We help organisations define, protect, and enhance their reputation by clarifying brand purpose, values, and messaging. Our work supports consistent external positioning and internal alignment, strengthening trust with audiences while ensuring your brand reflects who you are and where you’re heading. Geist can assist with brand development, review, and rebranding projects and develop hands-on tools such as brand guidelines kits and creative briefs.

Geist Consulting Australia specialises in working with Boards and Executive teams who want to clearly articulate their organisational values, vision, mission and value proposition statement through facilitated workshops. These sessions can include assistance with strategic plan development and operational priorities toolkits. We can also provide trusted strategic advice to leaders navigating complexity, change, and growth, as well as on-the-ground crisis communications support and advice.

We help organisations build constructive relationships with stakeholders through thoughtful engagement and communication and robust, actionable engagement plans. Our work supports inclusive participation, clear expectations and long-term trust, especially in complex or sensitive environments.

We assist organisations to strengthen their fundraising approach and secure grant funding. Our services include strategy development, opportunity identification, proposal writing, impact reporting and readiness support. Our fundraising and grants background spans education, health and medical research and community services.

With extensive on-tools experience across a range of products and projects, Geist Consulting can add capacity and expertise to your marketing and communications team. Able to hit the ground running, ask Geist Director, Susanna Wills-Johnson, to assist with tasks as wide-ranging as copywriting, editing, proof-reading, content creation for traditional and social platforms, campaign execution, website review and updates, interviewing and media releases, speechwriting and publications development. Susanna can also manage individual and organisational social media channels, as well as websites (rebuild, new build and content management), on an ongoing basis.

We support the design and delivery of multi-platform campaigns that are strategic, coordinated and purpose-driven. From planning through to implementation, we help ensure campaigns are well-targeted, clearly messaged, measurable and aligned with broader organisational objectives. Our campaign experience covers all above and below the line executions and can be adapted to a range of budgets.

Using over 20 years’ experience leading teams in small, medium and large organisations, as well as formal postgraduate training in business leadership, Geist Director Susanna Wills-Johnson provides strategic consulting services that include a review of current marketing and communications team practice, roles and results, business plan development for teams, skills gap analysis, communications strategy development, social media strategy and content plans mapped to organisational values as well as departmental structures and position description development.