our capabilities

wayfinding for the future

Our team has deep experience and the expertise to help you navigate complex systems, identify leverage points, create the conditions for collaboration, hold the space for dialogue and to go beyond innovation to sustained transformation.

We have experience engaging diverse stakeholders and convening cross-sector groups on a wide range of issues from from energy, environment, early childhood, education, housing, transport, biosecurity, agriculture and sustainability through to youth justice, economic empowerment and employment.

Our capabilities include

Strategy & Systems Transformation      

• Understanding the system through rapid research, interviews and analysis
• Systems mapping
• Getting to the root cause of complex challenges
• Identifying leverage points for system transformation
• Strategic planning
• Pathways to scaling impact
• Evaluation and storytelling
  
  

Convening & Collaboration

• Creating the authorising environment
• Building trust and linking across diverse networks and perspectives
• Stakeholder engagement and participation
• Facilitation and convening across difference
• Collective governance structures
• Co-design
  
  

Participatory & Bespoke Process Design

Participatory and bespoke processes to solve complex challenges in unique contexts drawing upon a range of concepts such as

• Systems thinking and complexity approaches
• Scenario planning
• Place based approaches and community governance
• Theory U
• Decision theory
• Innovation frameworks  
• Human centred design
• Organisational change theory
  
  

Research

• Qualitative and quantitative research
• Field work and community listening
• Literature reviews
• Case study development
• Rapid analysis and synthesis
  
  

With cross-sectoral experience

We work across a diverse range of sectors and systems. Examples of past and current clients of Orange Compass include

• ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• Ausgrid
• Collaboration for Impact
• Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
• BackTrack Youth Works
• CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Djalkiri Foundation
• Dusseldorp Forum
• Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal
• Health Justice Australia
• icare Foundation
• Jack Brockhoff Foundation
• Landcare NSW
• Logan Together
• Lumea Transgrid Group
• Macdoch Foundation
• MacKillop Family Services
• National Security College
• NSW Reconstruction Authority
• Our Place, Colman Foundation
• Paul Ramsay Foundation
• Resilience NSW
• Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System 
• SEFA Partnerships
• The Front Project
• The Systems School
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation
• World Health Organisation (WHO)