ASPL Group

ASPL Group ASPL Group is a management consultancy, training and recruitment firm focussed on aligning people, processes and systems.

We have been operating across the private and public sectors in Australian and Asia Pacific for the past 15 years. We offer strategic leadership training and consulting for emerging leaders across government and corporate clients as we recognise the importance of investment into capability, leadership and talent management. Some of our supporting consulting services are:
Strategic Leadership Trai

ning, Executive Coaching, Transformation – Customer & Digital Experience, Strategy and Planning, Workforce Planning, Enterprise Planning, Strategic Change Management, Data Analytics, Complex co-design for significant programs of work

When people feel safe to raise a concern, ask a question or say "I got that wrong", we know that teams work better, and ...
03/09/2026

When people feel safe to raise a concern, ask a question or say "I got that wrong", we know that teams work better, and any problems are able to be dealt with as soon as they arrive.

Building that openess has to be deliberate effort by leadership and also must be protected by leadership as well.

This is known as psychological safety, employers have a duty to protect workers from both physical and psychosocial hazards (the social, cultural and organisational factors that can cause psychological harm)

There are a few ways leaders can reduce psychosocial hazard.

Swipe through to learn about them ➡️

21/08/2026

Behind every tender, proposal and deck we produce is a design team making complex information clear.

Meet Nicole, who leads design here at ASPL.

Her work covers a lot of ground: proposals, PowerPoint decks for our coaches, and the harder task of turning dense technical content into something a reader can absorb at a glance.

She brings such a craft to it. Before ASPL, Nicole spent years in advertising and brand, working on the materials you see inside an Apple store, campaigns for Foxtel, collateral for big Australian Banks, and even design for major theatre productions.

Topics like psychological safety, psychosocial risk and leadership culture can be challenging subjects to explain. Whether they land with your people often comes down to how clearly they are presented.

Getting that right is a craft in itself, and we are grateful to have someone like Nicole leading our design team.

Most organisations that describe themselves as trauma-informed, but we believe trauma - informed care must move beyond s...
20/08/2026

Most organisations that describe themselves as trauma-informed, but we believe trauma - informed care must move beyond simple modules or policy updates.

Trauma-informed practice starts from a different premise. Harm does not look the same for every worker, and neither does recovery.

A paramedic carrying a decade of cumulative exposure needs something different to a graduate three weeks in. There is no single support which that serves both.

What separates the organisations getting this right is not the training budget. It is that they build the process with their workforce, treat lived experience as design input and accept that the work is never finished.

07/08/2026

Some jobs ask you to be awake when your body wants to be asleep.

Early starts before first light. Nights spent awake at 3am, sometimes with anxiety about work, sometimes with excitement for what's coming.

Caffeine to get going, something to wind down.

Over time it creeps up, until "I'm buggered" becomes the baseline for many shift workers.

The impact is mostly invisible, which makes it easy to push through and easy to overlook.

But it shows up where it matters most: in safety, in decision-making, in reaction time and near misses on the road.

Shift work is often unavoidable.

However the way we support the people doing it isn't. That means treating sleep as a structural issue (built into how we design rosters, workload and recovery) not a once-a-year toolbox talk.

If we want a safe, healthy workforce, we have to work with the reality of shift work, not expect people to simply push past it.

05/08/2026

Sleep is a pillar of workplace health. And unlike a bank account, you can't save it up or pay it back later.

That's the myth worth clearing up: there's no catching up on lost sleep, and no banking it ahead of a big week.

It matters at work because the effects are mostly invisible.

Poor sleep shows up as presenteeism (being there without being at your best) and in high-risk environments, in safety, near misses, and reaction time on the road.

Which makes it a shared responsibility, not an individual one.

If we want productive, healthy workforces, we have to look at the systems that shape rest not just tell people to get 8 hours.



04/08/2026

Sleep is one of the three foundational pillars of health, alongside diet and exercise. A health issue, not just a lifestyle one.

Sleep Health Week runs 3 to 7 August. Explore your sleep. Transform your days.

37% of Australian adults say poor sleep is directly affecting their ability to work or study at least three days a week. For 18 to 44 year olds, it's five or more.

At work it rarely gets named as sleep. It shows up as slower decisions, near-misses, and shorter fuses in team interactions.

Rosters, on-call patterns and workload all shape how your people recover. Which makes it a job design question as much as a personal one.

The good news is that better sleep often starts with small, modifiable changes.

The Sleep Health Foundation has evidence-based fact sheets on shift work, fatigue and burnout. If you're concerned about your sleep, speak with your GP.



Sleep is one of the three foundational pillars of health, alongside diet and exercise. A health issue, not just a lifest...
21/07/2026

Sleep is one of the three foundational pillars of health, alongside diet and exercise. A health issue, not just a lifestyle one.

