Grow Your Consulting Business with HBDI® & Whole Brain® Thinking

When Whole Brain® Thinking drives communication, something shifts. We start understanding and leveraging personal strengths, not competing with them, to have Whole Brain® conversations that move us forward. HBDI® isn’t about labels, it’s about understanding yourself and others. It gives teams a shared language to communicate more effectively, solve problems, and make better decisions together. Instead of frustration or conflict, you get understanding, appreciation for the diversity in the room, and more holistic outcomes.

Let's explore the endless possibilities together!

Tess Barnes | Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Instruction
SCHMIC Consulting

For me, there’s nothing better than seeing those 'lightbulb moments' happen during an HBDI® debrief. Watching someone connect the dots - and then hearing how it’s already making a difference – is exactly why this work is my happy place. Whole Brain® Thinking isn’t just a model... it’s neuroscience-meets-mindset. And when leaders lean in, the ripple effect is powerful. Beyond grateful for clients who show up with curiosity, self-awareness and a willingness to grow.

Chloe Penwarden | Leadership & Team Performance Coach
CMP Coaching

I’ve been successfully utilising HBDI® in medium sized organisations in Australia to assist with team reconnection (especially where there is significant hybrid work arrangements), and developing communication and conflict resolution skills in teams. The Whole Brain® Model is so powerful, due to its simplicity and complexity. Understanding self and others is fundamental to great leadership and team work and the HBDI is a wonderful tool to provide this understanding. People love it!

Jeannette White | Leadership Coach and Trainer
Rise Coaching & Development

Since being introduced to HBDI® in 2015 as a participant in a team debrief and saying “where has this been?" when opening my folder, I knew I wanted to be a practitioner. Now hardly a day, and definitely not a week, goes by when I don't think about how Whole Brain® Thinking can benefit me, others and the work we are trying to do. I still get a rush out of seeing things click when they realise that people are just different and not difficult and teams coming together to make the most of the different preferences they have in them.

Brendon Le Lievre | Founder
Hare Consulting

I am a raving fan of Whole Brain® Thinking and HBDI®. Whether it's working with individuals, in TACT teams or whole organisations, it's such a great way to leverage the strengths of diverse thinking for creativity, problem solving, decision making and communication. I particularly love the way people quickly get on board with Whole Brain® Thinking, because there truly is no right or wrong and because it doesn't put us into boxes. Rather, it's about knowing the extent of our thinking preferences, where they serve us well and where they might serve us less well. It doesn't just normalise difference but embraces it. How can we be more agile, more creative and how can we work even better together.

Jill Livesy | Senior Executive Coach

Of all the profiles out there, the HBDI® is the one that is most easily integrated into organisations and people start to use the language very quickly. The uptake, from my perspective anyway, is that it’s the friendliest and applies to every level of an organisation so from frontline workers and leaders, right through to senior executive teams. It’s fantastic! If there’s a way of binding a team or an organisation, it’s the Whole Brain® Model because it helps us recognise difference and notice it but then value it and we surround ourselves with people like us which creates great social situations but in a team or an organisation it’s the diversity that makes us thrive.

Matthew Wright | Principal
Aurora People

I often say to people, we all have common ground, our job is to find it and I think that language is one way of finding common ground. The HBDI® allows that to happen. We may have fundamental differences but somewhere in the profile you’re going to have common ground and once you find that, then you can connect.

Mike Read | Founder & Director
Pigs Can Fly Too

The HBDI® is a tool that can be used at Board level and CEO level, and then cascading right down. The key is if you’re trying to drive culture change across layers, you can have a tool and a language that can be used across different layers. It's not just a tool for executive, it’s not just a tool for frontline, it’s a tool that can have a shared language and I think that’s a key part of long term culture change.

Hayden Fricke | Managing Director
Steople Australia & New Zealand

The HBDI® is very robust, incredibly robust. I’ve rarely, if ever, had people say ‘that’s not my profile’. The big differentiator for me is how you can look at what people need to do, or should be doing, from a whole brain perspective in their work, overlay those activities and make people aware of what activities come naturally to them, and what activities may require them to stand outside their comfort zone for a while. And that is incredibly powerful, and we use that for training, coaching, development, a whole bunch of things.

Paul Izbicki | CEO
Total InterAction

I have been obsessed with the HBDI® and what it can do for culture since around 2010. The simple, yet effective metaphor for our brains has helped to strengthen new and existing teams that I have worked with over the past 10 years and in many different settings. It builds self-awareness and gives teams and organisations a common, easy language to work with when doing anything from leader/employee 1-on-1s to project planning. Added benefit? It's so much fun!

Steph Tramontin| Senior Organisational Development Consultant
CulturAlchemy