What people say
Renée is smart and an incredibly capable facilitator. Renée has the ability to apply appropriate tools to facilitate large groups of disparate stakeholders to achieve agreed outcomes. I have been fortunate to work internally and externally with Renée; she is always a pleasure to work with. Her professionalism and easy going nature, combined with skills and knowledge, shines through on every occasion.
Donna-marie Audas
Assistant Director, Environment and Sustainability, Department of Defence
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
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 journey 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
What we’ve covered today [in our strategic planning session] could not be done in a whole year of Board meetings. We now have a good skeleton to build the next year on, fleshing it out.
Pat Driscoll
CEO, Drive It NQ
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 Social Services
At Community Gro, it is important to us to continually strive towards the highest quality service delivery and embed continuous improvement throughout our organisation. Renée worked with us to develop a clear and efficient evaluation plan to inform continuous improvement. Renée helped us to identify existing processes that could be used, rather than create additional work. This is working well to embed evaluation throughout our service.
Additionally, working with Renee on two government tenders was a smooth, enjoyable experience for our team. We met with her a few times and provided the raw information and data, and Renee turned it into professional but easy to read responses. The end result was two highly professional tenders that we were proud to submit and confident that we had done the best job we could.
Susan Perry
CEO, Community Gro
The evaluation plan [Renée developed] is great, easy to read and understand. The evaluation questions are relevant. Renée makes it seem so easy, when it's all broken down in an evaluation plan.
Kerry Guy
Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) Coordinator, Community Gro
"The evaluation training was very clear and practical." "Well structured." "Modelled the process, not just the theory.""Relevant to our work."
Training participants, program evaluation training
Renee did a great job of designing and facilitating our Academic Writing Workshop. I was particularly impressed by the way in which she carefully listened to what was needed, but was also able to think outside the box, including exercises in our workshop that I didn’t realise we needed, but that we definitely benefitted from. Thanks for a productive few days, Renee!
Jane Addison
Research Fellow, James Cook University
Thank you for facilitating a professional and productive Strategic Planning session for our local children's charity Renée. We appreciate your advice, guidance and expertise to support our volunteer Board and senior management to develop our latest Strategic Plan. You are a pleasure to work with, your warmth, enthusiasm and expertise is truly appreciated.
Denise Lumsden
CEO, Ronald McDonald House Charities North Australia
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
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. Renée is an exceptional facilitator and feedback from the team has been extremely positive. Everyone felt included in discussions, valued, and they all engaged in whole group and small group discussions. Renée provided everyone with valuable, informative information, learnings and an action plan that could be implemented immediately at work the next day. I will be using Renee again for future team sessions.
Joanna Murray
Director, Access Therapy Services
Renée is an accomplished facilitator. She has provided highly skilled facilitation support to NQ Dry Tropics for over 10 years, covering a range of topics with people from a diversity of backgrounds and varying group sizes. Renée presents professionally and respectfully and ensures all in the room have a voice. She is a clear communicator and her practical and targeted approach to facilitation encourages collaborative outcomes.
Donna Turner
Manager Strategy & Partnerships, NQ Dry Tropics
Renée developed and facilitated a series of annual Reflections Meetings to support my team with the evaluation and planning of a large Sustainable Agriculture Program. Her preparation and facilitation ensured that it was truly a team approach, with full participation by all attendees. This resulted in invaluable information to celebrate successes and identify improvements, maximising delivery outcomes.
Colleen James
Program Coordinator, NQ Dry Tropics and James Cook University
Renée is an absolute pleasure to work with and I highly recommend for any training or facilitation requirements; particularly in program evaluation, reporting and grant writing. Renée's down to earth and genuine nature make her not only an extremely likeable individual but she gets the most out of any personality type she has as part of her facilitation group. The feedback from our not-for-profit members is that attending a session with Renée has given them practical and valuable tools that result in immediate positive impact. Thank you Renée!
