Our 5 year strategic plan is now ‘live’, which we are stoked about. To get things underway we’re focussing on establishing three ‘implementation enablers’ and commencing a number of key actions aligned to our three focus areas: capability, culture and contribution. 

We’re hoping that BeaconHQ will be different. Rather than taking the shape of a traditional ‘company intranet’ we are taking the path of launching a ‘company wiki’. Those familiar with Wikipedia will understand that it has many contributors, knowledge is sourced from the crowd and the content is reviewed and scrutinised by peers and moderators. 

Heading into the back end of 2021 we have been fortunate enough to have exceeded our expectations, delivering on meaningful projects, achieving financial sustainability, scaling up our team and having the opportunity to answer the question ‘where do we see ourselves as an organisation in the next five years?’

In this blog, we bring you something that we have been relatively quiet about - our migration to Far North Queensland and the inspiring work that our Cairns-based team apply themselves to every day.

To acknowledge another successful year (in still somewhat turbulent times), we would like to thank the wonderful client partners we’ve been able to work with and reflect on the impactful projects we’ve had the privilege of working on this year.

So, what does being ‘ethical’ mean to us? To find out, we ran an activity that gathered the perspectives of all of the Beacon Strategies team members. This was a great opportunity to reflect on what ‘being ethical’ means to us as individuals, and to find out more about how it guides how our teammates work. 

For the first semester of 2021, Beacon Strategies hosted two students on placement in the final year of completing their Masters of Public Health (MPH). In their final week of placement, we asked Carla and Emily to share some insights on what it was like to complete their MPH student placement.

We’re excited about all that is to come in 2021 and beyond for our team and our partner organisations, and being able to communicate all of this through an engaging and recognisable brand. We hope you like it as much as we do.

At Beacon Strategies we've found that setting up consistent mechanisms for communicating with our client partners ensures we share our findings, progress, ideas approaches and concerns at the right times. As many of us work with both internal and external stakeholders, we thought sharing our insights on how we make this happen can help others broader than just a consultancy-type engagement.