Empathy, values and opportunity: How this construction company landed more than 2000 job applications in 2022

Before signing on as head of people and culture at construction company Cobild, Adriarna Nunn had a background of 12 years in real estate where she worked in a Great Places To Work-listed company. There, she “developed a fierce passion for driving positive cultural change within organisations, specifically within industries that often come with pre-associated baggage around diversity and inclusion”. 

Nunn joined this year’s Smart50 program as a guest judge on the People Power category, sponsored by Employment Hero, where she helped select hipages Group as the winner of the new category award.

Today, her workplace philosophy focuses on “empathy for people’s social and basic human needs, with individual and team development” at the heart of her work. 

Cobild proudly bills itself as ‘not your typical construction company’; it continuously appears on Best