Our Team

We bring in the right people, at the right time.


Eskala has an established network of social risk and impact advisors with experience across areas including modern slavery, diversity & inclusion, customer vulnerability and more.

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Sarah Minahan

  • As the founder of Eskala, Sarah embodies our approach: down-to-earth, pragmatic & outcomes-focused.

    She offers expertise in people-centred strategy, policy, risk management & impact having held leadership roles in consulting, investment, and HR. Sarah has delivered pioneering work with domestic and multinational organisations to improve outcomes for people across the value chain - from the workforce, to clients, customers, suppliers & community.

    Sarah previously led ESG Advisory Services to the finance industry at KPMG, was Director of the firm’s Global Business & Human Rights Network, and was Head of Impact at one of Australia’s largest venture capital firms.

    She authored the modern slavery industry guidelines for the Australian Banking Association, has bee a Member of the Australian Investment Council’s ESG Committee, and currently acts as Strategic Advisor to ICMEC Australia, a NFP that brings together the finance industry to improve detection, disruption and prevention of child exploitation.

Alice Young

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  • Alice’s career began in recruiting where she gained early insight into how broken the system of job-seeking is. This sparked a lifelong mission to help people realise their human right to employment by working with companies to make hiring more equitable and inclusive by changing systems, not people.

    Using her experience from the non-profit sector in creating long-term change, Alice has consistently achieved results with roles at Apple, IKEA, Atlassian and Airwallex where she redesigned recruitment process, built refugee work experience programs, pathways-to-work programs for underrepresented talent, and employee volunteering programs.

    Today, Alice supports companies with: inclusive hiring, achieving diversity in tech and STEM, volunteering and corporate social responsibility, and equity in philanthropic giving.  As an Advisor on the T-EDI standards and member of the Gender Lens Investment Collaborative as well as previous Chair of The Inclusion Circle, she brings both grassroots experience and strategic oversight to her work.

    In Alice’s spare time you can find her hiking or volunteering, usually at a local dog shelter.