A work survival guide with practical, research-backed help for the things that make work harder than it needs to be: workload, change, conflict, unclear expectations and the conversations nobody wants to have.
Each chapter is a real work problem. Pick one to get something to try tomorrow, and the research behind why it works.
A structured one-to-one coaching program for when work, health or a big change is taking more out of you than it should. It's practical, built around your actual situation, and it isn't therapy.
Start with a single session, a six-session foundation, or the full program of 12 to 14 sessions. Online, Australia-wide and beyond.
Your own toolkit, built session by session. It's yours to keep and use long after we finish.
NDIS participants: if you self-manage or are plan-managed, you may be able to use your capacity building funding for this program. New Light Co. is an unregistered NDIS provider, so we can't support NDIA-managed plans.
Workshops, programs and advisory that help people work well, and help you meet your obligations on psychosocial risk. From a lunchtime session to a program built around your team.
Australian employers must identify and manage psychosocial hazards the same way they manage physical ones. In Victoria, the Occupational Health and Safety (Psychological Health) Regulations have applied since 1 December 2025. We bring 13 years of risk management experience to making that practical.
Recognised in Australian workplace safety guidance. Tap one to see what it means, and which show up where you work.
What the hazards are, how they show up in an ordinary week, and what anyone can do about them. Includes a hands-on hazard spotting activity.
Takeaway: resource sheet and self-check
The signs to notice in yourself and in others, and how to start the conversation without making it worse. Everyone practises an opening line.
Takeaway: conversation starters and resource sheet
Six ways to say no without burning bridges, and how to raise workload with your manager in a way that gets heard.
Takeaway: the "no menu" and resource sheet
Practical tools people can use the same day. Everyone leaves with a short personal plan. Run any session alone, or all four as a monthly series.
Takeaway: personal resilience plan
What the law requires right now, how to identify hazards with real examples, how to assess risk, and what good controls look like. Ends with a 30-day action plan.
Takeaway: workbook, hazard checklist and 30-day action plan
Psychological safety, mental health conversations, adjustments, performance and return to work, practised through realistic roleplays. More in the leaders section.
Takeaway: manager reference guide and conversation frameworks
Weekly 90-minute sessions for teams under pressure, going through change or rebuilding culture. The team works out its own risks and agrees how it will work together.
Takeaway: team risk and resilience plan and working agreements
Fairer everyday people decisions, built as habits over time rather than a one-off session. Full details in the leaders section.
Takeaway: workbook and six practical tools
We start with a conversation about your people, your hazards and what's already been tried, then shape a session or program to fit. Online or on-site.
Starts with a free discovery call
Expert input when you need more than a workshop: hazard identification, risk register development, policy review and briefings for executives and boards.
Scoped with you
Managers shape much of what makes work hard or workable. These programs give them skills they practise, not slides they forget.
A program on bias in everyday people decisions: who gets hired, who gets flexibility, how performance is rated, who gets promoted.
One-off bias training tends to fade within days. This works on the decisions themselves, over twelve weeks.
Every manager gets a workbook and six practical tools. Results are reported to the organisation in aggregate only, never individually.
A full day for people managers at any level. Practical, not theoretical. Managers practise real conversations and leave with frameworks they can use the next day.
The roleplays are the heart of the day. You can't learn a hard conversation by reading about it.
Six one-to-one sessions for managers and leaders who want to lead well under pressure, without burning themselves or their team out.
Leaders carry their own stress into every decision. This starts with yours.
The YouTube series. Real work situations, what's going on underneath, and tips for managers and for you.
Short, useful and a bit funny. The survival guide lives on Instagram.
Hi, I'm Jo. I started working at 14, and I've been the new starter, the manager, the advisor and the person quietly struggling.
Over 31 years I've worked in marketing, advertising, risk and counselling, while living with a chronic health condition. I know how much harder work gets when your health, your manager or your workload isn't on your side.
For the last 13 years I've worked in risk management inside large Australian banking, superannuation, insurance and energy organisations, eight of those years in senior manager roles. I've seen how workload, unclear expectations and badly handled change land on real people. I've also seen what fixes them.
New Light Co. brings together three things: lived experience, risk management and business psychology research. The result is practical help you can use straight away.
A free 20-minute chat. No pitch. We'll work out whether this is the right fit and what would help first.
Or send a message and we'll get back to you.
Prefer email? hello@newlightco.com.au
