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Level 40, 140 William St, Melbourne, VIC 3000

Year founded:

2014

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+61 03 9229 3843

Email:

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Ivan Vysotskiy

Chief Executive Officer

Damien Posterino

Head of Growth

Ethan Mosely

Product Manager

Leadership

Ivan Vysotskiy brings over a decade of executive leadership in technology-driven organisations, with strength in data governance, privacy frameworks and large-scale project delivery. As CEO of Pivot Professional Learning, he leads the development of evidence-based analytics tools for the K-12 sector, requiring deep expertise in student data privacy and secure data handling. His background spans enterprise software architecture, AI and scalable product development, including as head of technology at Predictive Hire. Vysotskiy has managed over five million dollars in complex engagements, led three merger-and-acquisition deals and multiple capital raises, and transformed business units from losses to sustained profitability.

Chief Executive Officer

Ivan Vysotskiy

Damien Posterino helps schools and systems turn data into action, lifting teaching practice, student engagement and wellbeing at scale. As head of growth, he partners with enterprise K-12 education providers to deliver solutions that give teachers and leaders the actionable insights they need to see and shape learning in every classroom. Before returning home to Australia, Posterino built commercial experience across the UK and Southeast Asia, leading high-performing teams for start-ups, scale-ups and established organisations. His focus sits at the intersection of commercial strategy and relationship trust, spanning go-to-market execution, revenue growth and deep engagement with boards and enterprise clients.

Head of Growth

Damien Posterino

Ethan Mosely is product manager at Pivot Professional Learning, where he owns the product lifecycle for the platform’s Teaching Quality Insights and Wellbeing for Learning tools, used across hundreds of Australian schools. He leads discovery and roadmap prioritisation with school and diocese stakeholders, and has overseen a psychometric validation project strengthening the statistical integrity of the insights model. With a background in account management, data reporting and customer success, Mosely translates technical findings into practical outcomes for educators. He led the single sign-on rollout for over 75,000 students and built automated reporting pipelines that support timely insights for schools.

Product Manager

Ethan Mosely

Anita Deutsch-Burley

Head of Customer

Anita Deutsch-Burley is head of customer success at Pivot Professional Learning, where she partners with systems, schools and educators to ensure they get real value from the tools shaping their professional growth and supporting student wellbeing. With over two decades leading customer success and marketing teams, Deutsch-Burley brings a deep, cross-functional understanding of what drives genuine engagement and outcomes. She has a passion for learning and creating environments that put people and their wellbeing first.

Head of Customer

Anita Deutsch-Burley

Vera Tomek

Finance Manager

Vera Tomek is finance, people and culture manager and has been a part of the Pivot team for eight years. She has worked in finance for almost 30 years and provides a practical approach to the organisation. As part of the leadership team, she plays an important role in supporting business performance, financial sustainability and informed decision-making. With a strong understanding of the organisation and its evolution over the past eight years, Tomek combines technical expertise with a collaborative approach and has a strong understanding of the organisation, its people and goals.

Finance Manager

Vera Tomek

Samantha Purych

Senior Financial Controller

Elizabeth Bounds

General Counsel

Nealy Farshadi

Principal, Strategic Client Relations

Pam Chhabra

Manager – Residential Strata

Samantha Purych, CPA, is senior financial controller at BIS Safety Software, where she oversees financial reporting, accounting operations, and compliance support for the organization. She brings over a decade of experience across controllership and senior accounting roles, including public practice experience at Grant Thornton LLP and earlier finance roles in municipal and corporate environments. Purych holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Grant MacEwan University and completed her CPA designation through the CA School of Business. At BIS, she plays a key role in strengthening financial processes, ensuring reporting accuracy, and supporting data-driven decision-making as the company continues to scale.

Senior Financial Controller

Samantha Purych

Elizabeth Bounds oversees Brown & Riding’s legal, risk management, and claims departments. As the company’s chief legal resource, she reviews and negotiates corporate contracts and manages the firm’s litigation, internal legal resources, and relationships with outside counsel. She also works closely with B&R’s senior management in developing overall risk management strategies for the firm and is directly accountable to the Board of Directors for implementing risk control measures and for the facilitation and oversight of corporate liability insurance placements. In the claims department, she takes an especially active role in policy interpretation and client claims advocacy.

