Strategic planning is crucial to ensuring a business, organisation or agency vision and mission is achieved. Strategic and implementation plans provide a clearly define framework and direction for decision-making and ensure the day-to-day activity of leaders and teams align with the purpose of the organisation.

While most strategic plans are well written, comprehensive and reflective of an organisations niche or remit, the challenge many organisations face is determining the key elements for inclusion in the respective documents and finding the time to complete.

Defining strategic objectives, consulting with stakeholders and identifying appropriate content can be a complex and lengthy process. Therefore, engaging services to provide professional advice on the design and development will assist in creating documents that are aligned with an organisation needs and delivered on time.

Source Nation collaborates with our clients to ensure an organisations’ vision and key concepts are strongly articulated and embedded throughout strategic plans and underpinning documents. Our priority is to tell the story of the subject matter, promote core values, identify objectives and define action plans with key performance indicators.

Our approach to producing high quality outcomes for our clients is by undertaking thorough stakeholder engagement, consultation and completing a comprehensive analysis of relevant content. Our commitment to producing documents is to ensure our content is reflective of knowledge and advice gained from previous strategic and implementation plans, evaluations, industry trends and research.

The shift in focus from cultural awareness to cultural capability plays an important role in addressing the inequalities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

It is crucial businesses, organisations and government agencies providing direct services to, or engaging with Aboriginal communities, have a comprehensive understanding of the lived social and political experiences of Aboriginal people and communities in Australia.

It is equally significant to appreciate and have insight into the concepts of Aboriginal Worldviews that sit parallel to the Western ways of living and thinking. These concepts include spirituality, country, language and kinship which allow Aboriginal people to live within and practice their cultural beliefs and values.

Source Nation offers several services to increase cultural capability with the intention of not only influencing the thinking and leadership of entire organisations but also providing an opportunity for individuals to reflect on their own lived experiences and knowledge base.

Our objective is to ensure what we deliver professional training and support that is relevant and tailored to our clients remit and is transferable into practice for long-term sustainable outcomes. We believe in developing and fostering relationships that have a collective impact and increase the likelihood of better experiences and positive changes for Aboriginal people.

We collaborate with clients with a large, medium and small workforce to offer full or half-day training packages, one-on-one cultural capability coaching and think tank sessions. We will deliver large scale pre-designed cultural awareness programs with set objectives and outcomes i.e. Respecting the Difference.

Reconciliation Action Plans (RAP) are designed to provide a framework and defined actions that underpin and advance reconciliation in Australia. RAPs play an important role in shaping the thinking and leadership of activity advocating for the celebration and appreciation of Aboriginal culture, as well as equal opportunity and equitable outcomes.

RAPs provide businesses or agencies with the platform to stretch their organisational mindset while identifying opportunities to strengthen relationships between Aboriginal and wider Australian communities.

Designing and developing a RAP is an important process that requires time, leadership and a considered approach. Source Nation works collaboration with our clients to identify strategic priorities, social impact opportunities and develop a comprehensive actionable plan that is reflective their intention and commitment to reconciliation.

We provide advice to our clients to understand the lived experiences of Aboriginal people as a result of the historical and contemporary social and political landscape in Australia. We also support our clients with engagement services to assist in creating and fostering meaningful relationships with Aboriginal people and communities.

As an experience emcee and facilitator Source Nations’ Dixie Crawford is regularly engaged to host events of different scales. Dixie brings a high level of energy and positivity to an event, ensuring the audience is engaged, well-informed of important information and focus is on speakers and the event objectives. Dixie is committed to ensuring her clients events are well respected, enjoyed and add value to their audience’s experience.

Dixie is sought after panellist and keynote speaker adding value to critical conversations about Aboriginal worldviews, leadership, business, social impact, equality and equity. Dixie is passionate about female leadership in Aboriginal communities, quality health care and child protection service delivery, Aboriginal career advancement and community development.

Source Nation hosts networking events, panel discussions, conferences as well as collaborates with governments, corporates and community influencers on the design and delivery of internal events including NAIDOC, Reconciliation Week, Sorry Day or relevant significant dates. Our events are designed to allow reflection and individual growth with a call to action for intentional and conscious leadership.

Source Nation is committed to making positive and long-lasting social impact through rigorous, innovative and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led research that empowers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities at all stages of the research process.

Throughout Australia’s history, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities have been excluded from research processes and the benefits that flow from research. Moving forward, it is of crucial importance that research is conducted in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities and led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. This ensures that research – including its aims, methodologies and priorities – are driven by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities who will be impacted by it and with whom the research will take place.

We have the expertise and experience required to thoughtfully consider and embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and worldviews in our research.  Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait-led research has at its core a deep commitment to upholding and practicing values that are meaningful to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities: cultural safety, collaboration, respect, reciprocity and integrity. We acknowledge and appreciate the strength and expertise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities possess.

We translate these values into our research methodologies, action and results.

We offer a range of research services that embed our core values including:

• Formative and exploratory research

We work with you to inform the development of your marketing concepts and campaigns by equipping you with the insights required to successfully deliver your product or service.

• Concept and campaign testing and review

We work with you to equip you with valuable information that can assist you to ensure your concepts are appropriate for and acceptable to your target audience.

• Monitoring and evaluation frameworks and strategies

We work with you to develop relevant and high-quality monitoring and evaluation tools and strategies that will allow you to demonstrate your successes and embed evaluation into the design of your program or service as part of a continuous quality improvement process.

• Program and policy evaluation

We work with you to evaluate the implementation, effectiveness and outcomes of policies, programs and services. We synthesise key learnings drawn from rigorous methodologies and evidence so that you can understand the contribution you are making.