What clients say.

Felicity Menzies has been a valued long-term partner to CAANZ, delivering outstanding work across diagnostic, capability building, and strategy. As a complex organisation wearing multiple hats — employer, educator, member-based organisation, and professional standards body — we needed someone who could grasp that complexity. Felicity did exactly that, customising every engagement to reflect our unique context across Australia and New Zealand. Her deep facilitation skills rate highly among our leaders and staff, and her advisory support is trusted and practical. We highly recommend her.

When ANZCA and FPM sought a consultant to develop our DEI strategy, we needed someone who could grasp our organisation's complexity and bring together our efforts under a coherent, holistic approach. After speaking with several consultants, Felicity stood out. Rather than offering a templated solution, she demonstrated a genuine willingness to deeply understand our history, mission, values, operations, culture, strategy and stakeholders. The result was a tailored DEI strategy that is uniquely ours. We subsequently re-engaged Felicity to deliver DEI learning across the organisation, supporting the strategy's successful implementation. Her deep expertise, skilled facilitation, and commitment to understanding our context made her the clear choice — both times. Felicity has been an invaluable partner and we look forward to continuing our work together.

Felicity has been a trusted partner to our business over a number of years. What really sets her apart is the effort she puts into understanding our culture and how we operate. This understanding comes through clearly in her sessions, making them highly relevant and practical for our team. Her training is consistently engaging, thoughtful and well-delivered, and we continue to receive excellent feedback from participants. The impact is evident in both the quality of the discussions during sessions and how the content is applied afterwards. We look forward to continuing our partnership.

I thank Felicity Menzies for the initial training sessions and commend her on the job that she has done.

On behalf of our team, I would like to extend our thanks for the outstanding work you have done in partnership with us since November 2023. Over this period, over 100 RISE training sessions have been delivered in collaboration with you, and the feedback from participants has been consistently excellent. Your commitment, professionalism, and ability to engage meaningfully with staff have made a lasting impact. We are especially grateful for the role you have played in helping drive cultural change within NSW Parliament — enacting the Broderick Review Recommendations.

Felicity, you are always excellent and have such a lovely way of running the workshops. You are the clear authority in the room and yet never make anyone feel wrong or uninformed — it's great to watch the way you manage the content and people. You are very generous and create a great space.

I heard your session yesterday was an absolute success. Our committee chair briefed the executive team this morning and talked about the great energy and engagement and space to discuss. A few of the executive team shared some experiences and reflections they had over the last week and how the messages from you really opened their eyes. Great to hear ongoing reflection.

Great feedback from the leadership team already, and I think all of the conversations and learning were brilliant. We also really appreciate all of the stats you added regarding our industry — this made the session very relevant.

Many members of the executive team have reached out and commented on how beneficial the discussion was. It's always a pleasure working with you. I really appreciate the approach you take — you are firm in your views but never come across as being forceful or condescending. You make it very easy for people to want to follow your recommendations.

It has been such a pleasure to partner with you. Your knowledge and delivery have been amazing, and I am sure a great learning curve for many of our leaders.

Thank you again for such a great session. People were still talking about it the next day. You definitely made an impact.

I remembered the work we did together and how well it was received by the participants. I had feedback, two years on from the program, that it was the best training that was done in the department and was still talked about.

Working with Felicity has fast-tracked our approach to diversity and inclusion tenfold. With a clear understanding of best practices, plus Felicity's ability to communicate and open the minds of the most senior within the organisation, we now have complete support for what we are trying to do and an understanding of how to do it. She is a true trusted partner, and I hope that we can continue working with her for many years to come.

Having met with a couple of the big consultancy firms, we were simply most impressed by Felicity. She seemed to have the most genuine knowledge, experience and passion for diversity and inclusion. Felicity engaged all staff at all levels, although we did a separate session first with the leadership team to make sure that everyone was aligned and ready to effectively set the tone from the top. We would rate our overall experience with Felicity as excellent.

Felicity was really engaging as a presenter, but also supported all of the information as validated by research studies. It was also really non-judgemental and provided an opportunity for people to acknowledge their own biased thoughts in a mindful way. She used lots of real-life and personal examples that were easy to understand and relate to.

I just wanted to say thank you for the training session yesterday. I honestly found it incredibly helpful and inspiring. We often go to so many training sessions but I really did find this enlightening and it has given me much to think about. I feel that this would be helpful for not only managers, but everyone in the agency. I wish I had had a session like this years ago. I learned a lot.

I wanted to say a huge thank you for everything over the past months. I absolutely loved working with you, and feel lucky that we got the opportunity to work together.

Thank you so much for facilitating such an impactful session yesterday. It was an absolute pleasure to meet you. We were just shy of 100 attendees between our 4 offices and online. The session content along with your facilitation was brilliant.

A lot of what you said really resonated with me and made me feel seen with some of my cultural habits (even if I ironically didn't speak up as much in the session because of said cultural habits). Great session.