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At Engels Floyd Quality Consulting, we bring decades of industry experience and an unwavering commitment to quality and authenticity to everything we do. Deep technical expertise combined with lived experience gives us a unique advantage in understanding the full scope of NDIS services from the right perspective. Whether you’re navigating the complexities of NDIS, aged care, or human services, we’re here to provide tailored solutions that deliver results that help you better support your clients.

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Your success is our success
Since 2012, Engels Floyd Quality Consulting (EFQC) has been a trusted partner for human services providers across Australia. Founded by Sharon Floyd and Jennifer Engels, EFQC combines unmatched expertise with a passion for helping our clients succeed. Today, as a national organisation led by Sharon Floyd, we remain dedicated to empowering providers like you to become leaders in your field.
Experience you can rely on
With decades of experience across the human services sector, Sharon and the team bring unparalleled expertise to every project. Since the inception of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), EFQC has been at the forefront of the industry, playing a key role in the consultation process that shaped NDIS Quality & Safeguards requirements. We have supported hundreds of providers through the transition to the NDIS in NSW and continue to be the trusted consultants for the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, where we have trained nearly 1,000 auditors nationwide.
Our team’s experience is unbeatable, and many of us also bring the participant perspective, as several team members are NDIS participants themselves. This combination of technical expertise and lived experience gives us a unique advantage in understanding the full scope of NDIS services.

Practical solutions that create impact
Authenticity is at the heart of everything we do. Our team is passionate about supporting providers like you with honest, practical guidance that makes a real impact. We’ll help you cut through the compliance noise so you can focus on achieving meaningful results for your clients and communities.

A trusted industry leader
We work directly with the NDIS Commission to develop and deliver training to all of Australia’s NDIS Auditors.
We know that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to compliance and audit management. We support providers working across multiple jurisdictions with thousands of staff and participants and dozens of sites, to sole traders working from home. It doesn’t matter who you are, you can count on us to tailor solutions that work for you.

Why choose Engels Floyd
Decades of experience
Our team brings decades of experience in disability support, quality management, and auditing, with many having held senior roles in government or helped create the first disability services certification system.
Training Provider for NDIS
Audit Personnel
Engels Floyd Quality Consulting has been entrusted by the government to deliver training to all NDIS audit personnel. This experience provides us with grassroots insights into the auditing process.
Subject Matter Expertise
Specialising in NDIS registration, training, quality management, compliance, auditing, and standards, our team holds a deep understanding of the NDIS framework and associated requirements.
Government Collaboration
We are honoured to be recognised by the Government as a trusted consultant for large national NDIS projects.
Lived Experience
Many of the Engels Floyd team have lived experiences of disability and personal experience as NDIS participants. This provides a critical lens into all of the work we do with providers with a valuable consumer perspective.
Client Empowement
At Engels Floyd Quality Consulting, our do-it-with-you approach sets us apart from other consultants. Rather than assuming full control and doing it all, we believe in empowering our clients to fully understand and implement their own processes and systems. We provide a bespoke and individualised approach to support your long term success and sustainability.
Our team

Sharon Floyd
Director

Sharon Floyd
Director
Sharon proudly calls herself a ‘dinosaur’ in the disability and human services sector—30+ years in the game will do that!
As Director of Engels Floyd, she brings specialist expertise in quality improvement, NDIS support, and compliance (plus a whole lot more—but there’s just not enough space to list them all here!). Passionate about advocacy, she leads a team of highly skilled professionals dedicated to supporting NDIS providers and the broader human services sector.
Before founding Engels Floyd, she was a senior manager in the Commonwealth Government, where she played a key role in developing Australia’s first certification system for disability services—now a national standard. She even picked up an Australia Day award for excellence in audit processes along the way, and supported people with disability to achieve their leadership goals in the national Leaders for Tomorrow program.
Sharon is incredibly proud of the Engels Floyd team and the impact they make every day—helping providers navigate the complexities of compliance with confidence.

