Autumnaged Care
Autumnaged Care

Leadership Team

Autumnaged Care

Leadership Team

Leadership Team

The Autumn Aged Care Executive Leadership Team

The Autumn Aged Care Melbourne Executive Leadership Team consists of five residential aged care professionals – including the Director (owner), three executives and a practicing Aged Care Quality Expert as a non-executive Director. Our team brings together combined expertise in a range of relevant fields, including clinical care, risk and business management, leadership and governance, quality and compliance, facility development, guiding the Group to achieving excellence in residential aged care operations and service delivery.

The members of the executive leadership team are:

Name Designation
Ross Ferris Director, Executive Chairman & CEO (since 2005)
Kim Dyason Executive Director of Nursing (since 2009)
Yuri Stroungis Executive Quality and Education (since 2022)
John Morgan Executive Finance Manager (since 2007)
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Ross Ferris

(ENROLLED NURSE, M.B.A, B. ECONOMICS, POST GRAD DIP IN FINANCE AND INVESTMENT)

Executive Chairman & CEO

With significant healthcare experience in strategic, managerial and operational roles spanning the last 15 years, predominantly in residential aged care and the private hospital system, Ross founded Autumn Aged Care in 2005. He has developed it into one of Melbourne’s leading aged care providers, with an exemplary reputation for excellence and customer service. Prior to establishing Autumn Aged Care Ross worked in business development with Healthscope Limited, working mostly on business acquisition (including some 30 hospital acquisitions), integration, operational management and business improvement. Ross has learnt that culture and leadership are critical to delivering outstanding healthcare services. By working full time within the service, he is able to lead from the front and better understand the changing needs of the customer and the workforce to ensure that Autumn Aged Care can continue to adapt and thus maintain its status as a leading industry service provider.

Kim Dyason

(REGISTERED NURSE, MASTERS IN NURSING HEALTH SCIENCES – GERONTICS (HONOURS), GRAD. DIP IN ADVANCED DEMENTIA)

Executive Director of Nursing

Kim has worked with Autumn Aged Care since 2009. With close to 30 years residential aged care experience, Kim has undertaken a broad range of nursing roles including Registered Nurse in Charge and Director and for the past five years Executive Director of Nursing. Kim is passionate about resident outcomes and care and is unfailingly pragmatic in her ability to match our workforce skills, organisational policies and work processes to systematically deliver high standards of care. Kim is extremely customer focused and advocates making each moment a meaningful opportunity to connect with residents. Highly educated and exceedingly energetic and personal, Kim leads Autumn Aged Care in care and culture. Kim splits her time visiting our homes and working with staff to overcome challenges and working on new programs and initiatives from the executive office. Kim has a unique ability to innovate and lead practice change while motivating and inspiring the workforce. Kim brings a happy, optimistic, energetic professionalism with her approach and few aged care professionals could match her CV.

John Morgan

(B.Bus. Accounting)

Executive Finance Manager

John has worked with Autumn Aged Care since 2007 and his previous experience includes an accountant role with Price waterhouse Coopers. John monitors the financial management of each home, ensuring sound financial management. John worked with Ross back in 2000 while Ross was a Director and then subsequently the Chairman of the Board of the Tenants Union of Victoria (TUV). Ross asked John to be the Executive Finance Manager of Autumn Care when he left the TUV. John is not only an accomplished Finance Executive but also a great teacher and leader. John has a hands-on approach and personal experience with a loved one receiving services from Autumn Aged Care. John gives significant personal time to rehoming greyhounds with his work with Greyt Greys Rescue.

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