Vesna leads The Ministry of Engagement with a human-first, commercially practical approach to stakeholder engagement.

Her work is anchored in listening, challenging assumptions and connecting people across complex project environments, from major road, rail and energy programmes to social infrastructure and community-facing initiatives. She brings calm, clarity and creativity to communications, and a steady hand to the harder moments: opposition, delay, fatigue, and the long quiet work of building social licence.

Across more than two decades in Australia and Asia, Vesna has led engagement and communications functions inside Tier 1 contractors and advised across both sides of the table, client and delivery. That dual perspective shapes how she works. She understands the pressure of approval timelines, the politics of bid rooms, the weight of a regulator's expectations and the patience required to earn trust in a community that has been promised things before.

She is direct without being combative, considered without being slow, and known for the kind of judgement that gets called on when projects move from comfortable to contested.