Team

Decades of experience so you get the best solution

All our consultants are highly experienced with a track record of success across multiple industries and sectors. We are passionate about community, active in our own communities and the engagement community.

We can work in-house or remotely. We regularly partner with internal teams to build their skills and capabilities.

We can be engaged for part of the process, or to review current processes and see how they can be improved, or to deliver your complete project.

Just call and we will be there, as a sounding board, to develop a strategy or to implement a project.

We come from a variety of backgrounds and together offer extensive expertise in many areas of engagement including facilitation, strategy development, consultation, engagement program implementation, data analysis, evaluation, report development, developing communications materials and other collateral, training and mentoring.

Information about Nicola Mendleson, director, is included below and more information about our consultants is available upon request.

Nicola Mendleson

Engagement and facilitation

Nicola Mendleson has over 25 years’ experience in facilitation, engagement and communications, specialising in natural resources, infrastructure development, health and environment.

She is particularly proud of the work she has done on challenging and sensitive projects, often bringing diverse stakeholders together to achieve effective collaboration, and assisting clients to plan for change.

Nicola is a skilled facilitator of community forums, workshops, advisory groups, group processes and strategic planning workshops. She is also highly experienced in analysing a wide range of consultation data and turning this into meaningful reports to aid decision-making.

Nicola has led engagement programs at all levels of the IAP2 Spectrum including deliberative processes.

Her clients know her as a hands-on consultant, passionate about authentic engagement and delivering value and excellent results.

Nicola is passionate about building community. She works actively to build the engagement community and its capacity. She is a licensed IAP2 Australasian and International Trainer, active in the local Victorian chapter and convenes a networking group for senior community engagement practitioners in Melbourne. She participates in her local Landcare group and beekeeping club, and has volunteered for a range of not-for-profit boards and community organsations.

Expertise

  • Engagement strategy and projects
  • Facilitation
  • Design, implementation and analysis of consultation programs
  • Mentoring and training