Our Story
The Social Economy Group works to improve the strategic clarity, governance, and organisational health of social purpose organisations. Over nine years, we have brought best practice and contemporary thinking to the Social Economy; NGOs, non-profits, and charities.
All of our consulting team have themselves worked as C-suite executives, directors or senior leaders in non-profit organisations. We bring experience in leadership, delivery, stakeholder engagement, and problem solving, in like-roles and like-organisations.
How we work
We measure our success by the change our clients achieve. We focus on what is of greatest value to you, and your stakeholders. We work to help you deliver greater impact.
Our work and recommendations are informed by data and current insights. We listen. We challenge assumptions. We deliver practical solutions.
We hold ourselves accountable to three key organisational values:
Impact
Learning
Honesty
As a for-purpose consultancy, we assess our own impact against a framework that considers our employees and associates, our community, our environment, our suppliers and customers, our decision-making processes and accountability.
Our team
Julianne Rose, director (MELBOURNE)
Julianne founded The Social Economy Group specifically to support the effectiveness of for-purpose organisations.
She is a trusted director, executive and advisor, specialising in strategy, governance, and organisational development. She brings over 20 years’ of experience working with boards, executives and senior leaders to achieve impact and effective change. Her client engagements particularly focus on making non-profits exceptional places to work, through strategic clarity, effective governance, leadership and team effectiveness, and psychosocial safety.
Julianne is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Governance Institute, a Professional Member of the Australian HR Institute, and an Associate Member of the Australian Psychological Society. She was a Non-Executive Director of Baptcare for ten years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics, Organisation Studies), a Bachelor of Commence (Finance), and is currently undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Arts (Psychology).
Verena WOEPPEL, SENIOR CONSULTANT (SYDNEY)
Verena has a decade of experience leading insights, strategy and operational excellence functions in the not-for-profit sector. She applies these areas of expertise to her Australian and international clients, ensuring data-driven insights inform strategy, monitoring of performance, and organisational capability and change. She’s motivated by applying her professional skillset in contributing to a fairer and more equitable world.
Verena’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (human rights and social justice), and professional studies in international organisations management, social and economic networks, and microfinance. As a Board Observer through The Observership Program, she has participated in governance training through the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and The Ethics Centre. Multilingual, Verena can work fluently in both English and German, as well as being proficient in Spanish.
CUSHLA PIERCE, SENIOR Consultant (Auckland)
Cushla brings over 20 years’ experience in values-driven leadership of people, change, and programmes, with public sector entities, nonprofit organisations and social enterprises. She has designed and supported large-scale organisational development and change through prior consulting roles with Hay Group and Accenture, including with government departments in both Australia and New Zealand.
Cushla’s consulting and advisory work spans leadership, organisational development, culture, performance, change, and job design. She brings well-developed research, analytical, and project management skills, alongside her inclusive and collaborative engagement style. Her skills include organisation design, job evaluation, interviewing, person-role fit exercises, accountability and KPI formation.
Her extensive experience is supported by qualifications including: Bachelor of Health Science, Psychology (Honours), Graduate Diploma in Applied Psychology, Graduate Diploma in Arts (Social Policy), Bachelor of Arts, and NZQA Level 4 Certificate, Māori protocol and language.
CAREERS
To deliver the most relevant insights and quality support to our clients, we're always looking for people with experience in non-profit leadership, organisational development, performance and people analytics, and consulting to join our flexible and expanding team of consultants.
We also collaborate with an exceptional network of associate consultants and other specialist providers, including as members of the Benefolk Network.
Please contact us to explore current opportunities.
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION
We donate 2% of gross revenue to support organisations and programs nominated by our consulting team. Over the past eight years, we’re proud to have contributed in a small way to the work of the following organisations.
