Nobody knows your team like you do. Get the skills to handle HR yourself in two days — plus six months of backup for when it actually counts.
Apply For A Seat →Takes 2 minutes · No payment until your seat is confirmed
A quick word from Matt on who this is for and exactly what you walk away with.
The default when something goes wrong is to reach for an expensive outsider. But you end up paying a premium for advice on people you already understand better than they ever will.
$400 an hour to read your own award. You hand over a fortune for answers you suspect you could find yourself — if someone had just shown you how.
A retainer quietly draining thousands a year. Paying every month for "just in case" advice, from a firm that barely remembers your business between calls.
Held hostage by a contract you don't understand. You inherited templates off the internet and can't tell if they protect you or expose you — so you stay dependent on someone who can.
Decisions about your people, made by someone who's never met them. Nobody knows your team like you do — yet the rules keep you second-guessing every move.
When an HR problem lands, most businesses do one of two things — figure it out alone, or pay a fortune. Here's how that stacks up against the workshop.
Most HR training just hands you information — then leaves you on your own. This works because it makes you genuinely capable: the knowledge to act, the backup when you want it, and real answers on your business — not a dependence on someone else.
Contracts, awards, performance, terminations, culture and the numbers — taught plainly, with templates you take home and use straight away.
Live advice calls three times a week plus open Q&A sessions, so when a real situation lands you're never guessing alone.
Not generic articles that don't fit your business — real answers on your actual contracts, staff and situations, when you need them.
You make the calls — you know your people best. But for six months after the workshop, an Employee Relations advisor is one message away whenever you want a second opinion. Backup, not a takeover.
Jump on whenever you're stuck. Get a real answer from an ER advisor on the exact situation in front of you.
6 months of accessBring any question and keep moving forward — no question too small, no being left to figure it out alone.
Specific, current, and tailored to your business — not generic articles that don't fit your situation.
Day one gets your foundations and compliance bulletproof. Day two is about building a workplace people want to stay in — culture, performance, reward, and the numbers that let you see what's coming. Templates and trackers go home with you.
Modern award vs. award-free, the clauses that protect you, and the ones quietly working against you.
Read an award without losing a day, get classifications right, avoid the underpayment trap.
Offers, probation, record-keeping and the paperwork that keeps you covered from day one.
Warnings, documentation, and difficult conversations done properly — so you can act with confidence.
Termination, redundancy and deeds of release — what makes a dismissal "fair," and the numbers that matter.
Payday Super, the right to disconnect, portable long service leave and award movements — in plain terms.
What actually drives culture (beyond the posters) — values that mean something, the leadership habits that set the tone, and how to shift a culture that's drifted.
Goal-setting, useful feedback, and review rhythms that lift performance instead of ticking a box — for a team of 5 or 50.
What good looks like beyond pay: structuring reward, recognition that motivates, and keeping your best people without blowing the budget.
The handful of people stats worth tracking — turnover, cost-per-hire, time-to-fill, engagement — how to capture them simply, and how to read them so you can forecast growth and spot problems early.
Use your numbers to plan ahead: when to hire, what it'll cost, and how to build a team that scales with the business instead of lagging behind it.
Open clinic. Bring the real situation you're stuck on and work it through in the room.
Matt has spent his career untangling employment relations for businesses that can't afford to get it wrong — including as Head of HR across 400+ franchisees and 900+ stores at Domino's Australia & New Zealand. He built People Department on a simple belief: you shouldn't have to hand your people decisions to a stranger. His job isn't to take over — it's to teach you to handle this yourself, and to be there when you want backup.
He runs these days the way he wishes someone had taught him: direct, practical, and built to make you self-sufficient — not dependent.
"When you're caught in the weeds of building and running a business, it can be easy to let the little things slide. But those little things, especially when it comes to people management, can become towering forces that need to be taken seriously. Matt's experience, knowledge and heart for people was our super power when taking on these people challenges! Keen to work with Matt again soon."
"Highly recommend. Matthew's help in structuring our business and getting the foundations right from a leadership & HR perspective has been powerful. We saw great results immediately — both in the culture of our team and in results, having consecutive record months after we finished the program within our sales team. I wish I'd engaged his services sooner!"
Here's what's included with your seat.
Thu 23 & Fri 24 July · Brisbane CBD · 18 seats
Sit through the morning of day one. If it's not worth your time, tell us at lunch and we'll refund you in full — no awkwardness, no questions.
Seats are capped at 18 so the room stays useful and the support after stays real. Here's exactly how it works from here — no payment until your seat's confirmed.
A few quick questions about your business and what you're wrestling with. No long forms — just enough for us to understand you.
The moment you apply, you'll see a calendar to lock in a quick call — so we can confirm it's the right fit for you.
A short, no-pressure conversation. If it's a fit on both sides, we'll confirm your seat and send everything you need.
An unfair dismissal claim, an underpayment back-pay bill, a contract that doesn't hold — any one dwarfs the price of a seat. And you'll have an expert on call for six months after.
Apply For A Seat →18 seats · Thu 23 & Fri 24 July · Brisbane CBD