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Our Core Business
Our Core Business
On demand, fully accessible, self-paced Education & Training Research, Workshops & Resources (for use in advocacy, developing action plans, for personal and professional development)
On demand, fully accessible, self-paced Education & Training Research, Workshops & Resources (for use in advocacy, developing action plans, for personal and professional development)
Our Core Values
Our Core Values
As a Social Impact Business we prioritise purpose over profit. Our 4 core values are Social Impact, Inclusion, Access and Allyship. We believe meaningful change happens when people have the autonomy to shape their own futures, when collaboration is genuine, and when diversity and lived experience drive every decision. As a deaf–hearing partnership, our allyship goes beyond these identities, reflecting a broader commitment to disability justice, feminist principles, queer values, neurodivergence, and solidarity across diverse lived experiences. See our short video on this here.
As a Social Impact Business we prioritise purpose over profit. Our 4 core values are Social Impact, Inclusion, Access and Allyship. We believe meaningful change happens when people have the autonomy to shape their own futures, when collaboration is genuine, and when diversity and lived experience drive every decision. As a deaf–hearing partnership, our allyship goes beyond these identities, reflecting a broader commitment to disability justice, feminist principles, queer values, neurodivergence, and solidarity across diverse lived experiences. See our short video on this here.
Our Target Audience
Our Target Audience
We support people who want to know about the deep impacts of Deafness and Hearing loss throughout the lifespan. This is most likely to be hearing families and hearing professionals who have contact with Deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
We support people who want to know about the deep impacts of Deafness and Hearing loss throughout the lifespan. This is most likely to be hearing families and hearing professionals who have contact with Deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
We support communities and families that want the best evidence-based outcomes for their loved ones.
We support communities and families that want the best evidence-based outcomes for their loved ones.
We support mainstream schools, workplaces, health, corrective and social services that need to deliver accessible, culturally affirmative engagement and service delivery. You can read more about how our modules meet a diverse range of learning needs here
We support mainstream schools, workplaces, health, corrective and social services that need to deliver accessible, culturally affirmative engagement and service delivery. You can read more about how our modules meet a diverse range of learning needs here
Our feedback
Our feedback
Allyship values feedback, and we have actively encouraged feedback at every step of module development and delivery. You can access feedback here from a wide range of people who have purchased and reviewed our modules.
Allyship values feedback, and we have actively encouraged feedback at every step of module development and delivery. You can access feedback here from a wide range of people who have purchased and reviewed our modules.
Macro Impact Consulting is a partnership between Sigrid Macdonald and Louise Munro offering specialized training that goes beyond Deaf Awareness Training. All content is presented by a Deaf cultural consultant and a hearing professional, in conversation, because this is what “real-life” lived experience really looks like.
What do you need to know?
What do you need to know?
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What makes our training distinctive:
What makes our training distinctive:
- Unique: We understand that bridging a cultural divide means modelling cross-cultural collaboration. This is why we present our modules as a conversation between deaf and hearing presenters, with live interpreting and optional captions.
- Holistic and In-Depth Content: We do more than Deaf Awareness Training, and more than a “how-to-work with interpreters”. We widen the lens to expose the everyday systemic barriers faced by deaf and hard-of-hearing people, then we sharpen the focus to show why these are often invisible to the hearing world.
- Multiple perspectives: We understand diversity, we both live it, and we appreciate diverse learning styles. We have curated a number of international perspectives to augment our training and help you find the allyship path for your own lived experience.
- Advocacy: Our modules endorse full language access from birth, device autonomy, flexible identities, collaborative practice, allyship, and cultural attunement.
- This is not DAT: We love Deafness Awareness Training! But what we offer is different. Our work extends on DAT and is delivered Bi-lingually and Bi-culturally. We have a section here that outlines how our modules are significantly different from DAT.
What gives us credibility
What gives us credibility
- Lived Experience: Life as a Deaf woman, brings a deep personal understanding to the work.
- Scientific Knowledge: University qualifications in environmental science, that informs advocacy for access and inclusion via understanding systems and diversity.
- Advocacy: Possesses a decade of experience advocating for access and consulting on disability projects.
- Arts and Communication: Integrates a passion for arts and visual communications into her work, serving as an artistic director.
- Education and Facilitation: Skilled in educating diverse audiences and facilitating learning.
- Clinical Expertise: 25 years of professional experience as a registered nurse and a psychologist.
- Academic and Research Skills: Has a PhD on Culturally Affirmative Counselling for Deaf Clients, designs university-level curriculum, and serves as a research reviewer for a number of top tier journals.
- Specialized Therapeutic Skills: Pioneered a "reflecting team" model of therapy for Deaf and hard-of-hearing clients that targets language deprivation and social cognition
- Auslan Proficiency: Has conversational Auslan skills.
- Psychometric Development: Authored the only validated measure of global functioning for Auslan users.
What we don’t do
What we don’t do
Deafness Awareness Training, Auslan lessons, Interpreting, NDIS Coordination. There are lots of places where these services are available. We can recommend many of them. But it’s not what we do. We want to value add in the sector, not replicate existing services.
Deafness Awareness Training, Auslan lessons, Interpreting, NDIS Coordination. There are lots of places where these services are available. We can recommend many of them. But it’s not what we do. We want to value add in the sector, not replicate existing services.
Macro Impact Consulting's training is developed in a collaborative, co-designed allyship model that combines decades of lived experience from a Deaf cultural consultant and clinical experience from a registered psychologist. Macro Impact Consulting is truly unique in the field.
Macro Impact Consulting's training is developed in a collaborative, co-designed allyship model that combines decades of lived experience from a Deaf cultural consultant and clinical experience from a registered psychologist. Macro Impact Consulting is truly unique in the field.
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