Stakeholder Engagement & Consultation

We can’t overstate the importance of best practise in community relations and genuine consultation, especially if you’re seeking support for a project or a change. Our award-winning stakeholder engagement team can facilitate community meetings, gather feedback, hold briefings, write community newsletters and help you communicate directly with stakeholders, central and local government.

Our award-winning stakeholder engagement team can facilitate community meetings, gather feedback, hold briefings, write community newsletters and help you communicate directly with stakeholders, central and local government.

We can also develop and implement digital consultation strategies, using online engagement tools to reach a broad audience – including monitoring social media, where appropriate.

Convergence consultants have vast experience in community relations and consultation – ranging from small but contentious projects, through to proposals affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

We work to a proven framework for stakeholder engagement and have earned industry awards as proof of our expertise. Our experience shows, time and time again, that good planning leads to good outcomes – short cuts are high risk.

To make sure our advice is best practice, and in line with current international thinking on engagement methods, three of Convergence’s staff have obtained their International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) qualification.

News & Insights

Shining a light on performance and learning through independent review

Convergence Strategic Consultant Dave Brash has both led, implemented, and reviewed a number of significant projects for central and local government including major transport and environment initiatives.

Dave Brash

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Bringing balance to a community discussion on mining

When TiGa Minerals & Metals announced in March 2023 that it intended to apply for resource consents for a minerals mine on the Barrytown Flats of the South Island’s West Coast, the company became concerned at what it perceived as the lack of balance in the public discussion through local news and social media.

Steve Attwood

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The next 100 days: How will government reforms affect your business or organisation?

The National Party has long considered itself the ‘party of business’ with a sharp eye on economic wellbeing and productivity. However, following New Zealand First and Act negotiations, the new National-led coalition government demands quickly enacted reform and it needs to deliver huge swathes of replacement legislation and policy change.

Lisa-Marie Richan (L-M)

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7-point plan to tackle urgent infrastructure needs

This thought leadership piece by Convergence Strategic Consultant Dave Brash is getting wide pick up.

Dave Brash

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PR for NZ's biggest one-day festival

We’ve been working with Team Event for 14 years and this year we were thrilled to lead the public relations for the Electric Avenue Festival – providing media, social media, content creation, artist liaison and issues management services.

Jessica Cartwright

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Our new Partner explains 'Why Reputation Matters' in the Institute of Director's magazine

There is a new kind of literacy needed around the boardroom table. Directors who would not dream of walking into a boardroom without being able to read a balance sheet now need to ask themselves whether they and their colleagues are sufficiently literate in the language of reputation.

Marie Hosking

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Convergence continues Auckland expansion with acquisition and two new equity partners

Convergence Communications is strengthening its Auckland presence with the purchase of Auckland-based communications consultancy, Ramsgate Advisors, and the addition of two new equity partners – Rick Osborne and Marie Hosking.

Leigh Harris

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