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People and culture experts for advertising & media agencies.

Grow your business AND keep your culture

WHAT WE DO
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What we do

We are people and culture experts who specialise in mental health and psychosocial safety.

 

We intentionally choose to work with organisations with large hearts and limited resources. We offer industry first ideas and services designed to meet real SME needs.

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We reduce turnover.

We increase employee engagement

We safeguard your business and your people

We improve client retention

We improve your sleep (turn worry into confidence)

 

 

Meet Virginia Scully

Virginia is a people and culture expert who specializes in mental health and psychosocial safety, bringing nearly 30 years of experience in the creative and media industry alongside profound lived experience that shapes everything she does.

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Her journey began in advertising, where early career success meant chasing external validation—expensive shoes, glamorous events, and the relentless pursuit of what others defined as achievement. She lived this life with gusto, but felt like an imposter beneath the surface.

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Life had other lessons to teach her. Virginia's family story is one of resilience through heartache. When she was 17, her mother Rosemary survived breast cancer after enduring chemotherapy and a double mastectomy. Soon after, her eldest sister Gabrielle was diagnosed with breast cancer as a young mother of four. Despite attending Virginia's 21st birthday so unwell she couldn't walk, they lost Gabrielle shortly after. Later, Gabrielle's son—Virginia's nephew—died by suicide after the regional hospital system failed him when he tried to get help.

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These experiences taught Virginia to recognize the warning signs that others miss—when we're avoiding grief, chasing external validation, or staying in situations that don't align with our values.

After becoming a mother herself, Virginia returned to an advertising industry that hadn't evolved with her. She struggled as a "stained tracksuit pant wearing stay-at-home mum" trying to fit back into a world that still celebrated youth and after-hours networking. Once again, she felt like an imposter.

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Today, Virginia has redefined success on her own terms. As founder of Human Kind Collective, she channels her expertise and lived experience into helping organizations create psychologically safe workplaces where people can thrive authentically.

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Her work at Hatched Media successfully scaled the company from 5 to 80 employees across two markets without losing their connected, collaborative culture—retaining client relationships and sustaining profitability through rapid growth. 

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Virginia is passionate about gender equity, empowering women, and creating mentally healthy workplaces. As a qualified Mental Health First Aid instructor, she brings both professional expertise and deep personal understanding to every engagement.

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Her mission is clear: to help people recognize the warning signs she missed in herself and others, creating workplaces where authenticity and wellbeing aren't just valued—they're essential for sustainable success.

Virginia believes the future of work is human kind, and she's dedicated to making that vision a reality, one organization at a time.

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The future of work is now and its of the Human Kind.

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 Industry know how

With decades of experience in and around the media & communications industry weve seen a lot. We know 80% of our workforce is burnt out and disengaged. Change is constant and humans are our business. Simplifying the somewhat complex is our DNA. 

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The power of kindness

You have a unlimited often untapped resource that has a powerful, infectious (in a good way) and energising impact.  We know how to leverage it.

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Mentally Healthy workplaces are our jam

7 out of 10 employees state that their mental health has either stayed the same or declined in 2024. We are passionate about smashing the stigma and challenging the systems that  have a negative impact on mental health.  We have the qualifications to support action. 

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 Save time & Sleep easy

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The wisdom of the collective

No one has all of the skills needed to help humans thrive at work. We have built a community of  experts in their field who we lean on for security, velocity and extraordinary thinking.

SELLING POINT

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We have industry specific ready to use tools to measure safeguard and protect your people and your organisation on a budget.  Mitigate reputational, legal, financial and human risk by assessing your cultures  health. 

SERVICES
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Services

This assessment will uncover your agency's cultural strengths as well as areas that may benefit from improvement. Scores will point you in the right direction for positive change.

*Once purchased, the link will be emailed to you within 2 hours

Low cost high impact policy in the form of a custom- made handbook. The process includes coaching, engagement and empowerment of an employee or group to lead educate and train the organisation.

Pay transparency is essential for retaining talent and improving performance,  this service provides recommendations for your performance programme and progression planning to keep your people motivated.

This evidence based course empowers people to have life saving conversations with colleagues, friends and family.  It helps reduce the stigma through education and awareness.

Testimonials

There is no success without a motivated, inspired, committed, thriving and prospering team. Nowhere is this more true than in the tough creative communications industry- and in the hard yards of indie competitiveness. That’s where Virginia Scully brings unmatched experience, insights, instinct and super practical counsel to help teams stay well, energised and being the best they can be. Virginia will help turbo-charge the wellness of your agency through the wellness on all counts of your team. Please - take a closer look. You won't regret it!

Chris Savage - Founder The Savage Company

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Get in touch

Visit our contact page below to lock in a meeting through Calendly or get in touch via email directly.

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Acknowledgment of country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians, and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. We work and live on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation. We recognise the strength and resilience in the face of colonisation. We honour their continuing connection to land, sea and community and recognise that for generations, they have lived the values we work to share: to protect and prosper through community, inclusivity, and sustainability.

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