We’re on a mission to build
mentally healthy workplaces
Helder Insight enables leaders and practitioners to take a preventative approach to enhance workplace culture, performance, innovation and employee wellbeing.
This is not another survey tool. Helder Insight is a leadership support platform that draws on multiple data sources to make sense of complex cultural signals, providing insight to help reduce burnout, unwanted turnover and presenteeism.
Culture speaks in signals
Identifying and acting on complex cultural signals leads to safety, and safety leads to improved performance.
Deep preventative insights
Helder Insight provides insight not just about what the issues are, but importantly, why they are occurring and how to address them.
Emerging Risks for Governance Groups
Clear metrics to monitor cultural risks and identify early signs of value erosion, before they appear in lagging data.
What gets seen,
gets safer
Our diagnostic approach is designed to improve workplace culture through psychological safety.
Using science and AI, the Helder Insight platform detects early signs of risk before it leads to harm.
In 2026, Dutch law will require stronger protections for psychological wellbeing in the workplace.
In Australia, the psychosocial hazards framework came into effect between 2022-2025.
In the UK changes to the Employment Rights Act will come into effect in 2027.
Are you ready to comply?
Like to know more about our Organisational Health & Cultural Risk Assessment? Get in touch.
The research
behind Helder Insight
Our founding partner, Dr Emma Clarke, conducted PhD research using surveys and interviews with an extensive group of leaders, employees, and former employees of professional services firms. From these insights, she developed The Three-Factor Model of Psychological Safety™ to help:
- identify barriers and blind spots
- understand leader behaviours that influence psychological safety, and
- assess the availability and access to resources which help employees cope in high-stress, high-demand working environments
High psychological safety exists in high performing teams like Google, Pixar Animations and Team Emirates New Zealand.
Low psychological safety was identified as a major contributor in high-profile failures at Boeing, Volkswagen, PWC Australia, Grenfell Tower and Royal Mail.
Podcast
Legal off the Leash
Emma speaks with Legal off the Leash in the UK about her research findings, The Three-Factor Model of Psychological Safety™.
Meet the team
Emma Clarke
Co-founder | Psychologist NIP® | CPsychol
More about Emma
Emma has worked across a wide range of industries and professions across multiple countries. Early in her career, she worked in marketing roles for BNP Paribas in London, Belkin in Amsterdam, Macmillan Publishers and Microsoft New Zealand, before establishing two marketing agencies.
After 20+ years working as a marketing consultant across the industry spectrum, Emma completed a PhD in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Emma combines her consulting expertise with critical thinking and data analysis skills, to drive actionable insights for positive change. Emma is a chartered member of the Netherlands Institute of Psychology (NIP), The British Psychological Society (BPS) and the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP).
Andy Hamilton
Co-founder | COO
More about Andy
Andy is a commercially focused change & delivery leader, with broad business and FinTech change experience in New Zealand, the UK and The Netherlands.
Andy brings energy and drive to his work, building strong working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels. Andy excels at bringing the right people together to make key decisions.
Andy classifies himself as a generalist - able to apply proven delivery capability, while embracing intellectual challenges. Andy believes that AI will transform our lives and the way we work by automating the mundane, increasing productivity and efficiency.
Matthew Polson
CTO
More about Matthew
Matthew is a data & AI strategist with extensive international experience across a broad range of industries. An architect at heart, Matthew has spent the last few years developing and implementing successful organisational strategies around analytics and AI.
Matthew's career includes extended stints in Melbourne, London and Stockholm. He moved home to New Zealand in 2018 to join Datacom as CTO of Data & Analytics, before founding his company Visualized in 2024.
While data tech has continuously evolved, Matthew sees the technological and cultural shift brought about by AI as unprecedented, creating immense opportunity for those ready to embrace it.