Psychosocial risk, program design, and the funding that delivers them
A clinician led consultancy. We measure and control psychosocial risk for Australian organisations, design research backed programs and platforms, and write the grant and tender submissions that pay for them.
Six sectors, one method
The measurement, the training and the funding case are rebuilt for each sector, because the hazards, the language and the assessors are not the same in any two of them.
- 01Energy and resources
- 02Health and aged care
- 03Government and public sector
- 04Disability and community services
- 05Professional services
- 06Not for profit and social purpose
Three practices, one discipline underneath
Everything we do starts from the same place: what the evidence actually says, translated into something an organisation can run on Monday and defend at an audit.
Psychosocial risk consulting
We measure psychosocial risk across your workforce, interpret it clinically, train your leaders on what the measurement actually found, and leave you with a documented, reviewed risk cycle. Delivered through our Minds at Work program.
- Assessment and measurement
- Hazard identification and control
- Leader and supervisor training
- Documented compliance record
Grants, tenders and program design
We design the program model, then write the submission that carries it. Grant applications, tender and bid responses, program logics, theories of change and outcome frameworks, written by a practitioner who has delivered inside the systems the funding is meant to serve.
See how we work →Programs, platforms and initiatives
We build the programs themselves: curricula, digital platforms, apps and services, each grounded in current research and adapted to the specific population it serves. Five are running now across corporate, education, disability and justice settings.
See what we have built →Psychosocial risk is now a regulated duty, not a wellbeing nice to have
Australian employers are required to identify, assess, control and review psychosocial hazards with the same rigour as physical safety hazards. Periodic surveys, employee assistance programs and reactive wellbeing initiatives were never designed to meet that standard, and regulators have said so explicitly.
What is expected now is a documented, reviewed, ongoing approach: a record of how you identify psychosocial risk, what you did about it, and how it changed over time. That is precisely what our psychosocial risk practice is built to produce.
Psychosocial risk assessment, identification and training, tailored to your organisation
Delivered as Minds at Work. Employees complete a short survey across the seven psychosocial domains, written in the language of your industry. A practitioner reads the result, not a dashboard. Training is then built on what your own data returned, and the focus adjusts as the picture changes.
A single measured cycle
One round across the psychosocial domains, with a written clinical interpretation you can act on and hand to a board or a regulator. A defensible baseline, with no multi year commitment.
An ongoing partnership
Surveys every three months, plan adjustments every six, and a return on investment tool that reads against the leave and turnover you already carry. Runs for as long as it earns its place.
The multi year build
A longitudinal dataset, a maturing return on investment picture, and a fully documented risk management cycle. The strongest available position if a claim or an audit arrives.
Grant writing, tender bids and program model design
Most submissions are not lost on writing. They are lost on design. Assessors read hundreds of competently written applications that are still unfundable, because the need is asserted rather than evidenced, the model is described in the organisation's own language rather than the funder's, and the outcomes are aspirations rather than measures.
What we produce
- Full grant applications, across government, philanthropic and corporate rounds
- Tender, bid and request for proposal responses, written to the weighting
- Program models, service design and delivery frameworks
- Program logic, theory of change and outcome measurement plans
- Evidence and literature sections that hold up to expert review
- Budgets, budget narratives, reporting and acquittal submissions
Our founder designed the program model and led the successful submission for a national trial supporting adolescent boys, a multi million dollar contract now moving into delivery.
Written by a practitioner who then has to deliver against the model. That difference shows up immediately in how the need, the risk and the theory of change are argued.
How the work runs →Programs, platforms and initiatives we design and build
We do not licence a template and rebrand it. Each program is researched from the literature, designed for a specific population, tested in delivery, and built into whatever form it actually needs to take, whether that is a curriculum, a training program, a website, an app or a whole service model.
Minds at Work
The psychosocial risk assessment, identification and training program at the centre of our corporate practice. Measurement, clinical interpretation, targeted training and a documented review cycle.
The practice →Daniel's Diaries
An adaptive neuroscience psychoeducation platform that teaches children how their own brains work, built on the brain as a town framework with seven Super Skills mapped across ages 6 to 18.
How it was built →POSU and the SETT program
Structured psychoeducation and material stability for young people in out of home care and youth justice, built on the principle that physiological safety has to come before behaviour change.
How it was built →Roadworthy Dads
A psychoeducation program for men navigating family law and separation, written in the language of the men who need it rather than the language of the system they are inside.
How it was built →CorePBS
A national competency certification platform for Positive Behaviour Support practice, designed as the rigorous, evidence based standard for the sector.
How it was built →Commission a program
The same design process, run for you. Evidence review, program model, curriculum or platform build, delivery kit and an evaluation framework you can report against.
What you can commission →What the work actually produced
De identified and published with client consent. Every figure below comes from the client's own data, measured before and after.
From a wellbeing survey nobody trusted to a risk cycle the board signs off
Night shift supervisors were carrying strain nobody had measured. Twelve months later, unplanned leave in that group was down and the psychosocial cycle sat inside the WHS management system.
A program model designed to be funded, then the submission that carried it
Cohort evidence review, service model, program logic and outcome framework designed first. The written submission came second, and was straightforward because the model underneath was sound.
A consultancy built on clinical depth and translation
Foundations First Group is a clinician led behavioural science consultancy operating Australia wide. Our specialist ground is psychosocial, psychoeducational and social service models built for populations that mainstream design tends to miss, and that specialisation now carries into corporate, government and commercial work as well.
Our work sits at the intersection of three things: rigorous psychological science, practical translation into everyday language, and measurable, defensible delivery. We do not sell wellbeing as a feeling. We design work that produces data, evidence and outcomes you can hand to a regulator, a board or a funder.
Clinically grounded
Every program is designed and led by a behavioural science clinician, not assembled from generic wellbeing templates.
Translated, not academic
Current research delivered in language that workforces, frontline teams, families and children can actually use.
Measured and defensible
Built to be evidenced over time. If your own data says it is not working, we tell you, and you stop.
Australia wide
Delivered nationally, designed so that reach and quality are never a postcode lottery.
Clinically led, delivered by named practitioners
The people who design the work are the people who deliver it. Nothing clinical is outsourced.
Aimee Floyd
Aimee is a behavioural science consultant with a background in psychological science, completing her Honours in Psychology. She designs and leads the firm's psychosocial risk practice, its grant and tender work, and the program portfolio including Daniel's Diaries, POSU and the SETT program, Roadworthy Dads and CorePBS.
Her clinical work spans behaviour support across children, disability, youth justice and forensic settings, alongside counselling and corporate consulting. She is also an established grant and tender writer, most recently designing the program model and leading the successful submission for a multi million dollar national trial supporting adolescent boys. Whether the reader is an eight year old learning how their own brain works, a funding assessor, or a workforce of three hundred, the thread is the same: rigorous psychological science, translated into something people can actually use.
Kathy Golding
Kathy leads facilitation of the psychosocial risk program and specialises in helping organisations meet their work health and safety psychosocial obligations, strengthen staff capability, and build psychologically safe cultures. Her background spans mental health intake, behavioural assessment, trauma informed communication and multi state operational leadership, which lets her bring clinical insight and practical business understanding into the same room.
Having managed teams across Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania, she understands the operational realities businesses actually work within: staffing pressures, performance expectations, customer demands, and the need for consistent, compliant processes. Her training is clear, practical and grounded in real world experience, and it is built to reduce risk, support staff wellbeing, and create workplaces where people can genuinely thrive.
A conversation, without commitment
There is no procurement process to have a first conversation. The discovery call runs twenty minutes and costs nothing. Book a time directly, or leave your details and we will call you back.
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