Gabrielle Dolan
Gabrielle Dolan is co-founder and Director of One Thousand & One. She has worked as an independent business management consultant and has held various senior management roles at the National Australia Bank. Her hands-on experience of the challenges organisations face in communicating effectively led her to the power of organisational storytelling.
Gabrielle has had extensive experience in the finance industry, agricultural, manufacturing and not-for-profit sectors. She has held various roles in change management, learning and development and project management. This background puts her in an ideal position to provide expertise on the various applications of organisational storytelling.
Gabrielle’s academic qualifications include a Masters degree in Management and Leadership from Swinburne University and an Associate Diploma in Education and Training from the University of Melbourne. Her current interest is Vietnamese cooking after a recent family holiday to the country.
Yamini Naidu
Yamini Naidu is co-founder and Director of One Thousand & One. She has extensive corporate experience and has worked in a range of industry sectors with senior industry leaders, key stakeholders and company boards. She has worked in a diverse range of roles which including heading up the communications function in an e commerce company and as the National Learning and Development Manager for a Pharmaceutical company, and a national retailer.
Yamini has also taught leadership and management at RMIT University. This passion, experience and knowledge in learning, management and leadership studies are now being directed to organisational storytelling.
Yamini is an economist by training, (but asks you not to hold that against her) with Masters degrees from Bombay University and the London School of Economics and further qualifications in Education and Training from the University of Melbourne.
To satisfy her thirst for continual learning she is also undertaking swimming and Bollywood dancing lessons, although not at the same time. She is also currently training to be a voluntary guide at the National Gallery of Victoria.
