KERYN


MENDES GLOBAL MOBILITY MANAGER, AURECON


Sustainability, connection & collaboration


Keryn Mendes leads the global mobility programme at Aurecon, an Australian design, engineering and advisory company with 6,500 employees across the APAC region. She is also founder and co-host of the global mobility podcast, ’TheWorking World’.


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eryn Mendes is a connector. When she was frustrated by the lack of dialogue in the


industry during Covid, she co-launched her own global mobility


podcast, ‘The Working World’, interviewing specialists and colleagues to share their knowledge. Likewise, when she felt sustainability was not enough of a priority in Australia, she co-developed a global initiative, working with four universities including Monash in Melbourne and Malaysia, the University of Dallas in the US, and the University of Warwick in the UK, looking at


environmental sustainability in the industry. “I


find sharing knowledge incredibly rewarding, it really energises me,” she says. It was serendipitous that Keryn found herself working


in global mobility in the first place. After studying hospitality management, she segued to in HR. She was working at Boeing when she took a lengthy car journey with a senior colleague from mobility to a meeting. They passed the time discussing the challenges of the global mobility function. By the time they arrived, Keryn was sold. “It was absolutely my calling,” she says.


CREATING SYNERGIES THROUGH COLLABORATION Seventeen years on, Keryn – who is based in Melbourne and has a particular interest in sustainability and mentoring others – has worked for a selection of premium global companies. As well as Boeing, this includes Eriksson, the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, software developer Adobe, and the Australian Government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). She


has collected


awards along the way, including the Employee Mobility Institute’s global mobility champion award and the Forum for Expatriate Management’s APAC best global mobility programme in tech/media. “What I love about this job is working in the ‘grey’


areas. We are privileged to help people at an intersection between their personal and professional lives, when they are at their most vulnerable,” she says. As a natural-born fixer, Keryn also likes the way mobility intersects with every part of the business. “We are the synergy which brings everything together. Mobility has a lovely way of being collaborative.”


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