Workplace Culture is Cracking.
This is Your Roadmap to Fix It.
Your guide to building psychologically safe, high-performing teams that don’t burn out.
The cost of a fractured culture? Disengagement, turnover, burnout and billions in lost potential.
Inside Thriving at Work, you’ll discover evidence-based strategies drawn from positive psychology, leadership development, and cultural transformation designed to support you build trust, boost engagement, and lead with clarity and courage.
✔️ Learn how to harness your personal leadership strengths
✔️ Understand the psychology behind belonging and team connection
✔️ Gain simple, powerful tools to elevate performance without pressure
Whether you're leading a team now or preparing to this eBook is your first step to becoming the kind of leader today’s workplaces actually need.
🎯 Download your free copy and start building the culture that builds your bottom line.
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Meet Hacia Atherton
Hacia Atherton is a globally recognised voice in workplace culture reform, known for helping organisations turn burnout, bias and breakdown into resilience, retention, and results.
The catalyst behind cultural reform, psychological wellbeing, and inclusive leadership in male-dominated industries.
From a hospital bed to boardrooms across the globe, Hacia’s story isn’t just inspirational it’s transformational. With a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from The University of Melbourne (specialising in Positive Organisational Scholarship) and as a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA), Hacia brings rare depth to leadership consulting, where human insight meets strategic execution.
Through keynote speaking, executive coaching, and her pioneering work in Empowered Women in Trades, she equips leaders to elevate culture, performance, and psychological safety not just on paper, but in practice.
Celebrating Excellence and Leadership
Recognised for innovation, leadership, and a commitment to creating meaningful impact, these awards highlight the milestones of Hacia’s journey to empower others and drive positive change.
“Each award serves as a reminder of what’s possible when passion meets perseverance, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to continue making a difference.”
- Hacia Atherton, CPA, MAPP
- Business Elite Awards: 40 Under 40 (2024)
- Telstra Best of Business Awards Winner, Accelerating Women (Vic) 2024
- Australian Women's Small Business Champion Awards 2024
- Australian Enterprise Awards: Leading Innovator in Workforce Diversity 2024
- Top 50 Small Business Leaders – Issued by Inside Small Business
- 10 Extraordinary Female CEOs to Watch (2023) – Issued by The ELitex
- Australian Enterprise Awards: Most Empowering Career Development Coach 2023
- Top 100 Women in Construction (2023)
- CPA Victorian President's Award for Excellence
Co-Authoring with Joe Foster (Founder of Reebok): A Journey of Resilience and Triumph
What happens when the founder of Reebok invites leaders from around the world to share their defining moments?
You get How to Survive and Thrive II a powerful collection of stories from pioneers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who turned adversity into advantage.
Featured alongside Reebok founder Joe Foster, Hacia Atherton shares her own transformation from life-threatening trauma to international leadership, offering a roadmap for anyone looking to lead through resilience, courage, and conscious reinvention.
This book isn’t just about survival. It’s about what it takes to rise and lead in a world that demands evolution.
Co-Authoring with Joe Foster (Founder of Reebok):
A Journey of Resilience and Triumph
Why Book Hacia?
- Evidence-Based Insight: Grounded in the science of positive psychology, emotional intelligence, and leadership development.
- Real-World Credibility: Former CEO in a male-dominated industry, scaling both impact and culture.
- Powerful Storytelling: From a hospital bed to global stages, she leads with lived experience, not theory.
- Star Power & Authenticity: Shared stages with global icons like Kevin Costner, Tommy Hilfiger, and Elizabeth Hurley while staying deeply human and heart-driven.
Whether you're planning your next conference, company offsite, or leadership retreat, Hacia will challenge, inspire, and equip your audience to lead in a way that drives culture, wellbeing, and the bottom line.
Keynote Speaking That Moves Minds, Shifts Cultures, and Sparks Action
When you want more than motivation, you need transformation.
Hacia Atherton goes beyond just delivering keynotes. She ignites cultural change. As a globally recognised voice in workplace wellbeing and leadership transformation, Hacia brings a rare blend of lived resilience, evidence-based strategy, and bold, magnetic energy to every stage.
Backed by her academic foundation in applied positive psychology, executive experience as a CEO in skilled trades, and a deeply personal recovery story after a life-threatening equestrian accident, Hacia’s keynotes do more than inspire they shift paradigms. Whether she’s speaking to corporate boards, trade industry leaders, or global summits, Hacia leaves audiences with a new lens on what it means to lead, include, and thrive.
What She Speaks On:
- The Billion Dollar Blind Spot: Why Culture Is Your Greatest Risk and Opportunity
- From Burnout to Belonging: Building Psychologically Safe, High-Performing Teams
- The Phoenix Process: Leading Through Adversity with Courage and Vision
- Polarity-Informed Leadership: Balancing Strength and Softness to Drive Real Results
- Breaking Bias, Building Futures: Retaining Women in Male-Dominated Industries
JT Foxx and Hacia at Mega Success, USA
Hacia's journey has lead to her connect with and learn from high profile figures such as:
The Thrive Masterclass
Where Cultural Wellbeing Meets Strategic Leadership
Is your organisation leading in a way that builds resilience, or burning out your best people?
The Thrive Masterclass is more than a training program. It’s a transformational experience designed for leaders who want to create high-performing, human-first cultures that thrive under pressure.
Rooted in applied positive psychology and designed by Hacia Atherton, this evidence-based, immersive program equips leaders and teams with the tools to not just survive the demands of modern work, but to thrive through them.
