The Person Behind People Centred Group.
Hi, I'm Es.
25 years. Nine industries. Some of the most iconic brands in the market.
Red Bull. Volvo. Nine Network. ACP Magazines. Ticketek. KPMG.
Boardrooms, restructures, hyper-growth scale-ups, and cultural turnarounds. Commercially sharp, deeply human, and never box-ticking.
My non-negotiable? HR works in the business, not on it.
I built People Centred Group because founders and leaders running businesses of 5 to 300 people need serious HR capability without the overhead of a full HR department.
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Who I Work With.
Founders and leaders of businesses from 5 to 300 people, across Australia and internationally, at the point where people decisions carry real weight.
Some have no HR at all and need a strategic partner to build from the ground up. Some have a specialist and need broader strategic thinking around them. Some are navigating something specific, a restructure, a culture problem, a team that's quietly falling apart.
All of them want HR that actually moves the needle. And all of them want someone who tells them the truth.
The Uncomfortable Truth About HR.
Here's what I see consistently: HR has been squeezed so hard into business-as-usual that it never gets off the ground. Reactive by design. Firefighting instead of building. Surviving instead of leading.
And when HR does build often the strategies, the frameworks, the programs are built in isolation from the business. Not reviewed when strategy shifts. Not realigned when the commercial reality changes. Which means you end up with people programs that are working against the very goals they were aimed to support. Good intentions that quietly become box-ticking. And box-ticking that kills performance.
The fix isn't more programs. It's better foundations. Aligning your people strategy to the cycle of your business, the strategy of your business, the DNA of your business. Get that right and everything else stops being overhead and starts being a genuine competitive advantage.
That's the work. And that's why I built People Centred Group.