Why choose us?

Clients and partners enjoy working with us – they appreciate our thinking, our safe pairs of hands, our understanding, our presence of mind, humour, breadth of knowledge, and our enthusiasm.

Our values

We give a damn

  • We take pride in delivering our best – we do not compromise on quality
  • We care about our people and support them to become masters of their craft
  • We form lasting and trusting relationships with partners and clients
  • We want our clients to love what we do

We are courageous

  • We are confident enough to challenge the status quo
  • We make the hard calls
  • We tell it how it is – we are direct and honest

We are determined

  • We are committed to making a difference – for our people, our clients and society

Our company purpose is to mobilise passionate and capable people to tackle the challenges facing our society

We are a group of people who give a damn. This means we will work tenaciously with clients because we believe that together we can make a difference.

We are all about relationships – we choose carefully who we want to work with, including our staff, partners and clients.

We recruit staff, and embrace partners, who have walked in your shoes …

For our government clients that means we have worked in the public service, engaged with Ministers, written Cabinet papers, supported Bills through Parliament, and compiled Ministerial statements. We have used your report templates, put together budget bids and led strategic and planning processes, Statements of Intent, Briefings to Incoming Ministers, and engaged in Capability Reviews. We know how it works – and where it doesn’t, we know how to shift tack so that things just get done.

For businesses, we experience the same things you do. We need to meet regulatory expectations and have to manage our business to ensure business needs are met. However, we have a unique perspective given our strong public sector background and can help you put your position forward to government – in the language of government.

For non-government organisations (NGOs), we have worked alongside NGOs for decades – as government partners, as consultants helping NGOs meet their potential and secure necessary resources, and through our pro bono program.

 

We want our relationship with our clients to be a mutual beneficial partnership

All clients have a Managing Partner or a senior leader who manages the client relationship. They will also be the Allen + Clarke project sponsor for all of that client’s projects.

While the project manager for a specific project will be your first port of call on day to day matters, expect the project sponsor to be fully up to date on the project and to be engaging with you regularly (or as often as you would like).

This means that our Managing Partners don’t just meet with you to sign contracts and then disappear.

Allen + Clarke is on Australian government and state-level panels

Giving back

We believe strongly that businesses can partner with governments to lead important societal change. As part of our efforts to support that idea, we operate a pro bono work stream.

Every year we undertake projects for organisations in areas which align well with our company values.  Our pro bono work has provided individuals and organisations with access to top quality, pragmatic policy and regulatory services on contemporary matters of public or community interest. We greatly value the experience gained from providing services to those who otherwise would not have access to this advice, but who have a genuine need for such services.

We invite expressions of interest in our pro-bono program at any time.