Happy Changemakers works with

INDIVIDUALS
Consultants, Entrepreneurs, Executives, Social Entrepreneurs,

TEAMS
Boards, Committees, Committees of Management, Management, Marketing, Operations/Production, Sales, Volunteer

ORGANISATIONS
Charities, Clubs/Clusters/Collectives, Community Foundations, Community Organisations, Co-operatives/Mutuals, Educational Organisations, Grantmakers, Industry Associations, Membership Associations, Not For Profit, Peak Bodies, Professional Associations, Social Enterprise, Social Purpose Organisations

BUSINESS
B Corps, Conscious, Contracted Agencies, Family Owned, Professional Services, Purpose, Start Ups

GOVERNMENT
Agencies/Authorities, Federal Government, Local Government, Policy Makers, State Government

using these methods

Face to Face, Online, Teleconferencing, Video Conferencing

offering these services

Capability Building, Capacity Building, Checklists, Coaching, Collaborations, Facilitation, MC, Mentoring, Online Courses, Public Speaking, Reviews, Strategic Sounding Board, Templates, Tools, Training, Workshops

and specialising in

with particular expertise in

Disability Services, Disasters/Emergencies, Employment, Enterprise, LGBTIQ, Leadership, Mental Health, Migrants/Refugees, Rural/Regional/Remote, Social Entrepreneurship, Tourism

Client Testimonials

Our Story

We’re Jodie and Rob, and here at Happy Changemakers we support businesses and leaders who strive for positive change and make a difference in the world. We make our mark on the world by helping you make yours.

As experienced business mentors, we support you to:

• Identify and let go of the things that are holding you back,
• Tame the chaos and overwhelm that can come with running your own show,
• Focus on the things that will help you achieve your goals,
• Manage the expectations they you have of yourselves and others,
• Earn the money that you are worth, for the work you do.

We bring together a combined 55+ years across leadership, sales and marketing and governance, and have worked with 350+ not-for-profit organisations, social enterprises, co-operatives, start-ups and small businesses via our coaching services, workshops and skill development events including regional bushfire recovery & COVID Resilience & recovery.

We’re passionate about working with highly motivated business owners and leaders, and we have helped hundreds of businesses solve real-world problems, developing opportunities to take them to the next level.

We do this through 7 key services to support you, irrespective of the stage of your business – ideation, starting up or scaling up. They are set up as Packaged Solutions (see below), so you can see the exact investment you are making, and the results we’ll achieve together. In a nutshell, they are:

1. Business Action Plans – If you’re not achieving the results you want in your enterprise, we’ll listen to you and help you formulate a plan for success, that includes a clear timeline to support your goals. Our Business Action Plans give you the latest tools and ideas to assist you with service, sales, and marketing.
2. Prioritising, Planning and Setting Boundaries – If you’re struggling to know where to put the focus, a few hours with us will solve that and give you great clarity.
3. Business Audit – Is the reward for effort unbalanced in your enterprise? If so, you’re not alone. We’ll review the last 12 months with you, and work through what’s working/what’s not, and put together a clear roadmap that will ensure your business is supporting you and the team, and not the other way around!
4. Ideas for a new business or enterprise – If you are at the idea stage, and not sure which direction to take it, or if it’s worth pursuing, we’ll look at the right governance and business model with you, and within a week you’ll know which steps to take next.
5. Product Development – This is one of our key super powers! We’ll help you build a product eco-system for either 1:1 or 1:Many delivery (online, group coaching, packages etc). We help with pricing, choosing technology platforms and creating clear steps and processes to assist with selling, customer onboarding and service delivery.
6. Sales & Marketing Strategy and Business Development Strategy – We provide a very holistic package of services that will give you the strategy and implementation support to generate the sales that your business needs to thrive.
7. Accountability Coaching – Now you have the plans and tools, will you stick to it? We know what it’s like, which is why we offer fortnightly Accountability Coaching, which is a proven leadership technique to help you embed the new practices, and get the results you want.
   We have also spent many years creating tools, resources, workbooks, and comparing all the SAAS technology solutions that provide support to small business. You get to lean into all that support when you work with us at Happy Changemakers.

Plus - As members of the Collective, we have also been able to weave in other Specialist support to our packages where needed, such as Process Improvement, Intellectual Property Advice, Technology Automation, Online Course Creation and much more.

Example clients and projects

Twiga Group - development of a business action plan for new products, services and systems.

Justice Connect's Not for Profit Law Training & Enterprise - development of a three year business development strategy & sales skills mentoring. Financial modelling by Right Source, a Specialist with The Xfactor Collective.

TRY Australia - social enterprises and services, operational plans aligned with Strategic Plan

Two Green Threads - set up and business action plan for new Charity and Company Limited By Guarantee

The MAST - Warragul - business action planning for co-working, creative space and marketing strategy.

Elm Consulting Australia - business action planning & product development

Elaine Hendrick Consulting - business action planning, sales & marketing mentoring, product development

Awards and Achievements

Strategic advisors to Founder, The Xfactor Collective.

Social impact sector involvement

Small Business Mentoring Service (SBMS) - volunteers
Work My Own Way - Small Business Trainers for social enterprise, GippsTech.
Strategic advisors to Inaugural East Gippsland Winter Festival and East Gippsland Marketing Inc.

Previous Roles
MC of Volunteering Victoria's Statewide Conference
Consultants to International Association for Volunteer Effort , IAVE
New Enterprise Initiative Scheme (NEIS) Trainer

Board Member Victorian Council of Social Services (VCOSS), Member Finance, Audit and Risk committee.

Inaugural President of Emergency Relief (ER) Victoria. Member of the Victorian State Consultative Committee to the Federal Government’s Financial Management program, Microfinance, emergency relief and financial counselling

Member of Victorian Government’s Small Business Advisory Council to Minister Marsha Thomson