Creative HR Strategy & Consultancy
Redefining Human Resources & Employee Relations
Atelienne is a Human Resources and Employee Relations consulting and outsourcing firm that helps mid-sized businesses solve people challenges with precision and confidence. Backed by deep corporate experience, our team delivers tailored, strategic solutions that protect your business and empower your leaders.
Whether you're scaling fast or navigating change, we bring clarity, frameworks and future-fit solutions to make your business work better, through your people.
Atelienne is a modern Human Resources Advisory and Consultancy business redefining what human resources & employee relations looks like in today’s business world.
Inspired by the French word atelier - a place of craft and collaboration - Atelienne brings a fresh, strategic and highly tailored approach to Human Resources & Employee Relations, that goes beyond compliance and policy. We innovate with you, to design a workforce capable of responding to the demands of a digital, fast paced world.
What We Do
We work in partnership with you to understand what’s working well and where targeted improvements will create the greatest impact. By combining expertise across human resource advisory, employee relations, employment law and business transformation, we help you strengthen capability, reduce risk and build a more aligned, high‑performing organisation.
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As fractional consultants, we integrate seamlessly into your business on a flexible or project basis. With deep expertise in employee relations, we bring commercially grounded, practical support that helps your organisation navigate complex people issues with confidence.
By engaging a fractional consultant, you gain access to senior capability without the cost of a full‑time hire—ensuring you receive the right expertise, exactly when you need it.
We can help you with:
Conducting and facilitating complex workplace investigations
Cultural reviews and interventions
Workplace mediations and facilitation
Employment and industrial relations strategy and advice
Enterprise Agreement bargaining
Enquire for full-service details & pricing
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As fractional consultants, we integrate seamlessly into your business on a flexible or project basis. With deep expertise in employment law, we bring commercially grounded, practical support that helps your organisation navigate complex people issues with confidence.
By engaging a fractional consultant, you gain access to senior capability without the cost of a full‑time hire—ensuring you receive the right expertise, exactly when you need it.
We can help you with:
Advice on the Fair Work Act, Modern Awards and NES
Unfair dismissal, general protections and adverse action matters
Termination of employment and dispute resolution
Advocacy before industrial tribunals, including the Fair Work Commission and ADCQ
Psychosocial risk management and SASH matters
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As fractional consultants, we embed seamlessly into your organisation on a flexible or project basis. We bring deep expertise in Human Resources, ensuring you receive pragmatic, commercially focused support without the cost of a full‑time hire.
Our Human Resources consulting services are designed to strengthen your people strategy, uplift capability, and build strong, healthy workplace cultures. We support your business with:
Workforce planning and organisational design
Leadership coaching and development
Employee lifecycle governance and policy development
Performance management frameworks and support
Change management and communication support
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We help you to reshape your organisation and align your corporate and people strategies to set your business up for sustainable success.
We can help you with:
Organisational design and structural realignment
Business and people strategy integration
Cultural transformation and change readiness
Operating model development and redesign
Capability uplift and workforce planning
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Human Resources Director
Meet Founder, Sam Bradford
With over two decades of experience, Sam has built a formidable reputation for driving success across some of Australia’s most recognised organisations including BHP, Carlton and United Breweries (CUB), Foster’s, and Aveo.
Sam has extensive experience coaching senior executives and C -suite leaders; designing and executing commercial people strategies and technical capability programs; leading organisational design and transformation projects; and developing high-performing teams.
As a Strategic HR Consultant, Sam helps businesses navigate workforce challenges, optimise leadership structures and implement scalable solutions that drive efficiency and long-term growth. Her vision for Atelienne is to help organisations realise what is possible - and support them to achieve it.
Employee Relations Director
Meet Licia McGroarty
Licia is an Employee Relations Leader; qualified workplace investigator, mediator, and qualified lawyer with 20 years’ experience across the mining, renewables, construction, health care, tertiary education, and finance sectors.
Licia is passionate about engaging leaders to improve workplace culture. She regularly investigates complex workplace investigations and psychosocial reviews; advocates before the industrial commissions, including Fair Work Australia and the Anti-Discrimination bodies; and develops and leads enterprise bargaining strategies that are commercially astute and lead to improved workplace engagement and culture.
Prior to becoming Director at Atelienne, Licia led employee relations for BHP globally and for the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance; was the National Employee Relations Manager at Laing O’Rourke Australia Construction Pty Ltd and Associate to Commissioner Paula Spencer with Fair Work Australia.
Licia’s recent achievements include steering a post‑merger bargaining for one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds and reporting on, and implementing Respect at Work reforms at a national health provider. She is known for strategic thinking, pragmatic problem solving and quickly building trusted relationships with stakeholders to achieve value-driven and commercial outcomes.
Our Team
We are not career consultants. Each Atelienne consultant has over 20 years’ experience in human resources and employee relations leadership, working across multiple industry sectors. We understand the nuances of industries including mining and heavy industry, construction, fast moving consumer goods, healthcare, finance, tertiary education and not-for-profit sector.
We have deep experience and a long history of successful delivery across both Australian and international businesses. We help organisations grow performance, profitability and productivity.
We use our experience to create fresh, innovative ways to manage your people and prepare your organisation for the future
"Growth isn’t a spreadsheet metric—it’s built by people, shaped by strategy."
Get in Touch
If you’re looking for tailored Human Resource and Employee Relations support, strategic guidance, or a partner to help navigate growth or workforce change, get in touch. We’ll review your needs and put together a custom proposal outlining how Atelienne can support your business with clarity, structure, and impact.
