Our Principles

What we believe and how we work

It’s your language, not ours. We work with you to build a language around processes and concepts that you are comfortable with, and that works for your community.
It’s your change agenda, not ours. We help you tackle issues that matter in your community – it’s your Clarion Call.
Practical is our priority. We help you unpack concepts, ideas, the current situation and possible ways forward, ensuring they are practical, accessible and can be implemented locally.
Anyone can do the ‘hard stuff’. We work to make concepts and approaches accessible and easy to understand. Just because the problem is complex, doesn’t mean we are!
Community-led is key. We work with you to build community ownership of the processes, while also building up your local ‘how to’. This ensures you have the skills and know-how to move forward without us.
Connect with care. We bring ourselves and our skills to your goals with authenticity and care. We share your passion and enthusiasm to make a difference, and we are by your side for as long as you need us.

Jennifer Chaplyn

Founding Director
H. BA (International Relations), GAICD

Jennifer is known for her work in strategy, co-design, community engagement and collaborative governance with communities, investors, NGOs, and three tiers of government.

As a consultant and facilitator, Jennifer specialises in creating clarity from confusion – or magic from mess – her engaging and hands-on approach helps people to break through barriers in thinking and practice, embrace diversity and engage others in creating change. Her unique skill of codifying processes and concepts into practical and tools, resources and process supports people to do the work in the real world.

Jennifer’s extensive experience in service system integration and design, collective impact and community engagement enables her to support collaborations to hold complex conditions and information to codify into a shared plan of action and governance (structures, mindsets and practices) to deliver the work.

To this work, Jennifer brings the unique perspective she gained as a Canadian raising a family and working in regional and remote Australian communities – a passion for collaboration and a belief in the power of human connections to bring about change.

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Cross Cultural Collaborations

Collectively, our team has worked around Australia in city, regional and remote communities. We understand and embrace the diversity of communities, and we harness it to build strong, collaborative partnerships. All our work respects the First Nations people of Australia.

We work with cross cultural collaborations to build a deeper understanding of each other’s perspective in designing the environment for work that is respectful of all voices.

Leaders and community change agents come from a range of cultures and life experiences. We enable collaborations to redefine cross cultural relationships so work can be done together for a shared purpose or outcome.

We amplify your Clarion Call, and ensure your call to action is loud, clear, and compelling.

To learn more you may want to check out this video, commissioned by Collaboration for Impact

https://platformc.org/1-readiness-runway/collaboration

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Lead and Empower for Purpose

We support you to lift the voice of those who are not being heard or feel they do not have the power to ‘change things around here’.

We help you bring the voice of our First Nations people to your work to build understanding and a shared way forward.

We have significant on-the-ground experience in community led change. Working across government, investors, service institutions and community actors, we can assist in the development of a deep understanding of power; to see your own and the power in others.

Together we can build an understanding of how to use this power for a shared purpose.

We amplify your Clarion Call, and ensure your call to action is loud, clear, and compelling.

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Future Horizons

For communities to tackle and overcome complex issues, they need to picture it, plan for it, and make changes that work towards it.

We guide the way in adapting how communities think, design, and plan, challenging assumptions, and exploring desirable future outcomes. We then assist you to build the bridges between your work now, and what is needed for a different tomorrow.

Our unique skills and knowledge, combined with years of practical experience in supporting community-based partnerships, means we have a proven toolkit to achieve change through collective action.

We are passionate about what we do so when you work with us, you are working with people that share your enthusiasm and care about the result.

We are the amplifier for your Clarion Call, ensuring your call to action is loud, clear, and compelling.

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Collaborative Governance

We assist people to work together to build collaborative governance to organise for change and create change that strengthens communities.

When governance sits across organisational, sectoral, and cultural boundaries, it can be challenging to negotiate ways to work together for a shared purpose. We support the design of governance structures and processes, and help you understand and develop the mindsets needed and the use of power and authority for change.

When things do not go as planned, we support collaborative people to mediate or resolve conflicts.

We share your passion and enthusiasm to make a difference, and we are by your side for as long as you need us and when you need us.

We amplify your Clarion Call, and ensure your call to action is loud, clear, and compelling.

You may be interested in our recent blog on weaving Governance for Purpose: https://platformc.org/blog/building-governance-purpose-reflection-piece

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Collaborating in and with communities

For many people and the issues they face, ‘business as usual’ is no longer working. There is a need to make changes in how they work to start to shift patterns of behaviour across the system.

