Silence is never neutral. That's the thread that runs through everything I do.

Whether I'm working with leaders navigating organisational change, or helping organisations build the capability for challenging conversations to happen early, the root cause is almost always the same. Silence erodes trust. And when trust breaks, everything else follows: disengagement, toxic behaviours, formal grievances, teams running on empty and ultimately, underperforming.

After 25+ years working in and alongside organisations, I know this isn't a culture problem you can fix with a policy. It's a capability problem. And capability is something you can actually build.

I work with senior leaders, People & Culture teams, and organisations across government, emergency services, defence, corporate Australia, SMEs and NFPs to do three things:

1. Build speak-up cultures - where people feel safe and skilled to raise concerns early and resourcefully, before they escalate into something costly and irreversible.

2. Develop leaders who connect - who can hold trust through change, uncertainty, and pressure, without going silent when it matters most.

3. Shift behaviour, not just mindsets - because awareness without skill is just good intention. People leave my programs with tools they can use the next day.

I'm the creator of the Business Connection Model, author of Bullies, Blamers & Bludgers, Beyond Whitepaper and The Connect-Ability Playbook. I am a Global Partner of the About My Brain Institute, because everything I do is grounded in how the brain actually works, not how we wish it did.

17,000+ leaders and employees trained. Real stories. Straight talk. No fluff.

If your organisation is navigating change, sitting on a culture problem, or wondering why the conversations that need to happen - aren't, let's talk.

That's why I do this work.

I want to be known as the person who helps organisations build workplaces where people show up, step up and speak up because silence doesn't just cost productivity. It costs people.

THE MISSION

Blythe is a Leadership and Speak Up Culture specialist, executive coach and keynote speaker whose work centres on a few key questions: what actually keeps people connected - to their leaders, their teams, and their organisations, especially when the pressure is on and what keeps them silent?

She began her HR Leadership career in corporate retail, first with McDonald's Australia and then with Bunnings. She learned the key ingredients to succeeding in these challenging times from one of the highest-performing retail giants in Australia.

Those insights became the foundation of her Business Connection Model - a framework she has since applied across over a decade of work with senior leaders, People & Culture teams, and executive groups spanning NSW and NT government agencies, national corporates, and emergency services through her training organisation, Human Incite.

Blythe's keynotes and masterclasses draw on neuroscience, her own lived leadership experience, and the practical reality that connecting hearts AND minds is what separates organisations that perform through change from those that burn out trying.

Her mission in modern organisations is simple: for ‘leaders and teams to have more conversations, more often’ to build trust, awesome workplaces and produce amazing results.

What Sets Blythe Apart?

She's lived it, not just studied it.

Thirteen years inside organisations, implementing best practise + thirteen years partnering with leading organisations, helping them deal with toxic behaviours, disengaged teams and leaders avoiding the conversations they need to have. Blythe doesn't talk about this from the outside. She's been in the room. She knows what it looks like, what it costs, and what actually changes it.

She doesn't just inspire. She installs.

Every idea Blythe shares on stage or in the classroom has been tested with more than 17,000 people in real Australian workplaces. People leave her keynotes and masterclasses with tools they can use the next day, not just feelings that fade by Friday. That's not a training background. That's proof of concept.

She names the thing everyone's thinking.

Straight-talking. Occasionally uncomfortable. Always practical. Blythe has a gift for saying the thing that everyone in the room already knows but hasn't found the words for, and then giving them the words to do something about it.

Her Credentials

Credentials & expertise

• 13 years in Senior HR & Organisation Development roles: McDonald’s + Bunnings Group

• Founder & Director: Human Incite - training and development company 2012

• 17,000+ leaders and employees trained across Australian organisations

• Master’s in Management Enterprise, Bachelor of Business (Industrial Relations)

• Accredited NLP Practitioner & Peak Performance Coach

• Global Partner: About My Brain Institute (neuroleadership assessments)

• Certified Professional Speaker (CSP) - Professional Speakers Association (2019)

• Accredited Extended Disc Practitioner

• Author: Bullies, Blamers & Bludgers (2012)

• Author: Beyond Bystander: Why Silence Costs Us All whitepaper (2025)

• Author: Connect-Ability Playbook (revised 2025)

• Clients include: NSW Premier and Cabinet, NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services, Royal Australian Navy, Department of Transport NSW, NSW Government Mining Exploration & Geoscience, ThinkTank Media, McDonald’s Australia and many more organisations across government, emergency services, and corporate sectors

Behind the BRAND

Blythe calls Sydney's Northern Beaches home, which, let's be honest, is a pretty good life choice.

She's the proud mumma of two incredible teenage daughters, Mackenzie and Matilda, a dancer at heart, and a self-confessed closet nerd who will absolutely duck if a ball is hit in her direction. Some things don't change.

In 2022, she added studio founder to her CV when she launched Soulhub Freshie - a Pilates Reformer and Wellbeing studio in Freshwater. What started as a passion project quickly became a thriving business, one that has put every people strategy she's ever taught to the test. Building a brand from scratch in a brand-new industry, hiring and leading a team, creating culture without a corporate safety net — it's been the best kind of pressure. She wouldn't change a thing.

When she's not on a stage behind a mic, running a masterclass or on the reformer, you'll find her at the beach, walking her toy Cavoodles, somewhere on a plane heading on an adventure, or loudly cheering on the Matildas.

YTG.