People, Place and Possibility
We work with communities, First Nations, governments and industry to turn major investments into shared value possibilities that endure.
Creating sustainable shared value by design
Australia is building fifty years of infrastructure - energy, data centres, critical minerals. Most of it lands in regional and First Nations communities.
Speed matters. So does trust.
Consultation done the usual way leads to a community tired of telling the same story, and leaves value on the table.
Engagement by design creates shared value, agreements that hold and lasting community benefit and resilience.
01 Our shared value outcomes framework
A narrow conversation finds narrow value.
Value looks different depending on where you stand. Our shared value framework brings commercial, social, cultural and environmental value into one picture as a starting point, building on the Country Centred Economy framework developed by our colleagues at Dinadj.
02 A shared platform, held independently
Common ground that belongs to no one at the table.
Most consultation happens on one party’s ground, to one party’s agenda. We hold the middle ground that provides a trusted shared platform that belongs to no one party, but welcomes everyone.
03 End-to-end, building local capability and governance
Consultation ends. The project doesn’t.
A project runs for twenty-five years. An engagement team is there for a few. We help build what a place needs to build enduring value — local governance, capability, and relationships as infrastructure.
Meeting in the middle
There are two middles.
One is between the parties in a place. The other is between a place and the system around it.
Good local work rarely spreads, and policy rarely lands well in places it wasn’t designed with. We work both ways.
Meeting in the middle is how a good local outcome becomes a repeatable one.
How we work
We can join at any point.
Principle- and capability-led rather than process-bound —
before the first conversation, in the middle of a difficult one, or years into delivery.
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Build readiness — understand what matters locally, and what a shared value partnership will ask of each party
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Engage and design —
co-create the vision, facilitate the agreement, design the governance
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Operate and steward — observe, learn and correct as the project runs
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Realise outcomes — community wealth, cohesion, resilience and care for Country, with the evidence
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Transition and hand over — plan for life beyond the development
What this looks like in practice is an approach as bespoke and unique as each place. The kinds of ways we can support you work include:
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Local context scan
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Engagement readiness assessment
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Relationship health check
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Shared value vision and narrative
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Community agreement facilitation
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Equity and ownership models
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Shared governance design
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Shared value and cultural competence
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Learning partnership
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Shared value review
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Course correction
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Transition planning
Our Team
A cooperative of values-led thinkers, facilitators, practitioners and researchers, working alongside business, community and government.
Between us we share:
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independent facilitation and partnership practice
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country-centred and shared value thinking
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service and circular economy design
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corporate strategy and transformation
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community and participatory design
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shared governance.
Sarah Patterson
The Good Cartel
Adam Jay
CoCreate Catalyst
Jason Tampake
Amble Studio
Ben Schokman
Schokman Consultancy
Damien Melotte
Dinadj and Good human
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Connect with Us
We invite you to reach out for more information or to share your own stories about the connections in your community and the possibilities that arise from them.
