Enabling Productive Safety at Work
NextEra helps organisations move from risk-averse, compliance-only safety to BetterWork – where work is productive, people thrive, and safety is designed into everyday decisions.
A low-pressure conversation to explore your context and what's possible.
What is NextEra?
NextEra is an enterprise on a mission to create space to redesign the system for BetterWork. We support boards, leaders and practitioners to navigate the complexity of modern work – expanding how they think, plan and design for safety, performance and people.
Contemporary safety consulting and assurance
Strategy and governance support
Capability development and learning, grounded in everyday work
Future-ready community and resources
A Compass for BetterWork
We use the NextEra Compass as our map – four directions that guide how we work with you:
Engage
Consulting & Assurance
Understanding your current system, context and challenges.
Enable
Strategic Talent & Leadership
Building leadership, talent and structures that support BetterWork.
Equip
Learning Re-imagined
Building practical skills and tools grounded in real work.
Effect
Research & Design
Research, design and iterate to embed BetterWork over time.
From Risk-Averse to Risk-Capable
Traditional Safety
Often focuses on what went wrong – hunting deviations and broken parts, driven by compliance and past incidents.
- What went wrong
- Hunting deviations and broken parts
- Driven by compliance and past incidents
- Fixing problems after they happen
Productive, Risk-Capable Work
We help you shift to productive, risk-capable work, where you:
- Learn from everyday work, not only from adverse events
- Understand how work and risk ebb and flow in real time
- Design systems with workers, not just for them
- Strengthen capacity, not just tighten controls
“Without changing our patterns of thought we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.”
Meet Diane Ah-Chan
Diane Ah-Chan is the co-founder and director of NextEra. With a background in human resources, safety and risk management – and a Masters in Industrial and Organisational Psychology (Hons) – she brings deep experience in:
- Governance and strategy
- Organisational change and culture
- Safety management systems and operational learning
Diane is passionate about evolving how organisations think about safety, people and change – so that work genuinely leaves people in a better state than when they arrived.
Ready to Explore What BetterWork Could Look Like?
Whether you're a board, executive team, HSW leader or practitioner, we start with your context and where you are on the journey.