Founder

Winnchester Consulting was founded by Nathan Hackett, an experienced HR practitioner who has spent his career helping leaders navigate complex people issues calmly and confidently. Nathan has led HR and ER/IR portfolios across multi-site operations, balancing commercial outcomes with fair, defensible processes that stand up to scrutiny. Based in Brisbane and working with clients across South East Queensland and interstate, he acts as a practical, on-call partner for businesses that need senior HR capability without needing a full internal team.

Why Winnchester exists

Winnchester exists so small and medium businesses can access big-company HR support without big-company complexity or cost.

Experience and impact

Across his corporate career and consulting work, Nathan has delivered measurable improvements for the organisations he supports, including:

• Leading HRIS and process changes that reduced manual HR transactions by around 40%, freeing leaders and support teams to focus on higher-value work.

• Managing a portfolio of more than 40 complex ER/IR and conduct matters in six months, improving case closure times by approximately 25% while keeping outcomes procedurally fair and well documented.

• Partnering with hiring managers to streamline recruitment processes and reduce time-to-hire from around six weeks to just four, without compromising on candidate quality.

How this experience shows up in your business

Behind these numbers are the kinds of challenges that many small and medium businesses face every day: policies that have grown stale or inconsistent, investigations that need to be handled sensitively but firmly, turnover that is quietly creeping up, and managers who have never been properly supported through a difficult performance conversation.

Nathan has worked with businesses to refresh policy frameworks so they withstand external audit, restore confidence in how conduct and performance issues are handled, and bring workforce stability back under control. He builds tidy, reusable templates, checklists and scripts that managers can return to the next time a tough situation arises, leaving clients not only with a resolved issue, but with clearer processes and more capable leaders.