Max Hardy Consulting is a small engagement consultancy specialising in deliberative engagement, facilitation, co-design, training and mentoring.
Our focus is on delivering engagement that is considered and authentic. Leveraging on the skills of founder, Max Hardy, who has over 20 years of experience, we help clients with their toughest and most complex projects to achieve positive results.
What we do
We work with people at all stages of their projects to understand their unique, and not so unique, challenges and to co-create new ways of responding to those challenges.
Design & delivery of community engagement
Co-design
Facilitation
Training and Mentoring
Advice
Evaluation
Who we are
Max Hardy
Max Hardy is one of Australia’s most sought after facilitators, and a foremost expert in co-design and deliberative process and has designed and facilitated over 40 deliberative panels since 1998. He regularly delivers workshops and master-classes on deliberative processes at conferences and for the professional development programs of the Municipal Association of Victoria, IAP2, Tamarack Institute and Collaboration... Read more
Prue Blake
Prue Blake is a community engagement and planning specialist with over ten years of experience designing and facilitating community engagement processes. Her experience includes delivering forums, pop-ups, interviews, workshops and deliberative engagement processes within both the private and public sector... Read more
Our clients and partners include local councils, government departments and agencies, health authorities and private companies.
Latest blog posts
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…
It’s always a Leap of Faith: Reflections on a ‘successful’ deliberative process that never delivered
Max Hardy (Max Hardy Consulting) and Anna Kelderman (Shape Urban) Designing and facilitating deliberative engagement processes have been among our most satisfying professional experiences, though they don’t always come to…
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, skills that can also be incredibly valuable for helping you develop a career…