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From the CEO
The enduring value of Consult Australia has been clear from my earliest conversations with members across Australia:
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• Advocating for your business success
• Providing trusted forums for sharing and collaboration
• Championing industry leadership; and
• Building capability
Our vision for a thriving, competitive consulting industry is advancing week on week through your engagement. From our SME Forums and Summit to our roundtables, state and territory committees and Large Firm CEOs Forum, the critical importance of our work as the sole voice for our industry in a market shaped by both opportunity and challenge is clear. The visionary outcomes sought from what is generational investment in infrastructure and private construction rest on your services, your professionalism, your expertise and innovation. But while the demand for these services is high, the pressure on our members from an increasingly adversarial market, capacity constraints, barriers to entry, increasing regulation and a PI insurance crisis are less easy to manage. Your support is more critical than ever, and through us is delivering change.
Consult Australia’s position as a trusted advisor for governments, and partner for client representative groups across Australia reflects your long-standing engagement. The clarity of our advocacy and focus on the intersection between our people, procurement policy and productivity is driving better behaviours, and real wins for our members. In this edition of Consulting Matters, Kristy’s advocacy highlights and the relationships being leveraged with the support of our state and territory committees speak to these achievements. Whether grappling head-on with insurance in NSW, preparing for the election in Victoria, tackling the challenges of registration in WA and the ACT, or understanding the pipeline in SA, we are sought-after by governments to support better policy.
The respect in which the industry is held is built both on the outcomes focus that inform our advocacy, and on the leadership demonstrated as we work collectively to lift and lead the sector. Our Mental Health Knowledge Hub and the Consult Australia Champions of Change Program continues to demonstrate the impact of practical action.
The Champions of Change Coalition 2022 Impact Report highlights our firms’ leadership seeking to advance more and diverse women into leadership, helping build respectful and inclusive workplaces.
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As we move through the holiday season into 2023 we will be shining a spotlight on the challenges facing professional services through increasing litigation, we will continue to press for the opportunities to drive better productivity through infrastructure and construction, advocate for a new approach to harness the potential of digitalisation and net zero pathways for infrastructure.
Make sure you mark your calendar for the New Year both with an entry in our annual Awards for Excellence and a ticket to our Awards Night holding the calendar for Thursday 23 March. Our one-of-a-kind FutureNet Business Leaders Course is enrolling now for 2023, in both NSW and Victoria.
Wishing you and yours a safe and prosperous New Year from all of us at Consult Australia.
Jonathan Cartledge
CEO
