Strategic Communications
for Projects That Matter.

Jeanette Wormald is a senior strategic communications and community engagement specialist. She has more than three decades of experience working in regional and remote Australia, with 25 of those years working with First Nations communities across three states and the Northern Territory.

A journalist by trade, she was trained by the industry code of ethics to write compelling stories, to report on the truth with accuracy, to inform readers and animate democracy.
Jeanette has a rich and diverse portfolio and experience in developing communications strategies, projects and products, including work for:
- The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area

- Traditional Owner aspirations for self-determination and caring for Country

- Natural resource management

- Community development

- Teaching literacy through music to young Aboriginal men and woman

- Community arts and music events

- Publishing Indigenous language dictionaries.

 

An intimate knowledge and respect for culturally appropriate communication and interactions were critical to achieving real outcomes and effective working relationships in many of these roles. Her life and work focus has been to meaningfully reflect the lived experience of regional, rural and remote communities.