General Counsel

Elizabeth Bounds

Nealy Farshadi is instrumental in helping strengthen and grow Brown & Riding’s client relationships. She maintains and improves quality procedures, oversees B&R’s ISO certification, and manages the firm’s client feedback program. Her contributions enable the executive management team to act on client input effectively. As a result, B&R’s client feedback scores greatly exceed the average and continue to improve each year. Farshadi also supports and furthers the growth of B&R and its employees by contributing to professional development within the organization and being a resource to staff.

Principal, Strategic Client Relations

Nealy Farshadi

Stephen McMillan first entered the financial services Industry when he joined GE Capital as a finance analyst in 2008, from which he progressed through roles working both onshore and offshore. From there, he moved into Pacific Premium Funding as a financial planning and analysis leader in 2012 and was a key resource in the evolution of the business, first with the successful sale to Macquarie Pacific Funding and then the following progression into IQumulate Premium Funding, where he is now the commercial manager. As commercial manager, McMillan leads a team that is responsible for commercial analysis and business support, identifying and reporting improvement initiatives, and the securitization and treasury functions of the business.

Commercial Manager

Stephen McMillan

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Every school exists for one purpose: to help students learn. But schools are complex communities and the challenge isn’t simply measuring outcomes, it’s understanding what shapes those outcomes. How do students experience learning in every classroom? How consistently is your teaching and learning framework being lived? Are students ready to learn? Where is great teaching flourishing, and where does it need support? These are the questions that kept Pivot Professional Learning’s founders awake at night in 2014 and ultimately led to the company being established. Belinda Harries, Cleo Westhorpe and Caitlin Macleod shared a simple belief: schools make better decisions when they can clearly see what is happening inside their classrooms. By giving teachers and leaders reliable evidence about how students experience learning, they believed schools could strengthen teaching practice, improve leadership decisions and ultimately create better learning outcomes for every student. That belief became Teaching Quality Insights, a student survey grounded in peer-reviewed research and organised around three evidence-based domains of effective teaching. It gave schools something they had rarely had before: structured, reliable evidence about how students actually experienced teaching and learning. The timing was right. While many Australian education systems were investing in improvement, there was limited shared evidence about what effective teaching looked like from the student’s perspective. Teachers were committed to improving their practice, but often relied on infrequent observations, instinct and informal feedback. Pivot introduced a new source of evidence, one that placed student voice alongside professional reflection, visibility of practice and instructional improvement. As the organisation grew, so did its understanding of the factors that shape learning. Research conducted with Australian educators highlighted that student wellbeing wasn’t separate from learning; it was one of the conditions that made effective learning possible and supported students’ holistic development. Schools needed more than anecdotal observations or annual wellbeing surveys; they needed timely evidence to identify students requiring support before smaller challenges became crises. That insight led to the development of Wellbeing for Learning. Built around the Australian Student Wellbeing Framework and informed by established educational research, the insights help schools understand the wellbeing factors that influence learning while enabling students to seek support through trusted adults when they need it most. More recently, education systems have increasingly been adopting evidence-informed instructional models. The Victorian Government’s commitment to the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0 reflected a broader national movement toward explicit, research-informed teaching practice. For Pivot, this reinforced the belief that school improvement depends on connecting evidence across every level of the school. Today, Pivot helps schools see what shapes learning by bringing together evidence across three connected domains: Student engagement: understanding how students experience learning and the conditions that support their success Teacher impact: helping teachers reflect on how their practice is experienced and where it can be strengthened Leadership: giving school leaders the evidence needed to guide whole-school improvement and measure the impact of strategic decisions Together, these connected evidence streams give schools a clearer picture of teaching and learning than any individual dataset can provide.

