We help individuals and teams find their strengths, grow into leadership and show up at their best.
We listen first, then build the approach to fit.
We work with executive teams and Boards through strategy, change and transformation.
We facilitate the conversations that have been deferred.
We act as your client-side expert across the full project lifecycle.
More than 30 years of multi-million dollar delivery sits behind every engagement.
We act as your client-side expert across the full project lifecycle.
More than 30 years of multi-million dollar delivery sits behind every engagement.
We work with leaders and organisations ready to get clear on what they stand for and where they're going.
We deliver commercial discipline free of corporate machinery. Combined with deep sector experience shaped to your context and driven by purpose.
We've been where you are.
One Flinders is set up differently.
Melinda, Seamus and Aggie each left significant corporate careers to build a consultancy structured around purpose and giving.
We've held the senior roles and made the hard calls.
Melinda van der Westhuizen, Managing Director
Over 25 years leading teams across corporate real estate, investment and funds management and the not-for-profit sector.
Melinda coaches leaders, leads strategic resets and works at the intersection of commercial discipline and purpose.
Seamus van der Westhuizen, Principal Consultant
Over 30 years of multi-million dollar property delivery across aged care, healthcare, civic, retail and community housing.
Seamus advises from inception to commissioning and holds the project to its purpose.
Aggie Aitken, Lead Consultant
Over 20 years of senior executive experience across human and community services, digital transformation and change leadership, most recently as Chief Transformation Officer at Moira.
Aggie helps leaders move complex thinking into practical action.
We live our values every day. They are the standard we hold ourselves to and the reason clients come back.
Empathy: we listen before we speak. We act on what we hear.
Integrity: we say what we mean. We show up as promised.
Optimism: steady confidence that things can be better.
Wellbeing and Joy: good work and a good life are connected.
10% of our top-line revenue is impact invested into charitable causes advancing homes, education and health.
Significant professional time is committed pro bono each year.