Consulting
Not a deck and a handshake. I work within your team, on the real problems, across the six areas where I have actually built and run the thing. Social enterprise, impact business, registered charity or the ESG function of a larger company.
Most consultants in this space have advised on it. I have run it. Worthy Cause is a DGR1 registered charity I founded in 2021 with $17,000 of my own money, now at roughly $650,000 turnover with 12 FTE plus 12 or more regular volunteers, two New Grounds cafes on $1 per annum Melbourne Polytechnic leases, a cookie kitchen making in Melbourne, and a 26-week paid program that has moved 20-plus people through it. Worthy Courses takes that mission online and to scale. When you bring me in, you get the operator who made those calls, not a framework from someone who never had to.
New revenue lines, new delivery models, new products. I have built an online platform from nothing, run a cookie kitchen and two cafes, and turned a paid training program into something funders back. I help you find the idea that is actually worth chasing and kill the three that are not.
I have built and run the charity-plus-commerce hybrid: a DGR1 registered charity trading commercially, on $1 per annum leases. I am not a lawyer, and I will tell you exactly when to get one in. What I bring is the operator's view of which structure fits your mission and how to sequence it.
Partnerships, philanthropy, procurement and pipeline. Worthy Cause is backed by Australian Unity, The Funding Network, Burgmann College and the AMP Foundation, and supplies referral partners including Workskil, WISE Employment and Mind Australia. I help you build the relationships that hold.
Practical AI adoption for lean impact teams. I run my own work on AI agents and built Worthy Courses as a digital-first platform. No hype: I help you find the two or three places AI saves real hours, and the places it should stay nowhere near your people or your data.
This is the core of what I have done. A 26-week paid program that has moved 20-plus people with complex barriers into and through real work. Structured trial in onboarding, paid hours from week one, wraparound supports. I help you design or rebuild a Work Integrated Social Enterprise that actually holds people.
Founding, funding and running a venture where impact and commerce are the same engine. I started Worthy Cause in 2021 with $17,000 and grew it to roughly $650,000 turnover. I help founders navigate the decisions that look small and turn out to be everything.
Hybrids juggling mission and margin. I have run one for years and know the ratios that flag trouble before the books do.
Commercial businesses building genuine social value into the core, not bolting it on. I help you make it real and make it defensible.
Charities adding a trading arm or rebuilding a program. I have navigated DGR1, the ACNC and commercial activity inside a charity structure.
Corporates standing up an auditable inclusive supply line or a credible social-value narrative. I help it survive an audit, not just a press release.
I work three ways, and we pick the one that fits the problem rather than the other way around.
Standard professional rates apply, with case-by-case affordability adjustments for mission-aligned organisations. If you are a small charity or an early founder, say so in your brief and we will find something that works.
Three off-the-shelf engagements: inclusive procurement audit and design, WISE program design, and founder advisory. Clearer scope if you already know what you need.
Keynote, panel, fireside or workshop on inclusive employment, lived experience and the access-to-opportunity model.
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