At O’Connell Advisory, we’re proud to offer meaningful and tailored consultation and engagement services, uniquely combined with subject matter experts in health, aged care and community sectors.

We have experience and skill in engaging boards and executives in workshops and planning; as well as community consultations through online engagement or pop ups to gather feedback and perspectives.

We’ve also worked closely over many decades with communities benefiting from thoughtful, sensitive, trauma informed and low literacy approaches to engagement including with boarding house residents, young people, health service users in regional areas, aged care consumers,  Aboriginal communities, health organisations and boards.

Our expertise

Our team brings qualifications and expertise in public health, social science, information management, nursing, hospital financing, health planning and health evaluation.

Staff have qualifications in the International Association for Public Participation which ensures our practices are best practice in effective community and stakeholder engagement.

Our approach

At O’Connell Advisory, we understand that successful consultation begins with clear purpose, collaborative design and connecting in genuine ways to stakeholders in a convenient and natural way. genuine connection and understanding.

We work collaboratively with you to:

• Understand your stakeholders
• Design approaches that are sensitive to the needs of your stakeholders
• Effective and best practice methods
• Engaging stakeholder sessions
• Using subject matter experts
• Translation of views into strategic insights.

Our experience

NSW Health
NSW Assisted Boarding houses
People with disability
Disability service providers
Clinicians across many specialties
Boards of major private healthcare providers, aged care providers, community controlled healthcare organisations, local health districts and disability service providers.