At Habitus, we’re not in the game of pumping out reports to make ourselves look good. We’re here to show what happens when you put anthropology, emotional intelligence, and bloody good conversations into the hands of people hungry for change.
Since day one, our work has been about this: Create. Educate. Change.
But none of that happens in a vacuum. These numbers—every workshop delivered, every leader challenged, every person heard—only exist because people showed up. They trusted us with their time, their stories, their discomfort, and their hope.
So while this blog is about our social impact, it’s really about you. The organisations that chose to lead differently. The individuals who leaned into the mess. The communities who made space for something new.
This is what we’ve built—together.
From classrooms to corporate boardrooms, community centres to the Australian Army Reserves— we’ve shown up wherever people come together and complexity follows.
Why? Because culture, conflict, connection — the messy stuff — shows up everywhere. And the tools we bring at Habitus—empathy, cultural humility, and real, courageous conversation—are needed in every industry built by and for humans.
We’ve worked across education, healthcare, youth services, defence, community development, corporate leadership, and more. And we don’t just parachute in — we take the time to understand your context, your people, and your pressure points, so we can tailor what we do to what you actually need.
If people are part of the picture, so are we.
These are the partners who dared to lead differently. From Headspace to EY, Kiama High to Macquarie Uni, The School of Life to Transgrid — each of them chose more than a checkbox approach to diversity. They committed to building cultures grounded in trust, humility, and what it means to put people first.
Because real leadership isn’t just about strategy and structure. It’s about creating space for the conversations that matter. And we’ve seen it time and time again, your team craves it. As Sophia, a participant in one of our leadership programs, puts it:
“This session allowed us to really delve into things like purpose and impact, and team culture — which are really hard discussions when you're so busy doing day-to-day work. This process gave us all permission to step outside the busy, the urgent, and look at what's important.”
That’s the kind of shift we’re seeing — organisations saying yes to depth, not just performance. And people inside them finally getting the time and permission to talk about what really matters.
Yep, we’re counting — thousands of people have stepped into our workshops, presentations, programs, and brave conversations. They’ve walked out a little more connected, a little more compassionate, and a hell of a lot more human.
Because that's the heart of what we do — making space for people to rediscover what matters.
One area we’re especially proud of is our work around masculinity. Take our Men After #MeToo workshop, which is just one example of the many topics we can open up space for conversation using our brave conversations framework. Our workshop invites boys and men to pause and reflect on what it means to show up as a man in today’s world and reconnect with each other and themselves.
But don’t take our word for it, here’s how one of our participants puts it:
“The openness, the feeling of being heard, the opportunity to delve into a part of ourselves that we wouldn't usually share with other men, the way it got everyone talking and also listening… these are all skills that I’ll use in my life”
And it goes beyond masculinity. Being a “better human” isn’t about perfection — it’s about being willing to listen, reflect, and do the work. That’s the power in you we’re here to help activate.
We’re not chasing feel-good moments. We’re here for something deeper. Real, lasting change doesn’t come from scaling up or scaling out — it comes from scaling deep. That means working on yourself, your relationships, your team, your organisation — the things that actually shape how we live and lead.
This is the stuff most people don’t see. Quiet work. Volunteered time. Showing up in schools, communities, and youth spaces that don’t have the budget but have all the need.
We reinvest what we earn from corporate and private sector clients into delivering high-impact, low-barrier programs for those doing it tough. It’s how we level the playing field — in practice, not theory. Here’s one example:
Back in 2021, a group of young people in Kiama came to us — They were grieving a string of youth suicides. They didn’t want platitudes. They wanted to be heard.
So we ran a Lifehacks program with them. Not to “fix” them, but to give them space to make sense of what was happening.
They told us: They feel unheard. They know there are mental health resources available to them, but they want more than that, they want to be connected. They’re tired of adults thinking they know best without listening.
The result? A whitepaper built on their words — and a model for community-led cultural change.
This one’s close to our hearts. Learn more about the program and how truly listening to young people can make a powerful difference to their mental health, here.
Every hour counts, and your partnership adds up.
But it doesn’t end there.
We believe that meaningful change should be accessible — that’s why we’ve made a conscious choice to offer our time, resources and services at a reduced cost to community organisations, helping them save and reinvest over the above figure into the programs, people, and projects that matter most.
This is part of our commitment to sustainable impact. By tailoring our pricing to the context and capacity of our partners — whether that’s a grassroots youth service or a national mental health organisation — we make sure our work goes further, where it counts.
Since day one, we’ve backed our values with action. To date, the above ratio of our revenue has been reinvested into supporting grassroots programs, community leaders, and initiatives serving those most in need — from regional youth support groups to citizen ethnography projects.
That’s not because we have to — it’s because we know the people we support are the ones making the real sacrifices to drive change. They’re on the ground, doing the hard work. And as long as we have the capacity, we’ll keep backing them however we can.
If you’ve made it this far, thank you. Seriously. Whether you’ve partnered with us, sat in one of our sessions, read our blogs, or just cheered us on from the sidelines. This impact - it’s yours too. You’ve helped us build something real. Something human. And we’re bloody grateful.
But we’re not done. Not even close.
Because culture doesn’t shift itself. Conversations don’t spark out of thin air. And deep, messy, meaningful change? It only happens when people keep showing up — just like you have.
So if this story resonated — if you’re curious about what we do, or fired up to bring more depth, humility and connection into your team, school or community — let's talk.
Whether you’re leading a boardroom or a classroom, running a business or just trying to make sense of the chaos — we’ve got tools that work, and stories that stick.
Let’s build the next chapter together.
This 2-minute culture check offers a safe way to surface the conversations your people might be holding back — and what to do about it.
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