Our Solutions:
HR Masterclasses, People Strategy,
HR & Business Consulting

Masterclasses


Nicole Mathers. Uncapped Potential. Australia's leading experts in emotional intelligence in leadership, culture and HR practice.

HR Masterclasses are designed to provide practical, contemporary solutions for experienced HR Practitioners seeking to hone their craft.

Designed and delivered by us, career practitioners (not career consultants), with a combined 45 years experience, we share our lived experiences across many industries to cultivate a learning experience that is meaningful and relatable.

Delivered in-house to HR teams small and large.  We also offer open forums and webinars – if you are interested in an open forum, register your interest by completing the contact form.

Our most popular masterclasses are summarised here. We also customise content to work with HR teams on specific challenges.

Topics

  • Emotional Intelligence in HR Practice

    At the heart of every high-performing culture is emotionally intelligent leadership — and it starts with HR.
    This masterclass explores how emotional intelligence transforms the way HR practitioners lead influence, and deliver outcomes. You’ll learn how to apply EI principles to navigate complexity, build trust, relationships, and drive performance that creates genuine behavioural change.

    More than a soft skill, emotional intelligence is a competitive differentiator — the foundation for psychosocially safe, engaged teams, and credible HR leadership.

    It’s how modern HR builds influence, with insight and impact. This masterclass provides a different lens for HR effectiveness to heighten capability and effectiveness.

    For all Practitioners.

  • Reactive to Proactive

    The future of HR isn’t about policies and processes — it’s about impact.

    This masterclass challenges traditional HR thinking and equips people leaders to shift from transactional firefighting to strategic, commercially-minded influence. Built on decades of real-world experience, it redefines what HR can and should be: an active driver of business performance, culture, and leadership maturity.

    You’ll learn how to anticipate rather than react, shape organisational behaviour through emotionally intelligent HR leadership, and embed people strategies that create measurable value over compliance.

    It’s time to do HR differently: bold, credible, and commercially relevant.

    For HR Leads and HR Practitioners.

  • Storytelling in HR Practice

    Facts inform — stories inspire action.

    This masterclass shows HR professionals how to use the power of storytelling to shift perspectives, change thinking and behaviour, and connect people to purpose. You’ll learn how to craft narratives that translate strategy into meaning, data into emotion, and initiatives into stories for people to get behind.

    This is where HR becomes the voice that shapes culture, one story at a time.

    We share our tried and tested model for building storytelling into implementation planning, comms and execution, using a mix of psychology, emotional intelligence and lived experience.

    Our storytelling methodology will provide you with the tools to ignite and inspire.

    For HR Practitioners and change agents.

  • Commercial & Financial Intelligence

    Economic, financial and commercial awareness is essential for all HR Practitioners.

    This masterclass builds commercial and financial acumen to help HR professionals speak the language of business, influence decision-making, and drive results that matter. You’ll learn how to read the numbers behind strategy, interpret financial signals, and translate people insights into tangible commercial outcomes.

    Grounded in real business experience, this session elevates HR from support function to strategic partner — confident in conversations about profit, productivity, and performance.
    It’s where HR earns its seat at the table, not by asking but by knowing.

    For HR Leads and HR Practitioners.

  • Influencing for Impact

    True influence isn’t about authority — it’s about credibility, connection, and confidence.

    This masterclass helps HR professionals and leaders strengthen their ability to shape decisions, win trust, and create real movement across the business leveraging our HR model for influencing.

    You’ll learn how to communicate with intent, position ideas strategically, and navigate challenging dynamics with emotional intelligence and presence.

    It’s influence without manipulation — grounded in clarity, empathy, and strategic purpose.

    Because when HR can influence effectively, it doesn’t just support change, it drives it.

    For HR Leads, OD and Change Practitioners.

  • 6 C's High Impact HR ©

    Today’s most effective HR leaders blend insight with impact.

    This masterclass explores our proprietary 6C’s Model - the essential competencies that define high impact HR: Creativity, Commerciality, Community, Communication, and Capacity.

