Savvy is a leading organisational effectiveness firm providing pragmatic advice and hands-on support for business leaders in people management, leadership, culture, and organisational design. We focus on the people side of strategy — turning intent into action, and action into results.

As specialists in strategy execution, leadership development and large-scale transformation, we equip leaders to build the capability and momentum needed to deliver strategic outcomes and lift performance across the organisation.

We have supported clients across diverse sectors and industries to develop:

• Fit-for-purpose structures that create role clarity and drive accountability;
• People systems and processes that shape the right behaviours;
• Capable and credible leadership;
• Constructive, customer-focused cultures.

Since 2004, we have brought deep expertise in strategic HR, culture alignment, and transformation to every engagement. Our work spans leadership development, performance systems, structural reviews and enterprise-wide change — always with an eye to embedding capability and creating lasting business value.

From growing enterprises to large corporates and public sector agencies, we help bridge the gap between strategic goals and frontline execution to enable sustainable behavioural change and measurable results.

Savvy integrates strategy, people, and performance — designing commercial, human-centred solutions that lift individual effectiveness, team alignment, and organisational capability.

Savvy is a leading organisation effectiveness consultancy dedicated to improving the performance of people, teams and organisations.  We focus on the people side of strategy, turning strategic intent into action and results.

We believe that people capabilities are a source of competitive advantage and our passion is transformation through leadership’s active implementation and execution. We contribute to leaderships’ most important task – maintaining the organisation’s future viability in a changing world.

We work as an independent advisors in some of Australia’s leading organisations to drive the successful implementation of their strategic intent.

This involves Savvy working alongside the CEO and the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to address specific challenges or issues they may be facing and influencing the leadership teams to:

1. ensure their structure and capability aligns with the strategy;
2. drive business objectives; and,
3. be accountable for implementation of specific strategic initiatives.

Savvy works as part of a small, independent team of ‘strategic partners’ to provide an ‘outsider’s view’, to challenge the culture, provide greater objectivity and overcome organisational inertia.

Our role often involves:

• designing and coordinating a program of work that enables implementation of the enterprise strategic plan
• identifying opportunities for input into the implementation of strategic initiatives
• coaching assigned leaders of specific strategic initiatives to monitor and review their execution of those initiatives
• identifying implementation issues, risks or delays and advising on plans to mitigate and address those issues and risks
• input on internal communications regarding the strategic plan; and,
• maintaining key internal and external stakeholders relationships across a wide range of initiatives.

We develop initiatives and programs that support the implementation of the strategy at the business unit level. We review and provide recommendations on a wide range performance issues and coach leaders on delivering against business plans.

We help our clients connect their people with their strategy, engage them in a shared vision, and make values feel valuable again. We are strategic partners, change agents, trusted advisors and performance architects:

Strategy

Savvy helps our clients connect their people with their strategy, engage them in a shared vision, and make values feel valuable again.

Organisational Design

We work alongside our clients to design 'fit for purpose' organisational structures wherein individuals understand expectations and accountability, the people systems and processes drive the right behaviours and capable and credible leadership drives a customer-focused culture.

Operational Improvement

We assist organisations to review the effectiveness of functions, assess programs and facilitate restructures to deliver strategy and maximise performance. Throughout the partnership with our clients, we build the skills and behaviours that lead to sustainable results.

Culture Alignment

We ensure your senior team shares a clear purpose, defined organisational values and business strategy to shape your culture. Our Associates use globally recognised tools that measure individual behaviour, group styles, organisational culture, and the impact of these factors on business success.

Change Management

We work with our clients to craft robust change management plans and clear communications to engage people to prepare for, implement and support change. Our project approach draws from best practice change management methodologies and practical experience in what actions make change stick. We contribute to success by developing new capabilities and mind-sets essential for success and make transformation efforts tangible and digestible to the frontline employees.

Change Leadership

All leaders have good aspirations yet, success is rarely a matter of good intention; rather a matter of alignment and execution of leadership expectations.
Throughout the organisational change activity, we share our expertise to uplift the capability of business leaders to effectively lead, manage and develop talent in order to make the transition. Savvy supports executives to communicate a compelling change story and be a visible advocate for the changes taking place.

Engagement & Communication

From incremental functional change through to a full transformation, our change management consulting enables companies to build robust engagement plans and clear communications to engage people.
We help companies identify and deliver "quick wins" and sustainable success by building alignment, role clarity and avoiding ambiguity around decision rights.
Our stakeholder engagement & communication plans ensure the alignment, productivity, engagement and retention of your workforce after a major change.

Industrial & Employee Relations

Organisations depend on their people to overcome business challenges and deliver results. Savvy Human Resources is about leveraging our know-how, experience and commercial insight to design and execute practical human resources strategies and programs that enable business performance through people performance. Learn more......

HR Services

As experienced HR specialists Savvy HR helps manage employee relations matters including managing performance, grievances and workplace investigations. Savvy HR has advised a range of blue and white collar employers on their ER strategy and IR obligations and directly advises on managing complex performance issues, such as employee theft, bullying, fraud and sexual harassment.

Outsourced HR

Established in 2004 to provide outsourced HR services to small and medium size businesses, Savvy HR are practice leaders in outsourced human resource management and projects providing specific HR knowledge and experience that you may not have within your organisation. 

