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About Us

Our Story

The Seamless Blend was founded by Angelika and Trent Broederlow in 2019. As a blended family with five daughters, the Broederlows’ have their own lived experience of being single parents and blending families.  Both Angelika and Trent had been married for over a decade, and both had been single for a decade before they blended their family.  

The Seamless Blend was started when they sought support themselves and realised that the only support on offer was marriage counselling or mediation. Neither of these options suited the family.  The Seamless Blend now provides our client families what Angelika and Trent were seeking themselves; positive family orientated solutions, that focus on the entire family unit, while supporting each individuals needs and unique values and focusing on minimising conflict.

 

Today The Seamless Blend is led by Founding Director, Angelika Broederlow and supported by Executive Consultant Paula Westhead, former National Lead of Stepfamilies Australia. Both Paula and Angelika have over 25 years’ experience working for Government and the Not for Profit (Family Services) sector with both also having over a decade of experience in Executive Leadership.
 

Our Team

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Trent Broederlow – Owner Director     

Trent is an ICT Sales Executive and Business Development Manager with extensive sector expertise developed over 25 years. Specialising in C and D level relationship, leading ICT presentation and negotiation, Trent is a trusted solution focused consultative professional.   
His success in matching business solutions for large enterprise customers while driving business revenue is built on his personal and technical capabilities.  His gentle approach to ICT sales cultivates sustainable trusted long-term relationships, and ultimately has seen Trent work for the largest and most successful National and Global technology providers, including Lenovo, Oracle, Telstra, Optus and Motorola amongst others.
Trent’s early career began in Management in the retail sector where he managed large Teams for names such as Nike, Country Road and Sanity.  
A life long All Blacks fan, Trent’s highlight was meeting Ritchie McCaw in 2018 – a 50th birthday present from his wife he will never forget.   

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Angelika Jayaram Broederlow – Founding Director  

Angelika’s 25 year career began as a practitioner before moving into Executive level Management.  Angelika’s early career as a practitioner gives her a solid foundation as a child protection practitioner, parenting educator, family mediator, and marriage counsellor.  Additional early career roles includes community development, health promotions and community public health, youth and adolescent support co-ordination.    

 

Her management experience includes her role as General Manager of Team Kids (then Team Holiday) where her strategic and operational plans were pivotal in company’s expansion to National service delivery.  And Victorian Lead, MSP for The Australian Red Cross, where she was responsible for the delivery of multiple programs including COVID Emergency Relief Aid to over 70,000 people.  

Angelika’s work supporting and leading State and Federal reforms includes significant contribution into the Royal Commission into Family Violence, input into several State and Federal Action Plans, overseeing state-wide critical response, policy & data teams, & leading the development of Task Force Alexis - a model reviewed by Government to inform the design of the Orange Doors.  

 

Angelika’s passion is connecting with people - on weekends you’ll find her with much loved family and friends…at a lunch or dinner that she’s completely over catered for! 

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Paula Westhead – Executive Consultant 

Paula has had more than 25 years’ experience in the delivery of therapeutic programs for children, young people and families, including mediation, dispute resolution and family therapy.

Paula has overseen and managed many programs with an accomplished track record in sensitive organisational and political settings. Her career includes roles in community development, family mental health, homelessness, child welfare, family violence, youth services, family services and work with the Royal Commission Support Service.  She has extensive knowledge of the community public health model and interventions for improved mental health for all ages. Paula also has a sophisticated understanding of the evidence that indicates the life-long harms children may experience into adolescence and adulthood as a consequence of abuse and neglect in their early years.  Paula works with a crisis, trauma informed and recovery framework, offering support to all types of families and individuals. 

She has four children and one grandchild; in her spare time she enjoys reading and walking along the beach. 

Our Team

Trent Broederlow Owner Director of The Seamless Blend

Trent Broederlow –

Owner Director     

Trent is an ICT Sales Executive and Business Development Manager with extensive sector expertise developed over 25 years. Specialising in C and D level relationship, leading ICT presentation and negotiation, Trent is a trusted solution focused consultative professional.    His success in matching business solutions for large enterprise customers while driving business revenue is built on his personal and technical capabilities.  His gentle approach to ICT sales cultivates sustainable trusted long-term relationships, and ultimately has seen Trent work for the largest and most successful National and Global technology providers, including Lenovo, Oracle, Telstra, Optus and Motorola amongst others. Trent’s early career began in Management in the retail sector where he managed large Teams for names such as Nike, Country Road and Sanity.   A life long All Blacks fan, Trent’s highlight was meeting Ritchie McCaw in 2018 – a 50th birthday present from his wife he will never forget.

Angelika Jayaram Broederlow Founding Director of The Seamless Blend

Angelika Jayaram Broederlow – Founding Director  

Angelika’s 25-year career began as a practitioner before moving into Executive level Management. Her direct client work as an early years children’s specialist, parenting educator, family mediator, and marriage counsellor during her early career, as well as her work across health promotions, community and public health, and adolescent support gave Angelika a solid foundation and client focus as she moved into leadership roles. Her management experience includes a wonderful period as General Manager of Team Kids where her strategic and operational plans were pivotal in company’s expansion to National service delivery, and, becoming one of Australia’s largest OSHC providers. Angelika enjoyed her role as Victorian Lead, MSP for The Australian Red Cross, where she was led the delivery of a multitude of programs including critical COVID Emergency Relief Aid to over 70,000 Victorians throughout the pandemic. Angelika’s work supporting and leading State and Federal reforms includes significant contribution into the Royal Commission into Family Violence, input into several State and Federal Action Plans, overseeing state-wide critical response, policy & data teams, & leading the development of Task Force Alexis - a model reviewed by Government to inform the design of the Orange Doors, Victoria’s current response to family violence. Angelika’s passion is connecting with people - on weekends you’ll find her with much loved family and friends…at a lunch or dinner that she’s completely over catered for!

Paula Westhead Executive Consultant of The Seamless Blend

Paula Westhead – Executive Consultant 

Paula has had more than 25 years’ experience in the delivery of therapeutic programs for children, young people and families, including mediation, dispute resolution and family therapy. Paula has overseen and managed many programs with an accomplished track record in sensitive organisational and political settings. Her career includes roles in community development, family mental health, homelessness, child welfare, family violence, youth services, family services and work with the Royal Commission Support Service.  She has extensive knowledge of the community public health model and interventions for improved mental health for all ages. Paula also has a sophisticated understanding of the evidence that indicates the life-long harms children may experience into adolescence and adulthood as a consequence of abuse and neglect in their early years.  Paula works with a crisis, trauma informed and recovery framework, offering support to all types of families and individuals.  She has four children and one grandchild; in her spare time she enjoys reading and walking along the beach.

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Our Approach

The Seamless Blend aims to create positive family environments and build a community of support for blended families. Our individual support sessions and small group workshops building on your family’s strengths and values to help you navigate through the complexities faced by blended families and single parents. Our team of professional facilitators have lived experience of both being single parents, and blending their own families. In addition our team are supported by psychologists, local and international research and leverage the knowledge of our expert partners through our Expert Guest Speaker Seminars.

Our framework will help you draw out solutions for your family that are based on what’s most important to each family member. Unlike other services we will not prescribe an answer for you but rather work with you to find solutions that fit. Our Blended Family Framework, community of peers and The Seamless Blend Global Library – our catalogue of resources including books, articles, podcasts, video clips and a line up of local providers of specialist services will support your family’s unique needs.

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