Human Potential Consulting

Human Potential Consulting refers to the unique perspective and consulting specialty that we bring.

Human Potential Consulting transforms how organisations tackle challenges and seize opportunities by unlocking the immense potential within their teams.

Our unique approach emphasises immediate, real-time improvements, empowering individuals to initiate positive change without waiting for a ‘final report.’ By looking at organisational issues through fresh perspectives and valuing lived experiences, we inspire actionable solutions and foster a culture of proactive innovation.

Discover how potential-based consulting can transform your organisation, driving growth and success from within.

Human Potential Consulting Services

  • Organisational Planning

    We work with you to create the space to think and talk meaningfully about strategy, about priorities and about how to leverage potential within the organisation to achieve these.

    We do this through executive strategy and planning processes and workshops, and we help to build enterprise leadership for stronger leadership cohesion and alignment.

  • Organisational Development

    We work with you to shape and realise the potential of people in developing, maturing and strengthening the organisation.

    We do this through human potential planning and talent management, strengthening safe, respectful, inclusive and collaborative work cultures, and in developing capabilities and capacities required of people for successful and meaningful work today and in the future.

  • Organistional Performance

    We work with you to realise the potential of your team’s collective effort and performance.

    We work with you to understand what your stakeholders think, design the most appropriate and adaptive structures, workforce models, workflows, business processes as well as relationships that empower people to adapt, to perform and to make work, work better.

    We do this through stakeholder analysis, structural, functional and role reviews and co-designs, the co-development of enterprise-wide frameworks, action plans and performance roadmaps.

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Common Forms of Advice and Support

  • Strategy, Planning and Implementation Advice

  • Strategy and team alignment and cohesion

  • Change Management

  • Team culture development and strengthening

  • Structural, functional and role reviews and design

  • Business process review and design

For Teams

  • Enterprise Leadership

  • Stakeholder engagement and citizen participation

  • Human Potential Planning (our take on ‘workforce planning’) and Talent Management

  • Capability Planning

  • Organisational Design

  • Culture Development and Strengthening

  • Organisational Development

  • Corporate Planning and Plans

  • Corporate Framework Development

For Organisations

Examples of Previous Work

Major Functional Review and Redesign

Yellow Edge was engaged by the ACT Government to assist the Education Directorate in reviewing and potentially redesigning a major and important function servicing all schools in the ACT.

 This involved extensive interviews, focus groups with staff and stakeholders in schools and in detailed analysis of performance and how services are delivered. Our work included recommending a clearer functional structure, an operating model, model of care, service delivery models and multidisciplinary workforce structures.

This engagement revealed the complexity and dedication within the ACT education ecosystem, highlighting the need for sensitive, transparent reviews to manage this complexity and strive for clarity and simplification. Emphasizing co-design and trusting those affected by complexity enables the development of effective solutions, with front-line employees often holding the keys to overcoming their challenges. The process was intellectually stimulating, made more rewarding through collaboration with ACT government colleagues, allowing for a shared exploration of solutions in a professional and open environment.

Listening to and witnessing the passion and commitment of staff for the schools and students that they served was inspiring.

Designing a new service for Government

Yellow Edge was engaged by the ACT Government to help design and facilitate a community consultation, engagement and design process to develop the parameters and service delivery model for an Independent Planning Advisory Service (IPAS) in the ACT.  The IPAS is about assisting members of the community to be better informed about and have access to advice in development applications and other planning processes. 

From this engagement, we learned the significant value citizens and community groups place on genuine and empathic engagement. Their involvement leads to better service design, outcomes, and increased satisfaction, as they appreciate their perspectives and experiences being seriously considered. We enjoyed the diversity of people we met, the privilege of listening to their stories, and the responsibility of reflecting their insights in our recommendations.

We enjoyed working with our colleagues in the ACT Government who supported and trusted us.