Empire Partner in Business Feature: Davy Partners
Posted 25 Aug
Posted 25 Aug
We’re excited to introduce our latest Partner in Business, Davy Partners, led by Kateena Mills and Aaron Wells. With expertise spanning HR, digital strategy and marketing, their team helps growing businesses put the right people, processes and systems in place to move forward with confidence.
We sat down with Kateena and Aaron to learn more about Davy Partners, how the business has evolved, and their refreshingly people-centric approach to professional services.
Davy Partners is a professional services team delivering practical, commercial support across HR, digital strategy and marketing.
Whether that’s through ongoing monthly support, a custom project or fractional leadership, we bring thoughtful solutions and a people-centric approach to help growing businesses move forward with confidence.
Davy Partners HR takes the complexity out of HR and people management, from compliance through to people processes and projects.
Davy Partners Digital provides growing businesses with the technology expertise and IT leadership they need to establish a clear digital direction.
And Davy Partners Marketing supports businesses that may not need a full-time marketing hire but want someone who understands the whole marketing function.
We work with growing small and medium businesses across a wide range of industries and stages — from businesses hiring their first team members through to ASX-listed organisations with 80+ staff.
The clients we build the most successful and lasting partnerships with all share something in common: they genuinely care about their business, their customers and their team, and they want to get things right.
Whether it’s HR, digital or marketing, they recognise when something sits outside their core expertise and want a trusted partner to help.
We work best when we become a true extension of our client’s team and genuinely get to know their business.
Davy Partners actually started life as Club Sandwich HR in 2019, with a mission to “halve the pain and double the party.”
We wanted to support small and medium businesses through the tough times and amplify the good ones — because, as any business owner knows, you can experience both within the same week, or even the same day!
As the business grew, so did the seriousness and complexity of the work we were trusted with, from workplace investigations and compliance reviews through to major restructures. Eventually, Club Sandwich HR didn’t quite reflect the professional yet approachable presence we wanted to portray.
And so, Davy Partners was born.
The name was inspired by Sir Humphry Davy, remembered for the Davy Safety Lamp and his research into laughing gas. Like Davy, we believe in creating solutions focused on people, prevention and relief.
We’re here to illuminate risks and make managing your team and business a little brighter — a pain reliever when you need one, and up for a laugh when you need that too.
Most recently, we’ve expanded beyond HR to include Digital and Marketing solutions.
While the services have grown, the purpose behind them remains the same: giving business owners the space to focus on what they do best, with confidence that those peripheral — but incredibly important — areas of their business are being taken care of.
Ironically, it took us a little while to work out the profile of people who work best as consultants at Davy Partners.
It’s a unique role, and we have high expectations of both the service our clients receive and the way they should feel when working with us.
Getting really clear on our team values and the behaviours we aspire to live each day has helped us recruit and reward the dream team we have today.
Those values aren’t something we simply write down, either. We reinforce them through onboarding, monthly team meetings and regular team shout-outs.
Our Essential Elements Pack covers the HR compliance foundations a small business needs when setting up or getting serious about managing their team.
It includes personalised employment contract templates, policies and onboarding documentation, as well as a review of the Modern Awards relevant to your team and a summary of the key entitlements and pay rates that apply to the way your business operates.
Outside of that, we’re always happy to have a chat about any HR questions or sticky situations Empire’s community might find themselves navigating from time to time!
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