the workplace whisperer
Seeing what others miss, fixing what others can’t
Experienced workplace consultant with a talent for hearing the unspoken and solving the unsolvable
I’m Claudia De Silva, a workplace consultant and I work with businesses to diagnose problems and provide solutions to ongoing or one off issues within the organisation.
I have over 20 years of experience working in organisations of all types. I have sat at board level as an HR and Operations Director in a top 100 professional services firm, run my own HR consultancy business for 8 years, co-run a successful deli and coffee shop turning it from a loss making business to a profitable one and I also run a personal coaching company.
I have been involved in organisational change projects at both a structural and strategic level as well from a psychological perspective. I have also coached leaders and senior managers in their roles within a business and on a private level.
I bring an unique perspective to my work from experience as employer, employee and business owner as well as HR professional, organisational consultant, legally trained employment adviser and coach and mentor.
My qualifications include a Masters in system psychodynamic organisational consultancy, a Post Graduate Diploma in Law, and CIPD certificates in HR Practice and Employment Law. I am also a trained coach and am accredited by the ACCPH as a Senior Coach enabling me to offer private coaching to individuals and groups and also to supervise other coaches in their own practice.
My offer is unique in that I am able to bring a plethora of workplace skills to your business and work holistically with you to fix the issues within the organisation.
As featured in……..
Subtle Interventions. Remarkable Transformations
Does your organisation suffer with any of the following:
Ongoing issues that you and your teams just can’t fix
Communication breakdowns and cultural issues
Individual and team conflict including at senior and executive level
Structural and operational issues
Anxiety and burnout - organisational and individual
Poor peformance and behavioural issues - individual, team and organisational
Low staff engagement and high levels of sickness absence - individual, team and organisational
Hybrid and remote workplace challenges
Leadership and executive team challenges
Leadership and executive team development
Change management
Leaders and their executive teams often become consumed by trying to fix organisational issues and can spend so long on looking for solutions that they lose sight of their actual role to lead, grow and develop their business. I know how time consuming trying to address organisational issues can be, I’ve done it as a business owner, HR professional and consultant and coach.
But…. I love it and it’s my job!
Let me help you and your executive team decode what is going on in your organisation and provide you with the ongoing knowledge, understanding and tools to maintain the transformation for the future.
By using a combination of HR, legal and consultancy and coaching skills I can get to the heart of the issues in your organisation and help you transform from within.
If you have answered yes to any of the above - or have another issue that isn’t listed then please let me help you by clicking below.
Creating a bespoke plan that works for you
Although I use proven theoretical frameworks to inform my work, I design each consultancy project from scratch.
All organisations have their own distinct challenges. I consult on a bespoke basis and will work closely with you to truly understand the issues within and formulate an agreed plan to move forward with a consultancy intervention that will see positive outcomes for you, your organisation and your teams.
Build your consultancy package
The following can be chosen independently or may form part of an overall package. Prices listed are starting from only and will be dependent on the needs of your organisation and the agreed package that we will agree following our intial stage planning .
Whole Organisation Consultancy
Working together to address challenges within your organisation, a specific team or teams or to improve output and performance.
1:1 Coaching for Senior Leaders
1:1 and Group Coaching as a standalone piece of work or in conjunction with a consultancy project
SOS Package- Urgent Team Intervention
Consultancy for situations where specific teams may be struggling either with performance or group dynamics or may have experienced a crisis which needs processing.
In the Press
I am passionate about helping leaders make their organisations as successful as they possibly can and to do this they need to stop having to waste their valuable time fixing internal problems and focus on what they really want to focus on - building and growing their business.
In the following article for HR Director Magazine I argue the case for the need for organisational consultants to be skilled in navigating the underlying complexities of the people and group dynamics in an organisation as much as in the systems and processes.
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