Our blog
We believe in sharing the knowledge and learnings we capture through our work with people and organisations across the health and social services sectors.
Our blog consists of thoughtful and practical content and insight across a range of topic areas that aims to better enable people and organisations to plan, design, implement and evaluate their work.
Everything you need to know about strategic planning if you work in the not-for-profit sector
Beacon Strategies has supported many Brisbane-based not-for-profit organisations design their strategic plan and we are now passing on to you, the knowledge and processes that we have developed along the way.
New role: Brisbane-based Health Consultant
We have a great role up for grabs in our close-knit team, delivering high-quality consultancy projects primarily in the health sector. We are looking for someone with 5 years of professional experience in a relevant sector environment, such as health consulting, PHNs, local health networks or health service providers.
Co-Design: The Three Essential Elements for Success
Co-design is a powerful approach to creating solutions that meet the needs of all stakeholders. below is a summary of the three essential elements for effective co-design: commitment, capability, and capital. Let’s go into more detail.
Meet Bella, our Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Meet our Marketing and Communications Coordinator Bella McIntyre! Bella has joined us all the way from New Zealand, bringing her experience in communications and social media spanning stints within the professional services and not-for-profit sectors…
Reviewing our Org Code — Principle #2: teams over individuals
Our org code #2 is “Teams over individuals: we value delivering ‘the work’ in teams. All of our people, when working together and within the right environment, can achieve greater things together than individually.” This is a code that resonates with our staff…
Welcoming Alicia Bruce, Beacon Strategies Consultant
In April this year, we welcomed Alicia Bruce to the Beacon Strategies team! It’s very exciting to have another highly capable set of hands with lots of PHN experience now settled into our team. Read on to learn more about Alicia!
5 reasons we have launched the imPact breakfast series
Impact will join up individuals working in the health, social and not-for-profit sectors to learn, connect and seek advice from each other. We envisage that the group will regularly bring together a collective of like-minded people who share a vision of a more impactful social purpose sector.
Meet our Cairns Senior Manager (Suicide Prevention), Gill Townsend
Meet our Cairns Senior Manager (Suicide Prevention), Gill Townsend. With a background in social work, community development, community education and human services, Gill is very passionate about social justice and deeply invested in work that has an impact. Read more in our Q&A.
Reviewing our Org Code — Principle #1: Clients are the reason we exist
We recently reviewed our original wording for our organisation code #1 - Clients are the reason we exist. After some very interesting discussions with our team about their take on what this principle meant to them, we revised the wording to better reflect the diversity of understanding within the team.