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Account Executive @ Deel | 🌍 🌎 Posting about Startups in ANZ.

As an Account Executive at Deel, I help companies in Australia and New Zealand scale their teams and operations with the best HR platform in the world. I have over five years of experience in various selling and B2B sales environments, including SaaS, FMCG, and founding a skincare company.

I am passionate about growth startups, regional economies, ag-tech, alternative medicine development, basketball, equal opportunity for migrants. I also post weekly about startups in APAC, reaching over 150k impressions in the past year. I love to chat and connect with people who share my interests or need my support. Feel free to message me below or contact me at michael.tsakirellis@deel.com or michael.tsakirellis@gmail.com. You can also call me at 0438352334.

Michael Tsakirellis

REA Group

Shaping what the next chapter of culture looks like at REA. From equity strategy to leadership behaviours, I’m here to turn intent into action and make sure inclusion isn’t just a comms slide. 

Trusted to challenge, backed to build and encouraged to bring my full self with me. Let’s lead like it matters.

Culture + DEI Lead

PeopleStack

🚀 People Stack helps early-stage founders build teams they can actually lead, without hiring a full-time head of Talent or Head of HR.

We meet you where they are. Here’s how it works:
📦 The Accelerator - The foundation-setting phase teaches you the what and how of people operations.
🫂 The Community - Ongoing support through a curated community of founders and people leaders.
🛠️ Fractional Support - Pull-based expert fractional support if and when your team grows and needs evolve.

Perfect for:
👩‍💻 Founders, Founding Teams, COOs and Chiefs of Staff juggling the people stuff
👥 Startups hiring their first 2–15 people
🧰 Teams without full-time Talent and People Culture leadership
🤝 Leaders who want support, not overheads

👉 Join the waitlist

Co-Founder

Mission and Rhythm

WHAT I DO

✅ Fractional Chief People Officer (CPO) & Advisory Work
→ Providing on-demand HR leadership to scaling startups & growth-stage companies
→ Designing best-in-class People & Culture frameworks that fuel business success
→ Partnering with CEOs, founders and key leaders to navigate leadership, talent and culture opportunities

✅ People Strategy & HR Leadership
→ Crafting scalable, data-informed people programs that integrate business goals with workforce success
→ Leading change, M&A and integration projects with a focus on culture & ways of working

✅ DEI & Inclusion Champion
→ Helping businesses embed practical, high-impact DEI strategies that improve representation, engagement & retention
→ Recognised as one of Culture Amp’s Top 5 Emerging DEI Culture Creators (2024)

✅ Leadership Coaching & Talent Development
→ Supporting CEOs, founders and key leaders to grow their influence, impact and leadership capabilities
→ Facilitating HR & DEI-focused workshops, programs & executive coaching

WHO I WORK WITH
🚀 Startups | Scale-ups | Growth-Stage Businesses | VC-backed Companies
🚀 Growth | Downsizing | Changing businesses cultures and environments

LETS'S CONNECT
📩 Need Fractional HR support or strategic People & Culture leadership? 
Let’s chat!

Founder + Head of People Experiences

Grapevine

Grapevine empowers individuals in the tech scene by spotlighting personal stories and insights. We provide advice based on lived experience and general legal know-how, to reshape power dynamics for a safer, more inclusive environment.

Vinemaker

Mentorloop

The Mentorloop Industry Advisory Council is a network of industry thought leaders
with a passion for enhancing the employee experience. Through sharing and
expanding expertise through collaboration and knowledge sharing, as well as
building a culture of mentoring, the council aims to drive innovation in employee
engagement.

By fostering meaningful connections among senior leaders, the council strives to
develop forward-thinking strategies, tackle key challenges, and create impactful
solutions that benefit organizations and their people.

Chapter Chair and Advisory Council 

Strivin

Strivin is about you. We care about your personal growth not your job or your title. We’re here to help you develop and succeed in whatever you choose to do.

As a Founding Member, I support members unleash their own ambition and potential through workshops, discussions and events, sharing opportunities to build in-person connections and increase your local network.

Founding Member

The Growth Cartel

We are a community of experienced operators with the mission to empower, enlighten and connect entrepreneurs to the best of the ecosystem and share stories, strategies, insights from the start-up and scale-up community

Founding Member & Podcast Host

Startmate

2024 - Coach Student Fellowship
2024 - Coach Women’s Fellowship
2023 - Coach Student Fellowship

Mentor and Coach

Uber Carshare

As a Senior People & Culture Manager at Uber Carshare, I spearhead strategic initiatives that ensure seamless integration into the wider Uber business.

SUCCESSES
🔸 Acceleration of aligned actions and delivering value through ways of working, processes and concepts
🔸 Understanding the health of the business with State of the Business (through their people) reporting - layering business strategy, financial performance and reputation with more traditional people data to predict and set the directive for FY24
🔸 Other successes - Introduced a mid-year review, promotions process, leadership capability framework, structured 1:1 cadence and outcomes, RAP Committee Member, led launch activities to launch in US&C, delivered an ANZ full team L&D day, ran the AUS + SEA Year End Celebrations
🔸 Alignment and rebuild of Performance and Reward processes -  reformatted and ran the annual performance and compensation process, rebuilt Engagement survey, review and actions

Senior People & Culture Manager

The Dream Collective

We’re determined to drive long-term, sustainable change in representation in the corporate landscape and work with leading organisations to empower and equip high-calibre professionals around the world. We are committed to making the conversation truly inclusive and bringing everyone along on the journey of advancement.

SUCCESSES
🔸 Led a quantitative & qualitative DEI Needs Analysis to deliver a 2-year DEI Roadmap to make the global organisation a market leader and achieve aspirational and societal change
🔸 Conceptualised and led a client to create a Global DEI Conference around the FIFA Women’s World Cup, to Level the Playing Field
🔸 Created and launched a public Allyship Program - Empowered Allies
🔸 Developed a scalable method of delivering our solutions to 1,000's globally
🔸 Average CSAT scores 4.3+ / Ave post-program knowledge & understanding 85%+ (>25% increase)

EXPERTISE
🔸 Allyship & Inclusive Leadership
🔸 Scaled Learning
🔸 Community
🔸 Job Readiness

Senior DEI Consultant & Delivery Lead - APJ

Let’s be honest: I don’t fit into a single job title.
And that’s exactly the point.

I’m a Culture + DEI strategist, startup advisor, keynote speaker and systems thinker who knows how to turn people strategy into business advantage. Whether I’m inside an ASX-listed company or helping a founder duct-tape their onboarding together, one thing stays true:

👉 Great experiences for our business and community come from great experiences for our people.


Right now, this means:

🎯 Culture + DEI Lead @ REA Group
Helping REA define what the next chapter of culture looks like - from WGEA strategy to leadership behaviours to a DEI agenda that’s more than cupcakes and comms.

✨ Co-Founder @ PeopleStack
The people infrastructure program early-stage startups never knew they needed (until things started breaking). We help founders build scalable systems for hiring, onboarding, culture, compliance and community - before they get stuck trying to rebuild it.

🛠️ Founder @ Mission + Rhythm
Consulting for bold leaders who want clarity, movement and action across culture, DEI, leadership and people strategy. No buzzwords. Just outcomes.

🍷 Vinemaker @ Grapevine
Giving voice to the stories that don’t usually make it into the highlight reel. Shifting power and spotlighting truth across Australia’s tech and startup scenes.


Better culture doesn’t happen by chance.
It happens when we build it. On purpose and with people at the centre.

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