- Aboriginal heritage and sovereignty
- Affordable housing and homelessness
- Asylum seekers and refugees
- Child and family services
- Community health
- Community legal
- Community services and social services
- Environmental resilience
- Family and gender-based violence
- Gender equity
- International development and humanitarian aid
- LGBTIQA+ inclusive practice
- Maternal and child health
- Mental health
- Modern slavery
- Natural resource land management
- Performing arts
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Sustainability and ethical consumerism
- Sporting associations
- Women’s and gender diverse health
- Youth justice
About us
Who we are
We are a collaborative consultancy. We bring together customised teams with the specialist skills needed for each project. This ensures you'll always work with the right person for the job.
Red Dearnley (they/them)
Managing Director (Principal Consultant)
Red is a social change strategist and governance adviser. They are an experienced executive and non-executive director, in the not-for-profit sector.
With an activist’s heart and governance nerd’s head, Red is passionate about driving systemic change and understanding how change happens. Red is committed to embedding these approaches and the principles of intersectional feminist leadership throughout their work.
Red is currently Deputy Chair of WIRE and a Non-Executive Director of Maryborough District Health Service. Until July 2025 they were CEO of Birth for Humankind - a role they held part-time for over seven years. They have also held Company Secretary and governance advisory roles with varied for-purpose organisations, through their work with Influence Global.
Red is also a trustee of the Influence Global Impact Fund; a graduate of the Australia Institute of Company Directors, and a member of the Institute of Community Directors Australia and GLOBE Victoria.
Red has previously held senior leadership, advocacy and communications roles in INGOs, non-profits and business associations across the UK, Australia and southern Africa. Their 20+ year career has spanned a wide range of sectors, but is known for their expertise in social and community services; women's health; sexual reproductive health; community health; modern slavery; LGBTIQA+ rights; gender equity and intersectional practice, diversity and inclusion.
Our associates include:
Sectors we work in
Our knowledge of not-for-profit governance, strategy and communications can be applied in any sector. However we are called on for our technical knowledge and experience working in: