Increase your team’s
comms capacity and capability

✓ Empower your team with tools that reduce friction and make comms efficient (and even fun).

✓ Consistently generate content that resonates deeply with your most important audiences.

✓ Systems and processes that get smarter the more you use them.

Know that strategic comms and engagement are critical, but unsure how to effectively build your team’s capacity and capability?

✖ Hearing complaints from your team about comms processes that feel inefficient, slow, unclear, or overly bureaucratic?

✖ Concerned that poorly executed comms and engagement could jeopardise critical relationships or damage your org’s reputation?

✖ Frustrated by “BAU” operational pressures getting in the way of important strategic initiatives?

✖ Worried that your team’s efforts might be guided by vanity metrics (or worse still, no metrics at all) rather than measuring what really matters?

✖ Tired of seeing comms from your organisation that either don't get the research right or fail to resonate with critical audiences?

“Working with Chris to uplift our research centre's capability in strategic comms has been critical to align our approach to communications with our research and organisational strategies, and to hone how we present the strategic advantage of working with us to potential collaborators and clients.”

Dr Meredith Layton
Senior Lead, Strategy and Engagement, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health

“Chris has been instrumental in helping us move from our startup phase to a new way of working. He has helped us hone our messages and create new leadership and governance structures and has done it with sensitivity and pragmatism.”

Prof Wendy Chapman
Director, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health

“I came into our initial consultation with Chris with a million competing priorities and no clear way to bring them together. After our session and the roadmap he sent us, even though it was still a draft, it gave me a lot of clarity on where things sit and how to focus my time and energy moving forward.”

Dr Juliana Silva
COO, GIN Discovery Program, Monash University

“We have already begun to see improvements in our workflow efficiency.”

Eileen Wall
Senior Manager, Digital Media innovation, the University of Melbourne

Step one: Increase your team’s comms capacity and capability in 90 days.

Wouldn’t it be a dream if your organisation had the tools to consistently deliver comms that were:

Tailored to your most important audiences.
On-message and “on-brand”, without sacrificing the voices of your key communicators.
Easy for your team to create and scale — without burning anyone out.
Designed to work with your institution’s AI guidelines and enterprise platforms.
And continuously improved over time — learning what works to help you do more of it.

And wouldn’t it be even better if those tools helped you dramatically increase both the scale and effectiveness of your comms, without churning out the kind of generic “AI slop” that folks are quickly learning to tune out?

That’s exactly what the 90-Day Comms Capacity Intensive is designed to deliver.

Together, we’ll:

Review recent comms and engagement activities to identify what’s working, what’s missing, and where quick wins can be found.
Set up (or refresh) foundational comms guidelines to improve consistency without crushing your team’s creativity.
Design and implement tailored AI tools aligned to your strategic goals and compliant with your institution’s policies and platforms — helping your team produce higher-quality content, faster.

What comes next? Implementing sustainable systems.

With more capacity and momentum in place after your Comms Capacity Intensive, we can work together to implement the systems and structures your org needs to sustainably scale up its influence and strategic comms capacity for the long term.

In future quarters, we might focus on:

Setting up sustainable workflows — introducing clear comms workflows and cadencies designed for operational efficiency, consistency, and transparency. In other words, let’s make sure everyone knows who’s doing what, when they’re doing it, why they’re doing it, and who’s responsible for approvals and linking individual comms activities to your org’s strategic goals.
Building your org’s “Constellation Influence” — amplifying your team’s reach by tapping by empowering the individuals in your org who are passionate about comms and engagement. Putting in place structures for coaching and peer-mentoring (as well as continuing to customise the tools introduced in the Comms Capacity Intensive) can help turn the hubbub of disparate individual voices into clear, consistent, and effective messaging that supports your org’s mission at scale.
Introducing (or improving) relationship management systems — putting in place simple yet powerful tools to help your team coordinate stakeholder engagement, track interactions, and spot opportunities.
Continual improvement — ensuring your org responds to contextual changes and new insights by regularly refreshing key messaging, comms guidelines, AI tools, workflows, and internal capability.

Whether your team wants to gradually build confidence or is gearing up for a major leap forward, these next steps can help you move from reactive delivery to a more strategic, sustainable way of working.

Ready to start your 90-Day Comms Capacity Intensive?

Let’s put in place customised tools to significantly increase both the scale and effectiveness of your org’s comms.

Small Teams

$10,000 AUD + GST
Ideal for teams, labs, and small centres of 3–10 people, annual budgets up to $1M, focused on one main research theme.
This Intensive can be especially helpful if you’re trying to increase the visibility of your team but lack significant internal comms support.
Mid-Size Teams

$15,000 AUD + GST
Ideal for centres, labs, and teams with 10-20 people, annual budgets between $1M-$5M, focused on multiple themes within one cohesive team.
This Intensive can be especially helpful if you’re thinking about a rebrand/repositioning, or are frustrated by inconsistent comms and want simple systems and templates to reduce duplication and delays.
Large Centres & Programs

$25,000 AUD + GST
Ideal for large centres and programs with 20-40 people, annual budgets between $5M-$10M, and multiple research teams and themes within a broadly shared research agenda.
This Intensive can be especially helpful when tackling new opportunities, visibility issues, or the desire for more effective comms without overloading your team.
Institutes

$35,000 AUD + GST
Ideal for large research institutes.
This Intensive can be especially helpful when you’re looking to increase the reach and consistency of comms from across your institute, while boosting alignment and protecting your team from burnout.