Your Organisation. Improved.
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About

We enable change. Simple.

Experienced, flexible and all about you.

Founded in 2013 and operating out of Brisbane, J&G Consulting are a boutique, business improvement consultancy that helps Boards, CEO's and executive leaders of medium to large enterprises to drive significant change in their business strategy, organisational design and human behaviour. 

We hold deep sector expertise in education, health, government, NFP and faith-based environments and focus on shifts in organisational, team and individual performance. Our services include:

  • Governance & performance

  • Organisational reviews & redesign

  • Enterprise & workforce strategy

  • Organisational design & restructures

  • Transformation & change

  • Building workplace resilience

  • Executive development & search

 

We're here to help.

For a confidential discussion about how we can help with your organisational change, contact us today.

➤ HEAD OFFICE

88 Tribune Street, South Brisbane, QLD 4101

☎ CONTACT

hello@johnstongoldsmith.com.au
0432 511 480


 

We drive change.

Playing your strengths and leveraging opportunities are critical undertakings in organisational improvement.

Our aim is to enable your evolution.

  • Strategies & Plans

  • Governance Frameworks

  • Service Delivery Models

  • Structures and role design

  • Business Processes

  • Policies

  • Capability & capacity

  • Culture & climate

  • Change & Communication

Partner with Pro's.

Boards and Executives engage us as trusted advisors as they seek to apply contemporary business ideas in complex settings.

Always deal with consummate professionals.

  • Registered Psychologists

  • HR practitioners

  • Behavioural and social scientists

  • Board members

  • Business Strategists

  • Data analysts

  • Executive coaches

  • Well-networked and respected leaders

And, we have heart.

Known and trusted for our personable and real-world approach, we offer a level of service that the big firms just cannot compete with.

Personably powering change. For good.

  • We take the time to understand unique circumstances

  • We are emotionally honest, flexible and authentic in our work

  • We deliver on time and on budget

  • We partner and form authentic, long-lasting relationships

  • We work with those who wish to make a positive difference

  • We are an independent, privately owned, Australian company

  • We offer personal and bespoke service levels

  • We live to inspire and empower change

  • We innovate for your context so that the change you select is the one that sticks


 

Your consultants.

Bringing our core philosophy to every engagement, our interest is in helping you diagnose and respond to organisational challenges expertly and promptly.

 
 
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CEO

Fleur Johnston

Co-Founder and Director at J&G, Fleur Johnston has more than 2 decades experience helping executive leaders of large organisations navigate organisational performance improvements.

With a background in workplace psychology, Fleur is a highly accomplished Organisational Development and Strategic HR strategist, specialising in large scale business and cultural change.

Fleur's ability to develop interventions that improve employee engagement and organisational performance are highly regarded. She is an Executive Advisor to the Queensland University of Technology Graduate School of Business’ Executive MBA Program, graduate of the Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), Chartered member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (CAHRI) and holds a BA (Psych) from the University of Queensland. 

 

Education

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
BA (Psych)

Expertise

  • Business strategy and service delivery improvement

  • Program and project management

  • Organisational design and development

  • Executive coaching

  • Change management

  • Strategic workforce planning

Memberships

  • Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)

  • Australian Human Resources Institute (CAHRI)

 

 
 
 
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PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

James Christie

  • Experienced Project and Client Relationship Executive

  • Strategic and creative problem-solver

  • Collaborator and solution co-designer

James is a Consultant, Facilitator and Experience Design expert with experience across the public, private & not for profit sectors. An experience Strategy & operational professional, with a focus on social impact. Deep expertise in Customer and Employee Experience lead strategy and design, James is passionate about bringing ideas from his international consulting career to Australian organisations seeking to innovate to drive change in their communities.

James' consulting experience encompasses management of the project life-cycle from project scoping and exploration through to delivery and evaluation for diverse clients both large and small. James has designed and delivered initiatives to support clients with their strategic organisation design, customer and employee experience, digital solution design, program and project management.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
B.Comm

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
GDBA Marketing

Expertise

  • Strategic & business planning

  • Business transformation

  • Customer and Employee Experience strategy & engagement

  • People & organisation capability development

  • Design thinking and co-design of solutions to complex problems, keeping the needs of the customer at the heart of the process

  • Proactive engagement with diverse stakeholder groups throughout periods of significant change

 
 

 
 
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Consulting Psychologist

Meg Hooper

Meg Hooper has over 17 years experience in consulting and has delivered solutions covering the full employee lifecycle. Over the past 7 years, Meg's focus has been on building change management capability and leadership within organisations.  She has coached managers on increasing their personal effectiveness through improving communication and change management capability.

