Managing Director - Sarah Jezzini
Our Managing Director, Sarah Jezzini, leads our team.
With over a decade of specialised academic and professional experience, I am a recognised expert in workplace and employment matters, with advanced capability in psychosocial risk management, organisational liability, regulatory compliance, and systems-based workforce design. My
Our Managing Director, Sarah Jezzini, leads our team.
With over a decade of specialised academic and professional experience, I am a recognised expert in workplace and employment matters, with advanced capability in psychosocial risk management, organisational liability, regulatory compliance, and systems-based workforce design. My work spans senior strategic advisory, complex workplace investigations, national research initiatives, and enterprise-level workforce interventions, underpinned by a multidisciplinary foundation in psychology, law, human resources, industrial relations, and work health and safety.
I hold a Bachelor of Psychological Science (First Class Honours), a Master of Business Law, and a Master of Commerce specialising in Industrial Relations. During my Juris Doctor studies, I completed a thesis examining reasonable management action as a legal defence to psychological injury claims. I am currently completing a Master of Organisational Psychology and have undertaken doctoral research in Psychology, Work Health and Safety, and Human Factors at the University of Queensland. I am a provisionally registered psychologist.
My investigative and expert portfolio includes complex matters involving workplace bullying, sexual harassment, occupational violence, discrimination, corrupt conduct, serious misconduct, workers’ compensation claims, and the identification and management of psychosocial and physical hazards. I have appeared before the Fair Work Commission and have authored expert reports for the Personal Injury Commission (NSW), the District and Supreme Courts of New South Wales, the County and Supreme Courts of Victoria, and the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. My approach integrates legal, psychological, and safety frameworks to deliver procedurally fair, evidence-based, and methodologically rigorous opinions.
I am recognised for bridging academic research and applied practice, translating complex empirical findings into clear, decision-relevant insights for regulators, executive leaders, legal practitioners, and safety professionals. In addition to my expert and investigative work, I have extensive consulting experience across work health and safety, workforce strategy, and industrial relations. This includes the delivery of strategic workforce planning and resourcing solutions such as workforce modelling, skills gap analysis, and talent mapping across sectors including mining, construction, manufacturing, information technology, aged care, and the NDIS. I have also provided market-informed remuneration benchmarking, overseen recruitment strategy, and advised executive teams on attraction and retention approaches aligned with legislative, industrial, and award frameworks.
I have designed and implemented industry-specific WHS policies and procedures, conducted complex investigations, and advised on compliance and risk mitigation strategies across health, aged care, education, NDIS, retail, mining, construction, manufacturing, and transport sectors. My work is characterised by the integration of multidisciplinary principles to support sustainable safety outcomes and the development of high-performing, psychologically and physically safe workplaces. I also deliver employer and executive training on WHS compliance, return-to-work obligations, workers’ compensation, psychosocial hazard management, and sexual harassment prevention.
Throughout my career, I have supported organisations through complex industrial relations matters, including performance management, termination, dispute resolution, and engagement with workers’ compensation insurers. I have worked closely with government, industry, and regulatory bodies to advocate for improved workforce, safety, and governance frameworks. My career reflects a rare combination of academic depth and applied expertise, united by a sustained commitment to strengthening organisational systems, enhancing workforce capability, and advancing safe, lawful, and inclusive work environments.
Sarah's Qualifications
- Bachelor of Psychological Science First Class Honours
- Master of Business Law
- Master of Commerce (Specialising in Industrial Relations)
- Master of Organisational Psychology (Currently enrolled)
- PhD - Psychology - Work Health and Safety (Discontinued)
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- Justice of the Peace (Qualified)
Sarah's Registrations and Memberships
Sarah's Registrations and Memberships
- Registered Provisional Psychologist – Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Member – Psychosocial Risk and Safety Management Lab Group (PRISM) – University of Queensland
- Member – Society for Industrial & Organisational Psychology Australia (SIOPA)
- Member - Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and
- Registered Provisional Psychologist – Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Member – Psychosocial Risk and Safety Management Lab Group (PRISM) – University of Queensland
- Member – Society for Industrial & Organisational Psychology Australia (SIOPA)
- Member - Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
- Member - Project Management Institute
- Member - International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment
- Member - Risk Management Institute of Australasia
- NDIS Worker Screening Check
- Blue Card Working with Children Check.
About SJ Workplace
What we do
SJ Workplace Consulting is a specialist workplace health and safety, compliance, and risk management consultancy firm. We provide evidence-based advisory, research, and investigative services to government, regulators, and complex organisations. Our work also includes independent workplace investigations, expert evidence, and risk-led advisory support. This assists organisations to prevent harm, respond to serious workplace issues, and strengthen defensible systems of governance, control, and decision‑making. We work at the intersection of work health and safety, psychosocial risk management, employment and industrial relations, and workforce strategy. We deliver clear findings, practical remediation, and executive‑ready advice for high‑risk and highly regulated operating environments.
Across a substantial body of investigative, evaluative, and policy‑relevant work, we have developed a detailed, system‑level understanding of how psychosocial risk, professional practice, regulatory design, and compensation and recovery frameworks interact in practice. This includes recurrent patterns in organisational responses to harm. It also includes the role and influence of health professionals, particularly medical practitioners, within compensation and regulatory systems. We further consider the structural factors that shape workforce outcomes and recovery trajectories.
