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Learning Strategy Consulting
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Strategy-led · 100% Australian team · From $12,500

Learning strategy consulting that turns training spend into performance.

Most organisations don't need more training — they need a smarter plan for it. Our instructional design consultants and learning and development consultants map what your people actually need, then hand you a clear blueprint you can build from, brief to the market, or have us bring to life.

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20+ years designing workplace learning 100% Australian team 130+ Enterprise clients Trusted by ASX-listed & federal government teams 450+ Programs shipped WCAG 2.2 AA accessible as standard

Teams who don’t settle
for boring training

Officeworks PWC Telstra Australian Taxation Office Australian Super Legal Practitioners' Liability Committee

45%

of Australian employers aren't spending their training budget on the gaps they've identified.

Deloitte Access Economics, 2024

More training isn’t the answer. A smarter learning strategy is. Without one, learning becomes noise — scattered across the year, disconnected from real goals, and forgotten the moment the module closes.

The completions are logged. The behaviour hasn’t budged.

We start further back: what does the business actually need people to do differently, and what’s the shortest, sharpest path to getting them there?

From one rollout to your whole learning culture.

Some clients arrive with a single program to plan. Others want to reshape how their entire organisation learns. We scope to wherever you are.

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Learning needs analysis

Before anyone builds a thing, we diagnose the real gap. An instructional design consultant who asks the right questions, runs discovery with your stakeholders, and separates the performance problem from the noise.

Learning architecture & eLearning strategy

The blueprint. We map audiences, outcomes, sequence and the right mix of channels — your eLearning strategy and broader learning architecture in one clear document you can act on.

High Level Design

Your walk-away deliverable: where learners are now versus where they need to be, cohort mapping, format mix, roadmap and costed recommendations. Yours to build from, brief to the market, or hand back to us.

Learning and development consulting capability uplift

Ongoing learning strategy consulting — capability frameworks, learning pathways by role, and the governance to measure whether any of it worked.

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Built for the platform you’re on.

We've deployed courses to dozens of LMSs, so we know how they behave. If you've already got one, we build to it — SCORM or xAPI, tested before handover. If you're still choosing, we'll tell you what we've learned. We don't sell platforms; we build the courses that go on them.

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Real numbers,
before you pick up the phone.

Every engagement is different — the biggest variables are how many audiences you're designing for, how deep the discovery needs to go, and whether you want the blueprint or the build. But you shouldn't have to sit through a discovery call to find out roughly what this costs.

Basic
From $12,500
ex GST
  • Discovery session
  • Needs analysis
  • High Level Design
  • Shopping list of deliverables
  • One round of feedback
Medium
From $19,500
ex GST
  • Everything in the previous tier, plus
  • Kick-off + discovery workshop
  • Audience mapping
  • Rollout roadmap
  • Branded mock-ups
  • High Level Design
  • Alpha and beta drafts
Most common
Complex
From $27,500
ex GST
  • Everything in the previous tier, plus
  • SME and co-design sessions
  • Full learning architecture
  • Comprehensive High Level Design
  • Alpha, beta and omega drafts
Enterprise ecosystem
Custom quote
ex GST
  • Capability frameworks
  • Learning pathways by role or stream
  • Multi-program rollout
  • Governance, measurement and reporting
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Our approach

ADDIE, with extra flavour.

Every build runs through the same five stages. It's not glamorous, but it's why our projects don't blow out — and why you'll know what you're getting before we build it. Your eLearning consultant stays on the project from first scope to final handover.

addie analyse

Analyse

The Appetiser

Identify key learning priorities to deliver everything you need—and nothing you don't. No filler, no fluff.

addie design

Design

The Recipe

Clarify scope, resources, and learning strategies with decision makers up front. No surprises in your kitchen!

addie develop

Develop

Made To Order

We build engaging, interactive learning experiences—aligned to your goals. Co-designed, iterated and perfected.

addie implement

Implement

Presentation

Prepare the client for a seamless roll-out in F2F, virtual, or blended environments. Get pilot-ready and go for launch.

addie evaluate

Evaluate

Taste + Tweak

Review against learning outcomes—find out what to start, stop, and keep. Identify changes for lasting impact.

