Becky Hirst works with progressive Mayors, Elected Members and Senior Leadership Teams to embed high-quality community engagement within their Council ethos and operations.
Community Engagement Framework development | Executive coaching | Staff mentoring | Elected Member training |
Community Engagement Framework development | Executive coaching | Staff mentoring | Elected Member training |
Become an outward-facing Council by creating a robust and progressive Community Engagement Framework
As a senior leader in the public service, a large amount of your time can be spent reacting to individual community members or interest groups on single focus issues. This can be time-consuming, resource intensive and rarely achieves an outcome that has all involved feeling satisfied.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Imagine your Council being on the front-foot with the way it proactively connects with the community.
Imagine that you have a strategic framework for how you intend to work together with your residents and ratepayers.
Imagine that the way you intend to connect with community regarding decision making is reflected in the governance and operational structure of your organisation.
Imagine having Elected members, your senior leadership team, staff and community members all committed to a framework of what working together in decision-making looks like.
Imagine your Council being a world leader in how it effectively works together with residents and ratepayers to make the right decisions, first time.
Imagine no more.
Becky Hirst is a well-respected leader in community engagement across the world.
Beginning her career in the late nineties during the early-Blair years of social inclusion and community development, over two decades, Becky has worked with multiple communities, on multiple topics, across two continents.
Her clients include countless local, state and federal Government agencies, as well as non-government organisations and private enterprise. Her leadership experience, working with senior executive teams, boards and politicians is vast. Becky was appointed by Premier Jay Weatherill to his Community Engagement Board in 2013.
In April 2021, Becky published For the Love of Community Engagement. On pre-orders alone, the book shot to #1 best seller on Amazon AU in the Civics & Citizenship category.
In October 2021, Becky was also awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA), in recognition of her exhaustive work on social inclusion and development in the UK and Australia, her best-selling book on community and participation, and her empowering services toward engagement and bringing people together.
Read more about Becky here.
