It's always a 'leap of faith'; my reflections as a community engagement practitioner.

As many of you would know I've been a community engagement practitioner for close to thirty years. I was part of a group of nine who kicked off the Australasian IAP2 Chapter and became the second...

Max Hardy Consulting 10 years on

It’s hard to believe it has been 10 years since arriving in Melbourne to establish my own practice as a community engagement and collaboration specialist. I recall being somewhat anxious about...

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Reflecting on Conversations with Liz Weaver and the Future of Collaborative Learning

Working in engagement, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to make things valuable for the people in the room, and this was a question I wrestled with in the lead-up to our first event of the...

Are your Co-design projects still waiting for the Green Light?

If you follow the work we do here at Authentic Co-design, you’ll know that one of the things we are passionate about is understanding and supporting organisational readiness before jumping into a...

Yes. It has been quite a year! | Max Hardy FEI

Yes. It has been quite a year!

Get Unstuck in Your Engagement Career - New Mentoring Opportunities Available

I’ve built a career on knowing how to deal with complex problems and helping organisations get unstuck and using these skills can also be incredibly valuable for helping you develop a career that...

Uke can do this! (Collaborate and Co-create)

In huge and different news, I would like to announce that I am recording an album! Well, it’s not my album, and it’s not just any album; it’s a collaboration with hundreds of ukulele players around...