Beacon Strategies

21/10/2026

🔦 Project Spotlight: Brisbane South PHN GP Engagement Strategy

We're proud to have supported Brisbane South PHN to develop a new GP Engagement Strategy grounded in the experience of general practitioners and the realities of primary care.

Through engagement with GPs, evidence review and strategic analysis, the project explored how PHNs can build stronger relationships with practices, create meaningful pathways for clinical influence, and better connect engagement activity with service design, commissioning and regional priorities.

The result is a practical strategy focused on strengthening relationships, increasing the visibility of GP influence, and supporting better-connected care across the region.

Beacon Strategies worked with Brisbane South PHN to understand how general practitioners experience engagement and develop a practical strategy for stronger relationships, meaningful influence and better-connected care. 

20/10/2026

Western Queensland PHN is currently developing a new Joint Regional Planning approach for mental health, su***de prevention and alcohol and other drugs across the North West, Central West and South West regions.

This week, we head to Mount Isa to engage with local stakeholders in the North West region.

Unable to make a consultation opportunity? Reach out to book a 1:1 conversation or provide written feedback via the survey.

The current Joint Regional Plan is coming to the end of its lifecycle. Feedback received over recent years suggests that while the existing plan provided valuable strategic direction, it could sometimes be difficult to translate into practical action at a local level. As a result, Western Queensland...

19/10/2026

🔦 Project Spotlight: Evaluating (Out)Reaching Strong Mamas

One of the projects we're most proud of this year has been our partnership with Mama Respond International to evaluate the (Out)Reaching Strong Mamas program in Kenya.

Delivered on a pro bono basis as part of Beacon's commitment to creating impact beyond our day-to-day consulting work, the evaluation explored how the program supports mothers and caregivers of children with disabilities through peer support, education, outreach and economic empowerment.

The findings showed improvements in wellbeing, confidence and service navigation, while also capturing powerful stories of mothers moving from isolation to connection, advocacy and community leadership.

A big thank you to Mama Respond International for the opportunity to contribute to such important work, and to the mothers who generously shared their experiences throughout the evaluation.

Projects like this are a reminder of why we maintain a commitment to pro bono and social impact work. We believe good evidence helps good organisations do more of what works, and we're grateful to have been able to support a program creating meaningful change for families and communities.

09/10/2026

The Weekly Wrap 🗞️

Another productive week across the team!

Over the past week we've been:
- Wrapping up project evaluations and final reports.
- Facilitating stakeholder interviews and consultation activities to help shape future service models and implementation plans.
- Undertaking desktop reviews and evidence synthesis work across topics including palliative care, mental health, workforce development and population health.
- Supporting governance and strategic planning discussions with boards, executives and advisory groups.
- Analysing consultation findings and translating them into practical recommendations, action plans and decision-making tools.
- Progressing board evaluation, organisational planning and service improvement projects across health and social service settings.
- Preparing for the next round of workshops, engagement activities and reporting as several projects move into new phases.

As always, a huge thank you to the many clinicians, community members, service providers, leaders, carers, researchers and lived experience representatives who continue to make time to share their knowledge and perspectives with us.

Have a great weekend, particularly to everyone across the health and social services sectors who continue to do important work in often complex and challenging environments.

07/10/2026

Project Spotlight 🔦

We worked with Community Enterprise Queensland to support their work strengthening community nutrition across the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area.

A privilege to help shape their existing consultation and program thinking into a clearer service model, investment case and implementation roadmap.

Community Enterprise Queensland sought support to consolidate existing consultation, project material and program documentation into a clearer format for internal discussion and engagement with potential partners. The work focused on a community nutrition service model for the Torres Strait and Nort

06/10/2026

Final call 🚨

Applications closing on Sunday 11th of October!

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Joint a team that is committed to creating a more impactful social purpose sector — through supporing them to plan, design, implement and evaluate their work.

Apply for Manager at Beacon Strategies in Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia. Full-time Mid-Senior level role. See responsibilities, qualifications, and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

06/10/2026

This week we are saying goodbye to Charlotte.

Over her time at Beacon, Charlotte has made a lasting contribution to our team and the projects we've delivered. Whether it was designing and facilitating workshops, building genuinely elite Mural and Miro boards, or engaging stakeholders in ways that helped people feel heard and involved, she consistently brought care, professionalism and a commitment to high-quality work.

Beyond the work itself, Charlotte has been a fantastic colleague and teammate, and we're grateful for everything she has contributed along the way.

While we're sad to see her go, we're excited to see what comes next and know she'll be a great asset wherever she lands.

From all of us at Beacon, thank you Charlotte, and we wish you every success in your next chapter.

04/10/2026

🔦 Project Spotlight: City of Moreton Bay

Beacon Strategies partnered with City of Moreton Bay to support engagement for its next Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.

Working with people with lived experience, community organisations, service providers and peak bodies, we designed and delivered an accessible engagement process to test and refine draft priorities and actions.

The project helped bring diverse perspectives into the planning process and provided practical insights to support the next stage of plan development.

Beacon Strategies supported City of Moreton Bay to undertake disability-inclusive stakeholder engagement to test and refine a draft Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

01/10/2026

When we launched our 2022-2027 Strategic Plan, we set ourselves a clear ambition:

"In 2027, we'll be a boutique health and social services consulting organisation who are experts and market leaders in the work that we do. We'll genuinely partner with our clients to contribute to our vision of a more impactful social purpose sector while providing a positive work environment that our team loves."

As we approach the back end of our current strategic planning cycle, we're taking the opportunity to reflect on how far we've come.

Over the past decade, Beacon has evolved from a founder operated consultancy, built on a belief that there was a better way to support the sector, into a capable and trusted Queensland-based consultancy, now delivering work nationally with governments, health services, Primary Health Networks and not-for-profit organisations across Australia.

While plenty has changed since 2015, what hasn't changed is our commitment to contributing to a more impactful social purpose sector.

We're proud of what we've built and excited about what's next.

01/10/2026

🔦 Project Spotlight | Impact Framework Development

We recently partnered with Karakan to support the development of an organisation-wide impact framework.

Rather than developing the framework for the organisation, our role was to facilitate the process, provide technical guidance and help create the conditions for Karakan's team to define what impact means in their context.

Through a series of collaborative working sessions, we explored outcomes, impact, measurement and learning, helping bring together organisational knowledge into a shared framework that reflects Karakan's purpose and services.

A great example of capability building in practice, where the value is not only the framework itself, but the ownership, confidence and understanding developed along the way.