At Sustainable Consulting we aim to help people make a real and enduring difference at home, at work and in the community.

All of our work is guided by the following core beliefs:

• Sustainability - the pursuit of positive long-term economic, social and environmental outcomes - provides a powerful common ground for most people
• Sustainable outcomes generally require people to think long-term and work across traditional organisational boundaries
• Good process leads to good outcomes
• Vast untapped potential exists in the space between traditional organisations
• Groups can achieve much more than the sum of their individual members
• Well-designed conversation is a powerful way to move people from...

...feeling like this

...to feeling like this

• Diversity can provide a great source of innovation
• Most people want to 'do the right thing', provided they understand what is required and can do it relatively easily
• People tend to unite around solving shared problems
• Replacing 'or' thinking with 'and' thinking can create exciting new possibilities
• Successful long-term change requires deliberate and persistent design, planning, implementation and nurturing

Sustainable Consulting offers a range of services within and across organisations and communities. These are further outlined below.

Organisations

Sustainability has emerged in recent years as a key agenda for non-government organisations, government agencies and businesses. The complexity of sustainability issues facing some organisations calls for a proactive and innovative approach. In many cases, sustainability offers a competitive advantage to organisations that readily embrace the agenda.

As part of our strategic services to organisations, we:

• Diagnose strategic opportunities or problems
• Design processes and systems
• Align internal and external stakeholders
• Facilitate workshops and meetings
• Coordinate programs and projects

As part of our sustainability technical services offering, we:

• Undertake sustainability research
• Undertake sustainability benchmarking
• Prepare sustainability plans
• Evaluate sustainability options
• Undertake sustainability studies
• Deliver sustainability training
• Develop sustainability indicators
• Assess sustainability performance
• Prepare sustainability reports

Communities

Most people value the opportunity to participate in decisions affecting their lives. Many also have a worthwhile contribution to make. The inclusion of community voices alongside technical experts and other stakeholders can provide a source of energy and innovation to projects. Even in complex settings and projects, diverse stakeholders with different priorities can often work together to find a way forward.

Whilst we typically work with community members through a client organisation, we believe that good long-term community outcomes deliver good long-term client outcomes.

As part of our work with communities, we:

• Design community engagement strategies, from stakeholder identification and alignment through to evaluation
• Design and coordinate all aspects of community engagement processes, from public information sessions and workshops through to ongoing advisory or working groups
• Work with the client and their consultants to provide meaningful, relevant information to community stakeholders
• Prepare reports, workshop outputs and associated materials