Kathy Gronthos
Client Engagement Administration Manager

Kathy Gronthos
Client Engagement Administration Manager
If you’ve ever reached out to Engels Floyd—whether through our website or over the phone—chances are, Kathy was the first to greet you! As our friendly first point of contact, she ensures every client feels welcomed, supported, and in good hands from the very first ‘hello.’
With extensive experience as a senior administrator in the health, disability, and carer sectors across both Commonwealth and State Governments, Kathy knows her way around disability policy, registration, and compliance. She’s played a key role in shaping national disability policy, carer agreements, and major government funding programs—and even received a Departmental Recognition Award for her work on the Commonwealth National Carer Strategy.
With Kathy in your corner, you’re never navigating the process alone—she’s here to make sure every step feels clearer, easier, and well-supported.

Patty Wassenaar
Technical Manager

Patty Wassenaar
Technical Manager
Patty is her name, and quality is definitely her game! With a knack for turning complex standards and regulations into plain, simple language, she makes compliance feel a whole lot less daunting.
With over 20 years of lead auditing experience in the Disability and Human Services sector, Patty brings an extensive background in Quality Management Systems, training, and mentoring. She also has an encyclopedic knowledge of Certification Accreditation Requirements for both JAS-ANZ and related government department schemes—if it’s about compliance, Patty knows it inside and out.
We’re lucky to have Patty on our team, and our clients are even luckier to have her in their corner.

Hannah Odorcic
Marketing Manager

Hannah Odorcic
Marketing Manager
With expertise in marketing, branding, and content design, Hannah brings both creativity and strategy to everything she does. She’s passionate about crafting clear, compelling messaging and building a brand that feels genuine, approachable, and true to our values.
As Engels Floyd’s Marketing Manager, she ensures our voice doesn’t just reach people—it makes an impact. Hannah is dedicated to positioning us as more than just a consultancy, but as a trusted partner, guiding providers with clarity and confidence on their journey.

Leeanne Noske
Finance Manager

Leeanne Noske
Finance Manager
Leeanne is the numbers expert who keeps Engels Floyd on track with our own legislative obligations. With over 30 years of experience in public accounting, she’s a pro at managing accounts, budgets, and cash flow forecasting while making sense of the complexities of GST, BAS, income tax, payroll obligations, and WorkCover.
With Leeanne on board, our finances are in expert hands—so we can focus on guiding providers with confidence (and sleep easy knowing the books balance).

Bec Rodman
Registration Support Associate

Bec Rodman
Registration Support Associate
Bec Rodman is an experienced disability and healthcare professional with more than 20 years of experience across operations, business development, governance and quality improvement.
Throughout her career, Bec has worked with disability, aged care, mental health and healthcare organisations, helping providers strengthen compliance, improve service delivery and achieve sustainable growth. Her expertise includes NDIS registration and audit readiness, operational leadership, workforce development, stakeholder engagement and quality systems.
Passionate about person-centred services and continuous improvement, Bec enjoys supporting organisations to build strong foundations that deliver meaningful outcomes for participants and their families.
At Engels Floyd Consulting, Bec works with clients to navigate NDIS compliance requirements, enhance operational performance and implement practical solutions that support long-term success.

Bronwyn Herbertson
Associate

Bronwyn Herbertson
Associate
Bronwyn is a powerhouse in the Human Services sector, bringing a wealth of experience, knowledge, and training to the table. With high-level management and governance expertise, she’s also a qualified solicitor, an appointed NDIS and ISO auditor, and holds postgraduate certifications (impressive, right?) —so when it comes to compliance and best practice, it’s safe to say, she knows her stuff.
Her career spans the disability, aged care, youth and child safety, domestic and family violence, and not-for-profit sectors, giving her a deep understanding of the unique challenges these industries face.
Bronwyn thrives on helping organisations strengthen their systems, improve quality, and navigate compliance with confidence. For her, it’s not just about ticking boxes—it’s about empowering providers to deliver the best possible services.

