As many of you would be aware John Yealland has been acting as our NSW State Manager over the last few months while Karen Stace, our permanent State Manager has been supporting members in an interim role as Acting Director of Policy and Advocacy.  

I wanted to let you know that Karen will not be returning to the State Manager role.  

Joining NDS in 2013, Karen has supported NSW members in a number of different roles including supporting NSW providers transition to the NDIS in the Hunter trial site and working with NSW members as NSW State Manager.  Since December 2020 she has continued to support our NSW members along with our operations across Australia in her role as Senior Manager, State and Territory Operations Manager.