“What we’re proposing is a comprehensive, stakeholder-driven strategic alignment framework that leverages synergistic capabilities across governance layers to optimise operational sustainability.”
Says very little, wastes everyone’s time, and is exactly what Plain Sense isn’t.
Most of the organisations I sit with are doing serious work with a small team — a not-for-profit, a business, a council unit. Strategy gets written and then ignored. The org chart lives on a whiteboard. Someone is about to hire because a resignation landed at lunch. And nobody has time for a consultant who needs a glossary.
I started Plain Sense because I got tired of watching good organisations get buried in admin, acronyms, and advice that didn’t make sense.
I’ve spent years in the arts, education leadership, community engagement and public service roles across regional Australia. I’ve chaired meetings, rewritten constitutions, untangled policies, written strategic plans that actually got used — and I’ve worked with the kind of people who keep the local footy club, gallery or family support centre running while juggling a million other things.
Who I work with
The behind-the-scenes work
