Strengthen your org’s most critical relationships

✓ Enhance your org’s reputation and influence.

✓ Cultivate the relationships that are critical for financial sustainability.

✓ Achieve strategic clarity and alignment across your org.

Concerned that your org's visibility doesn't match your team's goals for impact, financial sustainability, and research excellence?

✖ Concerned about your organisation's long-term financial sustainability?

✖ Worried that critical stakeholders don't even really know what your team does, let alone understand the unique value of your organisation and research?

✖ Sick of learning that promising opportunities for collaborations, partnerships, or funding were mishandled or missed entirely?

✖ Frustrated by ongoing misalignment between your team's efforts and your core mission?

✖ Struggling to attract (and retain) the right talent, collaborators, and partners?

“Chris' superpower is facilitating the challenging conversations that need to be had if curiosity-led University researchers are to align around a common mission-driven research strategy.“

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

“Chris helped me focus on what the audience needs and how they need to hear it. He delivered a high-quality product that we'll be using for years to come.”

A/Prof. Nikki Moodie
Deputy Director, Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity

“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. Chris brings knowledge, creativity, and compassion to his work along with extraordinary design sense. His understanding of the research world is valuable in helping craft a strategy that works in our ecosystem. I would work with him again in a second.”

Prof Wendy Chapman
Director, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health

“Chris has provided invaluable support in unpacking the complexities of projects involving multiple stakeholders with different priorities. I would not hesitate to recommend Chris for any consultancy work focused on strategic communications and engagement.“

Marnie Long
Manager, Careers & Employability, the University of Melbourne

Step one: Strengthen your org’s most critical relationships in 90 days.

Rome wasn’t built in a day. But at the same time, making progress in the higher-ed sector can often feel painfully slow…

So let’s begin with a 90-Day Strategic Relationships Intensive, a small achievable project that’s designed to deliver meaningful outcomes quickly, while starting to lay the foundations for ongoing and sustainable progress. It's a practical, low-risk way for your team to pilot my holistic approach, without having to jump straight into the deep end.

During this focused intensive we’ll:

  • Hone in on the people and relationships that are most important to your org’s strategic goals right now

  • Uncover transformative insights about their needs and preferences

  • Equip your team with targeted messaging and quick strategic actions to start making a real difference immediately.

By the end of these 90 days, you'll see tangible momentum, deeper understanding of key stakeholders, and a practical pathway forward — all carefully designed to fit alongside your team’s existing workload and priorities so that it’s energising, not overwhelming.

What comes next? From quick wins to sustainable transformation.

Let’s build on the quick wins and positive momentum from your Strategic Relationship Intensive, and embed this focus on strategic relationships into your org’s regular planning cycle.

I’ve broken this process into a modular roadmap. Not every team may need to go through each step right away, and the steps have been designed so that you can push pause at any point and still achieve transformative results. Likewise, you might not necessarily need my support for every step — some orgs may be ready to take the reins after the first quarter or two, while larger and more complex orgs typically benefit from more ongoing advice and collaboration.

In future quarters, we might focus on:

  • Alignment throughout your immediate ecosystem — identifying opportunities for synergy across your organisation and key partners.

  • Mapping, understanding, and strengthening key external relationships — unpacking the priorities of critical uptake enablers, collaborators, and clients, then defining clear strategies for engagement.

  • Implementing a systematic approach to boosting your org’s visibility — translating your team’s expertise and influence into a clear thought leadership strategy.

  • Embedding adaptive relationship-building into your org — establishing simple rhythms for reviewing and adapting your relationship-building priorities — so your efforts stay aligned, energised, and impactful over time.

Ready to start your 90-Day Strategic Relationships Intensive?

Let’s strengthen your org’s most critical relationships, with a focus on high-leverage opportunities and maximising your return on investment.

  • 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 working on a new strategic plan, leadership changes, or major funding/grants.

  • 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’ve recently received a strategic review/evaluation, are thinking about a rebrand/repositioning, or are working on a new strategic plan, a major funding/renewal bid, or succession planning.

    Align key stakeholders, sharpen strategic messaging, and implement practical actions to rapidly demonstrate your org’s value.


  • 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 leadership changes, strategic repositioning or rebranding, a major funding/renewal bid, strategic review/evaluations, expansion into new areas, and aspirations to grow into an institute.

    Clarify the priorities of key players, increase internal alignment, refine strategic messaging across multiple themes, and establish foundational next steps — positioning your centre for rapid and tangible progress.


  • Institutes

    $35,000 AUD + GST

    Ideal for large research institutes.

    This Intensive can be especially helpful when approaching high-profile leadership transitions, major strategic reviews or repositioning, new significant funding and strategic partnerships.

    Gain immediate clarity around high-priority stakeholders, targeted messaging tailored to complex external needs, and structured practical next steps to confidently navigate strategic complexity.

Book in a call to see if we’re a good fit to work together.