Engaged Outcomes

📢 New emPOWER Podcast episode out now! Navigating Change: Unlocking Shared Benefits in the Wimmera Region with Chris Sounness 🎙 In episode two, Wendy Agar sits down with Chris Sounness, CEO of Wimmera Southern Mallee Development, as he shares his insights on fostering collaboration to bring people and energy companies in the region together supported by The Energy Charter and engaging them in the journey through this transformative period of change. He discusses: ➡ How do we have the challenging conversations about change as a community? ➡ How do communities get the benefit when they’re doing the heavy lifting for the energy transition? ➡ How do we learn from the experiences of other regions that have gone through similar shifts? Listen here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gZEdtyjr (or search emPOWER energy transition on your favourite platform) The emPOWER Podcast is perfect for anyone committed to supporting and understanding our regional communities. Use it as your go-to resource for effective, respectful engagement during this pivotal time. Fiona Haslam McKenzie Professor John Cole OAM Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise Western Downs Regional Council Prudence Cook Phillip Guthrie you all get a shout out in this episode 😀 Stay connected, stay informed and make a positive impact! 🌿 Brought to you by Wendy Agar, Engaged Outcomes and proudly supported by the Energy Charter. Thanks too to Gilberto Castillo 👏👏 #emPOWERPodcast #EnergyTransition #RegionalAustralia #CommunityEngagement #strongercommunities

💥What was the one key take away from each of the fabulous guest speakers on todays "Understanding Lessons from CSG" power hour virtual forum? ✅There is a competitive advantage to investing in your engagement people (Andrew Brier Queensland Hydro) ✅Build relationships, learn about and understand the community, and be the person who listens before you talk (Fraser Power Origin Energy) ✅Use local - we have the services and skills you need. Our kids can be trained for all your jobs (Rob Fraser Ray White Rural Chinchilla) ✅Think big. What does sustainable regional development look like and how can your engagement fit into this (Katherine Witt The University of Queensland) So much richness and nuggets of gold from this lot (including Andrew's use of photos that may have date tested the audience!!) and all in one hour!! 🏆🙌 Thank you to our supporters Queensland Renewable Energy Council (QREC) Coexistence Queensland Powerlink Queensland and The Energy Charter for sharing my vision of giving forward through providing free access to best practice and world class speakers!❤️❤️❤️ #engagement #rural #regional #renewables #strongercommunities

Fun photo following a serious meeting👏🙃 (sorry everyone else who’d left before Wendy remembered to take one 🤣) Thanks to Queensland Farmers' Federation for hosting the first meeting of the Community & Industry Advisory Group for the Queensland Renewable Energy Council (QREC) Regional Connect training pilot 💡💥💭 We need to engage more respectfully and effectively in the regions and we believe the gap is not more technical engagement skills but rather helping people understand HOW to engage in the regions… We have been working with communities, landholders, experienced stakeholder engagement practitioners and industry for over a year to develop #RegionaConnect… so it was super exciting to have this first formal CIAG meeting to shape and inform the finalisation of the program. Shout out to the amazing skilled and connected group members for generously sharing their time and wisdom today!! Jo Sheppard GAICD Kylie Bourne GAICD (Councillor Western Downs) Sotera Trevaskis John Carey Zoe Kemp Gerard Reilly Warwick Squire @clare silcock Madison Sturgess Louise Martin Katie-Anne Mulder ❤️

Have you been 'emPOWER'ed yet? We are proud to be partnering with The Energy Charter to develop our new podcast. It is designed for people who want to learn more about engaging in regional Australia during the energy transition. The speakers will share practical skills, first-hand knowledge, and insights to better understand regional stakeholders to improve engagement outcomes. Is this you?! Don't miss this first episode with Andrew Dyer where he shares insights from the AEIC 'Community Engagement Review' (or Dyer Report as it is more commonly known) and the implications for landholders and communities and how engagement is being done. He also shares what he thinks better engagement should look like on the ground. Find it here: https://lnkd.in/gZEdtyjr or search emPOWER energy transition on your favourite platform. Let us know your feedback! Topics and speakers will be shaped by listeners for listeners 🧡 #emPOWERpodcast #regional #rural #renewables #energytransition #engagement #strongercommunities

Today is the day that our emPOWER podcast is officially launched! To say we are excited is an understatement... 💥 💃 For those of you not in #WaggaWagga for The Energy Charter National Landholder Engagement Training where we launch tonight, we thought we would give you a bit of a sneak peek and still share our news! It is super exciting also to be partnering with the incredible, aligned and passionate crew at Energy Charter for this project (thank you for backing us and our vision on this 🙌 💓) Don't miss this first episode where Wendy Agar is lucky enough to have had a conversation with Andrew Dyer about his pivotal AEIC Community Engagement Report, and what he thinks are the elements of quality 'boots on the ground' engagement. Visit this link to learn more and choose the platform where you prefer to listen to your podcasts. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gZEdtyjr We have an amazing line of incredible wisdom and experience ready to share their stories, perspectives, ideas and practical tips and tricks so as they used to say on the wireless....'stay tuned folks'!! We really look forward to your feedback and suggestions so don't be a stranger!! #RegionalAustralia #BetterTogether #StrongerCommunities #Renewables #EnergyTransition

