A 12-month people-powered partnership focused on strengthening leadership capability, psychological safety, and culture across a national organisation.
AgriFutures Australia was committed to strengthening its workplace culture and leadership capability while improving employee engagement and wellbeing. Recognising the need for a proactive and human-centred approach, AgriFutures partnered with us to design and deliver a 12-month program to enhance leadership effectiveness, psychological safety, and overall team morale.
The engagement began with a sensemaking phase, including co-designing a workplace culture, wellbeing, and engagement survey. Interviewing staff and ELT. The results provided key insights into organisational strengths and growth areas, including a clear opportunity to improve emotional wellbeing, psychosocial risk and leadership alignment across departments. This process included interviewing a cross-section of employees to gauge culture moving from survey data to human centric voices.
Jessica and Natalie led a tailored 12-month initiative, attending site for five days each month to deliver high-impact leadership development across the organisation. The work was designed as a sustained, people-powered partnership, combining sensemaking, leadership capability building, and practical systems to support long-term cultural change.
The solution brought together multiple streams of work, aligned under a clear engagement and wellbeing roadmap that informed the broader program design.
Facilitating high-impact, psychologically safe, hands-on leadership development to build confidence, clarity, and capability under pressure.
Gaining deeper understanding beyond surveys through structured interviews with a cross-section of employees and leaders.
Strengthening relationships and collaboration through 120 hours of tailored leadership and employee coaching.
Guiding reflective, open peer discussions to support leadership alignment, shared insight, and collective ownership.
Building internal leadership and ownership to embed culture change from within the organisation.
Culture champions became trusted internal drivers of change, translating strategy into everyday practice.
A tailored mentoring framework to support leadership growth, capability uplift, and succession planning.
The mentoring program created clear pathways for growth while strengthening leadership capability across the organisation.
The program delivered significant positive outcomes for AgriFutures Australia. A measurable shift in employee engagement and psychosocial wellbeing. Leaders reported improved clarity, confidence, and capability in navigating change and leading with empathy.
The program also fostered stronger relationships across departments, with team coaching circles enhancing communication and trust. The tailored mentoring framework gave emerging leaders clear pathways for growth, reinforcing the organisation’s investment in its people and managing potential psychosocial risks. This case demonstrates the power of sustained, human-first leadership development in cultivating a thriving, emotionally healthy workplace culture.
As a government agency, it was critical for us to engage knowledgeable, credible consultants to design a program tailored to our unique needs. We received eight proposals through a competitive RFQ process, and the program design submitted by Jessica and Natalie stood out immediately for its strategic depth, innovation, and alignment with our goals.
Throughout our 12-month engagement, Jess, Natalie and team delivered to an outstanding standard. What began as a leadership development initiative quickly expanded in scope due to the team’s broad expertise and value-add. We extended the work to include workforce sensing, team coaching, HR and ELT support, on-demand coaching, psychosocial risk management, compliance guidance, and mentoring program design, all delivered with professionalism and insight.
Their approach has been transformative for our organisation, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to others seeking impactful and future-focused leadership and culture solutions.
