Hi, we're Hargraves
Founded in 2006, Hargraves Institute began with a conversation and the commitment of 12 leading organisations. Today, we’re Australia’s first innovation consultancy founded on community and collaboration.
For nearly two decades, we’ve empowered leaders and teams with uncommon tools and a People-First Approach to unlock potential and drive meaningful, lasting change.
While we began as a collaborative community – bringing leaders together to tackle workplace challenges and share best practices – today, we go further. We equip leaders and teams with the tools, skills, and strategies that help them build capability, take action, and create lasting impact.
At Hargraves, we know that getting started can be the hardest part, so we provide the guidance and resources to help you take that first step with confidence. Built over two decades, our approach ensures that skills stick, solutions scale, and teams thrive long-term.
Whether you’re navigating change, improving collaboration, or strengthening leadership capability, we’ll help you get started with a strong foundation for long-term success.
Why Hargraves?
With over 20 years of innovation, collaboration, consulting, and experience, we know sustainable success isn’t about quick fixes – it’s about equipping people with the right skills and tools to take action.
Through our People-First Approach, including engaging resources and proven processes, we empower leaders and teams to start strong, collaborate effectively, and achieve real results.
Our research and approach
Rooted in insight and rigour, our People-First Approach puts people, processes, ideas, and collaboration at the heart of every strategy.
Listening is important, but first, you must ask the right questions. Our Better Questions Approach focuses on open questions, cards and tools to help people raise issues safely and spark conversations that lead to action.
Collaboration is a key driver of success. Backed by research, our Collaboration Model explores the habits and behaviours of healthy collaboration to help teams thrive.
Innovation thrives through collaboration. Our Innovation Mindset Framework highlights individual strengths and roles in innovation, while 123 Innovate (See Think Do) helps teams identify opportunities and shape ideas into action.
Leaders are expected to deliver, but often lack the tools to make it happen. Uncommon Tools turn insight into action with practical, flexible resources that embed into everyday work.
DECODE is our 6-step approach to problem-solving that harnesses creativity, collaboration, and innovation. It includes Sense-making to unravel complex challenges; Perception Mapping to visualise connections; and Storytelling, a powerful tool for gathering valuable insights.
Inclusion and belonging are essential for thriving teams. Our Conversation Framework ensures every voice is heard, supported by Question Tools that uncover barriers and hidden issues to drive meaningful change.
Finally, Serious Fun. Enhancing collaboration, creativity, and well-being by engaging people in purposeful activities that strengthen relationships, spark innovation, and tackle real issues.
For 20 years, we’ve equipped leaders and teams with Uncommon Tools and a People-First Approach.
Australia Post, Cochlear, BlueScope Steel Limited, Atlassian, HealthShare NSW, Australian Red Cross, CSIRO Future Industries Sector, Horticulture Brand Management Australia, Dulux Group, Food Innovation Australia, Australian Department of Health, Boeing Australia, Meat & Livestock Australia, Morton Property, Bank of Queensland, Cerebos (Australia), Mars, NRMA Motoring & Services, George Weston Technologies, Geoscience Australia, BGIS, Coca-Cola Amatil (Aust), Habitat for Humanity, Nestlé Oceania, Qantas, Roche Products, AGL Energy, Selleys, Sydney Trains, Sydney Water, Symbio, University of Melbourne, Winc, AMP Services, CSR Building Products, Baxter Healthcare, Elders Rural Services, CHEP Asia-Pacific, ResMed, Griffith Hack…just to name a few.
Now it’s your turn.
Our Key Expertise
Leader Empowerment:
Equipping leaders with practical tools and skills to help teams thrive, improve performance, solve problems, and foster innovation.
Facilitation:
Helping leaders and teams navigate complex challenges, prioritise effectively, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Embedded Skills:
Ensuring lasting impact by embedding tools and skills within teams so they can adapt, learn, and thrive.
Every day, leaders and teams face new and different challenges.
We know that sometimes you need answers – fast. But there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.
That’s why we work with you to address your current challenge and empower you with the tools and strategies to navigate what comes next.
Tailored Solutions and Facilitation
Using our proven tools, frameworks and processes, we help you tackle your immediate challenges with confidence. Drawing on our experience and insight, we’ll work with you to identify the real issues and points of friction, then design and deliver a fully facilitated solution.
Whether it’s a customised workshop or targeted training, we help you achieve your objectives, while embedding tools, habits and behaviours for the future: thriving teams, strengthened collaboration, and driving innovation and strategy execution.
We know that sometimes you’re still exploring ideas or working with limited time and resources.
Getting started is often the hardest part. Our self-guided resources help you build leadership confidence and take action at your own pace.
Self-Guided Resources
Start strong with downloadable tools to help you uncover priorities and hidden issues, agree on actions and outcomes, enhance skills and embed tools and frameworks.
Create real change with purpose-built products. Developed in collaboration with expert partners to empower leaders to create engaging, meaningful experiences. Whether fostering a thriving team culture, sparking meaningful conversations and one-on-ones, supporting career growth, or boosting collaboration and team performance.
The best of both worlds
Hargraves Coach
Hargraves Coach doesn’t do the work for you. Instead, it empowers team leaders and managers with essential skills to lead with confidence. Equipping you with practical tools, prompts, templates, and frameworks, it serves as a plug-in coach, providing support and guidance to help you lead your team effectively. Strengthen your leadership, support your teams, and build capabilities for the future, all while making a meaningful impact in today’s workplace.
Train-the-Trainer
Our train-the-trainer approach is a cost-effective way to embed coaching, skills, tools, and resources across your teams or organisation – equipping your people to lead confidently and drive lasting change from within.
Are you a leader – or do you plan to be one someday?
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