Workplace relations expertise for matters that need to be handled properly.
Workplace Advantage is a boutique Australian workplace relations advisory firm. We work with senior leaders, People & Culture teams, business owners and professional advisers on complex employment matters — and on the HR foundations that prevent them.
What we do
Our work sits where HR, workplace relations, governance and practical business decisions meet.
There are three ways to engage us: HR on Demand for ongoing advice, scoped projects for defined matters, and a fixed-fee HR Compliance Toolkit.
We provide five service streams:
HR Advisory & Workplace Relations
Workplace Investigations
Culture Reviews
Enterprise Bargaining
HR Compliance.
Why Workplace Advantage
Complex people matters rarely arrive in a neat sequence. A performance process can become a grievance. A complaint can expose a broader culture issue. An investigation can sit alongside workers' compensation, psychosocial risk, Fair Work or discrimination considerations.
Workplace Advantage brings senior workplace relations judgement to those moments. The focus is not simply on process. It is on choosing the right process, running it properly and leaving the organisation with a clear next step.
Workplace Advantage was founded by Kristen Wall, a qualified employment lawyer with 12 years of executive ER and HR experience at BHP and more than 20 years' experience.
Every matter is led by a senior advisor. Clients are not handed down through a junior delivery model.
Our working principles
Clarity
The scope, process and next step are made clear.
Independence
For investigations, reviews and other independent work, the integrity of the process comes before a preferred outcome.
Practicality
Advice needs to work in the organisation, not only on paper.
Fairness
Serious workplace matters require procedural fairness, sound evidence and proportionate decisions.
Confidentiality
Sensitive matters are treated as sensitive matters from the first conversation.
Our clients range from small and medium business owners without internal HR to Heads of People & Culture and CEOs in organisations with hundreds of employees.
We also accept referrals from employment lawyers, in-house counsel, accountants and other professional advisers where independent or specialist workplace relations expertise is required.
