What we do

We offer you 20+ years of communications, engagement, advocacy and research experience.

We have proven expertise in:

  • Setting communications strategies and implementing plans

  • Stakeholder and community engagement

  • Public consultation design and delivery

  • Conducting research, data analysis and reporting

  • Co-design practice and methodology

  • Government and media relations

  • Internal and change communications

  • Reputation management and crisis communications

  • Digital/social content production, channel and campaign management

  • Corporate communications

  • Marketing and events management

  • Sponsorship and fundraising

  • Project management.

Our work

We’ve worked on over 50 public consultations - meeting with and engaging communities, gathering feedback, reading and summarising tens of thousands of submissions and identifying key themes and trends. We ensure community voices count on decisions that directly affect them.

Check out some of the interesting and challenging projects we have worked on or are currently working on. Our clients have included Crown Research Institutes (CRIs), transport agencies, tertiary education providers, kaupapa Māori organisations, not-for-profits, and much more serving a wide range of communities and stakeholders on localised, regional, and national scales.

Resilience to Nature’s Challenges (MBIE National Science Challenge)

  • Set communications strategy and two-year communications plan approved by the Board

  • Internal communications to keep wider Challenge project teams informed on priorities, achievements, milestones, etc

  • Launched and managed social media platforms reaching professional, academic and public audiences

  • Made recommendations on communications resource and budgets to implement the communications plan ongoing

  • Inaugural RNC Annual Forum - event organisation, live social media coverage of the two-day event onsite at Te Papa (Wellington).

Hei Āhuru Mōwai Māori Cancer Leadership Aotearoa

Government, media and stakeholder relations, advocacy, partnership and membership development, internal communications, māngai (thought leadership) strategy and implementation.

  • Cervical cancer screening - successfully advocated for free HPV self-testing for wāhine Māori, Pacific and CSC cardholders alongside Te Tātai Hauora o Hine (National Centre for Women’s Health Research Aotearoa)

  • Developed and launched new website incorporating new branding and completely refreshed content; focus on bringing forward members’ rangahau (research), mātauranga and māngai (expertise) in the cancer control space and advocacy for cancer screening and health policy change.

  • Increased professional membership from 40 to 130 members from across Aotearoa within a year

  • Produced 2023 Annual Report

  • Helped prepare the successful bid to host the 2026 World Indigenous Cancer Conference (WICC) in Rotorua, New Zealand as the official Indigenous event partner (alongside Tourism New Zealand and Rotorua NZ) - check out our presence at WICC 2024 in Melbourne, Australia.

Auckland Light Rail

Public consultation, feedback analysis, reporting, and communications and OIA response support to the project team.

Waka Kotahi - NZ Transport Agency

Public consultation, feedback analysis, reporting, and communications and OIA response support on projects of national significance.

Auckland Transport

Public consultation, feedback analysis, reporting, and communications management on projects of Auckland regional significance.