• Supporting boards in developing and refining strategic plans

• Stakeholder consultation and synthesis

• Drafting and revision of strategic documentation

Strategic planning support

Governance and Risk Management

Service provider oversight and performance management

Financial and commercial oversight

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Strategic Advisory with Execution

Senior advisory and fractional C-suite executive for boards and leadership teams managing complex, high-stakes work — particularly where governance, strategy, risk and operational oversight intersect.

This service is suited to organisations that need experienced leadership at the boundary between the board and operations — either as an interim executive function or as an ongoing advisory role alongside an existing management team.

• Review and implementation of governance models

• Risk register development and risk management processes

• Director conflict of interest frameworks

• Strategy and governance framework reviews, including board composition and Board Charter

• KPI and SLA frameworks for managed service operators

• Quarterly reporting and annual assessment

• Review of provider-generated business plans, budgets, risk management plans, and programs of work

• Annual review of terms and operational frameworks

• Review and approval processes for quarterly service fees and annual budgets

• Management of third-party service arrangements — legal, insurance, trademarks

• Investor and funder reporting — including government-mandated project status reports

• Governance framework design for multi-party establishment programs

• Stakeholder and champion mapping

• Roadmap development — milestones, sequencing, RACI, critical path

• Pitch deck development and refinement for government and investor audiences

Program establishment

Government and investor engagement

Entity and operating model design

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Consultancy & Program Leadership

Complex, milestone-driven consulting engagements for multi-stakeholder initiatives — including national program establishment, government and investor engagement, entity design, and transition planning.

We are experienced at operating in the difficult space between organisations — where multiple founders, funders, universities and government bodies need to be aligned, decisions need to be made, and someone needs to hold the program together. We do that work.

• Engagement strategy and planning

• Coordination of multi-party delegations to ministers, departments and central agencies

• Preparation of briefing notes, policy submissions and business cases

• Feedback synthesis and model refinement

• Structural options analysis — entity type, governance, funding model

• Legal and structural design briefs for external legal and tax advisers

• Operating model design — functions, roles, organisational structure

• Transition and handover planning

• Corporate governance frameworks, charters and policies

• Board and committee advisory — agendas, papers, minutes and matters arising

• Director appointment processes and letters

• Board skills matrix and governance review

• Constitution administration

Governance advisory

Corporate administration

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Company Secretarial & Governance

Reliable, experienced company secretarial support — from ASIC compliance and statutory registers through to board papers, minutes, corporate governance frameworks and member advisory.

We provide company secretarial services as a trusted outsourced function for organisations that do not require a full-time internal resource, but do require the full scope and quality of professional support.

• ASIC agent appointment and regulatory filings

• Statutory registers — directors' interests, contracts, intellectual property

• Director and member resolutions — share issues, solvency, name changes, constitutional amendments

• Company incorporations and deregistrations

• Share registry liaison and member meeting management

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