Helping workplaces succeed by navigating the complexities of HR, ER, and workplace investigations with confidence.
Who We Are
At Workplace Advantage, we help organisations create positive, productive, and compliant workplaces. Our purpose is to guide businesses through the complexities of people management with clarity, confidence, and care.
With over 20 years of experience across a broad spectrum of industries including government, not-for-profit, professional services, mining, health, and education, we bring deep expertise in Human Resources, Employee Relations, and workplace investigations. Whether working with small businesses or large organisations, we tailor our support to suit your operational realities and strategic goals.
Our team is passionate about helping leaders build stronger teams, resolve challenges fairly, and enable workplace cultures that allow people to thrive. We understand the modern pressures of managing people and offer grounded, actionable advice, underpinned by integrity, objectivity, and a genuine desire to make work better for everyone involved.
We exist to make workplaces better for as many people as possible. When your people thrive, your organisation thrives. That belief is at the core of everything we do.
The Workplace Advantage, Advantage
Expert guidance across HR & ER
Over 20 years of experience across Human Resources, Employee Relations, and workplace investigations.
We prioritise people
Achieve balanced solutions that prioritise your people while driving compliance, performance, and wellbeing.
Tailored, Practical solutions
We know that no two workplaces are the same. Our tailored advice and service model supports solutions designed specifically for your organisation’s needs, culture, and goals.
Integrity and objectivity
Ensure fair outcomes and maintain workplace integrity through an objective and impartial perspective, free from internal biases, conflicts of interest and risk to privacy.
A hands-on, genuine partnership
Our approach is grounded in genuine collaboration, built on trust, transparency, and a deep understanding of your unique workplace.
Long-term organisational wellbeing
Build cohesive and compliant workplaces where people thrive.
The team:
Meet Kristen | Founder and Director
Kristen is a seasoned employment lawyer and Human Resources and Employee Relations executive with a career advising companies within Australia’s most challenging and regulated industries including transport, mining and aged care. Kristen’s expertise is backed by a wealth of experience from both ASX-listed companies and the not-for-profit sector.
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With a strong foundation in employment law, Kristen advises clients on the full range of employment matters, from performance management, enterprise bargaining compliance with compliance with industrial instruments such as Awards and Enterprise Agreements, underpayment and unfair and unlawful dismissal matters.
A proven record of leading complex workplace investigations and providing advice and recommendations that organisations can rely on to be trustworthy, compliant and backed by evidence and insights. Kristen’s investigative work has covered the most sensitive and serious workplace matters including bullying, discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, criminal conduct, corruption, WHS, and security-critical incidents.
Contact Kristen: kristen@workplaceadvantage.com.au
Meet Kylie | Operations Manager
With a dynamic and diverse career spanning over 20 years across the construction, insurance, and finance sectors, Kylie brings a wealth of cross-industry expertise to the role of Operations Manager at Workplace Advantage. Kylie has held roles across Bid Management, Project Management and executive support as a senior Executive Assistant who enables leaders, teams, and executives to achieve success and maximise their impact.
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These strengths underpin her strategic and operational oversight at Workplace Advantage to ensure seamless delivery of services, optimised systems, and strong internal coordination. Guided by a commitment to quality, transparency, and a strong work ethic, Kylie as a trusted business partner with a proven ability to drive strategic goals.
Throughout her career, Kylie has developed deep capabilities across executive administration, project management, business process improvement, marketing and communications, and change management.
A confident communicator and natural collaborator, Kylie values positive, high-performing work environments through trusted relationships with teams, stakeholders and customers. Passionate about building systems that drive efficiency, quality outcomes and exceptional customer experiences, Kylie plays a central role in supporting the Workplace Advantage’s growth and reputation for excellence.