Please do not remove me!

Happy Medium makes work feel smooth.

We work with founders, leaders and teams to create businesses that feel good.

Operationally smooth, financially rewarding and culturally excellent.

How can we work together?

Consulting

Fractional Chief Operating Officer (COO)

For Founders ready to get out of the weeds and get things flowing smoothly

Embedded transformational support. Wholistic integration into your business to deeply understand and transform the operations of your business.

Building the foundation of a healthy, sustainable business from the inside.

Strategy Support Program

For Founders looking for the headspace to regain clarity and direction

In four sessions, Strategy Support is designed to give you clarity, confidence and a solid strategic plan.

Start with a brain dump of everything in your business and end with a clear, decisive plan to get you to your goals.

Technology Support

For any team that knows their time is not best spent doing admin

Focused on a software solution that will support your business to scale and grow.

Reduce time and cost on administration and focus on the the things that matter most.

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Workshops and Courses

Problem Solving Mini

For teams ready to be efficient on their own terms

Learn how to combat Problem Spaghetti, identify waste and implement solutions, all in a lunch break.

The most effective way to empower your team to be efficiency seekers.

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Automate your Admin

For Solopreneurs and Creatives, ready to work smarter, not harder

You didn’t start your business to drown in spreadsheets and Admin. Take back your time for the things that matter.

This self-paced course takes you through the steps to automate your way out of endless admin.

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Studio Project Management

For Studio Leaders looking for a light touch but effective methodology

Managing deadlines, client requirements and task assignments doesn’t need to be painful.

This easy-to-use template makes Studio Management simple.

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Hi, I'm Madeleine Jackson, founder of Happy Medium.

I've spent over 12 years helping organisations solve problems, improve the way work happens and navigate change.

I started Happy Medium to help businesses find the balance they need to be operationally smooth, financially rewarding and culturally excellent.

Whether your business is just you + a laptop, or you have a team of 500, if you are doing work you care about, I’d love to work with you.

→ Learn more about the Happy Medium philosophy

Based in Melbourne, Australia, working with global teams.

Happy Medium Ideas

You probably don’t have a capacity problem

There's a phrase that shows up in almost every leadership room, “we just don't have the capacity”. It sounds responsible, measured, even realistic.

But sometimes capacity isn't the constraint, it’s protecting something…

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On AI

I’ve had a lot of questions about AI recently - how can I use it in my business? Is it going to take all the jobs? Are you worried about it? How do you use it?

The short answer to these questions is depends, no, not really, sparingly.

But here is the long answer…

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10 Rules for Staying Lean & Stress Free

Lean means creating value with the fewest resources possible.

It means avoiding things that use up your time, energy and money, so you can spend more time focused on the good stuff.

→Read the full article

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