Achieving large scale change needs to reflect the ‘place’, the rhythm of the community, and the readiness of the institutions. We adapt our approaches to work within your community and context. We support you to build on your strengths and create pathways to successful, sustainable change.

Our work aims to build up your local ‘how to’ so that you are not dependent on us. We bring our toolkit and adapt it to your community, arming you with the skills and know-how to move forward without us.

Once you have worked with us, you can sound your Clarion Call, confident that it is loud, clear, and compelling.

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Jack Beetson

Founding Director

Adjunct Professor, University of New England; Awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Education.

Jack is a Ngemba man with extensive experience in adult education, community development and Indigenous and human rights education.

He is one of only 12 people worldwide to have received a United Nations Unsung Hero Award. Beetson is Chair of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council Economic Development Advisory Committee, Board member of Social Enterprise Finance Australia, Executive Director of Beetson & Associates and Executive Director of Literacy for Life Foundation.

Jack was most recently honoured by being the first Indigenous Australian to be inducted into the International Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education.

Working cross culturally and in complex situations Jack is a skilled negotiator and mediator. He has a gift for mentoring that his grounded in many years of experience in communities.

Jack adds a cultural lens to all that he does, bringing this to our collaborative, leadership and governance work.

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Sharon Fraser

Founding Director

B.App. Sci (SP); MBus (man.); GAICD; Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow

Sharon works to support the design and implementation of collaborative practice with communities, government, peak bodies, business, NGOs and services to build a united action for social change.

Sharon’s deep, on-the-ground experience in implementation of Collective Impact, systems change and collaborative practice within the Australian context has informed her participatory and strength-based approach using methods designed for:

- building collaborative governance and practice
- building structures, processes, mindsets and equity for systems change
- giving voice to people in community including those experiencing social vulnerability o exploring change, through reflection and analysis, and
- exploring power, and developing ways to share power to achieve improved social outcomes.

Previous executive roles in health, community health and local government, have focused on leading and supporting transformational change within services and community.

Sharon has deep experience in assisting people and organisations to hear and understand diverse voices to develop a shared aspiration, plan and implement a way forward and learn while doing.

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Mark Pearse

Adminstration & Finance officer

Mark has had over 20 years experience with all aspects of the Adminstration & Finance requirements involved with running a business.

He has owned his own business and has worked with businesses from single person up to companies with 150 staff.

Mark has also been fortunate to be involved with many Not For Profit Organisations where he was or still is on the executive committee of management in his role as Treasurer. This diversity of experience gives Mark an ability to communicate with everyone , problem solve and achieve the best outcomes for his clients.

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A clarion call is a strong, emotional appeal to people to make something happen and create change.

We are the amplifier for your Clarion Call.

Natter & Gnaw – a podcast from Clarion Call

About Us

We are a team of broadly experienced enablers, working within and across communities to create change.

We are the amplifier for your Clarion Call, ensuring your call to action is loud, clear, and compelling.

What we do

We assist people to work together to build collaborative partnerships and create change that strengthens communities.

We amplify your Clarion Call, and ensure your call to action is loud, clear, and compelling.

Our Work

We know the road to long-lasting change can be challenging, complicated and sometimes, overwhelming.

We combine our diverse skills, backgrounds, and approaches to bring all that we have to the partnerships and collaborations we support.

Collaborating in & with communities

When business as usual is no longer working.

Collaborative Governance

Organise how to work together for change

Future Horizons

Picture and plan for a brighter future.

Lead and empower for purpose

Harness momentum and support for a shared purpose.

Cross cultural collaborations

Embrace the diversity of communities and harness it to build strong partnerships.

Deep Learning Opportunity

Clarion Call offers deep learning opportunities that respond to emerging needs.

These pop-up learning opportunities will help you explore and build on the structures, processes and mindsets needed for change. These techniques are underpinned by approaches that enable you to share power and grow equity across your initiative.

Our current offer…

COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE

We have worked with:

State Government Departments

Commonwealth Government Departments

Local Government

Philanthropy

Not-for-Profit Sector

Cross sector collaborations

Cross cultural collaborations

Heath Sector

Industry based Social Change

We will support anyone working for the greater good, wherever there is a Clarion Call

Our Team

Sharon Fraser | Founding Director

Jack Beetson | Founding Director

Jennifer Chaplyn | Founding Director

Mark Pearse | Adminstration & Finance officer

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