Healthy Land and Water (HLW) is an independent, South East Queensland Natural Resource Management (NRM) organisation, which was created from a 2017 merger of two organisations focused on waterway and catchment health.

HLW sought external assistance to explore its internal cultural identity and set its future direction, with a keenness to facilitate whole staff, board and executive team workshops to explore cultural development and finalise business plans.

Scott Losee and Ramola Yardi worked with CEO Julie McLellan to conduct three planning days. One innovative strategy we employed was to break-down the elements of key products and services into customers, competitors, financial performance, and action, using a ‘flash-card’ format to facilitate group discussion and decision making.

With a better understanding of what HLW was and what it wanted to be, the organisation has since continued to evolve its focus and diversification. Alongside building resilience into the landscapes and waterways, HLW supports go2zone, a for-profit initiative to reduce plastic bottle pollution by installing free water refill stations.