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
Recent consultation + engagement projects