Kylie Rendina currently works in consultancy services focused on partnering with, and delivering solutions for, government.  Recently, in January 2026, Kylie farewelled a career in the Australian Border Force (ABF) as a long-serving Assistant Commissioner since 2019 and now works at O’Connor Marsden & Associates as a Strategic Advisor/Executive Director and within her own company, Phoenix Australia Consultancy Services.

Kylie’s expertise has been drawn from private and public sector leadership roles, having led workplace, technology and cultural transformation, safety system maturity, crisis response, strategic and operational planning, technology service delivery, and border intelligence and targeting results.

Kylie’s strength is in systems-thinking, being solution-oriented and partnering for outcomes.  These attributes have been instrumental in her leading reform within the ABF and how it intersects with other agencies in complex multi-agency operational planning, workforce resilience and safety, information sharing, organisational preparedness and crisis and incident response.  With an operational background, she brings relevance and knowledge to strategic and organisational change and delivery, having most significantly been Operational Commander for Northern Australia threats and responses and the border response to Covid-19, as well as leading many border aspects of overseas events such as Afghanistan.

Before the ABF, Kylie was a senior leader in technology programs in Leidos Australia and Lockheed Martin Australia, leading on service innovation and improvement. Prior to that, Kylie’s career started as a Federal Agent within the Australian Federal Police, leading complex multi-jurisdictional and counter terrorism matters as well as major law reform.  Kylie considers that life-learning is the key to leadership and the ability to lead in complexity, having completed a Chief Human Resources Officer program at Cambridge UK, a Master of Business Administration (Executive), a Diploma of Policing, Bachelor of Law / Arts (Justice), a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, and the Harvard Kennedy School, Leadership in Crisis program.

Outside of work, Kylie is mother to two teenage boys, who she sees as her legacy and inspiration, the ‘why’ she is motivated to public service outcomes and contributing to social justice and change. In living her purpose, Kylie volunteers and is a director on a board for 3 organisations focussed on gender equality and eliminating violence against women and children.