    You’ll learn how to harness the power of each competency to strike the right balance between strategy and execution, ensuring every activity delivers measurable value.

    Developed from decades of lived experience, the 6C’s framework unlocks HR’s full potential to shape culture, strategy, and performance, serving as a blueprint for targeted, strategic, and sustainable impact.

    For HR Leads and teams.

People Strategy


Uncapped Potential. Australia's leading experts in emotional intelligence in leadership, culture and HR practice.

Our workshops are designed to provide advanced insights, challenge the status quo, break down barriers and deliver cut through. Utilising our own adaptive models, built around emotional intelligence principles, insights are delivered via sharing of failures and successes.

Facilitated by us, HR Leaders who have led HR teams, we have written more strategy than we care to remember, we have developed culture, and been responsible for delivering strategy and driving operational excellence. We bring this to the table. Our workshops challenge the status quo and deliver meaningful, tangible tactics and solutions.

Respond to an ever changing landscape of business and employee expectations with strategy workshops designed to support future focussed, contemporary, real world solutions.

Workshops we have delivered include:

  • HR Business Strategy

  • Culture

  • Performance & Talent

  • HR Transformation

  • Employee Experience (EVP)

  • Leadership Development

  • Digital and Data

HR & Consulting Services

HR PERFORMANCE

We offer expert reviews of HR functions to identify gaps, unlock efficiencies, and highlight opportunities for greater strategic impact. Through a sharp, practical lens, we assess structure, systems, process, blind spots and capability assessments to provide actionable recommendations.

HR FUNDAMENTALS

Our expertise in HR can assist with all HR matters relating to employment, Employee Value Proposition, risk and governance frameworks, policies remuneration, talent acquisition models, talent management best practice, retention and performance management.

PSYCHOSOCIAL SAFETY

To help you meet the new positive duty obligations, we have developed practical, adaptable solutions aligned to the AHRC 7 standards, with a focus on creating high-performing and psychologically safe workplaces. We have designed specific programs that drive a risk mitigation approach.

TALENT ASSESSMENTS

We assist with a strategic planning process, using appropriate tools and our unique solutions, to measure and assess talent, performance, capability and competency to identify development needs, design training programs, and inform talent pipeline and succession planning strategies.

LEGAL MATTERS

We offer guidance and representation in various employment matters, such as dismissals, investigations, terminations, and legal proceedings.  We also advise on navigating the intricate legal employment framework in Australia in all compliance related matters.

INVESTIGATIONS

We are experienced in resolving internal matters ranging from complaints of bullying & harassment, to root cause analysis of disputes, policy breaches and governance matters. Our investigation methodology is radically objective & legally compliant.

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

We have a unique approach to inspiring high performance. Our performance management framework is a game changer and incorporates Coach. purposeful conversations, click here. We can also provide solutions for poor performance management.

MEDIATION

Many say they know, few have lived it. We have extensive experience leading change in organisations. Our solutions are designed to assist leaders to navigate change to enhance employee engagement and embed change effectiveness. Minimise resistance, optimise acceptance.

CONTRACTS

We review existing and draft new employment contracts to meet your employment, industry specifics, ensuring the right provisions are tailored for your needs. Like any contractual relationship, the criticality of the employment contract cannot be underestimated.

ORGANISATION FRAMEWORKS

We have extensive experience in restructuring, arising from all business circumstances, for improved operational efficiency, including design, workflows, systems and processes to maximise the opportunity for improved capability optimisation, culture and results.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Many say they know, few have lived it. We have extensive experience leading change in organisations. Our solutions are designed to assist leaders to navigate change to enhance employee engagement and embed change effectiveness. Minimise resistance, optimise acceptance.

REMUNERATION & BENEFITS

We are qualified to develop a remuneration strategy and provide policies for Board Remuneration Committees including job sizing, benchmarking, short and long term incentive plans and non financial benefit plans for private & listed entities including the provision of equity.

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