What Participants Walk Away With:
🌿 Resilient Leadership in Action
Master the skills to lead through uncertainty with clarity, calm, and courage.
🛠️ Psychological Safety Frameworks
Build trust fast and create cultures where people speak up, take ownership, and innovate.
🔥 Energy Over Burnout
Learn how to structure work in a way that fuels sustainable performance and wellbeing.
🎯 Action Plans, Not Just Ideas
Walk away with a practical roadmap to embed wellbeing into daily operations, leadership strategy, and long-term planning.
Where Complexity Meets Clarity.
Culture Meets ROI.
Where Complexity Meets Clarity. Culture Meets ROI.
Culture isn’t soft. It’s the silent force behind your bottom line, and when it’s ignored, it becomes your billion-dollar blind spot.
Led by Hacia Atherton, CPA, MAPP Director of Leadership & Culture Strategy and internationally recognised voice in workplace culture reform Allstar Consulting delivers evidence-based, high-impact strategies that shift organisations from burnout, bias, and breakdown… to resilience, retention, and results.
The Allstar Collective
You’re not hiring a consultant. You’re building an All-Star team. Through our Consulting Hub, we bring together global experts across organisational psychology, leadership, DEI, branding, marketing, finance, and operational strategy to create a customised powerhouse of support for your goals.
What Allstar Consulting Offers
Cultural Transformation
Reshape legacy systems, dismantle invisible barriers, and build inclusive, human-first cultures that drive both wellbeing and performance.
Leadership Evolution
We equip your leaders with the mindsets, frameworks, and emotional intelligence to lead with clarity, courage, and compassion.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Qualification (DEI+Q)
Our signature approach integrates not only access and equity, but capability and support, ensuring diversity is not just represented, but thriving.
Actionable Strategy, Not Theories
Our interventions are data-informed and tailored—designed for the nuanced demands of fast-scaling, high-pressure, male-dominated industries.
Reshape legacy systems, dismantle invisible barriers, and build inclusive, human-first cultures that drive both wellbeing and performance.
Leadership Evolution
We equip your leaders with the mindsets, frameworks, and emotional intelligence to lead with clarity, courage, and compassion.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Qualification (DEI+Q)
Our signature approach integrates not only access and equity, but capability and support, ensuring diversity is not just represented, but thriving.
Actionable Strategy, Not Theories
Our interventions are data-informed and tailored—designed for the nuanced demands of fast-scaling, high-pressure, male-dominated industries.
Why Partner with Us?
Because you don’t need a new strategy.
You need a cultural shift that’s grounded in human science and built for sustainable impact.
We don’t offer cookie-cutter playbooks.
We co-design transformational change from boardroom vision to on-the-ground implementation.
“Empowering organisations to cultivate cultures of psychological wellbeing and inclusivity isn’t just my role, it’s my mission. When you elevate the human experience at work, you unlock performance, purpose, and long-term profit.”
— Hacia Atherton, CPA, MAPP
Why It Matters
We don’t change cultures through slogans.
We change them by changing the stories people believe about what’s possible.
My work whether on stage, in boardrooms, or through Thrive Masterclasses is grounded in evidence-based strategies from positive psychology and real-world leadership experience. I bring fire, strategy, and compassion to the critical work of turning burnout into resilience, exclusion into belonging, and stagnation into sustainable growth.
Ready to Inspire, Empower, and Transform?
If you’re looking for a keynote speaker who moves hearts and shifts mindsets, or a masterclass that sparks real change, let’s talk.
My Philosophy
At the heart of my leadership philosophy is this uncompromising belief: true progress starts with respect and is sustained by equity.
Respect is more than a value it’s a daily practice of listening deeply, leading inclusively, and making space for diverse voices to not just be heard, but to help shape the direction of change.
Equality isn’t about ticking boxes. It’s about dismantling outdated systems and replacing them with cultures of psychological safety, belonging, and opportunity. It’s about reimagining what leadership looks like when every individual, regardless of gender, identity, background, or status, is empowered to thrive on their own terms.
My work is rooted in creating these conditions: human-first, evidence-based, and driven by the belief that high-performing workplaces start with inclusive cultures. Because when we lead with respect, and embed equality into our systems not just our slogans, we unlock the full potential of people and performance.
This isn’t soft leadership. This is a smart strategy. And it’s how we build a better future for everyone.
Empowered Women In Trades
Where Equity Meets Action.
Real cultural change doesn’t happen by chance. It happens when bold leaders take the first step and build the systems that others can rise within.
As the Founder and Chair of Empowered Women In Trades (EWIT), I lead a movement committed to reshaping male-dominated industries from the inside out. Our mission?
To not only attract more women into skilled trades, but to retain and elevate them by transforming the workplace cultures that too often push them out.
At EWIT, we don’t just talk about inclusion.
We co-design it, measure it, and make it thrive.
From immersive recruitment programs and school-based activations to award-winning employer partnerships and national gala events, we are driving systemic change at scale—equipping organisations to build psychologically safe, high-performance cultures where everyone belongs.
This Isn’t a Diversity Box to Tick. It’s a Business Strategy.
In his opening address at the 2024 EWIT Awards Gala, the Hon Brendan O'Connor MP, Federal Minister for Skills and Training, emphasised the urgency of increasing female representation in trades. It’s not just about equity it’s about building the resilient, innovative workforces our future demands.
Learn more about how your organisation can lead this change.
