Straight Talk is a boutique consultancy that specialises in leading practice community and organisational engagement, stakeholder management and communication services.

Recognised as industry leaders in community engagement processes that are innovative, robust, effective and practical we are one of the few consultancies that has consultation and stakeholder management as its core business.

Since 2004, we’ve been embedding dialogue and deliberation in many of our engagement processes to support issue learning, increased civic capacity, improved community problem solving and to provide input to support informed, robust and improved institutional decision making.

We help our clients listen and talk to communities by providing expert services in community consultation and public participation; facilitation of groups, meetings and events and strategic communications.

Straight Talk is the only consultancy to have simultaneously won multiple awards, Australasian and International, from the engagement industry body, IAP2, demonstrating our commitment to both innovation and best practice.

Our strengths lie in our ability to tailor processes that are inclusive and effective in facilitating at all levels - from community, volunteer, internal staff and management through to senior executive, Director General and Ministerial levels.

Our clients tell us we are easy to work with and flexible in our approach and that they benefit from our professionalism and quality results. Our strategic advice is sought after and helps our clients manage risk and achiever outstanding results efficiently and effectively.

We are “straight-talkers” whose values are embedded in our name and in our practice.