About Us


Nelson Consulting Group

Was established to provide industrial relations solutions exclusively to business.

Our expert team has a mix of qualifications, multiple decades of experience and industry knowledge, focused on simple solutions that deliver to your bottom line.

Specialist professional advice is best when it is focused on niche expertise. We understand employers, we understand what they need to achieve, we are able to engage directly with your employees and we understand how unions operate. These specialised resources are often only be needed for a short time.

We enable our clients to manage and continually improve their industrial relations, people and business capability. We develop and implement tailored industrial relations solutions, generating options and help our clients implement what is best for their business.

We help you manage regulatory requirements, employment law compliance and adopt best-practice employment principles.

As a specialist consultancy we advise employers in the areas of employee and industrial relations, workplace behaviour, employment law compliance and related matters.

Darren Nelson – Director

Darren has 35+ years of experience across all aspects of Industrial Relations (IR). He has provided IR support, as well as leadership for more than three decades across a diverse range of organisations in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Darren brings expertise and a track record of accomplishment in identifying and executing innovative, practical, and workable strategies that enable organisations to maintain compliance with their employment obligations.

His specialist areas include:

  • Advising on and formulating highly effective strategies and approaches to resolve complex human resource issues.
  • Brokering and negotiating solutions, agreements, settlements and pathways forward.
  • Payroll auditing, under and over payment identification, and salary reconciliation
  • Risk assessment and compliance obligations
  • Award Mapping and interpretation
  • End to end employment solutions