OUR SERVICES

Consultation + Engagement

AKA what your people want

Do you really know what matters most to your people - staff, clients, stakeholders? 

Our consultation and engagement services unearth wisdom from within your communities to increase impact, streamline decision making and ensure buy-in.

Working with our expert team means you can be confident of avoiding common consultation mistakes like:

  • random, highly individualised suggestions that are unrealistic and unable to be actioned

  • low engagement due to consultation fatigue or disinterest

  • loudest voices (with the most resources) dominate

We systematically identify your stakeholders, their interests and how we can best meet them where they are at. We then design and deliver targeted, culturally appropriate and time sensitive engagement activities to unearth wisdom from your communities. You get useful insights to guide decision making thanks to our analysis, benchmarking and recommendations processes.  

Our years of experience delivering both broad public engagement as well as targeted consultation with marginalised communities means you can be confident that our methods, communications and engagement processes reflect best practice for:

  • ethical research practices

  • respecting First Nations cultural and intellectual property

  • paid participation for people with lived experience 

perfect if You want:

  • unique, place-based responses to local need

  • to understand ‘on the ground’ views, priorities and needs

  • to ensure marginalised and historically disempowered communities’ views are heard

  • "Working with Phil has been a rich learning experience for me as a school leader and for our staff as we navigated questions created by Phil to identify the many elements that support the teaching and learning at Berry Street school. The workshops held by PRL were insightful and surfaced the wisdom from within our organisation."

    Joanne Alford
    Berry Street School Principal,
    Berry Street

Recent consultation + engagement projects