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Where ideas, insights, and real-world perspectives come together for purpose-driven professionals.
We explore strategy, purpose, partnerships, philanthropy, and performance, to help you lead with clarity and be a force for good. We invite you to explore, learn, and connect, and to take what resonates back into your own work and community.
Three major reports on giving have landed in the past few weeks, from three different continents. Read separately, each tells a reassuring story. Read together, they describe a paradox that should concern every leader of a purpose-driven organisation...
I can still remember the first-time artificial intelligence moved from something I had heard about to something I wanted to understand.
I was sitting in a hotel room in the United States, half-listening to the news, when a story came on about the la...
I have been in enough boardrooms to know this moment well. The energy is unmistakable and enthusiasm genuine. A funding gap is real and urgent. Someone draws a number on a whiteboard, a campaign target, and the room leans in. The question most ofte
...Following several conversations with clients across Australia and Asia, I’ve been reflecting on how quickly philanthropy is evolving across our region. Not in theory, but in practice.
Over the past year, I’ve worked with two organisations navigating...
 In Part 1 of this series, I explored how philanthropy across the Asia Pacific is evolving through increasing professionalisation, rising donor expectations, and the growing complexity of operating across borders.
One theme consistently sitting bene...
Connection, collaboration, and community — three words that beautifully capture the spirit of the Regional Business Women’s Collective (BWC). I was recently honoured to be nominated and appointed Deputy Chair of this remarkable organisation, which le...
When a group of Murdoch University veterinary alumni and professionals from different walks of life came together, they shared one vision — to strengthen the bond between animals and the people who care for them. The result was Veterinary and Communi...
Across every sector, successfully competing for the attention and involvement of our stakeholders, from those closely aligned to potential interested parties, is an ever-increasing concern. Engaging individuals requires organisations to navigate comp...
The focus of recognition programs is tilted towards those who have achieved public successes, but there are opportunities to celebrate other (and more common) achievements of individuals.
Any community, including alumni populations, is a complex gro...
Teams have often been challenged to remain highly focused on investment in a strategic partnerships, regions, and activities to increase meaningful and sustainable engagement. A Partner Service Matrix [PSM] can be an important resource in this regard...
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