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.
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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.
Scaling fast and need clarity? You’re hiring, growing, and juggling. We help turn that energy into long-term capability and aligned people strategy. → Learn More
Facing internal complexity or misalignment? Whether it’s structure, culture, or compliance—you need strategy and solutions that stick. → Learn More
Planning for change or transformation? From leadership to operations, we work alongside you to reshape your org design and make growth sustainable. → Learn More
What We Do
We work in partnership with you, to understand what is working well and which areas of the business need improvement. Our goal is to help you attain maximum profitability, productivity and performance.
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As fractional consultants, we embed ourselves into your team on a flexible, fixed-term or project basis. We leverage our deep experience and long history of successful delivery to support your business in achieving sustainable success.
By engaging a fractional consultant, you gain an experienced professional who is commercially focused and pragmatic, without the cost of a full-time employee.
We can help you with:
Compliance audits
Coaching and advice on the Fair Work Act, Modern Awards, the National Employment Standards (NES), unfair dismissal, general protections and adverse action matters
Conducting and facilitating complex workplace investigations
Cultural interventions & mediations
Performance management & termination of employment
Psychosocial risk and SASH matters
Advocacy before industrial tribunals, including the Fair Work Commission and ADCQ
Employment and industrial relations advice
Enterprise Agreement negotiations
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We develop learning pathways that prepare your business for the future.
We can help you with:
The design and implementation of capability frameworks
Emerging technical skills, including AI, data and digital operations
Leadership & technical capability development (targeted training, coaching and applied learning)
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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:
Business optimisation
Organisational design and restructuring
Performance & productivity improvement
Management routines, compliance & governance frameworks
Policies & procedures
Employment contracts, job design & position descriptions
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We understand your business and work in partnership with you to develop people strategies across:
Organisational growth and capability
Attraction, retention and engagement
Remuneration, rewards and recognition
Enterprise Bargaining Agreements (EBAs)
Succession planning and business continuity
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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.