About

There’s more to a workplace than meets the eye

When you need a different lens

Energy is the barometer of the workplace.

As a conscious leader, you can sense when it shifts, but you can't always pinpoint why.

And you must deliver.

You could be facing a challenging restructure, inheriting a mess or simply needing to do more with less. Perhaps there's a sense of unease that's difficult to explain but impossible to ignore.

Who we are

Workplace Energies is a specialist practice that helps leaders fix, flip and keep their workplaces in flow.

Our integrated approach

Combining workplace expertise with intuitive intelligence, we help you see more and manoeuvre faster with greater efficiency, kindness and care.

Workplace Expertise

Decoding the inner workings

We know a lot about how workplaces work, having experienced 40+ workplaces first-hand in their full glory. We’ve worked for some of Australia’s largest brands, global companies, emerging SMEs and everything in between.

Our work has covered all angles across a broad range of industries and workplace scenarios including:

  • Start-ups, scaleups, acquisitions and integrations

  • Greenfields, tenders and joint ventures

  • Transformations, turnarounds and transitions

  • Restructures, downsizing, rightsizing and closures.

Drawing on extensive experience in people, culture, change and workplace dynamics, we make fast connections, decode the inner workings, identify the forces at play, and craft simple, practical solutions.

Intuitive Intelligence

Insights that get to the core

Our intuitive intelligence enables us to read your workplace barometer and bring into focus the subtle energies at work. These may reflect leadership, individual behaviours, team dynamics, change, chaos and uncertainty

We pinpoint what’s going on beneath the surface, often long before others are remotely aware of it, and bring to light what they don’t see or simply won’t say.

We also identify emerging issues and untapped opportunities that may not yet be on your radar, helping you stay on the front foot.

The story behind Workplace Energies

Jennifer Straughan | Workplace Specialist

Welcome to Workplace Energies.

My purpose has always been to help leaders create better workplaces and more meaningful experiences.

How I experience the workplace is different from most. I’m highly sensitive to the energy of the workplace and the individuals within it. For me, both are amplified.

It’s a gift that can give leaders a valuable edge.

Combined with my workplace expertise, this intuitive intelligence enables me to read what’s happening within a workplace so conscious leaders can stay one step ahead.

When it comes to workplaces, I’ve seen and experienced more than I ever imagined possible.

With over 30 years’ experience in executive, consulting and contracting roles, my work in people & culture, change and safety has taken me into corporate, regional and remote workplaces throughout Australia.

Learning to integrate this intuitive intelligence into my workplace practice has been a long journey.

A path through 40+ workplaces.

Sunrise over the Tamar Valley. Home.

I've always been intrigued by the energy in a workplace and what it revealed. I often wondered why others didn’t seem to notice the same things I did.

I’m adept at making fast connections and solving complex workplace challenges. At the same time, my intuitive intelligence enables me to sense what others may not see, hear or know.

I knew I was never going to be able to integrate all my skills by staying in the one workplace. So I chose a non-linear path.

In 2000, with an MBA and ten years' experience, I established Instinctive Business. Working across consulting, contract and project roles, I purposefully built a diverse portfolio. Alongside this, I taught meditation to female executives and offered private intuitive readings.

Over the next 20+ years, I worked across more than 40 workplaces throughout Australia. I was repeatedly drawn to organisations of all sizes undergoing change, navigating chaos or operating in states of flux. Along the way, I honed my ability to read and work with energy in challenging workplace environments.

Over time, I found my own way of working. Instinctive Business gradually evolved into Workplace Energies, a more specialised practice focused on greater awareness and earlier intervention.

I also became open about my intuitive intelligence. Previously, doing so would have been career kamikaze.

Having worked out of Sydney for many years, I'm now based back in Tasmania on the banks of the kanamaluka/River Tamar where I work with organisations across Australia.

Outside work, you'll find me practising meditation, yoga and Pilates, snow skiing and bushwalking.

Qualifications

  • MBA (MGSM)

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Deakin University)