People strategy that delivers when it matters most.
Helix People Advisory partners with boards and executive teams on leadership, succession and transformation. The people decisions that shape performance, risk and reputation.
Why Helix
A helix is two strands wound around each other. Bound, but distinct, and strong enough to hold under tension.
That is the idea behind Helix People Advisory. The strands are the organisation and the individual. The work sits where they meet: clear advice for boards and executive teams making complex people decisions through leadership transition, succession, transformation and change.
Decisions made well at that intersection hold. Decisions made from one side alone rarely do.
What we do
Helix helps boards, CEOs and executive teams make clearer people decisions during growth, restructure, succession and transformation.
The value is simple: clear thinking, senior HR judgement and practical execution when the people decisions are complex.
FOCUS AREAS
• Fractional and interim HR leadership
• Organisational design and strategic workforce planning
• Leadership succession and executive effectiveness
• Organisational transformation
Helix also houses a small portfolio of practical ventures, each focused on a specific people, career or capability problem.
About
Colin Hamilton
I help boards and executive teams make better leadership, succession and organisational decisions when performance, risk and reputation are on the line.
I am a Chief People Officer and global HR executive with 25 years’ experience across regulated, multi-business environments in financial services, professional services and travel management.
Most of my work sits where people strategy meets commercial reality. I help organisations build leadership depth, plan succession, and align structure, capability and workforce decisions to what the business is actually trying to achieve.
I have led through growth, restructuring, transformation and strategic reset. I am often brought in when the people decisions are complex, the trade-offs are real, and the path forward needs clear judgement and practical execution.
What I bring is senior HR judgement under pressure. I challenge constructively, influence at executive level, and help turn decisions into action rather than another initiative that stalls. Deep technical grounding across the full HR lifecycle sits underneath that work, but the value is in the clarity, judgement and execution.
GAICD qualified, with board-level perspective on leadership, succession, governance and people risk.
portfolio
Helix is the umbrella for a small portfolio of ventures.
Each stands on its own, each built to the same standard.
Cairn & Co guides mid-level professionals through career transition, turning a redundancy or a career crossroads into a clear, structured path to the next role.
Bearings Advisory offers premium advisory and coaching for senior leaders undergoing transition, providing judgement and support in moments that matter most, where the stakes are highest.
Minted Generation builds practical financial literacy for families, giving parents and children (aged 8-15) the tools and confidence to make better money decisions together.
contact
Work with Helix. For advisory, fractional or venture enquiries:
colin@helixpeopleadvisory.com.au