Meet the Founders
The people behind the diagnostic.
RhythmEngine was not built in a boardroom. It was built in the field, by practitioners who had spent years running change programmes and kept hitting the same wall.
We knew what good looked like. We just had no way to prove it before a programme launched. So we built the tool we always needed.
Why We Built Rhythm Engine
Same problem. Every program. Everywhere.
We have worked inside some of Australia’s most complex organisations at their most high-stakes moments. And the pattern is almost always the same.
The strategy is solid. The technology goes live. The budget is spent. And then adoption stalls, quietly and predictably, because no one measured whether the organisation was actually ready to receive the change before it landed.
Not gut feel. Not optimism. Actual readiness.
That gap between what leaders believe is happening and what people on the ground are actually experiencing is where most change programs fail. RhythmEngine closes it. Sixteen questions. Three scores. A clear, honest read on where your organisation sits before you launch, while you’re live, and after you call it done.
Our Founders
Jasmine O’Reilly
Jasmine started this because she was tired of watching good organisations make expensive decisions based on incomplete information.
She has spent her career embedded in change. Not on the periphery, advising from a safe distance, but in the operational heart of organisations, working directly with executive sponsors, frontline managers, and the teams caught in the middle. She has led programs across healthcare, utilities, financial services, and the public sector, in environments where the stakes were real and the margin for error was low.
Her focus has always been the human side of change: what actually determines whether people adopt something new, or quietly revert to what they knew. Motivation, competence, psychological safety. These are not soft concepts to Jasmine. They are measurable conditions. And the adoption readiness instrument inside RhythmEngine is built on exactly that belief.
She built RhythmEngine because she wanted every change leader to have access to the same clarity she had spent years learning to create the hard way.
Alistair Staines
Alistair has a simple way of describing what he does: he closes the gap between what the strategy promises and what the organisation can actually deliver.
He has designed and led change programs across some of Australia’s largest and most complex organisations. Technology implementations. Operating model redesigns. Structural transformations that affected thousands of people. And the thing he kept seeing, program after program, was that the technical work landed and the human adoption did not. Not because the change was wrong. Because no one had the data to know whether people were ready for it.
The sponsorship credibility instrument inside RhythmEngine is Alistair’s. It exists because he watched too many programs assume that executive support was active when it was actually performative. Leaders say the right things in the right rooms. The message disintegrates on the way down. The chain looks intact from above and is breaking in the middle.
His view is straightforward: the most valuable data in any change program is the data no one is currently collecting. RhythmEngine collects it.
Nick McPhee
Nick brings the workforce and people strategy depth that makes RhythmEngine more than a survey platform.
His background spans strategic HR leadership, workforce design, cultural change, and leadership capability development across financial services, utilities, education, and transport. He has spent his career asking one question in different contexts: are the actual conditions in place for people to do their best work? Not the stated conditions. Not the intentions. The reality.
The manager load instrument is Nick’s contribution to RhythmEngine. It exists because he has seen first-hand what happens when the people responsible for carrying change through an organisation are already at capacity. They do not drive adoption. They transmit pressure. The change becomes one more thing piled on top of everything else. And it shows up in the data weeks before it shows up in a project status report.
Nick’s role in building RhythmEngine was to make sure the platform asks the right questions about people, not just the convenient ones.
Ananda Ramiah
Ananda is the reason RhythmEngine works the way it does.
He comes from a background in business analysis on complex technology projects, which means he has a particular talent for taking something genuinely complicated and turning it into something that actually functions in the real world. He understands how systems get built, how requirements drift, and how to hold a product together when the pressure is on.
He works in SQL and Python, and brings serious data analysis capability to the platform. He built the scoring engine, the alert logic, and the reporting infrastructure that sits underneath RhythmEngine’s outputs. When a number appears on a dashboard, Ananda has already interrogated where it came from, what it is measuring, and whether it is actually answering the right question.
As Product Owner, he is the person who keeps the build honest. He translates what the founders know about change into a product that a change leader can pick up and use on a Monday morning without needing a manual. That is harder than it sounds. He makes it look easy.
Why Work With Us?
Built by people who have been in the room.
Every feature of RhythmEngine exists because someone on this team needed it and it did not exist. The adoption readiness score. The sponsorship chain diagnostic. The manager load instrument. The alert engine. None of it was designed from a whiteboard in a co-working space.
It was designed by practitioners and built by a developer who cares about getting it right.
If you are running change and you are tired of flying blind, this platform was made for you.
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