Michalle Faulkner, knows people. In fact, she bases her business on it!
A highly sought-after HR consultant, innovator and expert in human resources, Michalle believes; “invest in your people, increase your profit”.
From local roots to global impact.
Born in Sydney, Michalle, has lived in Caloundra ever since she was a young child so certainly can claim the title of ‘local’ to the Sunshine Coast area and business community.
Michalle’s extensive background in administration and general sales roles held her in good stead to lead to her now self-confessed passion – a career working with people through Human Resource Consulting and Management. Michalle successfully opened her own consulting business – Essentials 4 Business Pty Ltd in 2005 and in 2010, merged with the EastCoast Human Resource Group, a premier provider of Recruitment Services. The organisation now boasts providing a full complement of Human Capital Services to a large and vast clientele – Australia wide and internationally.
Michalle’s dynamic role balancing business and family.
Michalle’s expertise as a general practitioner has seen her work with organisations that employ in excess of 500 employees as effortlessly as she provides support and adapts her style to suit small, medium and start up business operators. Her practical approach is refreshing and produces results for clients that are tangible and focused on gaining the maximum return on their investment in their teams and their human resource systems.
Michalle is content in her most valued role as wife to husband Wes and Mum to Jordan, Brady and Madison, mother in law to Donna and Nonna to Charlotte and Harrison. She balances her entrepreneurial nature with a love of community and regularly supports and provides mentoring to other business women through her professional role as a life member of the Sunshine Coast Business Women’s Network.
Buy Michalle’s book today!
Being a highly sought-after consultant, she recognised a need for business operators to gain support and insight into practical solutions around people management and in doing so, has penned her first book – “The People Investment”.
Exciting new book coming soon – Modern People Matters!

How Michalle can help you...
The EastCoast Human Resource Group is committed to being a partner of choice for our clients by consistently providing innovative and quality human capital solutions.
- Founded in Queensland in 1986, EastCoast Human Resource Group has grown from a small, privately-owned white-collar recruitment specialist into a flourishing full-service human capital group.
- Our strength lies in our highly skilled consulting team, with expertise in Executive Recruitment, Labour Hire, Human Resources and Industrial Relations Consultancy, Payroll Administration Services, and Employment Relations Training.
- We have placed over 15,000 candidates in roles both locally and nationally.
- Our consulting team works with over 1,500 clients, spanning from Townsville to Brisbane.
- As Senior Consultant, I provide inspirational leadership, oversee business operations, and work hands-on with clients.
- Our success is driven by results-focused outcomes, dedication to clients and candidates, community commitment, and a genuine desire to make a difference in the workplace.
The value of using DISC Advanced Profiles.
What is DISC?
DISC is the most widely used behavioural model in the world and has been utilised:
- In over 50 countries
- By more than 350 of Fortune 500 companies
- By in excess of 40 million people
DISC Profile® is tested, tried, and trusted. It is the assessment favoured by organisations such as Australia Post, Dodo, SBS, iPRIMUS, University of NSW, Commander Phone Systems, Fire & Rescue NSW, Datacom, Salvation Army Employment Plus, Royal Flying Doctor Service and many more. DISC is a personal assessment tool that provides a common language people can use to better understand themselves and those they interact with, and then use this knowledge to reduce conflict and improve working relationships.
Once your profiles are complete, we will work collaboratively together within the open workshop environment to:
- Discuss your own personal learnings from completing the Profile.
- Discuss and reflect on how your individual styles meld as a Team.
- Increase self-awareness of how your natural and adjusted styles impact your personal and professional environments.
- Develop a shared language around personality and communication styles to enhance collaboration and ease conflict or challenges.
- Develop individual actions towards improvement goals.
- Understand yourself as a Leader and gain a greater understanding of you all as a team.
- Working through how to have strong professional boundaries and conversations.
- Developing a shared vision.
What Michalle’s clients are saying...
One of Michalle's remarkable strengths is her methodical and processed approach.
I have had the privilege of working closely with Michalle during the last 6 years in both Kate Langford Career Consulting and Kate Langford Business Consulting in various capacities. She has been heavily involved in assisting candidates that KLCC supports in getting job ready. Many clients have reported back having worked with Michalle has helped them to achieve their dream role. Not only within her business, but she has been an incredible support to the Sunshine Coast Community in taking phone calls to assist local businesses with their HR concerns in her own time. EastCoast HR is a Labour Recruitment & Human Resources Consulting Agency that delivers exceptional services by leveraging their extensive resources, expertise, and capabilities. She has been in recruitment and had massive impact on the community in various capacities. Michalle is one of the most professional people I know on the Sunshine Coast. Her commitment to charity, including CEO Vinnies Sleepout, donating prizes and consistently supporting events where she can. She is the true essence of community and the Sunshine Coast is better for having her a part of it.
One of Michalle's remarkable strengths is her methodical and processed approach. She possesses a profound understanding of her clients' unique requirements and goes above and beyond her client’s expectations as a corporate businesswoman. Her team are long term which shows her outstanding leadership is second to none. Michalle has also been involved with helping KLBC and small business start-ups by giving her time for free to support their journey through conducting workshops.