ABOUT US

Be prepared for change – uncover dynamics in your organisation.

We are a company dedicated to providing technical and team solutions for organisations in change. For more information about us read this page or follow the links.

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

Helena Consulting Pty Ltd was founded on 30th October 2002 with the vision of bridging the gap between technical solutions and the well being of people for organisations in this ever changing world.

We work with people who have quantitatively achieved a certain living and working standard, and are now motivated to improve their work and life qualitatively as well. We take 25 plus years of spiritual learning and business experience and apply them to the place where the majority of adults spend much of their waking time, the work place.

• We help organisations and individuals to live and work to their full potential
• We help organisations and individuals understand and embrace change.
• We help individuals, both within their organisations and beyond, to be in charge of their life instead of life being in charge of them.
• We help develop initiatives that come out of insights when the dynamics of an organisation are uncovered.

Our passion is to help make the business world and the corporate world more effective, whilst also being more human.

Preeti Helena (MA Counselling, BEd) is a holistic change consultant, coach and trainer. She is an internationally recognised Human Systems Constellation expert and accredited TMS trainer, with a background of nearly thirty years in meditation and group processes such as: Appreciative Inquiry; Dialog; World Café; Open Space Technology; Voice Dialog; Gestalt; Solution Focused Brief Therapy and NLP. She is also a Reiki Master. Further, she has: over twenty years experience of change processes in IT (training, course development and process mapping); founded and established Helena Consulting Pty Ltd; and established and managed a certified-organic lychee farm.

Through her varied career in the fields of personal growth and transformation, Preeti has acquired a broad range of experience, including counselling, psychotherapy, training and cultural change projects in organisations. She helps to ease transition for both individuals and groups. The breadth of her skills enable her to take a holistic view across issues, and she is able to provide support at all levels and from all perspectives. Her background is in experiential methodologies and meditation.

As a teenager, Preeti became motivated to find out what comes after death – 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.

Preeti also brings a strong understanding of the IT industry, and the changes it brings to the workplace – having been involved in a number of major IT projects for clients such as:

• Brisbane City Council.
• Coles
• CSC
• Federal Department of Finance
• Ord Minnett
• Queensland Government
• Rio Tinto

Her passion is in understanding human systems, their dynamics and what makes a person, or a group, function and how complex conflict situations can be moved towards resolution. 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. In her work she concentrates exclusively on the requirements of the client, and she has the ability to adapt a program spontaneously to the situation presented, using a rich combination of her skills.

Originally from Switzerland, she has lived in Australia for nearly 20 years, is married and loves ‘the Great Outdoors'.

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
• CSC
• Intergraph
• KPMG
• Motorola
• NAB
• SAP
• Wang

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).