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Mission and Purpose

Straight Talk is a professional consultancy specialising in stakeholder and community engagement in the Australian state of New South Wales. They have extensive experience of working with citizens and stakeholders, designing deliberative processes and facilitation.

Straight Talk's website lists the organisation's values as:

Delivering quality

We strive for outstanding results all the time, using our experience and commitment to delivering rigorous and robust processes.

Working together

Our company culture is about working closely with our partners and clients and we pride ourselves on being easy to work with. We are committed to a high degree of collaboration with our clients, sharing our experience, knowledge and enthusiasm openly and generously.

Innovation and creativity

We are committed to continuously learning from our own work and from international best practice and are willing to take risks in exploring fresh new ways of engaging. We know that people are over butchers paper! We design robust approaches that hear from all the voices, not just the loud and the articulate.

Down to earth

We communicate directly with honesty, transparency and integrity. We are present in every conversation. We say it like it is – in how we present information, how we run our activities and events and how we report.

Efficiency and sustainability

We work efficiently using well-designed systems and processes to achieve the required outcomes, protect our environment and nurture our people"

History

Straight Talk was established by Lucy Cole-Edelstein. Lucy has 20 years experience of working in the realm of engagement practices both in and outside of government.

Specializations and activities

Straight Talk specialises in:

• stakeholder and community engagement: ensuring that those affected by a decision are actively engaged, including marginalised groups.
• group facilitation: employing a range of techniques to make group deliberation inclusive, respectful and constructive.
• contentious issues: dealing with contested issues and facilitating conversation on them.
• engagement training: delivering training for International Association for Public Participation Australasia which teaches effective engagement strategies.

Major projects and events

Recent Staight Talk projects are listed on their website. They also facilitated the Moorebank Intermodal Citizens' Jury.

Funding Publications Secondary Sources External Links

http://www.straight-talk.com.au/