Founded on a simple truth: people are an organisation’s most valuable asset, and when they are harmed, everyone loses.
Who We Are
Born from lived experiences. Built for lasting change.
Our Story
WorkRight23 is a registered charitable trust helping individuals and organisations
measure, resolve and prevent psychosocial harm.
“Transforming workplace harm into healing, learning, and performance.”
Where It All Began
In 2019, mid-flight somewhere over the Tasman, I paused mid-sentence in a book about how the brain resists change. The chapter on confirmation bias made me stop and ask myself, “Am I exaggerating the scale of workplace abuse, or is it really this common?”
Curiosity got the better of me, so I turned to the stranger sitting beside me and asked if she’d ever been bullied at work. Her fifty-minute story left no doubt. Long before I collected the data to prove it, her experience revealed the truth: Adult bullying in the workplace is far more common than most people realise, and its impact reaches well beyond the office, eroding health, confidence, and hope.
From that day, the same pattern repeated: nurses, teachers, engineers, retail staff, managers, all with similar stories of harm, silence, and resignation.
It became clear: We didn’t need more awareness. We needed a system that turns experience into evidence, and evidence into prevention.
From Experience to Action:
The WorkRight23 Vision Takes Shape
Our Purpose
WorkRight23 exists to make psychosocial safety measurable, manageable, and meaningful. We believe prevention is not just possible, it’s profitable.
We help individuals document experiences safely, make informed decisions, and regain their sense of control.
We help organisations identify root causes, resolve issues early, and build trust and transparency through better data, policies, processes and culture.
Our goal is to transform how society views and manages psychosocial harm by moving
beyond blame to understanding, beyond reaction to prevention, and beyond harm to healing.
Our Values
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 23
- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
- Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
- Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Our Founder
With over 30 years of experience in finance, technology, and organisational transformation, Dr Donna Stemmer brings a rare blend of analytical precision, human insight, and compassion to her work.
Beginning her career in financial management and IT design, Donna became fascinated by the invisible forces that determine whether organisations thrive or fracture: their people and relationships, culture and processes and the link to trust. She has since spent decades helping companies measure and manage these business intangibles, the often-unseen assets that drive sustainable performance and resilience.
Across industries, Donna has guided transformation projects that align people, systems, and purpose. Her work has focused on building sustainable business frameworks that treat wellbeing not as a cost, but as an investment: One that strengthens both human and financial capital.
That experience (part strategist, part designer, part reformer) led to the creation of WorkRight23: a charitable trust and digital platform dedicated to making psychosocial safety measurable, manageable, and meaningful.
Through WorkRight23, Donna unites her lifelong expertise with a simple conviction: Healthy workplaces are not only kinder…they perform better.
