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A great workplace is a successful workplace – who wouldn’t want that? Many of us spend at least a third of our lives at work. That’s half of our waking lives! We are passionate about creating high-performing, great workplaces built on foundations of wellbeing and safety. And we mean so much more than fruit bowls, flu shots, and foosball tables!
If you’re an industry peak body and share our vision for industry-wide wellbeing programmes that make it easy for people to care for their teams and each other, scroll on to hear about our award-winning work on land, at sea and in the air.
If you’re a corporate or not-for-profit organisation and want your team to further develop your organisational culture of wellbeing through psychosocial safety, mental health, diversity and inclusion training, or the tools to achieve those things, check out our menu of evidence-based keynotes, masterclasses and workshops.
And if Mental Health Basics or Mental Health First Aid is where you are at as an organisation or individual, we’ve got you covered there with our high-quality training that focuses on excellence in content, delivery and most importantly getting the context right for you.
Our why
We create great workplaces for all by making a culture of wellbeing and safety the bedrock of everyone’s everyday experience.
Our how
We deliver practical programs based on the sound evidence and best practice developed through our passion for lifelong learning. There is no wellbeing without culture.
Our difference
Context – our content – your context – by us with you. Embedding – learning to habit. We are passionate about providing your team with the tools to embed their learning. It’s hard to build a habit, so we make sure that every session includes leading ways to take what resonates and make it a part of your team’s every day worlds. As use about our ‘Resonate to Routine’ model.
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Mental Health First Aid
Mental Illness is going to be the biggest cost to world health systems, including Australia’s by 2032 (WHO). This means that the state of play in our workplaces, our communities and our homes is already changing. Our Founder Jo Marshall has a deep interest in how we as a society tackle that through the very important lens of work. Long gone are the days of leaving our problems at the door.
We now know that
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100% of us will experience trauma in our lifetime
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48% of us will experience a mental illness
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1 in 5 of us are experiencing or will experience a mental illness in 2024
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All of us are touched by Mental Health problems
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Most of us want to help each other
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At work and beyond – we need the tools
We have a national team of Mental Health First Aid trainers that have been handpicked to ensure that they meet our high standards of quality and delivery. Our Context Creation process is what puts our team in front.
When Delivering Mental Health First Aid we respect and follow the exceptional evidence-based content of Mental Health First Aid Australia – using the language and context that your people know and understand. It is this contextualisation that enables people to relate and therefore engage much more quickly and deeply than in standardised training settings.
When designing non-accredited training, we still take nothing but the best quality evidence from a range of sources including internationally recognised health and social research databases. Once again we work to deliver this information in the context of YOUR working world. It can make the world of difference!
You can book a spot at one of our public courses – delivered in person or online, or enquire about bringing one of our excellent trainers to deliver this course to your team. Our national network of trainers are the highest quality. Our unique context creator tool ensures that you receive the best quality delivery with language and context relevant to your organisation.
Psychosocial safety
The next frontier of safe work in Australia has arrived with the Model Code of Practice for Psychosocial Safety at work.
Whilst Psychological, or Psychosocial Safety has always been a requirement (not to mention smart business) for Australian employers, the new Code of Practice has brought new focus to this incredibly important topic.
From the basics of how to follow the Code of Practice in your State(s) to how to achieve the Gold Standard in Psychosocial safety to make your workplace great, we’ve got you covered.
Intersections in mental health and psychosocial safety
We’ve asked over 1,000 leaders to share their challenges in mental health and psychosocial safety at work. There’s a common and important theme emerging. “How do I navigate providing safety and mental health support, and still ensure that all of my team are performing and being treated fairly”.
It’s scary and fraught with challenges, but we've got you! We get it and through our many years of hands-on leadership and learning, we can help you develop simple skills and tools to work this stuff out, with a lot less lost sleep!
Industry led wellbeing
At Culturise we have developed a deep understanding of, not just mental health, but the systems and community impacts around the Australian experience.
Through pioneering programs across whole industries, we have developed models that have been robustly evaluated and recognised at the highest levels of State and Federal Government. The hallmark of these programs is the way in which CONTEXT is understood across sectors and their members and engagement happens from grass roots through to the Executive and Board.
Talk to us about supporting your Peak or Member organisation to design a program that best fits your context.
What we’re good at
Keynotes, masterclasses and immersions
Our Founder Jo Marshall is a highly sought after speaker with a broad range of expertise across the Safety and Wellbeing arena. Invite her to your next conference to inspire action on topics such as Wellbeing for High Performance, Mental Health, Psychosocial Safety, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Industry Led Wellbeing. She can also help you bring your conference to an end with an insightful, energising and motivating keynote that provides attendees with practical tools to ensure conference learnings aren’t left behind in the conference room.