We provide customised Human Resources solutions to individual issues such as: Performance Appraisals & Reviews, Induction & On-boarding programs, Grievance Investigation & Mediation, Termination Processes & Exit Analysis,  Policy & Procedure development and HR Reviews.

Workplace Investigations

Savvy HR provides independent workplace investigations to a high standard of procedural and substantive fairness, intellectual rigour and sensitivity.
We use our HR know-how and investigation experience to support clients to deal with informal complaints through to conducting formal site-based investigations. Learn more ...

Leadership Capability

Savvy works with business leaders to determine current effectiveness and what needs to happen to achieve their strategy and business results.

Coaching

Savvy's executive coaching provides a personalised, solutions focused approach to address key challenges, develop self awareness and the skills and capabilities to interact more positively with others in the organisation. Learn more ....

Talent Management & Workforce Planning

No organisation can deliver great performance without the right people, in the right place at the right time. We work closely with our corporate clients to gain an understanding of your business, including an understanding of the talent pipeline, positions and their fit with your culture. We then develop strategies to attract, develop and retain the right people.

Cohesive Teams

We assist teams to improve collaboration and increase productivity through improved employee performance. Cohesion is the distinguishing characteristic of a high-performing team. For cohesiveness to exist, it is necessary for the team to see themselves working towards a common purpose and goal, otherwise the team will eventually splinter into separate individuals working towards their own personal agendas and not together toward a team goal. Learn more....

Learning and development solutions

Our customised training programs assist individual managers and executives to increase their leadership impact and perform to their full potential. At the organisational level, we create and deliver programs that build essential leadership competencies, facilitate successful change, and align the culture to support the business strategy.

Workplace Mediation, Conflict, Grievances & Dispute Resolution

A strategy only matters if people understand it, believe in it, and can act on it. If your vision or values are stuck in the boardroom, they won’t shape decisions or behaviour on the ground. We help organisations bring strategy to life and make values feel valuable again.

One of the hardest — and most important — shifts in any transformation is changing mindsets. We work with leaders to identify the practical and behavioural levers that shift culture, lift engagement, and improve the employee experience.

Our goal is to build lasting capability. That means:

• Equipping leaders with the tools to lead change;
• Tracking progress and impact over time;
• Creating alignment between people, structure, and purpose;
• Building organisational viability in a fast-changing world.

What makes us different?

There are a lot of consulting firms out there. Why hire us? We think there are a number of very important reasons.

"Craig's discipline and strategic approach is at the absolute core of a successful strategy around our future planning process outcomes. I personally appreciated his guidance and advice through a difficult process of restructuring the business". Partner–Law firm.

"Craig has worked with us for only a few months, and in record time, with quite a few challenges, exceeded our expectations. He has increased productivity and performance by getting to the core and dealing with causes, without being distracted by the symptoms. He ensures sustainable behaviour change rather than quick wins." Learning & Organisation Development Manager

Savvy takes a holistic approach centered around the belief that people & culture have a profound impact on the success of an organization.

As a leading People and Organisation consulting firm we provide a strategy through to implementation offering to improve performance and create better places to work by ensuring the entire organisational system is aligned and set up to deliver on their strategic intent and business objectives. 

We go beyond issues of structure, roles and processes to address elements such as people, behaviours and culture.
Using sound project management, change management and well researched organization design principles our  approach is both collaborative and effective.

Our style centres around an unfailing drive to act with integrity and honesty, together with an unrelenting determination to ensure the people we work alongside are empowered and trusted to deliver the very best for their customers.

We enjoy winning people's support for ideas and providing others with goals, plans, and structures that will get everyone moving in the same direction and help them work toward the overall objective.

Because we operate at the CEO level and act as a ‘trusted advisor’, it is important to show decisiveness, a capacity to take charge of pressing issues and challenge others directly and make critical decisions in problematic areas. It is important to project a style of delivery that is engaging, creative and strategic, but also ‘take-charge’, decisive and analytical.

As such, all our team members have a consistent style – ‘a humble confidence’. Providing excellent service is our norm, but we never confuse that with being subservient - where we do not provide independent advice. Our style is outcome focused and we respectfully ‘say it as it is’.

We are strategic partners, change agents, trusted advisors and performance architects.

Savvy uses an engagement and design thinking approach that builds ownership amongst staff and key stakeholders. We are deeply experienced in organisational design, alignment and transformation and we have proven methodologies, but we will always seek to understand your challenges first before we help you make a plan. We don’t have pre-conceived notions of how you need to do things.

Our Savvy Design Thinking approach examines problems from many angles, draws ideas from numerous sources, and studies how customers use the service and listening to their wants and needs. Done well, design thinking promotes a virtuous cycle, generating higher levels of employee satisfaction, greater engagement, and higher productivity.

AgileSHIFT drives a cultural shift essential for business transformation.

We are AgileSHIFT certified. AgileShift was created to equip every single person in your organization for transformational change. It equips your staff with the knowledge and guidance to confidently understand, engage with and influence change by embracing agile and lean ways of working.

If you would like to know more about our Organisational Design, Change Management solutions, or our work in Culture Alignment please get in touch and we will be happy to assist you.