience to focus on emergent talent, uncovering hidden superstars and helping to embed new ways of thinking into businesses with a mantra of "Interrupt the Usual".

With a deep love of Jungian archetypes, she recently completed a Research Project through Deakin University’s Business School exploring how a volatile world is changing the leadership narratives for seasoned female professionals and early-career female and male in corporate Australia and the USA. In addition, she was a funded researcher with the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT) in their update of the Pearson Marr Archetype Indicator.