March 11, 2025
Are your Employee Resource Groups at war, preventing true ED&I progress?
CEO Nick McClelland highlights the growing importance of collaboration and business acumen in ERGs.
Resolution
Workplace mediation & conflict resolution - how we can help.
At byrne·dean, we find the path through workplace conflict and disputes, whether before or after they crystallise. Our expert team can deliver workplace mediation for fragile or broken relationships, investigate concerns and complaints or make decisions on your behalf around allegations of wrongdoing.
Areas of expertise
We are experts in workplace mediation & resolution.
Whilst people issues can be addressed internally in most cases, it’s not always possible. Conflicts of interest can prevent an internal solution, or the scale of the issue requires an external dedicated resource. Our highly specialised team have extensive experience covering the private, public, charitable and union sectors. We are comfortable with difficult issues, including those requiring a trauma-informed approach, and can help with interventions best suited to your needs.
Investigations
Mediation
Repair
Partnering
Our approach
We are emotionally intelligent.
We are emotionally intelligent, understanding that workplace conflict is often emotional. We undertake our work in an open, fair and independent way, bringing diverse experience across employment law, HR and employee relations. Several of our team are skilled in a trauma-informed approach to investigations – including, but not limited to, cases of sexual misconduct.
Our collective experience has taught us that it is possible to achieve effective solutions with minimum disruption, whilst maintaining confidence of those directly affected and the broader employee population.
My experience with byrne·dean was excellent. They were professional, directed, cost conscious, and performed the tasks they were given with sensitivity and objectivity. Obviously, the nature of our engagement with Byrne Dean is, and must remain, confidential; however, I can say that they handled a challenging assignment in a timely fashion, within budget and produced a work product that exceeded our expectations.
General Counsel, Technology Firm
The latest thinking from the team
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February 19, 2025
DEI is dead. Long live DEI!
DEI is under fire - again. But the best organisations cut through the noise, staying focused on fairness, talent, and success. Jane explores why the “DEI is dead” narrative keeps resurfacing - and why the real work continues.
February 11, 2025
Guest Q&A – Co Founder of speak up platform InChorus
Rosie Turner joins us to discuss what gets in the way of speaking up, and the problems this causes.
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Training
World class sessions in mental health & wellbeing, equity, diversity & inclusion, workplace behaviour, legal & accountability, leadership and skills - delivered in person, virtually or via digital learning modules, to individuals and groups of any size.
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Strategy
Recommending the best HR and people strategies – from inclusion and wellbeing to instilling cultural change – expertly and with objectivity.
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