Because individuals flourish in the presence of positive leadership

A humanistic approach to
creating positive culture change

Helio empowers leaders to transform their workplaces into positive, energising and psychologically safe environments, that enable optimal performance, creativity and resilience.

A new way to lead

Tools for leaders to understand the complex human drivers that create safe energising work environments. 

Human-centred

Guiding leaders to create workplaces where people thrive and grow.

Holistic framework

Evidence based programme that cultivates strong and positive leaders who are self aware and confident.

A paradigm shift in leadership

Cultivating leaders for the future 

What we do

Holistic 360
Surveys 

Build self-awareness for creating a positive work environment
Enhance your leadership team’s performance by introducing and measuring key positive leadership factors as a basis for positive change. 

  • Confidential
  • Holistic framework
  • Insightful and practical reporting

Helio Grow
Programme

Practical, evidence based development modules to learn new behaviours
In-depth program for leaders, offering the Helio 360 program alongside comprehensive, practical development modules.
 
  • Evidence based
  • Ongoing learning & development
  • Personal & impactful coaching

Recruitment
Support

Streamline and enhance selection processes
Specialist expertise in psychometric assessment services. We consult with you to align with your organisational culture and role requirements.

  • Responsive & Interactive
  • Personalised service
  • Partnership Approach

Who are we

Michaela Drum

Michaela is an organisational psychologist with a wealth of specialist expertise in talent selection and leadership development. What motivates her is delivering work that genuinely benefits the people and organisations she works with. Her complete focus on client outcomes is central to her track record of long-standing partnerships with clients which she nurtures through providing advice and expertise that contributes exceptional added value to their organisations. Michaela has worked with some of New Zealand's leading organisations such as PWC, Sandford, Vodafone, The Auckland Health Board, The Warehouse and Habitat for Humanity.
Phone: +6421 631 582

Michelle MacKinven

Michelle combines extensive experience from Organisational Psychology, Human Resources & Recruitment, Wellbeing, Executive Coaching, Governance and Technology; with a proven track record overseeing a wide spectrum of software development, strategic and implementation projects for organisations throughout various industries. She is passionate about the digitisation of people solutions and making smarter use of technology to better understand and support people. Visionary in her outlook and with a focus on building tech for good, Michelle is interested in the future of leadership, and how technology can support growing capability whilst allowing for wellbeing through personal connections and self-awareness.
Phone: +6421 228 8005

Why Helio Psych?

Like the Heliotropic effect, Helio Psych works with leaders to elevate their people so they can be their best. We do this through insightful psychometric assessment to enhance selection decisions, our Holistic 360 Survey, and Helio Leadership Programmes.

Specialist Expertise

With a strong background in organisational psychology, we are experienced in psychometric assessments for recruitment support, as well as helping leaders to recognise their superpowers and identify growth opportunities.

People First

Both leaders and prospective leaders appreciate our personalised service and insightful feedback. We acknowledge assessments can be stressful and time consuming, so we've created a user friendly model for a positive experience.

Ethical Practice

We have a strong focus on ethical practice - doing the right thing feels good and safeguards us all. We are honest and upfront, and will tell you if we don’t think we can add value.

Support where it’s needed the most

We support and guide your leaders to help them make informed people decisions and develop their leadership to promote positive workplace cultures.

Our clients love us

Michaela is a creative and unique psychologist who I have worked with for more than 10 years, often in the area of 360 design and delivery. She has been working on a new holistic 360, based on positive psychology. Personally, I found both the report and debrief really stimulating, revealing and helpful. I have been recommending it to organisations, particularly as they change direction with their leadership.
Gil Sewell
GM People & Culture
PWC
Platform is great, clear, uncluttered and easy to use.
Loved being able to nominate raters within the same tool as the survey itself. Questions were of a simple format and not laborious to answer. I liked the questions about balance. Loved seeing the pillars of leadership (self, results, team, cognitive) as it felt complete.
Cathy Gamlen
GM People & Culture
Indevin 
We worked with Michaela to implement the Holistic 360 Feedback process for our senior staff at Habitat for Humanity Northern Region.
Michaela provided great support, training and insight that allowed us to confidently move forward and embrace the Holistic 360 model as part of our internal assessment and leadership building objectives.
Conrad LaPointe, CEO
Habitat for Humanity