Adelhelm Australia

Adelhelm Australia provides Enterprise Bargaining and Enterprise Agreement (EA) Negotiations services across Australia from its Melbourne office, led by Managing Director Deborah Lindemann with founder Fred Adelhelm on its senior consulting team.

• Partners with employers through the full bargaining cycle, covering business case and negotiating mandate development, power analysis, claim identification, conduct at the bargaining table and good faith bargaining obligations under the Fair Work Act.
• Client testimonials name Greenpeace, Achieve Australia and Avery Dennison, for whom it delivered an IR program to operations and HR leaders across ten countries including Australia and New Zealand.
• Offers a free enterprise agreement audit that analyses restrictive terms in existing agreements for productivity and flexibility gains.
• Wider services include strategic IR consulting, operational IR support, executive IR coaching, wages and remuneration compliance, and award and agreement interpretation.

Best for: employers heading into enterprise agreement negotiations who want one consultancy to build the strategy, train the negotiating team and support them at the table.

Adelhelm Australia delivers Industrial Relations Training for employers across Australia through a public calendar of online workshops.

• Six programs span enterprise bargaining foundations, advanced and tactical bargaining, strategic IR management, frontline manager IR skills and performance management.
• The two-day Enterprise Bargaining: The Essential Steps workshop costs $2,200 and includes a workbook with business case and negotiating mandate templates, plus a free one-hour consult valued at $495.
• Workshop testimonials name Metro Trains Sydney and EACH; in-house delivery suits groups of four or more.

Best for: HR leaders and frontline managers upskilling before enterprise agreement negotiations or union engagement.