Strategic Executive Solutions Pty Ltd (SES) provides integrated workforce planning and optimisation services designed to help organisations align their people, strategy, and capability with future business needs. Leveraging evidence-based tools, advanced analytics, and psychometric methodologies, SES enables clients to build resilient, data-driven workforces capable of meeting evolving operational and strategic objectives.
Our assessment and planning solutions combine strategic foresight, human capital data, and behavioural assessment insights to deliver a holistic view of workforce capacity, capability, and potential. We partner with clients across government and corporate sectors to identify workforce gaps, model future scenarios, and develop actionable strategies that ensure alignment between organisational design and talent pipelines.
Psychometric Insights and Thomas Assess Integration. Through our partnership platform from Thomas Assess (PPA), we provide a comprehensive suite of psychometric tools to support talent acquisition, leadership development and assessments, and workforce analytics for critical jobs. These tools measure personality, aptitude, and emotional intelligence enabling precise alignment between candidate potential and role requirements. With our certified assessors, Validateskills benchmarks candidates' IT Skills Assessment scores against SFIA (Digital Workforce) and CIISec (Specialised Cyber Security). We can also add new skills and other skills frameworks.
Behaviour Assessment (PPA)
Measures workplace behaviour and communication style to predict job fit and role performance.
Personality Assessment (HPTI)
Evaluates personality traits aligned to leadership potential, resilience, and cultural fit.
Aptitude Assessment (GIA/IQ)
Measures cognitive ability and learning speed to predict performance in complex environments.
Emotional Intelligence Assessment (TEIQue/EI)
Assesses emotional awareness and interpersonal effectiveness for leadership and team alignment
Validateskills - SFIA | CIISec
Assesses skills against capability levels and benchmarks candidates to the market and other short-listed candidates.

What is the Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) Assessments?
A PPA assessment is a psychometric tool that measures how someone naturally communicates, leads, and works—helping organizations predict role fit and performance.
We use the proven DISC model as the basis for our Behavioral Assessment, surfacing the traits that impact performance, te
What is the Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) Assessments?
A PPA assessment is a psychometric tool that measures how someone naturally communicates, leads, and works—helping organizations predict role fit and performance.
We use the proven DISC model as the basis for our Behavioral Assessment, surfacing the traits that impact performance, team fit, and leadership potential. We ask 24 questions to build a behavioral profile in under 8 minutes, giving you instant insight into how someone works, before you make your offer.

Wave Professional Styles personality questionnaire is used in selection, development, talent management, succession planning, leadership programs, coaching and career planning.
Wave’s unique three Deep Dives give remarkable insights into:
Wave Professional Styles personality questionnaire is used in selection, development, talent management, succession planning, leadership programs, coaching and career planning.
Wave’s unique three Deep Dives give remarkable insights into:
The Wave Professional Styles Expert Report is a comprehensive report that outlines an individual’s response to the questionnaire. It features a wealth of information from Response Style, Competency Potential to Predicted Culture Environment Fit.

The Hogan Leadership Forecast Series is a comprehensive assessment tool designed to enhance leadership effectiveness by providing insights into a leader's performance capabilities, challenges, and core drivers.
The series is based on three primary assessments:
Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI): Measures the bright side of personality, focus
The Hogan Leadership Forecast Series is a comprehensive assessment tool designed to enhance leadership effectiveness by providing insights into a leader's performance capabilities, challenges, and core drivers.
The series is based on three primary assessments:
Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI): Measures the bright side of personality, focusing on how individuals interact with others and achieve their goals when at their best. It assesses traits that contribute to effective leadership.
Hogan Development Survey (HDS): Evaluates the dark side of personality, identifying behaviors that may emerge under stress and could derail a leader's effectiveness. This assessment helps in recognising potential risks that could hinder performance.
Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI): Explores an individual's core values and motivations, providing insights into what drives their behavior and how they align with organisational culture.

SES has seven national consultants certified in SFIA benchmarking and Skills Assessment. Our Global Partner, Assess Management provides Validateskills for Skills Analysis, SFIA Role Profile Builder, Objective Assessments, Test and Exam services. Skills Assessments tool allows organisations to manage the skills of their professionals against SFIA and new skills from other skills frameworks when requested by clients.

We believe that learning should be accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or circumstances. That's why we're building a platform and partnering with the best that's affordable, flexible, and easy to use. CIISec Skills Framework describes the range of competencies expected of Information Security and Information Assurance Professionals in the effective performance of their roles.

"From planning to day-to-day delivery, SFIA is the trusted foundation for a skills-based organisation. Build your organisation’s digital capabilities, adapt quickly, promote fairness and inclusion, and recognise skills gained through alternative routes not just formal qualifications."

"SFIA gives you clarity and confidence to assess your skills, set goals and plan your development. Whether you gained your skills through formal education or alternative routes, SFIA helps you advance based on capability—not just qualifications."

"SFIA connects learning with real-world skills, helping educators, trainers and employers align programs with industry needs. It improves graduate employability while also supporting upskilling and reskilling for professionals at all career stages."

"SFIA helps organisations manage workforce capability with clarity, fairness and consistency. Define skills-based roles, assess capability, plan development and support employee engagement, acquisition and retention."

30+ years' experience in leading people solutions and five years as a SFIA Consultant
As Global Managing Director of Aris Zinc Group, Manoj leads SFIA consulting engagements across Australia and New Zealand. Manoj oversees SFIA consulting engagements and guides organisations on how to use SFIA in workforce planning, capability assessments and role clarity for digital and technology teams.

20+ years' experience in talent acquisition and learning development with 2 years in SFIA Consulting | Cert IV Trainer
As Practice Account Manager at Aris Zinc Group, Melissa supports clients to apply SFIA in recruitment and development, coordinating SFIA based assessments and helping translate assessment outcomes into clear actions for hiring and learning. Melissa applies SFIA to end to end talent pipelines. She partners with clients to build SFIA based role descriptions, recruitment processes and development pathways, ensuring assessments lead to measurable improvements in skills, performance and career progression.

22+ years' experience in brand, marketing and training | assessments | facilitation and SFIA Consulting | Cert IV Trainer
Andrea is a senior SFIA consultant who specialises in designing and facilitating capability assessments and workshops, helping organisations interpret SFIA profiles and assessment results to support leadership, learning and talent decisions across digital and technology teams.

25+ years' experience as a senior risk & operational resilience practitioner | SFIA Consulting 5 years | OCP
Michelle is an experienced risk management professional specialising in governance, organisational resilience and enterprise risk frameworks. She uses SFIA to map and assess capability across risk and resilience functions, designing uplift programs that connect policy, practice and people so organisations can not only withstand disruption but evolve through it.

Paid Internship | SFIA Trained
As a Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Brand Marketing Culture (BMC) Intern at Aris Zinc Group, Brynn supports SFIA consulting projects through detailed research, structured documentation and clear reporting. She assists in preparing SFIA role profiles and client-ready summaries, transforming assessment insights into clear, engaging narratives for leaders, teams and candidates.
Brynn also contributes to fostering inclusiveness and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) across project activities, ensuring communication and documentation reflect respectful, accessible and culturally aware practices. Her developing knowledge of ISO 26000 (Social Responsibility) and ISO 9001 (Quality Management) strengthens her ability to align work outputs with international standards, supporting continuous improvement and responsible organisational behaviour.

Paid Internship | SFIA Trained
As an IT intern at Aris Zinc Group, TJ supports the technical side of SFIA assessments. He assists with configuring assessment tools, managing SFIA skills data and maintaining dashboards, ensuring clients receive accurate, well structured information for workforce planning and capability reviews.









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