As a registered psychologist with a PhD in organisational psychology, Meg is well placed to understand human behaviour and design pragmatic solutions accordingly.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
PhD (Organisational Psychology), School of psychology

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Bachelor of Arts (Honours in the field of psychology)

GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science (major in Science, Technology and Society)

 

Qualifications & Accreditations

  • National registration to practice as a psychologist (previously registered to practice in the state of Queensland).

  • Certification - Managing Successful Programs Foundation (MSP) (2009)

  • Accredited practitioner of the Prosci Change Management Methodology as well as “train the trainer”

  • Network member of Full Range Leadership Model (FRLM) products: MLQ360, MLQ Coaching, and ODQ leadership culture

  • Big Five psychometric assessment material through CentACS. Specifically: Workplace Big Five Profile and NEO-PI-R

  • MSCEIT (Mayer, Salovey and Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test)

  • SHL product suite

  • Onetest product suite

  • Pearson product suite

  • ACER products for psychometric assessment

Memberships

  • Associate Member of Australia Psychological Society

  • Member of Women in Technology (WiT) Brisbane Chapter

  • Network member of the Change Management Institute

 
 

 
 
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SENIOR managementCONSULTANT

Caron Yep

As a qualified and experienced Organisational DevelopmentProfessional, Caron has an extensive background working for large global companies both in Australia and in the UK across a broad range of industries including Mining, Retail and Investment banking, Recruitment, Management Consulting and Technology.

Caron’s applies her knowledge in organisational psychology, emotional intelligence, human resource management, change leadership, applied neuroscience and systems thinking, to develop solutions and utilises a variety of learning and development tools and methodologies to get results and increase performance.

With skills in leadership development and coaching, program management, facilitation, training design, delivery and evaluation and organisation culture and employee engagement, Caron can provide expertise and consultancy services to design and deliver high quality cultural and capability programs that make a real impact.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, CHRISTCHURCH, NZ
Master of Science in Organisational Psychology (First Class Honours)

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO, DUNEDIN, NZ
Post Graduate Diploma in Science in Psychology (Distinction)

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO, DUNEDIN, NZ
Bachelor of Science (Physiology)

Qualifications & Accreditations

  • Qualified in Hogan
    Development Survey

  • Advanced Presentation Skills

  • Think on your feet’ (Horizon Training)

  • Executive Coaching training (PDI)

  • Behavioural based interviewing (DDI)

  • Performance Consulting

  • Various in-house Leadership
    and Management Skills Courses

  • Exposure and understanding of
    OPQ, DISC and Myers Briggs

Expertise

  • Leadership development programs

  • Organisational Development initiatives

  • Inclusion and diversity

  • Coaching for individuals, leaders & teams

  • Talent identification

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Consultant

Kathryn Adams

Kathryn has an engaging interpersonal style and brings a blend of strategic thinking, analytical skills and knowledge of behavioural science to the successful delivery of significant bodies of consulting work. 

As a Consultant, Kathryn supports J&G Consulting in providing client solutions to a variety of organisational challenges including but not limited to services in Organisational Reviews, Strategy, Service Transformation, Strategic HR and Organisational Development Services, Governance & Performance, Capability & Leadership Development and Building Resilience at Work. Kathryn’s experience to date has fostered her ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative insights to develop positive outcomes and deliver exceptional results, exceeding client expectations.

Kathryn’s engaging style with colleagues and clients positions her well to ensure that J&G programs are delivered on time, on budget and exceeding client expectations when it comes to engagement coordination.

 
 

Education

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

B.Bus (Accounting) and Behavioural Science (Psychology)

Expertise

  • Project delivery and co-ordination

  • Consultation

  • Relationship development

  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis

  • Behavioural Science knowledge and understanding


Our Broader Impact.

In the Community. J&G consultants view our opportunity to work with industry clients as a significant privilege – one which affords us the capacity to give back to those less fortunate. In addition to volunteering our services and our time to take action, each year we donate part of our revenue to charities chosen by the team. To date, we’ve been grateful for the opportunity and proud to support:

  • Anglicare – Home Away from Homelessness

  • Australia’s CEO Challenge – workplace partners against domestic violence

  • Brisbane Youth Service – FebFast

  • Canteen

  • Care Australia

  • CARITAS

  • Guide Dogs Australia

  • Mercy Foundation

  • Movember

  • Salvation Army

 
For the Environment.
 J&G limit the impact our business has on the environment by actively seeking ways to reduce our resource use and to minimise and prevent adverse environmental impacts of our work. We seek to reduce our footprint through mindful accommodation decisions, carbon neutral air-travel, recycling and participation in activities which support the recovery and repair of our natural systems.

In the Workplace. As specialists in organisational performance, we know that healthy and safe workplaces which inspire our team’s best contributions, and the attainment of their higher purpose, are fundamental to our business. J&Gh live and breathe workplace flexibility, family friendly practices and generous reward for effort.