Amy Ambagtsheer
Associate

Amy Ambagtsheer
Associate
Championing the rights of vulnerable people is at the heart of everything Amy does. With a strong focus on tackling abuse, neglect, and discrimination, she brings expertise in incident investigation, risk management, and NDIS compliance. Her career spans senior roles in disability organisations and across both State and Commonwealth Governments, giving her a deep understanding of sector challenges.
As a Behaviour Support Practitioner, Amy sees firsthand the impact of safe, high-quality services for people with disability. We’re privileged to have Amy on our team—and even luckier to share her expertise with you. With her in your corner, you’ll have a fierce advocate and expert guiding you every step of the way.

Darcy Godden
Associate

Darcy Godden
Associate
Darcy is a highly skilled and passionate management professional in the health and disability services sector. With a strong background in strategic leadership, he is known for driving organisational growth and fostering continuous improvement.
On top of his extensive experience, Darcy holds multiple postgraduate degrees in management and operations and is an appointed NDIS Lead Auditor—bringing both deep expertise and a strategic mindset to the table. His work focuses on creating, implementing, and evaluating projects and services, particularly within the Aboriginal, NDIS, disability employment, and community sectors.
Darcy has built a strong track record of working collaboratively with community organisations, leadership teams, Elders, and government funding bodies to achieve meaningful and lasting outcomes.
Proudly descended from the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua peoples of North-West New South Wales, Darcy brings a deep cultural connection to his work, ensuring his approach is both impactful and inclusive.

Cathie Buckley
Associate

Cathie Buckley
Associate
With over 25 years of experience across healthcare, disability, and aged care, Cathie has built a career driving meaningful change in complex and high-stakes environments. She’s led major national and state-wide initiatives, helping organizations navigate compliance, quality improvement, and service transformation with confidence.
Cathie’s expertise spans business development, compliance, clinical governance, and consumer-centric service redesign. She’s known for building high-performance teams, forging strategic partnerships, and delivering real results for providers navigating regulatory frameworks. Her ability to simplify complex compliance challenges while keeping clients in the driver’s seat aligns perfectly with our philosophy at Engels Floyd.
At her core, Cathie is passionate about genuine engagement and co-creating solutions that lead to lasting success. Whether it’s streamlining processes, strengthening governance, or ensuring seamless service integration, she brings clarity, strategy, and ethical leadership to every project.

Clarisa Rahmat
Associate

Clarisa Rahmat
Associate
Clarisa has over 15 years’ experience in the human services sector as a quality management professional, with a focus on capacity building, evaluation, and business improvement. Clarisa has worked with many different quality standards over the years across small to large organisations.
Clarisa has completed over 150 audits as an external auditor, mostly in the NDIS Practice Standards and Queensland’s Human Services Quality Standards. Clarisa has audited organisations with services such as aged care, disability services, child protection, family support, domestic and family violence, sexual violence, and mental health programs. Clarisa specialises in writing organisational documents and supporting organisations to develop strengths and skills in managing quality and meeting standards.
Clarisa has Graduate Certificates in Human Services and Evaluation, and is currently studying a Graduate Certificate in Sexology and a Diploma of Dementia Care.

Jeff Chan
Senior Associate | Chief Strategy and Quality Officer at ABC Behaviour Support.
Jeff Chan
Senior Associate
Jeff has more than 20-years Senior Executive experience in not-for-profit and Government settings (State and Commonwealth) in different jurisdictions. He held two inaugural statutory roles in Victoria as the Senior Practitioner, and a Governor-in-Council appointment as the Director of Forensic Disability and Chief Practitioner. More recently, he was Deputy Commissioner, Practice Quality and Clinical Advisory Division with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
In addition to his operational role as Deputy CEO of a NFP, Jeff is a subject matter expert on sensitive and complex disability matters and policy, and provides sound authoritative advice at Department Secretary level, to Disability Ministers, State/Territory senior officers, statutory officers, CEO and Boards. He has extensive experience in conducting independent reviews on a range of matters, such as on disability deaths and abuse, reportable incidents, service system or individual complaints, clinical governance and regulation, and complex clinical matters that involve multiple agencies.
He has led organisational, State and national transformation initiatives, and reform programmes in quality and safeguarding, clinical governance, application of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in clinical practice and organisational systems, accreditation and regulatory compliance.
Jeff is an applied researcher with more than 80 research publications. He is also Adjunct Professor, School of Education, The University of Queensland and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Sydney.

