ABOUT US

Be prepared for change – uncover dynamics in your organisation.

We are a company dedicated to providing insights and initiatives in an ever changing (business) world.

• Our Past – Our Present – Our Future
• Preeti Helena
• Malcolm Duffield

Helena Consulting Pty Ltd was founded on 30th October 2002 with the vision of promoting the well being of people and human systems, such as an organisation.

We work with people who have quantitatively achieved a certain living and working standard, and are now motivated to improve the quality of their personal as well as professional life. We take 30 plus years of business experience and spiritual learning and apply them to the place where the majority of adults spend much of their waking time, the work place.

We assist you as an organisation and as an individual to:

• reach your full potential
• be in charge of your life instead of life being in charge you
• understand and embrace change
• develop initiatives that come out of insights when dynamics in the system you belong to are uncovered

Our passion is to contribute to a business world that is more effective, more fun and, above all, more human.

Preeti Helena (MA [Couns], BEd) is an internationally recognised System Constellation expert. Her passion is in understanding human systems, their dynamics and what makes a person, or a team, function and how complex situations can be moved towards success.

Through her varied career Preeti has acquired a broad range of expertise in experiential methodologies. With a background of thirty years in meditation and group processes such as: Appreciative Inquiry; Dialog; World Café; Open Space Technology; Voice Dialog; Gestalt; Solution Focused Therapy and NLP. She is also an accredited TMS trainer and Reiki Master.

On the other side of the scale Preeti brings a strong understanding of the IT industry and the changes it brings to the workplace. She has been involved in a number of major IT projects and brings twentyfive years experience of change processes, process mapping, course development and training.

Some of Preeti's past and present clients are: Brisbane City Council, Coles, CSC, Family Mediation Centre, Federal Department of Finance, Ord Minnett, Queensland Government, Rio Tinto, RMIT, Skillshare and Telstra.

As a teenager, Preeti began searching for meaning in her life – which brought her eventually onto a spiritual search, leading her to India. She was, and still is, very interested in meditation and psycho-spiritual work, the fusion of eastern mysticism with western psychology. Today, this takes more the form of living and understanding the essence of life through her own inner exploration.

Through her training and experience, coupled to a certain aptitude and presence, she quickly acquires an understanding of a client’s requirements, environment, culture and habits. Her focus, on a balanced outcome, addresses insight (talking), feeling (experiencing) and action (behaving). This results in readily established trust with participants.

Malcolm Duffield joined Helena Consulting in 2006.

Malcolm is a business innovator, combining the strong understanding of technology of a graduate Applied Physicist with twenty five years of business experience gained in senior sales and management roles with the following: British Telecom, Motorola, Intergraph, Wang, CSC, KPMG, SAP and NAB.

A strong communicator, courtesy of an earlier career in advertising, Malcolm has developed and delivered many powerful technology based, business-oriented value propositions to companies such as AMP, American Express, BHP-Billiton, Boeing, National Australia Bank, Optus, Telstra,  Victorian Government, Westpac and the like, both here in Australia and overseas.  Throughout his career he has developed a keen awareness of the human factors effecting the success, or otherwise, of change-oriented technology projects and now incorporates this with Preeti Helena’s systemic constellation work.

Malcolm has developed hardware, software and service products, often as complex combinative collections of technologies and processes that provide high internal leverage of technology whilst empowering the user. As a result of this work, he has a thorough appreciation of the role of stakeholder management in pan-organisational change.

Malcolm has extensive experience as a ‘contract fire-fighter’ – responsible for repairing client relationships and resolving longstanding contractual and technical issues, and he has the necessary emotional intelligence and political awareness to defuse the most contentious of situations. Presently working on a major Whole of Government IT consolidation - transforming departmental IT from a 'builder of IT' to a 'purchaser of IT services' and designing enterprise constructs that address the broad needs of government and that can be delivered as services rather than systems (outcomes rather than means).