Carlos Brinez Araujo
Founder & Principal Change Advisor
Carlos is a senior change and transformation professional with 20+ years’ experience delivering complex initiatives across higher education, financial services, energy, healthcare, and other highly regulated, human-centred environments.
He specialises in translating regulatory requirements, strategic initiatives, and operating model change into practical, day-to-day delivery ensuring change is adopted, embedded, and consistently applied.
Carlos has led large-scale transformation across sectors, including:
Higher Education – regulatory implementation (TEQSA, HESF, AQF), student experience transformation, and operating model and organisational change
Financial Services – regulatory uplift (AML/CTF, DDO), ERP implementation, payments and product transformation, and remediation programs
Energy & Resources – digital transformation and operational change in complex, asset-intensive environments
Healthcare & Human Services – HRIS implementation and service delivery improvements.
His work focuses on embedding consistent ways of working, strengthening governance and oversight, and enabling organisations to demonstrate outcomes with clear, defensible evidence.
Carlos brings a human-centred, data-informed approach, working closely with leaders, subject matter experts, and frontline teams to design solutions aligned to how services are delivered in practice.
Through Praxis, he delivers outcome-focused engagements while building internal capability ensuring change is sustained without ongoing dependency.
For more information, a detailed profile can be provided on request, or visit LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-brinez/