Our team is flexible, adaptable and can support you with every aspect of your project. We have the complete suite of skills – expertise in politics, facilitation design, communications and data analysis all delivered with warmth and compassion. We build trust and confidence in our clients and the process.
Emma is an extraordinary strategic thinker and planner, and has a unique ability to design and project manage large and complex engagement projects with a seeming unending library of ideas and approaches at her disposal. Emma is the driving force behind democracyCo’s reputation for quality engagement – using her love for politics, planning and project management to great effect to deliver real outcomes for clients and their communities.
Great facilitators make people feel at ease, and help them to navigate through tricky or complex times – this is Emily’s great skill. Her success is due to her deep awareness of the needs of participants (and how groups work), coupled with what the client needs, to design highly effective and innovative engagement experiences and methodologies. With almost 25 years of experience Emily, is one of Australia’s most effective and experienced deliberative facilitators.
Kerry is a people person with an ability to warmly connect with people from the moment they meet her, ensuring that all her interactions benefit from her genuine personality. She has a broad range of experience in design, business, the not-for-profit sector and community engagement.
Chad Foulkes has worked in community engagement and been at the forefront of community engagement and deliberative practices for over a decade. He commissioned and designed the first two citizens’ juries in Victorian a Local Government which won an award from the IAP2. Chad is a loveable facilitator – who has an ability to get things done, while seemingly having an enormous amount of fun!
Bella is currently studying at the University of Adelaide and supports us with our participant liaison work – a critical part of what we do. Bella has a natural ability to connect with people from all walks of life, and her work ensures that when participants enter a room full of strangers they have a welcoming face and an existing connection.
Our work requires a team that is diverse, multi-skilled and talented.
Our alliance of partners across Australia enables us to bring together the optimal team for every project we do, no matter the size.
It felt very much like DemocracyCo and HD were a team for this project, not two different organisations trying to do different things. Emily was willing to muck in with anything – to listen carefully to our needs and to think creatively with us when we got stuck. She also did a fantastic job guiding the facilitators, something we really couldn’t have done alone.
If you want to learn more about how we can help you, we’d love to hear from you. Simply send us an email and we’ll be touch soon.
DemocracyCo’s work is undertaken on the lands and waters of Australia’s First Nations people. As we collaborate together, democracyCo looks to our First Nations people, the worlds oldest living culture, for guidance that will help sustain our connection to Country and inform the work that we do to bring people together. Our work is in service to Reconciliation and to moving forward together.