Our Wellbeing for Culture and High performance courses and workshops are evidence based and our team are highly committed and skilled in distilling the appropriate combination of latest and next best practice, with the tried and true methodologies that remain powerful tools for great places to work. The magic ingredient is context. We research deeply and work hard to get the best content, but without context, the impact will be minimal and culture change will be impossible. So we don’t mess with the best, but we are really good at contextualising our content to fit you. This means aligning to everything from your values and strategy to your operational needs, working rhythms and preferred delivery methods right down to common language, habits and traditions of your workplace.
Typically there’s plenty that will resonate with your team if you put a capable presenter or facilitator in front of them. But how often do these light bulb moments struggle to move from intention to action? And when they do, how rare is it for the actions to become the habits they need to be for long term results. The Culturise ‘Resonate to Routine’ model underpins every activity that we undertake. Based in research, this innovative approach is gaining in evidence as we work with organisations to measure the true impact of our work. It’s far more powerful than a satisfaction rating on a feedback form.
Creating great SAFE workplaces
Safety isn’t a value or an activity, it’s a deeply rooted human need. If any person feels unsafe at a conscious or sub-conscious, their every day performance is likely to be impacted. It might be minor, but in so many areas of work and life the ‘one-percenters’ count! Using our many years experiencing in leading large and diverse teams to achieve safe practices and safety cultures, aligned to our expertise in Psychosocial Safety and Mental Health, we are amongst Australia’s leading safety culture experts. Our Founder Jo has been rabitting on about Psychological Safety for years – long before Australia’s new regulations and guidelines came in!
Creating great mentally healthy workplaces
Mental illness is set to be the largest cost to the health system in Australia and world-wide by 2032. And employers need a hand to navigate it. Whether it be dipping your toes in the waters of Mental Health First Aid (which we reckon is an excellent idea), or developing your Culture of Care through a wide range of support and change initiatives we’ve got you covered. As with all of our work, we talk mental health at work without losing our reality check on one key fact and that is that you have a business to run. All of our content is built by experts with both Mental Health expertise level AND experience running every day businesses. We’ll help you find the right balance.
Creating great diverse, inclusive and equitable workplaces
The ever-changing maze of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity requires that you not only understand, but stay a-breadth of the emerging needs of a constantly diversifying definition of the human identity. And there is NO escaping it. If you want safety, you must provide safety in an identity sensitised manner. If you want high performance, you need safety. Oh, and in many cases, if you actually want a future workforce, you need to be able to draw from and support the incredibly diverse make up of not just our broader community, but your local community. And just like the challenge of mental health, it’s hard to know where employer responsibility and best practice meet. We’ll help. Get in touch!
Creating great industries
95% of businesses in Australia are considered to be micro or small businesses. You might be one of them and lamenting that you can’t afford the consulting fees for the exciting programs we’ve outlined above. Or you might be involved with your industry peak body. Culturise has led the way in piloting and developing an emerging category of wellbeing programs, namely Industry Led Wellbeing Programs. Through our expertise in gathering evidence and contextualising it, we’ve supported industry wide change a number of sectors as broad as the Seafood Industry, Food Manufacturing, Aviation, Financial and Public Sector Agencies. Our work has been showcased by the Australian Mental Health Commission, supported by the Federal Government Department of Health and Ageing, national Research and Development Corporations and national safety regulators. Our programs are grass-roots, real, peer-driven, evidence based and properly evaluated. Invite us to speak at your next industry conference and let your colleagues set the path.
Our menu of training
We do more than just train – we make every effort to help you and your people embed those elements of their learning that will change their working lives – and beyond.
We know that shift requires behaviour change, to make behaviour change stick, we need practice. We need to create the pathways that make new ways of doing things a habit. Our evidence-based framework encourages people to reflect on their learning, put reframe it in their own context, respond with commitment and action and constantly review. Through following this flow, we help people navigate through change in a sustainable way.
Our menu of evidence based training can be delivered as stand alone topics or built into a change program that works for your people. Our topics focus on individuals – self, creating great teams, and skilling leaders.
Training topics
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Hand me the oxygen mask
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Kill busy – finding time where it doesn't exist
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Wishes and goals to practice and habits
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Better responses – better outcomes
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Worried about a workmate
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The simple art of a tricky conversation
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Psychosocial safety – where do we start?
