Our Services

Indigenous Perspectives can help you foster meaningful engagement, improve service delivery and navigate the complexities of building cultural capability with cultural integrity and respect.

We are committed to your investment receiving the benefits such as workforce attraction and retention enhancement, decision-making to improve reputation and financial performance and most importantly, work undertaken by or with our Mob, to be done with cultural respect and integrity.

The science is in – authentic cultural diversity and inclusion correlates with all these outcomes.

Why apply our solutions:

Cultural Awareness Training

Enhance the learning journey of staff with cultural awareness training and/or cultural immersion training program as:

  • Studies have identified employee engagement and retention increases by 50% with companies that encourage learning, 94% of employees would stay longer with an employer who invested in their learning and development, and 8 in 10 people feel learning brings purpose to their work.[1]

  • Equipping staff with cultural awareness training will support better outcomes through improved understanding, more effective communication, and an inclusive worldview.

Cultural Capability

Increase and integrate cultural capability within your organisation through our evidence-based systemic change management program applying your organisational or a tailored Cultural Capability Framework (‘Framework’) and Cultural Capability Action Plan providing clear direction on how to implement the Framework as:

  • Achieving cultural safety and competence will meet core funding requirements in the social and community services industry and increase outcomes performance providing a competitive edge to growth.

  • Cultural competency and humility bring effective communication, increases employee engagement and retention rates, team cohesion and productivity, and legal, compliance and reputational resilience.[2]

  • Employment pathways, particularly to leadership positions for First Nations staff enhances decision-making. With diversity of leadership teams empirically shown to positively correlate to improved company financial performance[3], this competitive differentiator is a positive advantage.

Mentoring

Access our mentoring program for First Nations staff as:

  • Empirical studies confirm mentoring programs correlate to profits 18% better than the average[4]. Mentoring programs for young First Nations people in an academic environment for example, have been found to influence improvements in social, behavioural, psychological, attitudinal, and performance[5]. 

  • Gain new perspectives in developing your talent pipeline and incorporate First Nations ways of knowing, being, doing to facilitate cultural identity development and enhanced decision-making.

  • The Holding Environment theory outlines mentoring relationships can act as an anchoring relationship, facilitating a safe environment[6].

Advisory Services

Access advisory support for existing and planned community service programs to ensure:

  • Frontline services are implemented and delivered in a culturally safe and competent manner, meeting the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a culturally respectful way that promotes clients thriving with the applied supports.

  • Decision-making incorporates cultural competence to establish a foundation of success in funding applications, implementation and outcome generation.

As a Supply Nation registered provider, engaging our services also contributes to your organisation’s Mandatory Minimum Participation Requirements under the government’s Indigenous Procurement Policy.

[1] LinkedIn, Workforce Learning Report 2024

[2] Glen Guyton, The Interplay of Cultural Humility and Cultural Competence: A Key to Enhanced Workplace Wellness, LinkedIn, February 2024.

[3] Mengsteab T. Beraki, Mussie T. Tessema, Parag Dhumal, Kathryn J. Ready and Sebhatleab Kelati,

Exploring the correlation between diversity and financial performance: an empirical study, International Journal of Business Performance Management, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, pp 206–223, 2021. ISSN (online): 1741-5039.

[4] Vivian Hunt, Dennis Layton, Sara Prince, Diversity Matters, McKinsey & Company, November 2014

[5] James Sanchez, Jade Maiden, Elsa Barton, Lucie Walters, Donna Quinn, Nathan Jones, Aunty Kerrie Doyle and David Lim, Factors that sustain Indigenous youth mentoring programs: a qualitative systematic review, Sanchez et al. BMC Public Health (2023) 23:429 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15253-2

[6]  James Sanchez, Jade Maiden, Elsa Barton, Lucie Walters, Donna Quinn, Nathan Jones, Aunty Kerrie Doyle and David Lim, Factors that sustain Indigenous youth mentoring programs: a qualitative systematic review, Sanchez et al. BMC Public Health (2023) 23:429 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15253-2