Meet Natalie
Director and Principal Consultant MBA, FICDA, MAITD, TAE
I’m committed to improving the equity of access to peer and expert knowledge, tools and support for our community volunteers, boards and non profits and social enterprises.
My passion is helping to improve communities by building stronger and sustainable organisations.
Benefit from my knowledge and experience of writing and assessing successful submissions.
“I’ve secured over $70 million dollars for communities and businesses, achieving an 83.5% success rate for grants and a 94.2% success rate for tenders. I have learnt that strategy, is the key to success.
Clients have gone on to secure over $36 million using the strategies I’ve shown them. One client receives around $3 million on average per annum, still using much of the original content I developed.
Grants are 80% strategy and 20% writing.
I’ve systemised the grant writing process and this is the focus of my upcoming book ‘Win the Grant with The Grant Writing System’.
I have experience across the breadth of the grant industry. I’m an experienced writer, assessor, panel chair and consultant to funders, helping them shape their programs. I share the tools, tips and strategies across all sides of the grant funding process to improve the quality and content of grant submissions.70
I believe everyone should be able to access the tools and insights to win grants and improve their businesses and community organisations. That’s why I have written this book, sharing my proven system I’v developed and used to win over $70+ million dollars.
The system that’s helped many others win successful grants. I’m an experienced writer, assessor, panel chair and consultant to funders, helping them shape their programs. Social impact drives my work and when I’m not writing, training or mentoring in the grants space,
I support organisations with facilitation, governance and planning services through our social enterprise iClick2Learn.
Snapshot of our grant and tender experience over $70 million secured in the last 9 years
83.5% grants success; 94.2% tender success and 76% award submission success.
I have worked on some amazing projects to help people innovate, develop, and grow their impact. I willingly share those lessons and experiences, and love hearing from others about their journey. I am a big believer in collaboration and I’m always looking for ways to connect people to deliver better impacts for all.
I can see potential and opportunity in almost any situation and always like to leave people feeling inspired and motivated to continue improving their organisations.
I deliver workshops and have facilitated planning sessions across Australia. I have assisted federal, state and local governments, non-government organisations, not-for-profits, charities, social enterprises, and social purpose businesses
I am passionate about social equity so I seed-funded a digital learning social enterprise, iClick2Learn, which is breaking down traditional barriers to accessing, peer information, and expert knowledge. In between work I find time to volunteer for some good causes and provides a lot of pro bono support and advice. Recently, she spent a month pro bono with businesses and social enterprises in the tourism sector in Vanuatu. One passion close to my heart is to provide mentorship to selected women just as I received mentorship from my great friend the late Gale Eckford.
Growing up in family businesses has taught me a lot, but I wanted to carve my own path, and left the fold to manage my first business at 16. Then I decided to return to study later in life, undertaking a Bachelor of Business (Tourism) and then more recently an MBA focussing on the law, entrepreneurship and governance. If I’m not reading or studying, I like to use what I have learned to help someone, or to work on some of my own passion projects. All this gets my brain fired with ideas, ready to develop strategies, and implement actions to get results at a practical, realistic level.