About
Our Vision is to prevent psychosocial injury and mental illness in the workplace by delivering partner research and consulting excellence
Our Mission is to improve the collective psychosocial wellbeing of employees across Australia by improving the understanding of workplace psychosocial injury contexts, diagnosis, treatment and prevention strategies through advances in research and consulting practice
Our Values
Leadership
Partnership
Impact
Service Quality and Excellence
Diversity and Wellbeing
Critical Curiosity
What We Do
Mind Culture Life is an Australian based company that focuses on two central service areas, notably, providing research and consulting services to organisations.
We offer our services to private enterprise, government agencies, Not-For-Profit organisations as well as to large, complex institutions.
Our current research and consulting areas of expertise reflect:
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Organisational culture research and analysis
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Ethnographic research and analysis
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Psychosocial workplace risk research and analysis - We help organisations meet WHS responsibilities by identifying psychosocial hazards and emerging mental health risks in workplaces, particularly during times of workplace change such as when downsizing, organisational restructuring, administering new work arrangements or implementing new technologies
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Psychological factual investigations in workplaces
Founder
Anna Kiaos Ph.D. is an organisational ethnographer with a passion for psychiatry, psychology and mental health. Her research has explored the boundary between the psychological and societal focused views of the self. Specifically, her PhD research encompassed several interconnected topics, notably, managerial ideology, normative control, the underlying systems of cultural and subcultural meaning with a particularly strong focus on conceptions of self enacted in everyday working life and how such enactments reflect self consciousness from the perspective of various cohorts in the workplace.
Dr Kiaos consults with organisations in a variety of industries, including government, healthcare organisations, consulting firms and private enterprise to assess and improve an organisation’s ideology, culture, culture change management practices and approaches to leadership.
Dr Kiaos received her Ph.D. from Macquarie University Business School and her Master of Health Communication from the University of Sydney. Dr Kiaos also holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science from the University of New England and a Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced from Monash University.
Dr Kiaos is involved with leading projects within mental health. As such, her work involves collaboration across ample research centres and groups, including the Centre for Healthy Brain and Aging (CHeBA), the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) along with the Discipline's Medical Research Institutes, notably, Black Dog Institute, Ingham Institute and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).