Base State

13/09/2026

Free workplace culture training for a few local businesses — in exchange for your honest feedback.

I'm Michael, founder of Base State. I help businesses build culture that actually drives performance, not just another program that fades after three months.

I'm looking for a few businesses (up to about 40 staff, any industry) to work with closely as case studies. You get the work for free. The only trade is your honest feedback and a testimonial if it delivers.

What you get:

Practical training for you and your managers on lifting culture and performance
Tools and skills your team keeps and can use in any role, any industry
The goal: staff who are happier at work, perform better, and stay longer

Why free? I'm building the evidence base for Base State, and I'd rather prove it with real businesses than just talk about it.

Two ways in:

Keen to be a case study? Comment below, message me, or email [email protected]
Just want to see where your culture's at? Take the free 5-minute Team Culture Diagnostic and get a scorecard back: https://www.basestate.au/team-culture-diagnostic

Thanks,
Michael

Free workplace culture assessment. Score your team across six dimensions in 5 minutes and see where turnover, burnout and psychosocial risk may be costing you.

12/09/2026

Maybe some of the behaviours we blame on generations are actually signals about the workplaces we’ve built

16/08/2026

Cool morning filming some of the local Amed kids in getting the hang of the water.

We take swimming for granted in the west.

You’d think kids that live by the ocean would grow up swimming.

Not so!! It really is a privilege and moments like this are precious

30/07/2026

Most companies don’t have a performance problem. They have a people problem they’re trying to read off a spreadsheet.

It’s why I pivoted Base State to culture and performance consulting. Because the numbers are just the shadow. The team is the thing casting it, and when you look after the people, the numbers tend to sort themselves out.

Your people are the business. Not a cost line on it.

Culture that drives performance.

That’s the whole idea

23/07/2026

A disengaged employee on $90k is costing you about $16,000 a year. You’re not paying it, but you’re losing it.

Now multiply that across your floor.

Only 1 in 5 people are actually engaged at work. And 70% of the variance in engagement comes down to one thing: the manager they happen to report to.

Only 44% of managers have ever had any formal training.

You promote people because they were good at the job, then hand them a team and hope.

Your managers aren’t the problem. They’re the biggest lever you’ve got, and most businesses aren’t pulling it.

If that sounds like your floor, it’s fixable. Link in bio.

Culture that drives performance.

21/07/2026

The most expensive thing in your business doesn’t show up on the balance sheet

Poor culture doesn’t announce itself with a crisis. It leaks. Slowly, quietly, and expensively.

It’s the person doing the bare minimum. The handover that never happened. The good rep updating their CV. And sometimes the one who never leaves, they just stop caring, and you keep paying for it for years.

New blog on what poor culture actually costs, and how to catch it early.

👇 Link in bio or send me a DM.

Culture that drives performance.

15/07/2026

He fought six weeks to have it fixed. Management fixed the number and figured that was the end of it.

It wasn’t. He’d already started looking. The pay got sorted, and he left anyway. At the exact point he was most valuable to them.

Here’s the part worth sitting with. The people most likely to notice they’re undervalued are usually your best ones. They’re also the ones with somewhere else to go.

Culture that drives performance.

👇 Follow for more on building teams people don’t want to leave.

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teamperformance

08/07/2026

Why do two team leaders on the same floor get completely different results?
Same KPIs. Same training budget. Same quality of people coming in.
One leader's team is hitting target and sticking around.
The other's is underperforming or gone inside six months.
It's easy to assume the difference is the people.
It's not.
The difference is that leadership quality on your team is a lottery.
Whether someone gets real coaching, fair recognition or actual support comes down to which manager they happened to land under.
And here's the part that should worry you.
Your best people are the ones most likely to walk because of it.
Most businesses respond by trying to "hire better managers."
But that misses the point.
Every manager brings their own strengths. One's a natural coach. Another's brilliant under pressure. Another builds the kind of loyalty that keeps people through the hard weeks.
The businesses that actually fix this don't try to make everyone the same.
They build on what each manager already does well, set a shared standard for what good leadership looks like, and let managers learn from each other instead of working it out alone.
Because great leadership shouldn't be luck of the draw.
It should be the standard.
If that lottery sounds familiar, it's fixable.

That's the kind of work we work do at Base State.

Call now to connect with business.

02/06/2026

One thing I’ve noticed in the corporate wellbeing space is that finding the right facilitator is not always easy.

There are a lot of great people out there.

But there is also a lot of vague, fluffy, or overly spiritual wellness that does not always land well in a corporate environment.

And if you are an HR manager, People and Culture lead, founder, or event organiser, that creates a bit of a problem.

You probably do not have hours to spend researching facilitators, comparing styles, checking credibility, and hoping the person you book will actually suit your team.

This is a big part of why I created Base State.

As a breathwork facilitator, and from my own experience working in high-pressure sales environments, I have seen how useful the right session can be when it is practical, professional, and matched to the people in the room.

But I have also realised that the hard part for a lot of businesses is not knowing that wellbeing matters.

It is knowing who to trust.

So I’ve put together a simple FAQ blog answering some of the common questions about Base State, corporate wellbeing workshops, facilitator matching, and how we help make the process easier.

You can read it here:

https://www.basestate.au/post/base-state-faqs-corporate-wellbeing-workshops-made-easy