About Us
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
Ultivate is guided by a carefully selected team supported by a multidisciplinary advisory collective spanning psychology, psychiatry, education, business, technology, governance, and innovation. We combine clinical, academic, behavioural, and systems-based expertise to ensure every decision, program, and development pathway is evidence-aligned, ethically grounded, and built for long-term sustainability and impact. Our structure reflects a core belief: complex modern challenges require interdisciplinary thinking, shared leadership, and collaborative intelligence.
Our Story
Ultivate began with a serious question: What would psychological health look like if it were designed not just to reduce suffering, but to cultivate enriched, capable, future-ready professionals and start-up teams? Founded by a psychologist seeking a more enrichment-aligned, out-of-the-clinical-room space, and ethically ambitious approaches for the modern professional mind, Ultivate has grown into a multidisciplinary, research-driven start-up focused on psychological enrichment and leadership development. We are not here to compete with traditional services.
We are here to collaborate, cultivate, elevate, expand, and enrich what the future of psychological health for professionals can be.
Directors
Our senior leadership team is intentionally structured to steward Ultivate’s next decade with disciplined thinking, psychological maturity, and innovation-aligned decision making.
Introducing
Nikola Adonovski
Head of Learning Innovation & Professional Development
Ultivate feels privileged to introduce Nikola Andonovski, Head of Learning Innovation & Professional Development. He will be contributing to the development of Ultivate’s long-range leadership, learning, and enrichment frameworks. Nikola joins Ultivate with a multidisciplinary academic and professional foundation, having completed formal studies in Communication, Theology, and a postgraduate qualification in Education, in addition to training in classical music. His diverse intellectual background enables him to interpret human development, relational behaviour, and organisational culture through multiple lenses: cognitive, creative, interpersonal, and existential.​​
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Ultivate welcomes Nikola as a key member of its emerging leadership collective, committed to advancing future-focused psychological education and enrichment-based professional development.
Introducing Jack Hoek
Law, Business & Finance Intern
We are pleased to introduce Jack Hoek, Ultivate’s newest protégé. Our Law, Business and Finance Intern. At just 20 years old, Jack has successfully completed his initial six-month introductory internship. In May of this year, Jack accepted an offer to enter Ultivate’s 24-month professional development and social enterprise build phase.
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Currently finishing his third year at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and completing a double degree in Law and Business, majoring in Finance and minoring in Psychology, Jack joins Ultivate start-up during one of its most strategically significant chapters, the phase dedicated to governance strengthening, financial modelling, and operational system architecture.
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Jack brings an emerging but distinctive interdisciplinary profile, integrating legal reasoning, financial literacy, behavioural understanding, and business development. This places him in a unique position to contribute to research, policy formation, ethical governance, and an enriched organisational structure with clarity, ethics, and logic. Ultivate is proud to welcome Jack as part of our long-term commitment to cultivating ethically-anchored, psychologically-intelligent, interdisciplinary leaders of the future.
Ultivate Protégé Positions
Ultivate interns are young and emerging multidisciplinary professionals intentionally cultivated through enriched, real-world leadership, research, and enterprise development experiences.
