About Us: WRDI Institute Pty. Ltd.

Our Core Competencies

Our core competencies lie in the following areas:

a) HR Strategy: People Management;

• Workplace trends
• Human capital
• Workforce segmentation and employment strategies
• Psychological contracts
• Engagement and retention
• Competencies

b) Measurement;

• Human capital
• Psychological contracts
• Engagement & retention risk
• Competency gaps

c) Organisational Psychology;

• Psychometrics
• Survey design and development

d) Career Development;

• Mid-life career change
• Career guidance, assessment
• Career management / development

Our People

Colin Beames: Director of the WRDI Institute
BA (Hons) Qld, BEng (Hons), MBA, MAPS.

Colin is both a corporate psychologist and an engineer. Prior to his mid-life career change to organisational psychology, Colin worked as a consultant, senior manager, and professional engineer in the resources sector. His organisational consultancy experience includes assignments in Australia and overseas, both in the private and public sectors. Industries in which Colin has worked include the: agricultural distribution and export, agricultural research, banking and finance, biotechnology research, building and construction, information technology, insurance, health, manufacturing, retail, resources, and tourism industries.

He is one of Australia’s leading human capital experts, with a deep and expansive knowledge of the subject, and more specifically in the areas of engagement, retention and career development, employment strategies and psychological contracts.

The topic of Colin’s psychology honours thesis was mid-life career change, and his Master of Business Administration included a dissertation on psychological contracts and the development of the WRDI®. He has previously been an adjunct lecturer to the Department of Psychology at the University of Queensland and he has also lectured and mentored to 3rd and 4th year psychology students, and supervised a number of conditionally registered psychologists and organisational psychology masters students.

Colin has presented at a number of workshops, seminars and conferences on the above themes, and he is currently writing a book entitled: Measuring and Managing Human Capital.

Jan Beames: Associate Director
B.Couns

Jan Beames is a highly experienced group facilitator, psychotherapist and coach, who previously worked in senior roles in the areas of social welfare and politics. Prior to rrelocating back to Melbourne, whe operated a thriving counselling practice, during which she developed an enviable reputation for assisting individuals and couples to turn their lives around.

Jan has pioneered workshop courses on personal development and self-esteem, facilitating many highly successful groups. She has appeared on a number of television programs, including the 7:30 Report,

Jan now provides coaching to many senior executives and managers in work related, personal development and job / career related issues.

Our Network of Accredited Consultants

The Institute has a national network of accredited consultants, a sample of which includes:

• Compass Consulting
  A boutique firm specialising in psychometric assessment, recuritment and selection, and outplacement, based in Brisbane
• Cornally Enterprises
  Cornally Enterprises is a boutique consulting firm specializing in executive coaching and leadership development.
• DBM
  DBM is one of the world’s largest outplacement companies, providing coaching, career transition, and workforce alignment consulting services.
• Directioneering
  Directioneering is an outplacement and career transition firm with offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
• Practical Human Resources
  Practical Human Resources is a HR consultancy and outplacement firm based in Sydney which provides coaching, career transition and general HR services.
• Olivier and Retention Solutions
  Olivier is a recruitment and retention consultancy firm based in Sydney.
• Yellow Edge
  Yellow Edge is a major HR consultancy based in Canberra, with offices in Melbourne and Singapore, providing coaching, workforce planning, leadership and organisational development consultancy services.

Our Clients

The WRDI® client list includes “blue chip” reference sites, across a diversity of industries, a sample of which is provided below.