Program
A program is a structured engagement over three to seven months. We agree on what you want to work toward, and we build a series of sessions around those goals. Each session builds on the last. Unlike per-session bookings, which are stand-alone, a program has a direction, a progression, and an outcome we are working toward together.
Programs are for businesses, not-for-profits, community organisations, and individuals who want to build sustained political understanding around a specific area of their work or their lives, rather than addressing a single question.
This page outlines a sample of what this work could look like.
Before the project:
If you know you want a program after your initial consultation, we confirm it in that session. Otherwise, you can book a program engagement with me directly.
You sign the agreement and send payment through. We book the first session at least a week out. Before that first session, send me a brief on what you want to work toward and any relevant background materials.
In our first program session, we work through the scope together: what I will deliver, when, and how. All scoping, planning, and negotiation of the work happens during booked sessions only, not over emails or calls.
During the project:
Each program session is 60 minutes. We work through the topic for that session, which we will have agreed in advance as part of the program design. I bring the political context, history, and analysis. You bring your observations, your questions, and the things you have noticed since our last session. We build on what we covered previously and go deeper. Over the course of the program, your political understanding of your specific area compounds. Each session makes the next one more productive because you are arriving with more awareness each time.
We may schedule a mid-program check-in session (included in the program quote) to review progress and adjust direction if needed. This is especially useful for larger programs where the scope may evolve as the work reveals new dimensions.
After each session and the program:
You go back to your work and apply what we covered. You observe your industry, your team, your customers, or your community through the lens we built together. You notice political dynamics you would not have noticed before. You form new questions. You bring those questions to the next session.
After the program ends, you have a political understanding of your area that you built over months. It sits with you. It changes how you make decisions, how you talk to your advisers, how you engage with your council, how you brief your marketing team, how you read the news, and how you plan. Some people continue into a partnership after their program. Some move to per-session bookings when something specific comes up. Some have what they need and carry it forward on their own.
Some samples cases:
A plumbing business owner wants to understand the political forces behind the gas-to-electric transition and what it means for his trade over the next decade. We design a five-month program. We work through the climate policy driving electrification targets, the state government decisions banning gas in new builds, the political timeline for the transition, and how to position his business for heat pump and renewable energy work while his competitors are still fitting gas lines. By the end, his business plan is built around political reality. His next conversation with his industry association is different because he understands the political trajectory they are responding to.
A community group wants their committee to engage effectively with their local council instead of feeling ignored. We design a five-month program: how council decisions are made, who the political actors are, how to build relationships with councillors, how to write submissions that get read, and how advocacy works at the local level. After five months, the committee engages with council processes as informed participants. Their next funding application to council is written by people who understand the political priorities behind the criteria.
A growing online brand owner wants to understand why her audience cares about things they never mentioned three years ago. We spend four months tracing the political and cultural shifts that created values-driven consumer behaviour: the advocacy campaigns that taught consumers to ask about supply chains, the political moments that made silence a brand risk, and the difference between genuine values alignment and performative positioning. By the end, her next conversation with her marketing agency is different because she can articulate what her audience values and why.
An aged care provider wants to build political awareness across their leadership team. We design a program of monthly sessions covering the feminist economics of care work that produced the pay equity decision, the union campaigns shaping the next round, and the funding and regulatory trajectory following the Royal Commission. By the end, their next conversation with their workforce adviser carries political context it never had before. Their strategic plan accounts for political forces their competitors have not considered.
An individual wants to spend three months building their political literacy on housing and affordability. We design a program of fortnightly sessions tracing the policy decisions, the advocacy campaigns, the market dynamics, and the political actors that produced the housing crisis. They finish the program able to engage in the conversation with depth that most commentary does not reach.
Pricing:
Programs are quoted individually. My pricing follows an equitable scaling model. The base rate is determined by the size of your team: the people you employ as staff, the contractors you regularly pay to operate, and the volunteers who help you run things. The final quote reflects the scope and complexity of the project.
Teams of 1-3: base rate
Teams of 4+: scaled rate
Specific pricing is discussed during your prior sessions or after.
Notes:
I do not lobby on your behalf, represent you to government, or provide legal or financial advice. My role is to build your political understanding so that your conversations with your own advisers, your team, and your community are better informed.