Mia Swainson Consulting is not currently operating.
We had an increadible eight years, making a difference with leaders across the Australian government, ACT government and in NGOs. Mia and her team have facilitated more than 100 planning days, delivered hundreds of stakeholder engagement sessions, several hundred hours of coaching sessions and delivered about 20 major review reports.
Mia Swainson closed this chapter of Mia Swainson Consulting in August 2025 and stepped into a full time role at the Climate Change Authority.
Thank you to our clients
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Modernising Managed Funds Collection Project
- Parks Australia: Performance Criteria Review, Leadership Forum and ANBG Living Collection Strategy
- ACT Health Directorate: Business Planning Workshop Series
- ACT Housing: Evaluation of OneLink (Central Intake for Homelessness Services)
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water: Performance Framework Design
- Australian Council for International Development
- YWCA Canberra: Strategic Planning and strategic facilitation
- National Women’s Safety Alliance: Strategic facilitation
- ACT Government: Ngunnawal Community Engagement on Cultural Resource Management
- YMCA Canberra: Strategic planning
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Behavioural Economics Branch: Business planning
- ACT Government, Policy and Cabinet Division: Strategic planning
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Indigenous Affairs Group, Information and Evaluation Branch: Strategic and Business planning process
- Australian Government, Clean Energy Regulator, Small Scale Renewable Energy and Compliance Branch: Business planning
- Australian Government, Department of Infrastructure, National Water Grid Authority: Business Planning
- Australian Government, Department of Human Services, Fraud Division: Business Planning and team building
- ACT Government, Whole of Government Communications and Engagement: Strategic and Business Planning
- ACT Legislative Assembly, Ministerial office team: Team building
- Australian Government, Clean Energy Regulator, Communications team: Team building in a change context
- Canberra City Uniting Church, Early Morning Centre: Business planning and stakeholder engagement
- CARE Inc.: External Review
- SARRAH Summit: Strategic facilitation
- YWCA Canberra: Strategic facilitation
- Capital Region Community Services: Strategic planning
- A Gender Agenda: Strategic planning
- Canberra Community Law: Strategic Planning, Evaluation of Socio-Legal Practice
- Beryl Women: Stakeholder survey
Environmental and Social Responsibility
Mia Swainson Consulting gives at least 10% of business time to pro bono or ‘low’ bono clients. In 2023-24 11% of clients were charged ‘low bono’ rates and 100% of clients were committed to public service, environmental or social benefit. Mia Swainson Consulting is owned by Mia Swainson.
Mia Swainson is President of the Canberra Environment Centre, and a founding member of Canberra’s Zero Waste Revolution. Mia’s book, Happy Planet Living, is about the simple ways to make a difference. Mia Swainson’s hugely popular 2019 TEDxCanberra Talk on How to Start your Zero Waste Journey launched her onto the Australian speaking circuit. Mia is an appointed member of the ACT Climate Change Council.
Mia Swainson Consulting is a business that’s committed to being a force for good. We believe that each person and organisation must be the change that they seek in the world. All business ought to be conducted as if people and place matters. Mia Swainson Consulting became Canberra’s fourth certified B Corporation, in May 2020.