Cassie Day
Business Associate

Cassie Day
Business Associate
Cassie Day is a multi-award-winning businesswoman, speaker, writer and community builder. A Fellow of the Governor’s Leadership Program (Leaders Institute South Australia), Cassie has qualifications in management, community services, and health, she brings over 23 years of lived and professional experience in disability, caring, chronic and mental health to her work, authentically engaging and inspiring audiences.
Over eight years, Cassie built The Carers Place from the kitchen table into a thriving seven-figure NDIS business, becoming a respected leader and advocate in the disability and care sectors. Launching the Connect and Collaborate business events in 2022, she transformed the NDIS provider landscape in South Australia.
Following the successful sale of her business in 2024, Cassie now guides for-purpose industry leaders and businesses on sustainable growth, strategy, change and leadership. A sought-after speaker, she delivers keynotes at major events and has contributed to multiple media outlets. Recognised with multiple awards, Cassie’s raw and inspiring storytelling leaves audiences empowered to create real impact.

Melinda Burgess
Associate

Melinda Burgess
Associate
Melinda Burgess has over 25 years’ experience across the Disability and Aged Care sectors, spanning service delivery, executive leadership, training, and governance. Her background includes assessment and case management roles, senior executive appointments within disability services, and leading organisations through transition to the NDIS.
Over recent years Melinda has worked in training and consultancy, supporting home care providers with registration and compliance requirements under the Aged Care Act, and delivering sector-specific workforce training. She is a qualified NDIS auditor.
Melinda also serves as Chair of a community foundation, bringing strong governance and regulatory expertise to the role.

Michael Finn
Associate

Michael Finn
Associate
A Registered Nurse with extensive experience in general, mental health, aged care and disability sectors as well as lecturing in UG and PG nursing education programs. This experience includes working in the public, private and not for profit NGO sectors. Background in disability includes working with the WA Disability Commission of a state-wide project to implement the Code of Practice for the Reduction and Elimination of Restrictive Practices in Disability Services which included several weeks advanced Behaviour Support training with then Victorian A/Senior Practitioner Dr Lynn Webber. As a contracted assessor with JAS-ANZ, his areas of expertise covers NDIS high risk modules and registration groups. Michael consults with Aboriginal Health Organisations in WA, sits on several NGO Boards and is active with his professional body (Australian College of Mental Health Nurses).

Marisa McCague
Associate

Marisa McCague
Associate
Marisa makes quality, engaging, practical, and part of everyday work – she describes herself as an excited nerd. At the heart of her approach is a strong focus on people. She began volunteering at Kew Cottages in high school and years later returned with a deeper understanding of how systems, services, and everyday practices can genuinely support people with disabilities to live good lives. Experiences like this continue to drive her commitment to rights, opportunities, and meaningful outcomes for people with disabilities.
She brings a strong ability to identify how systems support compliance, while ensuring they genuinely work for the organisation to achieve outcomes and manage risk. With more than 30 years in the sector, Marisa has developed a rare perspective – understanding quality from the viewpoints of people with disability, families, frontline staff, management, government, and auditors.
After managing services through the NDIS rollout, Marisa realised her passion lay more with quality and people than with managing billable hours. Auditing and consulting became a natural fit. She has now completed approximately 500 external audits across multiple standards. Her experience spans behaviour support, early childhood, and accommodation services, aligning strongly with the NDIS additional modules. She was also recently a member of the reference group for the new Supported Independent Living standards. With a background in teaching and knowledge-transfer research, Marisa particularly enjoys working alongside providers to build capability and embed quality in practice.









