Ms. Allison Doyle has been appointed to the position of Chief People and Wellbeing Officer with the National Disability Insurance Agency

Ms. Allison (Ally) Doyle has been appointed to the position of Chief People and Wellbeing Officer with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and commenced in February 2024. In this position she will embed a deep commitment to improve outcomes and create a strong culture of inclusion for people with disability. In this role, Ally will ensure the NDIA has effective and efficient processes and programs to hire, retain, and develop talent and will also oversee the broader employee experience including work health and safety, management of industrial relations and the NDIA’s employee agreement.

Ally joined the NDIA as the Chief People and Wellbeing Officer after just over two years leading Culture and Inclusion at the ATO.  In this role she was responsible for developing innovative, aspirational people strategies and bringing them to life to enrich the work experience of people at the ATO.

Ally has previously held leadership roles in Defence as the Assistant Secretary for Defence Learning and in the former Department of Human Services in large and complex service delivery areas. Prior to joining the APS, Ally had a 13-year international career as an educator and education leader in Australia, The Netherlands, England and Argentina.

Ally is passionate about perpetual learning, the great privilege and responsibility that comes with leadership and building high performing teams. Ally is committed to bringing out the best in the people she leads, and inspiring a collective focus on, and ownership of, outstanding outcomes.

Promoted to the Senior Executive Service in August 2018, Ally is an active champion for diversity and inclusion and has recently led ‘in-country’ projects partnering with governments in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, to further their social inclusion efforts.