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Product overview

Pivot Professional Learning helps Australian schools and systems see what shapes learning. Its products support teaching practice, student engagement and leadership. Teaching Quality Insights captures real-time student insights on teaching practice, aligned to the school’s instructional model. Wellbeing for Learning tracks and measures the wellbeing factors that make learning possible. Both are built for K-12 schools and systems nationally and are being used by government, faith-based and independent networks. Four components sit behind both products: Data insights: Pivot helps surface what cannot be seen from the front of the room. Teaching Quality Insights shows teachers how their practice actually lands with the students in front of them, drawn from confidential student feedback. Wellbeing for Learning shows how students are tracking at individual student level, so schools can follow up with the ones who need it. Reporting: Real-time data gives insights across individual teachers, students, class level, cohort, school and network. Comparative and longitudinal views show movement across terms and years rather than a single moment. Resources for next steps: Evidence-based guidance supports next steps. Pivot pairs results with professional learning resources, so teachers know where to focus their professional development and leaders know where to target support. Professional services: Beyond the platform, Pivot’s team works alongside schools to drive results through changes in practice. This includes instructional coaching, tailored professional learning for teachers and leaders, and implementation guidance. 360 Leadership Insights give school and system leadership the support they need to elevate their leadership journey, whether a system-level executive, principal, aspiring principal or department head. Pivot turns teaching and wellbeing insights into the evidence schools need to drive decisions and strategy. Evidence sits at the core of all products. Teaching Quality Insights has been independently psychometrically tested and is mapped to both the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and evidence-based teaching practice. Wellbeing for Learning is aligned to the Australian Student Wellbeing Framework.

Key features and capabilities

Three age-appropriate question designs: questions designed and served depending on age of students: F-2, 3-6 and 7-13 Accessibility: additional support for students responding with audio and context prompts Individual and cohort-level reporting: quick and easy visibility from individuals to every cohort a school needs Students in need report: visibility for wellbeing leaders on which students have requested to speak to a trusted adult Role-based access: teachers see their own results, leaders see their school, and system leaders see the network Longitudinal tracking: shows how teaching practice and student wellbeing shift across terms and years rather than freezing a single moment Executive dashboards: for principals, dioceses and networks, with comparison across schools Exportable reporting: for accreditation, review and planning cycles Resource library: results come paired with professional learning resources, so improvement does not stop at the report

Integrations

Pivot works seamlessly inside the systems schools already run. Single sign-on means staff and students can log in with existing school credentials, with no new passwords to manage or reset. Student, teacher and class data is onboarded in bulk through secure file transfer. Results export cleanly for use in school improvement documentation, staff review conversations and network reporting. For systems and networks, data rolls up automatically from classroom to school to system level, giving central teams a live view across every site without chasing individual schools for spreadsheets. Setup is handled by Pivot, not left to school IT.

Both products run on the same four-step cycle. What differs is what gets measured, who sees the results and what the school does next. Teaching Quality Insights Set up: Pivot loads school data, configures access and schedules the survey window with the school. Survey: Students respond in class in around 7–10 minutes on any device. Feedback on teaching is confidential. Report: Results are released to the platform at teacher, class, cohort, school and network levels. Act: Teachers use their results to set professional goals. School leaders use aggregate patterns to target professional learning where it will matter most. System leaders compare results across schools to prioritise investment and track impact across the network. The next cycle shows whether it worked. Wellbeing for Learning Set up: The same process – Pivot loads school data, configures access and schedules the cycle with the school. Survey: A starting baseline of 15 questions in five minutes establishes where every student sits across resilience, belonging and safety. Check-ins of one to two minutes then run in five-week blocks, weekly or fortnightly each term. Students who are struggling can reach out during the survey itself, self-referring to a teacher they trust, so support starts at the moment a student asks for it rather than after the next report. Report: Results are released in real time at student, class, cohort, school and network levels. Staff are also alerted in real time when a student requires support. Act: Teachers and wellbeing staff follow up with students who need support, with suggested strategies attached to each result. School leaders direct wellbeing programs and staffing based on cohort patterns. System leaders compare results across schools to prioritise investment and track impact network-wide.

How the product works

After-sales and customer services

Every Pivot customer is supported by a dedicated Australia-based customer success manager who handles onboarding, survey scheduling, data preparation and reporting questions across the full cycle. Schools are not left to work out the platform alone after the contract is signed. Support includes: Guided implementation for first-year schools Professional learning resources that help staff interpret and act on their results In-platform guidance A help centre for day-to-day questions A free annual data insights call with a Pivot expert to help unpack results and provide direction on next steps Technical issues triaged directly to Pivot’s product and engineering team

Contact for a demo

hello@pivotpl.com

operates with a clear growth mindset. Strategic initiatives are carefully aligned to foster both organizational and individual advancement. The leadership team’s entrepreneurial spirit permeates the company, inspiring employees to pursue ambitious goals and embrace new opportunities. RPS’s most significant recent initiative has been its comprehensive talent strategy, which places employee engagement, recruitment, and development at the forefront.