A friendly team of resourceful humans changing the face of HR.

Why endure the miserable necessity of HR when there are partners who make great HR work bloody enjoyable?

Let’s face it, HR gets a bad wrap. Often rightfully so. Our counterparts are content with industry buzzwords and unnecessary bureaucracies, ticking boxes and generally being a handbrake in the way of progress.

We’re here to leave that style of HR behind! We believe HR should be smart, strategic and not a barrier to business growth and performance.

We’re experienced and commercially-minded HR consultants that bring together science, marketing and human connection to help fast growing companies navigate the complexities of HR.

We don’t just tick boxes. We use passion and a deep understanding of business strategy to take the pain out of people-management, delivering solutions that help businesses reach their full potential.

We strengthen internal business relationships and work culture, empowering business owners and managers to not only love their teams, but love us for it!

Meet the team:

Kateena Mills

Director & HR Partner

Kateena is the founder of Davy Partners. She works with businesses of all sizes, from employing their first team member to supporting implementation of initiatives for more than 2,000 employees. Her passion lies in partnering with business owners and managers to find lasting solutions to their people needs with an emphasis on commerciality, empathy, and performance.

Aaron Wells

Director & Project Partner

With a background in engineering and multi-business ownership, Aaron is passionate about applying big business thinking and strategy to businesses of all shapes and sizes to help elevate them to the next level. He loves developing and iterating systems and processes to deliver the best experience for the business and end user.

Gemma Jamieson

HR Partnering Lead

Gemma is a HR gun with a strong emphasis on supporting and building small business. She has a commercial focus and aims to eliminate the pain that comes from poor HR practice. Coming from a small business background, Gem has continued along that path throughout her HR career. She is highly capable and a true generalist across HR functions.

Mary Graham

Marketing Partner

Mary is a B2B marketing generalist with experience across tech, healthcare, professional services, and the not-for-profit sector. When partnering with any business, she works to align with the broader team and connect to business strategy. Her passion lies in crafting strategic, data-driven marketing initiatives while never losing sight of the magic ingredients, creativity and authenticity.

Daniel Stack

HR Partner

Daniel is an industrial / organisational psychology practitioner with a Master of Applied Psychology and background in employment and industrial relations, health and safety, and wellbeing. He is passionate about making complicated processes simple to understand and implement by using evidence-based approaches in a pragmatic and innovative way.

Greta Jamieson

HR Partner

Prior to joining the team, Greta practiced as a lawyer in boutique and mid-sized firms. Her passion for HR stems from her love for fostering positive professional relationships and coming up with practical solutions for businesses. Greta’s legal background and enthusiasm for strong HR practices brings a valuable problem-solving skillset to our team.

So who in the world is Humphry Davy and why did we decide to name our business after him!?

We like to think we’re pretty resourceful, savvy, and good at getting shit done. So, when it came to naming our business, we drew inspiration from the resourcefulness of the past and cast a look back at notable historical figures.

Sir Humphry Davy, (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a very influential figure during the industrial revolution. A Cornish chemist and inventor, he invented the Davy safety lamp and an early form of incandescent light bulb in response to a series of devastating coal mine explosions and saving many lives as a result.

A pioneer in electrochemistry, he allowed for the discovery of many new earth metals and substances and isolated many chemical elements. He has a special place in the history of respiratory physiology. He was the first person to describe the properties of nitrous oxide, which is still extensively used in anaesthesia. In fact, he coined the name “laughing gas” when experimenting with nitrous oxide. Shortly after its discovery, the gas was also used as a stimulant resulting in euphoria and heightened imagination.

Ultimately Davy became president of the Royal Society, a remarkable honor for somebody with such humble origins. Another of his important contributions was to introduce Michael Faraday (1791–1867) to science. Faraday became one of the most illustrious British scientists of all time.

We like to think we’re a bit like Humphry Davy — Resourceful, Innovative, Creative.

While we may not have invented a miners’ safety lamp, we do help business owners see opportunities in dark times and illuminate potential danger.

And granted, we didn’t discover that laughing gas held anaesthetic properties, but we certainly do help reduce our clients’ pain when they’re in prickly situations.

Davy Partners — Half the pain, double the party!