Jo Karabitsios
- Director & Workplace Psychologist
- B. Psy Sc (Hons). M. Org Psych. MAPS. GAICD.
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Jo Karabitsios is a co-founder and Director of Evexia. Jo has over 19 years’ of experience providing organisational psychology services to a diverse client base and 15 years as an entrepreneur and business leader running small to medium consulting firms.
Jo’s consulting focus includes:
- Psychosocial safety risk assessments
- Organisational health and wellbeing intervention
- Complex people risk advisory
- Executive and leadership coaching
- Conflict management, dispute resolution and mediation
- Strategic and business planning
- Team building and lifting performance
- Design and facilitation of training programs and workshops
- Delivery of leadership and team interventions
Jo has extensive expertise in providing advice, strategy and interventions to workplaces and leaders working in high risk, high security environments, frontline services and complex stakeholder scenarios. She specialises in psychosocial safety and risk, having partnered with organisations for over 15 years to assess, understand, manage and improve the workplace experience for staff and stakeholders.
Jo has undertaken organisational consulting projects in multiple public sector Departments and GOCs including: QLD Corrective Services; Crown Law; Transport and Main Roads; Department of Health and multiple HHS across QLD; Department of Environment, Science and Innovation; CCC; Department of Communities; Justice and Attorney General; Police, Fire and Emergency Services; Department of Human Services; Office of the Health Ombudsman; CS Energy; Energy QLD; Stanwell; and a range of private and not for profit organisations including Origin Energy; Arrow Energy; Idemitsu; St Vincents Private; Salvation Army and Mission Australia; and higher education as QUT, University of Queensland, University of Adelaide, Monash and Australian National University.
As a business owner, Jo understands first hand the challenges faced by small to medium enterprise, and the complexity of leading people through uncertainty. Her approach is to create clarity and direction in ambiguity and living the mantra of choosing kindness today and all days. Jo balances the running of Evexia, with the joys of three children, being in nature whenever possible and the challenge of keeping the veggie patch alive.
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