Led by Managing Director Sarah Jezzini, SJ Workplace Consulting brings multidisciplinary expertise spanning psychosocial risk management, workers’ compensation and personal injury systems, regulatory compliance, and workforce and organisational design. The firm is recognised for its ability to integrate legal, psychological, human factors, and WHS frameworks. We use those frameworks to synthesise insights across multiple matters. We identify systemic drivers of risk and inefficiency. We translate complex qualitative and quantitative evidence into clear, defensible findings suitable for executive, legal, and regulatory audiences.
This approach supports policy relevant research, system‑level evaluation, and practical reform. It enables regulators, scheme managers, and organisations to move beyond case‑specific responses. It also supports improved regulatory decision making, stronger scheme performance, and sustainable workforce and recovery outcomes.
Our Services
Program and project delivery for complex initiatives (including training and government driven projects).
- We design and deliver large, multi‑stakeholder projects with clear governance, defined deliverables, and fit-for-purpose implementation planning, including complex training and capability initiatives and applied research programs commissioned by government.
Organisational change and workforce reform.
- We lead and support organisational change initiatives by diagnosing underlying systems drivers, translating evidence into practical change pathways, and establishing the governance and operating rhythms required to sustain improvement across policy, process, leadership practice, and workforce capability.
Workforce management, resourcing, and strategic workforce planning.
- We provide workforce modelling, skills gap analysis, talent mapping, and remuneration benchmarking, aligned to legislative, industrial, and operational constraints, so organisations can make defensible decisions on workforce size, structure, capability, and retention risk.
Expert evidence, independent opinion.
- Our expert opinions are delivered in accordance with the applicable expert witness code of conduct and procedural requirements in the relevant Australian jurisdiction. Our reports are prepared with our opinions clearly stated and supported by identified facts and assumptions, reasons, and supporting materials, together with the required acknowledgements and declarations. Where a court, tribunal, or commission directs expert conferencing, joint reporting, or attendance, we comply and participate while maintaining independent professional judgment.
Independent workplace investigations.
- We conduct procedurally fair investigations into bullying, sexual harassment, occupational violence, discrimination, serious misconduct, corrupt conduct, and workers compensation related matters, and we produce clear findings and implementable recommendations that strengthen decision making and reduce recurrence.
Work health and safety (WHS) and compliance advisory.
- We review WHS systems, contractor management arrangements, and operational controls against legislative expectations, and we support staged uplift from baseline assessment through to remediation and longer‑term assurance.
Prevention and management of psychosocial hazards.
- We assist organisations to identify psychosocial hazards, assess interaction effects across hazards, prioritise controls, and implement practical prevention and response systems, including reporting pathways, early intervention mechanisms, and workforce level risk mitigation in high-risk environments.
Risk management and compliance training and audits.
- We deliver risk-based training and assurance activities that strengthen accountability, reporting, and integration of risk management into business processes, supported by structured audits and evidence-based uplift plans.
Data management, analytics, and workforce insight.
- We design and use workforce and safety analytics to inform executive decision‑making, including the integration of organisational data, employee listening mechanisms, and external benchmarks, and the development of dashboards that support proactive monitoring of psychosocial risk indicators at a systems level.
Our Areas of Expertise
- Workplace Investigations
- Work Health and Safety
- Workplace Physical Injury
- Managing Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace
- Workplace Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment
- Workplace Discrimination
- Workplace Bullying
- Reasonable Management Action
- Human Resource Management
- Strategic Workforce Planning
- Human Factors
- Systems Thinking
- Industrial Relations
- Salary Benchmarking and Industrial Rates of Pay
Our Approach
At SJ Workplace Consulting, we apply a structured, evidence-based approach to each engagement, while ensuring the work is tailored to the client’s context, operating environment, and decision requirements. We begin by clarifying the purpose and scope of the work and establishing a clear baseline of the current position, so advice is anchored to a defensible understanding of existing systems, practices, and risks. Our analysis is multidisciplinary and integrates legal, psychological, human factors, and work health and safety frameworks, so that findings are methodologically rigorous, practical, and capable of being implemented. Where matters are complex, we triangulate information across sources and methods to identify convergence, interdependency, and divergence, and we use that synthesis to move beyond case specific explanations toward systemic drivers of risk and inefficiency.
Judicial and tribunal considerations are built into our approach when our work is intended for use in proceedings, including matters before commissions and courts. We recognise that expert work must be prepared and expressed in a manner that assists the decision-maker impartially, and we ensure our outputs are framed consistently with applicable expert witness codes of conduct, including the principle that the expert’s paramount duty is to the court and that an expert is not an advocate for a party. We also apply the discipline required for admissibility and procedural compliance, including clear articulation of opinions, the material facts and assumptions relied upon, and the reasons and supporting materials for each opinion. Where directions require expert conferencing or joint reporting, we maintain independence of judgment and work co-operatively in accordance with those directions.
We maintain independence and integrity throughout delivery, including a structured and proportionate approach to identifying and managing actual, potential, and perceived conflicts of interest aligned with government and regulatory expectations. Our recommendations are implementation focused and designed to create durable uplift, and we support clients through staged pathways where appropriate, moving from analysis and audit to rectification and implementation. We then frame ongoing maintenance and monitoring as requirements and operating conditions change