Natalie Dukes
Business Development Manager, Volunteering North Queensland
I would highly recommend Renée as a professional, personable facilitator. Renée ran a Planning Day for our Club involving all members of the Management Committee and two senior members of the Club. She was able to empathise with all of us and ensured we kept to the aim of the day and did not wander off track. Everyone was impressed with Renee’s professionalism and her ability to inspire us to create a positive and professional way forward for our Club.
Eileen McGrath
Secretary, NQ Speedway Kart Club
I have worked with Renée several times over the last 3 years. On all occasions Reneé's work is professional, detailed and comprehensive. This year Renee provided additional support towards the evaluation of our project activity areas and governance arrangements. Renee facilitated 6 different sessions for us and handled Zoom attendees with ease. Collectively there were more than 60 participants from a broad mix of stakeholder groups including project staff, agriculture landholders, technical experts, science and government. Importantly, all were highly satisfied, stating that they felt included and were able to contribute meaningfully to discussions and activities. As a facilitator Renee is fantastic, everything was supplied and coordinated seamlessly, and agendas ran to time with a range of participant activities to hold everyone's attention. Renee worked to our timeframes and was adaptive to several changes that arose along the way. I am very impressed with the thoroughness of her planning and preparation as this allows clear objectives to be set and resulted in highly valuable reports for our team and for our project. The reports combine a well balanced mix of images, graphics and synthesised detail against the evaluation objectives. I am very impressed with Renees' objective and thorough approach and am looking forward to working together more in the future."
Barbara Colls
Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator for $15m Landholders Driving Change project, NQ Dry Tropics
We engaged Renée to deliver online training in grant and tender writing for our clients. Renée provided some great tips during the training, and made sure that she covered what each attendee specifically wanted to learn, so everyone got the most out of the training. The takeaways from this training will help our clients to be more confident and successful when writing grant applications and tenders.
Alan Zamparutti
Chef de Mission (Director), Strategic Media Partners
I've been successful with 4 grants so far as a result of doing Renée's grant writing workshop [over $11,000]. It's also given me a huge confidence boost - I've been applying for grants left, right and centre! I'm excited to apply for as many grants as I can. Renée also provided follow-up support after the workshop so I was able to get some advice on grants that I've written. I want to acknowledge all of the hard work Renée puts into her workshops.
Jean Barnett
Family Support Hub Coordinator, Community Gro
Our business was successful in receiving a grant for almost $10,000 which will allow us to release a new service that I have been dreaming about for the last two years. Honestly I would have not been successful without the skills that Renée taught me. She facilitated an excellent workshop that equipped me with the correct language and content for the application. That was what made us successful with this particular grant. Go and do Renée's grant writing workshop, you will not regret it!
Deni Knuth
Business Owner, Roofguard Roof Painting
I went on one of Renée's training workshops because I wanted to learn how to write successful grant applications. I went home with a bag full of skills and lots of confidence, and I wrote a winning scholarship application. Thank you Renée.
Louise Ashford Steine
Entrepreneur and Founder of start-up Sublime Experiences
I really enjoyed and benefited from the grant writing workshop today. Renée was such a motivating and inspiring workshop leader who was friendly and helpful. Looking forward to future workshops with Renée.
Anneli Haipola
Zonta Club of Townsville Metro
Having worked with Renée on a number of occasions, I would have no hesitation recommending her services to anyone. Incredibly knowledgeable and extremely experienced in her role, Renée is my first point of call with anything to do with grants and tenders.
Joshua Roberts
Owner-Operator, Co. Habitat Co-Working Space
I'm doing my first big grant application to the Council. Thanks to your training I am definitely feeling a lot more confident.
Clare Leo
Administration Officer, Stable on the Strand
"I've gone from not knowing how to write a grant to inspired to try.""That was a brilliant session, makes me want to get straight into writing a grant.""The workshop catered for all levels of experience.""The workshop was very informative and easy to follow.""Very interactive, with good discussions and exchange of ideas.""The presenter was very knowledgeable."
Training participants, grant and tender writing workshops
Video testimonials
Click here to watch video testimonials from attendees at our grant writing course.
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