Create and Evaluate

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How can we help you?

We are a meeting facilitation and measuring impact consultancy based in Townsville, North Queensland. We focus on practical, common sense solutions that you can apply straight away, building on the strengths you already have.Scroll down to see how we can help you facilitate better meetings and measure your success.

Meeting facilitation

Get results from your meetings with an independent qualified facilitator.
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Strategic planning

Clarify your goals, build on what you have, and know where you're going
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Grant writing workshops

Hands-on training shows you how to write standout grant applications.
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Grant writing online course

Learn how to write grants when it suits you - short videos on demand.
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Team connection sessions

Get your team working together and pulling in the same direction.
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Measuring impact

What's the impact of your work? Use program evaluation to find out.
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The Create and Evaluate difference

Australia's highest accredited qualification in facilitation
20 years experience in program evaluation
Local North Qld knowledge and Townsville location
Extensive experience in not-for-profits and government
Warm and clear communication that connects with people
Engaging and practical training that you can apply straight away

Preferred supplier to local government

We're a pre-qualified supplier for all local governments in Queensland and Tasmania. This means we've been through Local Buy's vetting process and councils can engage us without having to go through a full tender process.

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As featured in BDMag

Read the BDmag interview with our Principal Consultant Renée Madsen talking all things collaboration, facilitation, impact measurement and grant writing.

Multiple grant success!

Thank you to Jean Barnett for sharing the fantastic results she got from attending our grant writing workshop!

Small business grant success!

Thank you to Deni Knuth for telling us how our grant writing workshop helped her win $10,000 for her business!

What people say

"I would highly recommend this service to any business or organisation looking for more efficient stakeholder engagement meetings. Renée's facilitation style is warm and inclusive, carefully guiding the group to the questions and answers needing to be uncovered. Her information check points and summaries along the way kept the process on-track and easily avoided the fatigued minds that might appear around 3pm."
Maree Dibella
Steering Committee member - Burdekin Dry Tropics Regional Natural Resource Management Plan
"I highly recommend Renée for facilitation requirements, particularly strategic plan reviews. Renée's approach and communication skills make her fantastic at getting people to become involved and contribute. The feedback from my Board members was that the way in which Renée undertook the task asked of her matched exactly what we were looking for. Thank you Renée."
Wayne Crase
CEO - Everglow Community Care
"Renee has been a pleasure to work with on program evaluation. Working through a not-for-profit, I particularly appreciated her ability to scale her involvement with our evaluation processes to match our budget constraints. She has made the evaluation process clear and easy to follow for staff and for stakeholders. Thanks Renee!"
Jayne Thorpe
Business Innovation & Development Coordinator - CatholicCare
"Renée helped us develop practical evaluation tools to measure the impact of our work, and provided us with a strong foundation to think critically about our programs, impact and intended outcomes. Renée also ran evaluation workshops for our team that provided a collaborative space for staff to build ownership of the evaluation."
Michael Gilliver
Assistant Director - Independent Schools Queensland
"Renée is not just a facilitator that talks at people, but rather she facilitates meaningful discussion creating positive and useful outcomes. Renée took the time to listen to our needs and provide recommendations on what type of session would be most beneficial for our team. Everyone in the team felt included in discussions, valued, and they all engaged in whole group and small group discussions."
Joanna Murray
Director - Access Therapy Services, now Apricus Health
"What we’ve covered today [in our strategic planning session with Renée] could not be done in a whole year of Board meetings. We now have a good skeleton to build the next year on." "Excellent choice of facilitator with what was for me a previously untried methodology (and I’ve been to more than I can keep count of)."
Pat Driscoll and Vernon Veitch
CEO and Board member - Drive It NQ
"We engaged Renée to deliver a series of workshops as part of our training program to equip community groups. I was impressed by Renée's communication, preparation, and flexibility to accommodate all our needs while ensuring that the workshops were engaging for the participants. I highly recommend Renée to anyone looking to engage her services."
Shane Harris
Manager - Volunteering North Queensland
"As a result of doing Renée's workshop I've been successful with 4 grants so far [totalling $11,000]. It's given me a huge confidence boost!" "Our business was successful in receiving a grant for almost $10,000. I would not have been successful without the skills Renée taught me.""Our club won a $10,000 grant for domestic violence awareness. We would not have won the grant if it wasn't for Renée's grants workshop."
Jean Barnett, Deni Knuth & Anneli Haipola
Training participants in Renée's grant writing workshops
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