Work Pirates
We founded Work Pirates to help businesses react to and prepare for the changing face of work. Our decades of experience in business, people management and staff development has taught us two things.
One, the business has to be set up for people to thrive. And two, people have to be taught, coached and supported to succeed within the business.
Michelle Minnikin
Chartered Organisational Psychologist
Michelle is a Chartered Organisational Psychologist, coach, speaker and author of Good Girl Deprogramming, a book exploring the social conditioning that holds women back.
Michelle is the co-founder of Work Pirates and an independent consultant advising organisations on equality and gender parity in the workplace.
Find out more about Michelle's work in this area by visiting michelleminnikin.com.
How Michelle can advance your business
Michelle helps you better understand how your people are responding to and integrating with your organisation, its structure, rules, processes and its culture. People are your most important asset, and often the most expensive. But, if you’re bringing them into an organisation not optimised for their success you’re already doing them, and yourself, a disservice.
Michelle helps you create systems, strategies and approaches that improve your recruitment, candidate assessment and selection, onboarding, progression or transition to a new role or out of the business.
“Leading a business is difficult, change makes it even more difficult - and we’ve seen a lot of it over the last few years.
Our job is to understand your business, help you understand what’s changing in the ‘world of work’, and create strategies that help you attract, recruit, develop and retain the best people for your company.”
James Eves
Gallup Certified Strengths Coach
James is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, a speaker, and an advocate for a strengths-based approach in work, education, sports and life.
He is the co-founder of Work Pirates and also known as The Strengths Guy, an independent coach bringing out the very best in people and teams in business, education and professional sports.
Find out more about James' work in this area by visiting TheStrengthsGuy.com.
How James can enhance your teams
James helps your people to be more engaged and productive by supporting them to play to their strengths. As a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach*, James will work with your teams to identify their own personal strengths and understand how to use them to achieve goals.
Strengths profiling can also be used to optimise how teams work together and to advance your leadership teams. By understanding where each person can have the most impact, we can empower individuals to step up and make things happen.
*wondering about Gallup? Read James' short explainer here.
“Getting the organisation right is only half of the story. The next piece of the puzzle is empowering the people within it to be successful, achieve their goals and obtain job satisfaction.
Studies repeatedly show when people know and consistently use their strengths they’re more fulfilled, more productive and more motivated.”
We're proud to count these forward-thinking organisations amongst our clients
