About Folket Consultancy
Hej! Folket Consultancy (‘folks’ in Swedish) is a collective of experienced folks, brought together to help solve your challenges - in collaboration. When you work with Folket, you can trust that we carefully choose our team members based on their skills. We make sure they're a perfect fit for your specific needs. Think you have a Folket job? Reach out and we will get back to you to explore your possibilities.
Hej, Linda here, trevligt att träffas (nice to meet you!). I founded Folket Consultancy to meet a need I had experienced myself working in the not-for-profit sector. I often felt overwhelmed by the number of consultants you had to engage simply to deliver one project. It seemed counterproductive to engage one consultant to design and deliver workshops, then another one to set up your evaluation framework and a third to help build out a communication strategy for your work. Plus, every time you had to start over and provide context and information about your project, organisation, and goals. On top of this, the work produced by the various consultants may or may not line up depending on how well they knew the other areas of work.
With Folket, I want to simplify that journey. Folket Consultancy brings together people from a variety of skills - all within one consultancy.
The word “Folket” is a Swedish word meaning ‘folks’ (it’s pronounced Foll:kett if you want to practice your Swedish). At Folket Consultancy, we are a team of folks who all love to work on collaborative projects that create impact.
Between us, we offer expertise in evaluation, research, facilitation of workshops and community consultation, program and co-design, community and stakeholder engagement, and strategic communication.
This means the folks at Folket can support a variety of projects, end-to-end or at various times and stages. We’ve supported not-for-profit organisations, Government agencies, small business owners and large private entities.
But most importantly, we are good folks who care about you, your community, and your work.
We are problem solvers and collaborators and our projects are as diverse as our people. If you're uncertain about the specific skill sets required but recognise the need for creative problem-solving, Folket could be the right choice for you.
Maybe you are looking for an engaging facilitator? Perhaps you’re co-designing a new program or product with community and key stakeholders?
Possibly you’ve found yourself in need of a program logic, evaluation framework, or support with data collection, market research, and analysis?
Or perhaps you are looking for a communications strategy and community engagement plan for your organisation or program?
We work in collaboration with clients and always seek to enable capacity building for you and your teams. Learn more about our consultants below and reach out to set up a chat and explore how our folks can support you and your work.
Meet the folks at Folket Consultancy
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Linda Karlsson
FOUNDER
Hej! Trevligt att träffas (nice to meet you!). With Folket, I bring together a diversity of skilled folks to work on projects that create impact and generate value, in collaboration with the client. I have a background in anthropology (incl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies at UQ) and an undergrad in Equality and Diversity Management, majoring in Gender Studies. I also hold a master's degree in social and behaviour change communication.
I have specialised in communications, marketing, brand and stakeholder engagement and spent almost a decade working in corporate, not-for-profit and the start-up space. I enjoy working with clients to unpack the role effective communications can have to facilitate their work and improve connections with community, stakeholders and their own teams.
Outside of work, I am also the Co-founder and Chair of The Hive Collective, a community led not-for-profit, run by women for women.
On every project, I work diligently to bring together a tailored team to meet your needs and achieve your goals.
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Danielle O'Hara
CONSULTANT
Danielle is an experienced and passionate facilitator, community engagement practitioner, researcher, and evaluator.
She has complimentary expertise in collaborative practice, strategic planning, and program co-design.
She uses these skills to support groups and organisations to design strategy, frameworks, programs, training resources, as well as support to embed data-collection and evaluation in projects.
She has worked extensively with all levels of government and the not-for-profit sector and has a comprehensive understanding of a range of fields, including, learning, education, volunteering, disaster resilience and recovery, environmental education and the community sector.
Recently, Danielle collaborated with Mental Health Families and Friends to support the co-design of a training program alongside focus groups with lived experience. She's also facilitated the development of a strategic and operational plan for a state-wide NFP.
When Danielle is not working with clients through Folket Consultancy, she is completing her PhD on conflict resolution in disaster recovery and emergencies.
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Dr Meghan Bond
CONSULTANT
Dr. Meghan Bond (PhD) is an experienced evaluator, social researcher, and community engagement practitioner, based in Northern Tasmania. Meghan has decades of professional experience in local and state government, not-for-profit, private, and academic sectors.
Meghan has scoped, developed, and delivered research and evaluation projects spanning areas of governance, health and wellbeing, sustainability, education, community development and social justice.
Recent projects include research and workplace gender analysis to support local government to increase the inclusiveness of services for culturally and linguistically diverse families and Indigenous people. Advice and development of a stakeholder survey and data-collection tools to support the inaugural Diversity Action Plan for the forestry industry. As well as experience as a developmental evaluator, managing a state-wide team of evaluators overseeing a social impact project.
Meghan also enjoys delivering workshops to train people to undertake all aspects of social research, monitoring and evaluation, including establishing baselines, developing data-collection tools as well as the practical aspects of collecting and analysing data.
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Deniz Yildiz
CONSULTANT
Deniz holds a master's degree in Environmental Management from the University of NSW and is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Her research integrates cultural geography and communication to explore the development of inclusive accessible communication about bushfire preparedness.
Additionally, she tutors at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), enhancing students' understanding of sustainable living and systems thinking.
She has experience conducting qualitative research and analysis and regularly uses NVivo in her work.
Deniz currently provides research assistance on a collaborative university/government project focused on bushfire resilience in Greater Hobart. In her role, she research how the relationships between households and neighbourhoods influence attitudes and preparedness towards bushfires.
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Lissa Villeneuve
CONSULTANT
Lissa is a highly skilled facilitator, project manager, and community engagement practitioner with a strong focus on co-design processes with a human centred approach.
With a passion for community-led initiatives, Lissa uses her skills to support groups and organisations to collaborate better and solve problems by designing strategy, operational plans and programs - built on the strengths and insights of the people involved and impacted.
Her facilitation and training expertise includes community-led disaster resilience workshops, strategic planning workshops and community engagement. She also enjoys developing resources such as facilitation guides, training manuals, and assessment tools.
Recently, Lissa has worked closely with the Swansea community to unpack assumptions and engaging with different perspectives to create a shared vision for strengthening community resilience. She has also been running workshops in the South Gippsland Shire and their communities to create shared understandings of strengths, risks, assets and gaps to identify actions for strengthening local community resilience.