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Psychosocial safety - culture of care
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Harassment and bullying - how not to
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Family and domestic violence – the importance of workplace
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We're all good different - DEI basics
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Modern performance management – prevention and early intervention
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The science of human motivation
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Where mental health and performance collide
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Industry led change that works
Each topic can be delivered in one of three flexible formats:
Quick dip
45-60 minutes
Key note presentation
Provoking, inspiring headline evidence based sharing of knowledge.
Shallow dive
90 minutes - 2 hours
Masterclass
Headline evidence plus shallow dive with group chats and interaction.
Deeper diver
3-4 hours
Working masterclass
Headline evidence plus deeper dive with group activities to embed learning.
Tools for immersion
At Culturise, we’re all about practical tools that help people grow without losing sight of day-to-day business demands. Our toolkit is built to last—from co-branded onboarding assets to powerful, research-backed psychometrics that won’t gather dust in a drawer.
Take a moment
Born during COVID as a non-screen reflection tool, Take a Moment pads are now a favourite for building positive daily habits.
Backed by the 5 Ways to Wellbeing and the powerful Top 3 time management tool, they’re great for setting weekly intentions, remote check-ins, or just taking stock.
Perfect for mental health week gifts, welcome packs, or daily team rituals.
Culture deck
The Culture Deck is a game-changer – versatile, inclusive, and surprisingly fun.
Used from interviews through to exits, it helps people articulate what matters most at work. Teams build mutual understanding, and employees often bring the deck home, sparking deeper conversations with family too.
Includes easy-to-follow guides and short how-to videos.
Facet5 personality tool
After years working with different assessments, Facet5 is our go-to. Based on the Big 5 theory, it’s evidence-based, practical, and speaks a language teams actually use. It stands out for its insights into pressure and stress, helping people understand not just who they are, but how they behave when it counts. Paired with a personal app and embedded tools, Facet5 supports real behavioural change—well beyond the workshop.
Program pathways
Training and development are ultimately about behaviour change. Whilst we offer a high degree of flexibility, we also encourage you to collaborate with us to design your program pathway to have a sound balance of ‘learning and doing’ – learning alone risks loss of impact as people are not supported to practice new ways of doing and being, with the result being. New habits are hard to form.
The program is best delivered over a 9 month period.
Each program consists of the same content but is delivered in a different working rhythm and context based on your need. We prefer face to face, but can accommodate online or hybrid.
Example 1
Immerse and practice
The best option to drive deep learning in a world where operational routines can be adjusted to make way for workshops.
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90 minute Town Hall – all staff and leaders
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4 x half day workshops for all staff extending into a full day for leaders
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4 x 90 minute doing hubs
Example 2
Learn and do
For organisations where operational routines are extremely difficult to adjust (such as production/manufacturing).
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90 minute Town Hall – all staff and leaders
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8 x 2 hour workshops for all staff extending to 4 hours for leaders
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8 x 45 minute doing hubs
All programs include:
Click repeat program
A daily delivery straight into your teams' inboxes, or comms platform of your choice. Short bites of something to reflect on, laugh along with or be inspired by. And something to share - a quote or saying to share with colleagues. It's microbits of wellbeing to start everyone's days!
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Up to 10 hours of 1:1 follow up or coaching
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Session summary, slides, items of note and recommendations
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Full program report and recommendations
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Facilitator attendance at two company leadership meetings to discuss and adjust
One-off workshop options
Key note inspiration
Up to one hour with room for questions. Key facts and handy tools. Great for conferences and 'Lunch-n-Learn' style activities.
Learning hub
Two hours to half a day. Unique warm up, key Facts, handy tools, discussion, practice and action setting. Great for teams of all levels to immerse, upskill and be inspired.
Learning and doing hub
Full day deep dive experience – either two Learning Hubs, or a co-design for the future around one topic. This is perfect for Executive Level groups setting the way forward.
Bowhill Engineering has been a huge fan of Culturise for many years now. Jo Marshall leads a great team. Each session has been interactive, engaging, fun and diverse. I would thoroughly recommend Culturise without hesitation.
Jodie Hawkes
CEO, Bowhill Engineering
Hugh is a wonderful trainer. Excellent presence in the room. He held the space well and used the group’s knowledge really well. I thought he was great!
Nick Atkin
Training Manager, Operation Flinders Foundation
Working with Jo and the Culturise team is always a pleasure. Their commitment to collaboration, thoughtful insights, and professional excellence make them invaluable partners in our mission to advance the credit profession.
Nick Pilavidis
CEO, Australian Institute of Credit Management
