For Executives & Boards
Respect at work training for executives and boards.
A governance-focused capability program for the leaders who hold ultimate responsibility for preventing workplace harm — and demonstrating it.
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Behaviour-first. Evidence-based. Built to last.
Governance-focused capability
Designed to fill the gap most Respect at Work training overlooks: governance capability, risk oversight, and defensible prevention systems.
Boards and executives hold ultimate responsibility for preventing workplace harm — and for demonstrating credible, defensible prevention systems. Under the Respect@Work reforms, organisations must take reasonable and proportionate steps to prevent sexual harassment, sex discrimination, hostile workplace environments, and victimisation under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).
Designed for HR, People & Culture teams, company secretaries, governance professionals, and organisations commissioning capability development at the top of the house. Here are some honest reflections from governance and HR professionals who have faced this challenge:
"Our executives still see this as an HR issue — not a governance responsibility."
"We've run executive Respect at Work sessions before, but they felt like compliance training repackaged for senior leaders."
"If regulators scrutinised our approach, could our board demonstrate reasonable and proportionate prevention measures?"
Programme snapshot
What you need to know at a glance.
Executive leadership teams, boards and board subcommittees, CEOs, directors, company secretaries, and senior leaders responsible for risk, governance, people and culture, or organisational strategy.
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What this training covers
How executives and boards govern misconduct risks effectively.
Participants build the capability to govern workplace conduct risks as a core leadership responsibility — interpreting regulatory expectations, asking critical questions about prevention systems, and ensuring leadership signals promote respectful behaviour throughout the organisation.
What changes after this program
From compliance posture to defensible governance.
Greater clarity about board and executive responsibilities related to workplace conduct and psychosocial safety. Executives understand how their actions and decisions shape culture — and whether prevention measures are credible. Leaders can answer a critical governance question: 'Can we demonstrate that we are taking reasonable and proportionate steps to prevent workplace harm?'
Our methodology
The Practical Capability Model
Every Culture Plus programme is built on the same evidence-based methodology. Hover any step for detail:
Your facilitator
CEO, Author and Principal Consultant
Felicity Menzies
Felicity Menzies — organisational psychologist and Principal Consultant — works directly with boards and executive teams on governance of conduct risk and psychosocial safety. She brings behavioural rigour and practical relevance to every session.
- Role
- Founder, Culture Plus Consulting
- Qualification
- Bachelor of Commerce; Bachelor of Arts (Psych) — University Medallist; Fellow, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
- Experience
- 15+ years advising leading global and Australian private and government organisations; former senior executive in financial services and consulting
- Discipline
- Organisational psychology, behavioural science & trauma-informed practice
- Published
- A World of Difference (2016); contributor to leading business and HR publications globally
- Recognition
- LinkedIn Top Voice; commendation in NSW Parliament
From the book
Culture is the sum of behaviours leaders permit, model, and reward.A World of Difference — Felicity Menzies →
Free guide
Need to build defensible Positive Duty governance at the executive and board level?
This guide outlines what 'reasonable and proportionate' prevention measures look like from a regulator's perspective — and what boards and executives should be asking about their own prevention systems.
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Questions about executive Respect at Work training, answered.
If you have a question we haven't covered, write to us — a real human responds within one working day.
Executive programs focus on governance responsibilities rather than individual behaviour. The training examines how leadership decisions shape organisational systems, culture, and risk oversight — not just how to behave respectfully at work.
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Develop the capability executives and boards need
This isn't another compliance session.
It's the capability your board and executive team need to demonstrate reasonable and proportionate steps to prevent workplace harm — and govern prevention systems with confidence.
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