Which one’s yours?

Most briefs land in one of three places. Tell us which is closest and we'll scope from there, you don't need it worked out before you call.

You've got a rollout to plan

A new system, product or process is landing and you need a strategy to get people ready.

  • A date that's already been announced
  • Several audiences, different needs
  • Needs a plan before anyone builds

Your training isn't landing

Completions are fine. Behaviour hasn't moved. Nobody agrees on why.

  • Needs a diagnosis, not more content
  • Multiple stakeholders, no agreed scope
  • "How to improve training" is the actual brief

You're reshaping org learning

Whole of-org learning culture, capability or a multi year uplift.

  • Capability frameworks and pathways
  • Governance and learning measurement
  • Has to scale and stay maintainable
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Big 4 experience.
Nothing like Big 4 invoices.

Our team has built learning inside the big consultancies. We just didn't fancy the overheads, the eleven-person pitch team, or passing any of that on to you. No account manager relaying messages to a production team offshore — the person who scopes your project is the person who designs it.

Ex-Big 4

Enterprise-grade methodology, without the enterprise-consultancy rate card

Based in Australia

Brisbane · Melbourne · Sydney · Perth

12 + 20

Permanent team, plus a specialist network we bring in by project

Bianca

Director & Senior Learning Designer

Bianca

Over 20 years in senior learning, development and instructional design roles – shaping deep expertise in project management of people and learning solutions that support change.

Michael

Managing Partner & Senior Learning Designer

Michael

20 years across senior HR, organisational development, L&D, sales/marketing, instructional design and general management roles.

Tara

Principal Consultant

Tara

Brings principal-level consulting experience across learning strategy and organisational capability.

Showcase

The proof is in the pudding.

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Word on the street
Engaging, beautifully designed, and delivered with care — Hungry Minds exceeded expectations.
Byron Kwong
Safety, Wellbeing & Injury Management Leader · EnergyAustralia

FAQs

Questions,
answered.

The things people ask us most. Got something else? We're happy to chat.

You own the IP. Frameworks, maps, roadmaps, the lot — yours to use, edit and share internally however you like. We don’t licence our own methodology back to you.
A High Level Design. In plain terms: where your people are now against where they need to be, who needs what, the format mix, a sequenced roadmap and costed recommendations. It’s a document you can act on — build it in-house, put it out to market, or hand it back to us. What you won’t get is a deck of observations you already had.
An eLearning strategy is the plan that sits above the modules: which audiences learn what, in what order, in which format, on which platform, and how you’ll know it worked. You need one if you’re about to spend real money across more than one program. If you’ve got a single module to build, you don’t — you need a good brief, and we’ll help you write that instead.
A firm, with one person accountable. Hungry Minds is twelve permanent staff plus a specialist network of around twenty we bring in by project, so you get the range of an instructional design consulting firm without your work being handed down a chain. The instructional design consultant who scopes your project is the one who does it.
Discovery and a High Level Design for a single program usually runs three to four weeks. A full learning architecture across multiple audiences, with SME and co-design sessions, is closer to eight to twelve. You’ll get the timeline with the quote, before you commit to anything.
Yes! We build in SCORM or xAPI and test on your platform before handover — we’ve deployed to dozens, so we know where they misbehave. If you haven’t chosen one yet, we’ll point you in the right direction as part of the project. We build the courses; we don’t sell the software.
Perfect – that’s where we shine. Bring your half-formed idea or a problem you’re trying to solve, and we’ll help clarify the goals, recommend formats, and design a plan that works for your team.
Work with them, nearly always. Your team knows the business and the politics; we bring the design methodology and the awkward outside questions. Where there’s no internal L&D function yet, we can help you work out which roles you actually need before you hire.
We are 100% on shore in Australia. We have team members in Melbourne – Victoria, Sydney – New South Wales, Brisbane – Queensland, Perth – Western Australia and Adelaide – South Australia.

Not ready to commit?
Fair enough.

A quote costs you nothing and commits you to nothing — and if the scope's wrong, we'll say so before you spend.

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