Our Team
Paul Atlee
Paul Atlee brings over 30 years of experience across education, integrity and public sector investigations, with particular expertise in managing complex conduct, performance and complaint matters within Victorian education settings. His career includes more than a decade of senior roles in the Department of Education and Training, dealing with common workplace issues through to criminal matters, informed by complementary roles in federal and state government level.
Over many years in employee conduct and investigation roles, Paul has led teams providing authoritative advice on misconduct and unsatisfactory performance processes across the Teaching Service and Public Service. He has managed complex investigations, developed procedurally robust processes aligned with legislation, delivered training to principals and senior managers, and prepared confidential briefings and reports on sensitive matters. His work is grounded in procedural fairness, careful risk assessment and clear, defensible decision-making.
Through senior regional leadership roles, Paul has also provided strategic advice to Regional Directors on high-stakes matters affecting schools and leaders, bringing a strong governance and risk lens to complex situations.
He is well placed to support principals to navigate challenging people matters with clarity and confidence. Paul assists leaders to triage concerns early, frame issues appropriately, maintain sound documentation, and conduct professional conversations that are fair, respectful and proportionate. His approach reduces risk, supports timely action, and strengthens a principal’s own capability to manage conduct and performance processes in a consistent, ethical and defensible manner.
Jon Neall
Jon Neall’s lived experience as a principal in Victorian schools provides him with deep understanding of the pressures faced by principals in Victorian schools.. His experience includes more than 20 years working in schools as both a teacher and principal, as well as many years in the Victorian Department of Education as an employee conduct advisor and manager of the Preliminary Investigations Team within the Conduct and Integrity Division.
As a former school principal, Jon has a clear appreciation of the challenges that complaint and performance processes can present for school leaders, particularly while continuing to lead a school day-to-day. He is well placed to support principals to manage performance and conduct concerns with clarity, fairness, and confidence.
Jon assists leaders to triage issues early, frame concerns appropriately, maintain sound documentation, and conduct professional, respectful conversations that are both supportive and procedurally robust. His guidance helps principals take timely and proportionate action, reduce risk, and avoid unnecessary escalation.
Importantly, Jon works in a way that builds a principal’s own capability, helping leaders feel more confident and well-equipped to manage complex people matters in a consistent, defensible, and ethically grounded manner.