Solutions & Tools
Ready-to-run solutions, built on our own methods and tools.
Some challenges come up again and again. For those, we have designed, developed and piloted dedicated solutions, each tailored to your region and backed by a community of practice.
Waste behaviour intelligence
Second Nature
Second Nature finds the levers across a council’s whole waste system (services, event conditions, contracts and partners) and tracks every tonne on one line of sight.
What’s included
- Behaviour diagnostics across places, people and events
- Tipping Point pilots, typically 4 to 8 weeks
- Licensed tools, leaderboards and measurement
- A free waste spend calculator to test whether spend is keeping pace
Start with
A Discovery Session, or test your waste spend online.
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Council event strategy and performance
The Wider Effect
The Wider Effect helps councils manage events as regional prosperity infrastructure, across five areas of value: direction, capability, local economy, innovation and standards, and evidence.
What’s included
- Set the strategy: which events to back, and why
- Streamline the support: grants, in-kind help, approvals and sponsorship
- Strengthen your organisers: toolkits, succession and capability
- Measure the results: acquittals, leaderboards and visitor intelligence
- Beyond 2032: legacy-ready events, organisers and suppliers
Start with
A Facilitated Workshop and Discovery Session, or estimate what council really puts into events online.
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Workforce intelligence
Signal
Signal finds out why people don’t apply, don’t stay or don’t perform, then sets the Priority Levers™ that lift acquisition, retention and output across sites.
What’s included
- Surveys and on-the-ground diagnosis of what staff value
- Priority Levers™ for acquisition, retention and output
- Benchmarking and leaderboards across sites and teams
- A free turnover cost calculator
Start with
A pilot at a few locations, or estimate what turnover is costing you online.
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Local economy intelligence · launching 2027
Local Levers
Local Levers brings more grant and philanthropic funding into the region, matches local supply to real council and major-project demand, and helps procurement settings let capable local businesses compete.
What’s included
- Access to more than $80 billion in grant and philanthropic funding, through Australia’s largest grants aggregator
- Supply matched to real demand, so readiness effort has a commercial return
- Capacity and capability building, including supply-chain connections and combined capacity
- Procurement alignment with economic development goals
Start with
Register your interest for launch.
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The tools that make the change happen.
Every tool is built on peer-reviewed behavioural science and, where relevant, international standards, adapted to each region and tested in the field before release. Some are free to try; most are used within engagements or licensed annually.
| Tool | What it does | Used in | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem Lever Map™ | Maps who holds which lever, what each already does and what is blocking change | All solutions | Within engagements |
| Lever Diagnostic™ | Identifies what each actor needs: capability, opportunity or motivation | All solutions | Within engagements |
| Pilot kits | Ready-to-run pilot designs with measures set before they start | All solutions | Within pilots |
| Measurement guides | Baselines, indicators and reporting templates for each solution | All solutions | Licensed |
| Leaderboards and benchmarks | Shared comparisons across councils, sites or events | Second NatureThe Wider EffectSignal | Licensed annually |
| Priority Levers™ | The highest-impact actions for acquisition, retention and output | Signal | Within pilots |
| Waste spend calculator | Tests whether waste spend is keeping pace with results | Second Nature | Free online |
| Event investment estimate | Totals council’s cash, in-kind and staff investment in events | The Wider Effect | Free online |
| Turnover cost calculator | Estimates the yearly cost of staff turnover | Signal | Free online |
| Organiser toolkits | Capability, succession and sustainability resources for event organisers | The Wider Effect | Licensed |
Ways to start
Not sure which solution fits?
Executive briefing
$2,500 + GST
A one-hour briefing for your leaders, with a summary report for internal decisions.
See what’s includedSolution-finding workshop
$6,500 + GST
A half-day workshop for complex challenges, ending in an agreed pathway and pilot proposal.
See what’s includedLet’s connect the dots
Bring us your challenge.
Start with an informal conversation. No defined scope or procurement process needed.