Sleep Health Week runs 3 to 7 August. Explore your sleep. Transform your days.

37% of Australian adults say poor sleep is directly affecting their ability to work or study at least three days a week. For 18 to 44 year olds, it's five or more.

At work it rarely gets named as sleep. It shows up as slower decisions, near-misses, and shorter fuses in team interactions.

Rosters, on-call patterns and workload all shape how your people recover. Which makes it a job design question as much as a personal one.

The good news is that better sleep often starts with small, modifiable changes.

The Sleep Health Foundation has evidence-based fact sheets on shift work, fatigue and burnout. If you're concerned about your sleep, speak with your GP.

NAIDOC Week is a week for celebrating. Building workplaces where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are genuin...
13/07/2026

NAIDOC Week is a week for celebrating. Building workplaces where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are genuinely safe -
that's a job for the other 51.

This year's theme was 50 Years of Deadly. Five decades of a movement carried by Elders, organisers, artists and communities who kept showing up, year after year, whether anyone was paying attention or not.

The artwork you can see here is Yeyurringal, created for us by Bayadherra. Yeyurringal means sunrise in Yorta Yorta language > new beginnings, new opportunities, and the potential sitting inside people, waiting for the right conditions to show itself.

Which brings us to something we believe a lot more workplaces need to sit with.

Psychological safety and cultural safety are not the same thing.

But if we want better mental health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees and clients (and we do), we need both.

A few places to start:
✅ Partner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, and pay for cultural knowledge instead of asking for it as a favour
✅ Treat connection to culture, Country, family and community as the protective factor it genuinely is > and build leave, workload and flexibility settings that actually make room for it
✅ When someone tells you something didn't feel safe, change the thing. Don't explain why it should've felt fine
✅ Put your procurement, your partnerships and your platform behind First Nations owned businesses all year round. Not just July

With enormous thanks to Darinka, one of our CPL's here at ASPL, whose thinking shaped this post from start to finish.

07/07/2026

Behind every referral is a real person, often on one of the harder days they have had. Here is what happens on our side once they reach us.

Before anyone sits down with a psychologist, there is a layer of work most people never see.

Our clinical governance sets the standard for how care is designed and delivered, and it is led by Dr Elise Landau, registered psychologist and behavioural scientist.

Elise's role is to make sure the way we work holds up. She reviews our approaches and resources so they stay grounded in current evidence, clinically sound, and ethically and legally robust.

It is the part of the process that happens well before a first session, and it is the reason we can stand behind the care that follows.

From there, support is shaped around the person in front of us.

Someone coming for early support looks different to someone recovering after something difficult, or working through a significant change, so the approach shifts to match their circumstances, goals and preferences.

Care is delivered by our experienced registered or clinical psychologists, in sessions that stay confidential and sensitive to trauma, culture and lived experience.

Because good therapeutic work depends on relationship, your people choose their own psychologist and stay with that same clinician for the whole journey.

No one is passed around or asked to retell their story to someone new.

That standard holds for every person who comes to us, whether we are supporting one frontline worker or a national workforce.

If your organisation is thinking about how you support your people, we are always happy to talk it through.

We've got some good news to share: team ASPL has grown by two, and we're excited to introduce the people behind these ne...
29/06/2026

We've got some good news to share: team ASPL has grown by two, and we're excited to introduce the people behind these new roles.

First, the why. Strong mental health support only counts if people can actually reach it. A service can be excellent and still sit out of reach for someone who does not know it exists, or does not feel safe walking through the door.

Meet Darinka and Emma, our new Clinical Partnerships Liaisons.

Darinka is a proud Kamilaroi woman, an Aboriginal Health Practitioner and Endorsed Enrolled Nurse with more than ten years across Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal, child and family health. She has walked alongside mothers, babies and families through pregnancy, birth and early childhood, so she knows this work from the inside. As our Senior Clinical Partnerships Liaison, she brings clinical depth and cultural knowledge together to strengthen partnerships that improve outcomes for First Nations families. Her guiding belief is: the best outcomes happen when culture and care move together.

Emma is our Clinical Partnerships Liaison for ASPL's Wellbeing services, and she is the connection between our psychology team and the wider health and community sector. Her experience spans regional and remote Australia, along with work abroad in Saudi Arabia. Working with GPs, allied health providers, hospitals and community organisations, Emma builds referral pathways that hold and pulls down the barriers that sit between a person and the right support.

Two people, with the shared purpose of helping more people reach the care they need.

Welcome to the team, Darinka and Emma. We're so glad you're here.

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28-30 William Street
Melbourne, VIC
3183

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm

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