Wattleworks Studio is a consulting and design practice on Brisbane's bayside. We help community organisations, training providers and small businesses build the things their work stands on: training that sticks, evaluation that tells the real story, and practical solutions to compliance problems.
Our favourite kind of brief: here's our problem, help us fix it. Accreditation readiness, grant applications, and the policies and procedures behind safe, compliant services, from child safety requirements to workplace health and safety and reasonable adjustments. We find the gap, design the fix, and leave you with systems your team can run.
Training packages, e-learning modules and accredited course development, built end to end. We design learning for the mental health, disability and community services workforce, and we know the difference between content that gets clicked through and training that changes practice.
Strategy workshops, stakeholder consultations, program evaluation and focus groups: the conversations and evidence that shape what you do next. We've designed and run them for everyone from small providers to government departments. We build the process, run the room, and turn what people said into plain-language reports that funders actually read.
Plenty of people have been told AI will change their work, and far fewer have been shown how. We help small businesses and community organisations put AI to work in their day-to-day: which tools actually fit, how to use them well, and the guardrails and policies that keep it safe. Hands-on training and honest advice from a practice that uses these tools every day.
Not everything needs a consulting engagement. We're packaging the tools we build for clients into products you can buy outright, adapt in an afternoon, and run yourself.
Everything a small provider needs to meet child safe organisation requirements: policies, procedures, code of conduct and a rollout checklist.
Workplace health and safety policies, risk register, incident forms and a self-audit checklist, sized for teams under twenty.
A plain-language process, templates and examples for handling reasonable adjustment requests well, for RTOs and small employers.
An adaptable AI policy plus staff guidelines: what tools are allowed, what data stays private, and how to use AI without risking client trust.
A self-assessment workbook that walks you through the evidence, gaps and fixes before the auditors do.
Templates, a budget builder and a plain-English writing guide for small organisations chasing their first grants.
Names and prices are placeholders while we build. Every template will need customising to your business; they're a head start, not legal advice.
Every pack here started life in our consulting work. If you'd rather have it built with you, or your situation doesn't fit neatly in a box, that's exactly what the services above are for.
Start a conversationThe other half of Wattleworks Studio is a workbench. Original objects, designed from scratch and 3D-printed in small runs here in Queensland. Every piece starts as our own drawing, not someone else's file. First pieces are on the printer now. If you'd like to know when they land, say hello below.
Wattleworks Studio is led by Donna Didlick, a consultant who has spent her career in and around community services and small business: designing training, supporting registered training organisations, evaluating programs and helping small teams do work they're proud of. She grew up in a small country town and is most at home in the Australian bush. Donna prides herself on providing practical assistance that suits your budget and solves the problem you are facing. Out bush, wattle is the quiet worker: it grows where little else will, feeds the soil, and shelters the slower growers until they can stand on their own. That felt like the right name for a practice built on strong foundations and steady growth.
If your organisation needs training built, a program evaluated, a strategy workshop run or a compliance problem solved, we'd love to hear what you're working on.
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