Our Story

Mapien (formerly Livingstones & SHR Group) is Australia’s largest independently owned Specialist People Consultancy with a core team of more than 50 permanent employees and offices in four capital cities.

In 2018, Livingstones and SHR merged to create Mapien – a single specialist bespoke people consultancy with more than 37 years history and a national footprint with offices in Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne & Sydney.

This partnership brings together the rich history and experience of both teams and provides broader capability across our specialist services; including employee and industrial relations, human resource management, organisational development and business migration.

We partner with our clients by building trust and provide confidence, while delivering the best people management outcomes for our customers.

Our Vision is to be the most trusted bespoke specialist people consultants in the Asia Pacific

Our Purpose is to provide pragmatic people solutions to enable success.

Our Core Values are

  • Integrity
  • Flexibility
  • Leadership
  • Courage
  • Excellence
  • Fairness

Our Services

Behaviour & Performance
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Culture & Leadership
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Representation & Compliance
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Strategy & Systems
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Talent & Immigration
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Industry Focus

Construction
Education & Child Care
Energy & Other Utilities
FMCG
Health & Aged Care
Hospitality, Venues & Attractions
Maritime
Mining, Oil & Gas
Public Sector
SMEs

Client Stories

By undertaking thorough investigations and preparing & compiling detailed evidence, Mapien was able to assist our client investigate a bullying claim.
Stop Bullying Application
FMCG Industry
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Mapien delivers regular performance management training for this Qld Government Department, enhancing people impact, motivation & morale
Performance Management Training
State Government
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Our client was appointed to manage and operate one of Australia’s premier event and entertainment venues. Mapien was engaged to provide recommendations on the appropriate form of employment regulation and to develop in consultation with management, remuneration terms and conditions aligned to our client’s operational and organisational imperatives.
Employment Regulation Strategy
Venues & Attractions
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Our client was looking to acquire a significant oil and gas company and requested assistance in completing the due diligence workplace review.
Workplace Review for Merger & Acquisition
Oil & Gas
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Latest News

February 11, 2021
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Are you candidate rich, or candidate poor? Recruiting in 2021 - Part 2
What happens when you’re overrun with high quality candidates for the role you're recruiting? While the temptation might be to assume you simply cannot make a bad decision (so why run the full suite of selection steps); in order boost confidence and likely long term success, testing is in fact critical to add as much information as you can to the decision making processes.
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February 3, 2021
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Recruiting in 2021: Are you candidate rich, or candidate poor?
Recruitment is back on the agenda in 2021. However 2020 has created two seemingly opposite, but deceptively similar scenarios: some are overrun with high quality candidates for their roles, while others are experiencing a talent drought. In part one of this blog series, we discuss what happens to the recruitment process if there’s a talent shortage & the importance of psychometric testing & a consistent selection process.
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January 28, 2021
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Are your casuals regular & systematic? If so, they may have unfair dismissal rights!
Employers need to mindful that the requirement for casual employment to be regular and systematic does not require a regular pattern of engagement in relation to the number of days each week, days of the week and duration of shifts. It is the engagement that must be regular and systematic, and not the hours worked pursuant to the engagement.
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Our Clients

Creating people impact
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