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

Theory of Change
Impact Measurement Frameworks
Evaluation and learning
Storytelling and case studies

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 and decision making structures
Place-based approaches
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
Futures thinking and scenario planning
Design thinking and social innovation
Theory U
Innovation and decision 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 -

Government: Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water; icare Foundation, NSW Reconstruction Authority, Resilience NSW, Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System
Non-Government: BackTrack Youth Works, Bourke and District Children's Services, Collaboration for Impact, Djalkiri Foundation, Education Equity Alliance, Hands Up Mallee, Health Justice Australia, Jarjum Centre, Landcare NSW, Logan Together, MacKillop Family Services, Maranguka, Our Place, SEFA Partnerships, The Front Project, Womens Legal Service NSW, Youth Law Australia
Philanthropy: BHP Foundation, Brian M Davis Charitable Foundation, Dusseldorp Forum, Jack Brockhoff Foundation, John Villiers Trust, Macdoch Foundation, Paul Ramsay Foundation, Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, William Buckland Foundation, Wicking Trust
International: David Suzuki Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, World Health Organisation
Research and Academia: Climateworks Centre - Monash University, Commmonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, National Security College - Australia National University
Business and Corporate: Ausgrid, Mumba, Lumea, Transgrid Group
Media: Australian Broadcasting Corporation