We have extensive experience coordinating approval pathways, aligning projects with government priorities and opportunities, and engaging with key stakeholders, communities and government at all levels

Community and Stakeholder Engagement

Successfully generating community and stakeholder support for a project or issue is a result of careful planning, knowing your target audience and understanding how best to reach that market. Achieving positive outcomes requires constant focus on the objectives of a project / program and ongoing engagement with communities and stakeholders. At the core of these objectives are always stakeholders whether they are communities, governments, employees, business partners, investors and other groups. A successful project has mutually beneficial outcomes for a diverse range of stakeholders.

  • Our bespoke strategic services are designed to encompass the unique needs of each client, considering project requirements, jurisdictional frameworks, and landholder and community needs. At Premier, our strategic services are developed with an industry-leading best-practice approach, focusing on IAP2 principles and best-practice guidelines and includes:

    • Engagement governance frameworks

    • Stakeholder engagement strategies

    • Stakeholder mapping and analysis

    • Project viability analysis and recommendations

    • Risk management

    • Issues and change management

    • Reputation management, including social licence to operate frameworks

    • Outrage management strategies

  • Interpreting and communicating key qualitative and quantitative data is vital to a project’s success. At Premier Strategy, our experienced engagement team is highly skilled at analysing complex data and translating it into meaningful insights, summarising extensive engagement programs, and developing stakeholder sentiment summaries. We support our clients with:

    • Social research and analysis

    • Stakeholder identification and analysis

    • Sentiment analysis

    • Fact sheets and information summaries, including preparing key issues briefs

    • Social impact assessments

    • Engagement reporting and summary reports

    • Environmental assessment consultation reports

  • Preparing communities for change by working with them on complex and challenging projects is at the heart of what we do at Premier. At Premier we invest time in unpacking local community nuances, understanding local operating environments and understanding their current concerns and other key motivators while also ensuring that project’s meet their critical deadlines. We provide:

    • Full service community engagement across all project stages

    • Environment assessment plans and engagement – pre and post assessment engagement

    • Project approvals planning and delivery

    • Benefit sharing including analysis, engagement and implementation

    • Community and stakeholder engagement plans and strategies

    • Stakeholder and community engagement, including impacted landholders

    • Full suite of professional services for collaborative workshops and events, committees, forums, panels, reference groups, and roundtables including facilitation and design

    • Digital engagement

    • Codesign and participation processes and facilitation

    • Creating networks / partnership development

    • Internal stakeholder engagement including workforce, executive, board, investors and unions.

Strategic Communications

Being heard by target audiences is about crafting compelling narratives and relevant messaging that resonate with communities and stakeholders and delivering it effectively. While the message and delivery may vary for each company, project, or issue, the fundamental goal of being heard remains constant.

At Premier Strategy, we specialise in developing and executing consistent, integrated communication strategies that align corporate priorities with strategic communications for shareholders, employees, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. Utilising our proven iterative methodologies, we ensure our communications are targeted, effective, measurable, and adaptable to changing needs and environments.

  • Any communication that leaves a mark is underpinned by a robust strategy. We apply research, insights and critical thinking to develop strategies that connect to your stakeholders and grow future opportunities. We support our clients with:

    • Research and stakeholder mapping

    • Communications audits

    • Communications strategy development

    • Cohesive communication strategies

    • Media strategies

    • Targeted and aligned strategic communications, marketing and public relations campaign

    • Messaging and strategic positioning

    • Communication channel identification

    • Reporting and evaluation

  • A powerful story can ignite conversation and inspire change. We will work with you to understand your challenges, goals and aspirations, creating content that grabs your attention and leaves an impact. We provide:

    • Content creation and copywriting

    • Development of plain-English, fact-based information

    • Design and branding

    • Media relations

    • Digital and video production

    • Corporate and internal communications

  • It pays to be proactive and have the right plans in place when facing a crisis. We specialise in helping clients equip themselves with the right tools, messaging, and strategies to manage a crisis effectively and weather the storm. We support our clients with:

    • Policy and plan development

    • Crisis communications and planning

    • Social licence frameworks

    • Issues management

    • Monitoring, reporting and review

    • Organisation change

  • In this busy, media-saturated world, how do you know if your message is being heard? We’ll work with you to create compelling communication that delivers your messages loud and clear to those who matter most. We provide:

    • Media and advocacy training

    • Tailored communications workshops

    • Master narrative workshop

    • Events

Government Advocacy

Navigating approval pathways, aligning projects with government priorities, accessing funding opportunities, and engaging with governments at all levels is critical for achieving successful outcomes. At Premier Strategy, we adopt a proactive approach, leveraging our extensive experience in government engagement to provide clients with project certainty, saving time and resources, and delivering superior results for the communities we serve.

Premier has forged strong connections and genuine relationships with federal, state, and local governments and communities. As a registered government lobbyist, we excel in providing proven advocacy services, leveraging our deep relationships with key stakeholders, including ministers, senators, local MPs, chiefs-of-staff, and advisors.

  • For more than 20 years, Premier Strategy has worked closely with federal, state and local governments to deliver positive outcomes for our clients. We have deep relationships at officer and ministerial level across jurisdictions. We’ll open doors and equip our clients to make the most of the opportunities that await on the other side. We support our clients with:

    • Stakeholder identification and mapping

    • Identification and alignment of government and client priorities

    • Parliamentary delegations

    • Relationship brokering and management

    • Meeting plans and talking points

    • Biographical insights

  • Delivering success is not just about who we know, it is about using our experience, strategic insight, and political nous to ensure our clients have an understanding of how government works and a plan to achieve their goal/s. We support our clients with:

    • Government advocacy strategies

    • ·Government engagement planning and implementation

    • Advice on government structures and processes

    • Issues analysis

    • Advocacy and engagement planning

    • Strategic advice and counsel

    • Government approvals and engagement strategies

  • Developing a plan is only the start of effective advocacy, follow through is essential. Premier Strategy helps our clients to achieve their goals through consistent, sustained and informed engagement with government and a systematic management approach. We support our clients with:

    • Implementation and monitoring of advocacy and engagement plans

    • Training and capacity building

    • Secretariat services

    • Post project review and analysis

  • You can’t be an advocacy specialist without public policy expertise. At Premier Strategy, we stay up to date with all the big issues of the day as well as the smaller ones that can also impact our clients and communities. This ensures that our clients never miss an opportunity to advance their interests with governments. We support our clients with:

    • Research

    • Funding applications

    • Policy submissions

    • Government briefs and issues papers

    • Investment plans

    • Budget proposals

Premier Strategy understands the complexity of the changing and often competing nature of the issues facing all levels of government including agencies and other government bodies. Increasingly, our communities expect to be involved in decisions that affect them and we have experience involving communities in planning and delivering successful projects and working alongside governments.

We value our role as trusted government advisors when it comes to social licence, benefit sharing and community concerns and have worked on government projects across a range of markets. We adopt a proactive approach, leveraging our extensive experience in engagement to provide project certainty and deliver meaningful results for the communities we serve.

At Premier Strategy, our methodology is developed with an industry-leading best-practice approach, focusing on IAP2 principles and best-practice guidelines.

Our role in planning and delivering infrastructure projects

A well-considered and managed engagement and communications strategy which covers all project stages is critical to the success of an infrastructure project or program. Premier Strategy has a proven record of achieving key milestones on a range of complex and contentious projects.

We provide full-service community and stakeholder engagement planning and delivery during all stages of a project / program lifecycle from stakeholder identification and sentiment analysis, early planning with communities, environment assessment and approval, construction, operation and at the end of an asset.