November 24, 2025
Alcohol at work events - getting the right balance of risk vs engagement
The way alcohol is perceived at work is changing, leaving HR teams questioning how they should structure work events and celebrations.
HR/ER skills
With deep expertise in employment law and senior HR/ER roles, we equip HR professionals with the skills to navigate complex workplace challenges confidently and fairly. From handling harassment concerns to managing conflict, performance, and formal processes, our training is practical, targeted, and rooted in real-world experience.
HR/ER skills
Building confident and accountable HR/ER teams
Our facilitators come from employment law and HR backgrounds, bringing first-hand insights into what works - and what doesn’t. We help HR professionals follow processes with confidence, balancing legal compliance with human awareness. Explore our HR/ER skills training sessions below.
Handling sexual harassment concerns
Handling disciplinary, capability and grievance processes
Investigations Academy: conducting fair and effective investigations
Recruitment and selection: hiring the best
Effective feedback and challenging conversations
Performance management
Conflict resolution
Training for employee representatives
Managing maternity & parental leave
Our team
Trusted by global companies for 20 years.
We're a team of highly specialised experts with diverse professional backgrounds. All of us have worked in organisations like yours and at the coalface of workplace people issues. We quickly grasp your concerns and where you want to get to.
It's a great personal feeling when business colleagues and leaders give you high praise and thanks for learning interventions. That's what you get when you engage byrne∙dean!
Fiona Pizzey, Diversity Manager, RBC Wealth Management, Royal Bank of Canada
Our thinking on Workplace behaviour
November 3, 2025
What to do if you've gotten drunk and acted inappropriately at a work event?
Founder Matt Dean shares learnings from decades of experience on how one should navigate this common scenario.
October 7, 2025
Harriet Harman Report on sexual harassment: How should law firms respond?
Experienced lawyer and byrne·dean Director and Head of Training, Helen Dallimore, shares how law firms must respond.
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We can help you make positive, long-lasting culture change in the workplace culture, whatever your requirements.
Workplace training
World class sessions in workplace behaviour, mental health & wellbeing, equity, diversity & inclusion, risk & accountability, leadership and people skills - delivered in person, virtually or via digital learning modules, to individuals and groups of any size.
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Mediation, investigations & conflict resolution
Helping to resolve workplace behaviour concerns with investigations, mediations and independent partnering.
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Workplace strategy consulting
Recommending the best HR and people strategies – from inclusion and wellbeing to instilling cultural change – expertly and with objectivity.
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