Tailored Solutions for Inclusive Business Development

Our Mission

To walk alongside individuals, communities and organisations to create real, grounded change—through health education, strategic/opportunity support, and future-focused innovation.

The opportunity to thrive should be accessible to everyone, and we strive to support this in the best ways possible.

Who we are

Ziva Consulting is a values-led service provider working across health, strategy, and innovation. We support people and organisations—particularly in remote, rural, and under-resourced areas—to build stronger systems, clearer pathways, and more sustainable ways of working. In a realistic and tailored way.

Founded by Zoe Richardson, Ziva grew from a desire to bridge the gap between big ideas and real-world outcomes. With a background in public health, business, and on-the-ground consulting, Zoe has supported everything from grassroots wellbeing workshops to strategic enterprise development in some of Australia’s most remote regions.

Today, Ziva brings together trusted collaborators across health, facilitation, tech, and design to deliver work that’s thoughtful, ethical, and impactful.

Our Services

  • Explore our health promotion and educational workshops. Here are some examples of our foundational offering, we can tailor a workshop to suit the needs of your audience.

    1. Empowerment & Confidence for Young Women

    2. Sustainable Wellbeing for Women

    3. Strong Foundations: Resilience & Clarity for Young Men

    4. Working Well: Preventing Burnout & Building Better Teams

    5. Future Ready: AI Tools & Digital Confidence for Community Work

  • We offer end-to-end support across project design, strategic planning, and policy development. Working alongside organisations and communities, we help turn ideas into structured, actionable plans. From facilitation to delivery, our projects are grounded, responsive, and built to last.

    1. Project Design & Strategic Planning

    2. Project Management & Delivery Support

    3. Policy Development & Research

    4. Community Consultation & Program Facilitation

    5. Business Planning and Development Support

  • Whether you’re seeking project funding, community development support, or service delivery contracts, we help shape your idea into a strong, fundable narrative backed by smart planning. Services include:

    • Grant writing for small, medium, and large-scale funding.

    • Tender writing for service delivery contracts and government opportunities

    • Tailored funding opportunity mapping aligned to your project or organisation

    • Budget development and alignment with outcomes

    • Support with grant planning, reporting, and delivery frameworks

Past Projects

Anwarrbarr People

  • Tourism Social Enterprise & Community-Led Development

    Ziva Consulting led the full project management and strategic development of Malbak Aboriginal Corporation and its tourism enterprise, Anwarrbarr Tours, over a 12-month period. The work focused on transforming a strong community vision into an operational First Nations-led business in one of the most remote parts of the Northern Territory.

    Key achievements included:

    • Securing grant funding streams to activate business development and community priorities

    • Establishing regular board meetings, governance systems, and staff training

    • Providing opportunities for legal and governance education for staff and directors

    • Coordinating industry exposure, including tourism conferences and event participation

    • Creating employment pathways for local First Nations community members

    • Supporting the development of foundational tourism strategies, branding, and marketing

    • Facilitating partnerships across tourism, health, and enterprise sectors

    As part of Ziva’s commitment to holistic development, we also initiated and coordinated a Wet Season Food Security Pilot—a partnership between Malbak and OzHarvest that delivered monthly fresh produce to the community via charter flights. This program addressed seasonal food scarcity and was a direct response to local needs, co-designed and implemented with care.

    Ziva’s role blended hands-on coordination, strategic support, and long-term capacity building to support community-led success in both tourism and health outcomes.

  • Volunteer Program Supporting Youth Employment Pathways

    Ziva Consulting contributed to the inspiring work of Stella’s Child, a social enterprise supporting young adults from remote Indonesian islands to gain internships, skills, and industry training through partnerships with major hospitality and tourism businesses in Bali.

    The program is designed to enhance income opportunities and long-term economic outcomes by equipping young people with the tools to succeed in high-demand roles—while staying connected to their communities and aspirations.

    As part of this initiative, Zoe Richardson (Founder of Ziva Consulting) delivered a series of volunteer nutrition, wellness, and yoga workshops for youth preparing to enter the workforce. These sessions were culturally tailored and included:

    • Nutrition education for energy, focus, and strength

    • Mind-body awareness and resilience through movement and breath

    • Everyday wellbeing practices for life in high-performance environments

    • Group sessions that honoured local food, culture, and lifestyle

    The workshops were designed to support young adults not only in getting the job, but in staying well while building a future.

  • Zoe undertook a public health internship with the Tropical Medicine Research Centre at Universitas Gadjah Mada, contributing to a range of international health projects focused on infectious disease and community wellbeing.

    Her role supported research initiatives including Zero Tuberculosis, the World Mosquito Program, and the International Tropical Medicine Conference. Zoe worked across marketing, community engagement, and participatory research activities, helping translate complex public health goals into accessible, community-informed strategies. This experience deepened her capacity for cross-cultural health promotion, global health collaboration, and grassroots engagement in diverse contexts.

Meet the Team


  • Founder & Lead Consultant

    Zoe is a strategist, facilitator, and health communicator with a unique ability to bridge systems and people. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Public Health, and brings a rich mix of experience across community engagement, research, health promotion, and social enterprise development.

    Zoe’s career has taken her across oceans and into communities—from interning with the Tropical Medicine Research Unit at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where she supported community engagement in remote village health initiatives, to leading health promotion and engagement projects with First Nations communities in West Arnhem Land.

    As the founder of Ziva Consulting, she now leads project management and strategy for emerging tourism and social enterprise initiatives across northern Australia, with a focus on rural, remote, and under-resourced communities. Her work is grounded in cultural respect, clarity, and practical action—and always centred on people.

    Alongside Ziva, Zoe runs a small events-based coffee business, and spends her downtime surfing, travelling, and connecting with nature wherever she can.


  • Researcher & Human-Centred Design Specialist

    Justin is a biomedical researcher turned human-centred service designer, currently leading a Strategic Design team at the Department of Health, Disability and Aged Care. His multidisciplinary background spans postdoctoral research in oncology drug delivery, coordination of large-scale clinical trials, and co-design in government policy and health sector. With over six years of research expertise, he brings strategic insight, systems thinking, and deep user empathy to every engagement. A recent secondment with an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation strengthened his focus on culturally responsive care. Justin is passionate about inclusive, evidence-based innovation and consults at the intersection of design, science, and digital health.


  • Women’s Health Specialist

    Stef is a Registered Nurse and Certified Fertility Awareness Educator who is passionate about empowering women through accessible, evidence-based education. Her sessions are designed to make cycle knowledge clear, supportive, and life-changing.

    Stef believes every woman deserves to understand her body’s natural rhythms, recognise what’s normal and what’s not, and harness the strengths of each phase of her cycle. Through science-backed information delivered with care and sensitivity, Stef helps women feel confident, strong, and deeply connected to their bodies—because this knowledge is every woman’s birthright.

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