📣 We are so excited to finally be able to share that our emPOWER podcast is about to be launched next week at The Energy Charter's National Landholder Engagement Training. Really fitting in many ways, least of which is that they are supporting us to develop and deliver this awesome resource!! 🙏 ❤️ 🎙 We have loved developing and delivering the Power Hour virtual forums, and emPOWER is essentially a spin off from them. Listeners have told us our content is valuable and that they want to be able to listen to small bite size portions while on the road.... and so emPOWER was born!! emPOWER is the podcast that aims to empower energy professionals to engage respectfully and effectively with regional communities during the energy transition. Providing practical skills, inspiration, first-hand knowledge and insights to better understand regional stakeholders and improve their engagement outcomes. Stay tuned for more details... or reach out to get the inside scoop 😃 #podcast #renewables #energytransition #regionalengagement #strongercommunities

Very cool to see the scribe of a virtual panel that Wendy Agar facilitated last week for the Queensland Renewable Energy code development workshop! It was a fantastic opportunity to bring the voice of #localgovernment into the room to share their experiences, ideas and perspectives with the group from their 3 very different regions. Thank you to Mayor Melissa Hamilton Southern Downs Regional Council Mayor Andrew Smith Western Downs Regional Council and cr Shane McCarthy from Flinders Shire Council for their generousity and good humour (and for being such good sports when Wendy tapped you on the shoulder to ‘volunteer’ 🤣) “If you are not at the table it’s likely you are on the menu” I love this quote from Peta Ashworth OAM from the Curtin University Institute for the Energy Transition at the wheatbelt WA Local Government Association (WALGA) Conference at NorthM last week… our intent is to do our bit so we DO NOT have our Councils on the menu up here (although you can see from Shane’s experience documented below we have some work to do!!!) Thanks to the incredible Alex Wisman for capturing some of the key points of their messages as they spoke!!! 👏🙌 #renewables #rurual #remote #strongercommunities #leadership

"What were the lessons learnt during the Coal Seam Gas boom in Queensland and how they are transferable to the current energy transition.?" 🎺 We invite you to join an incredible lineup of regional experts on our "Understanding Lessons from CSG" Power Hour Virtual Forum if you want to know more!! From the keynote presentation where Andrew Brier (strategic advisor, Queensland Hydro) will provide insights into the regional impacts, their implications and outcomes and what this means to us now, through to the expert panel of Rob Fraser (Ray White Rural Chinchilla), Katherine Witt (The University of Queensland) and Fraser Power (Origin Energy) ready to share their experiences, expertise and actionable ideas – this in one forum you must not miss!! Register here https://lnkd.in/gHrqFt-m for the fourth in the "power hour" series we are hosting to provide free access to excellent speakers and best practice information. If you haven't already seen them, don't miss the opportunity to catch up on the first three amazing sessions here: https://lnkd.in/ggBfsEA7 Thanks heaps to our incredible partners, Queensland Renewable Energy Council (QREC), Coexistence Queensland, Powerlink Queensland and our supporters at The Energy Charter for supporting our vision of giving forward to raise awareness, and empower people to engage respectfully and effectively in the regions... 👏 #engagement #regional #rural #remote #strongercommunities #renewables

“Time is the most valuable thing you can spend in a community” What an awesome Power Hour virtual forum this morning exploring the topic ‘Understanding Coexistence’! Number 3 in the series and it was a cracker!! 💥 Key takeaways: 🔎 coexistence is getting to mutually beneficial outcomes for communities, landholders and industry 🔎start with respect and listen 🔎communicate clearly and regularly, and act with integrity. 🔎agriculture is a complex business and each one is different, so don’t make any assumptions. 🔎developers need to create an authorising environment and be on the same page internally for engagement teams to develop coexistence relationships. Oh and so many more!! Massive thank you to our keynote speaker Warwick Squire, and our expert panelists Brent Finlay Georgie Somerset Chris Wicks for sharing your experiences, providing such valuable insights and perspectives… and keeping it real 💥❤️👏🙌 Can’t wait for our September Power Hour… ‘understanding lessons from CSG’… will keep you posted!!! #regional #rural #renewables #strongercommunities #bettertogether

How do we support effective and respectful engagement in regional, rural and remote Queensland during the energy transition? We believe part of the solution is to develop better cultural understanding rather than more technical skills. It was great to be part of a conversation with the Queensland Renewable Energy Council (QREC) Coexistence & Community Working Group recently to seek their feedback and guidance on our proposed training pilot to address this gap. “We just need to get this work started” was the resounding message… and we couldn’t agree more!! Exciting to be working with Katie-Anne Mulder and her team to finalise the pilot details and get this show on the road!! 👏🙌💥 #engagement #renewables #regional #strongercommunities #bettertogether