About Us

As a boutique consultancy, a project team is built for the client to best reflect the needs, the skill sets and the desired outcomes. Aside from Aha! Consulting's main team, complimentary skills are able to be brought into any given project to assist the client uncover their next Aha! Moment.



Joel Levin

Principal consultant
Cert IAP2, Dip Training & Assessment; photo: Joel Levin

Joel Levin is the principal consultant at Aha! Consulting and has 18 years experience working with or in a range of Sectors (Indigenous, Human Services, Planning, State Government, CALD, Environment, Commerce, Sports and Recreation, Education, Local Government, Arts, Aged Care, Health, Commnuity, Child Protection, Disabilities & Justice).

In the Organisational development sphere, Joel works with managers, committees and organisations across the state. His knowledge in the areas of organisational, governance and community development ensures the organisation remains the expert driver in their own destiny. In the Community and Stakeholder engagement sphere, Joel works with clients, stakeholders and participants to design strategies and to facilitate engagement approaches that deliver quality deliberation, transparent processes and meaningful results.

His organisational, engagement and facilitation skills stem from a background in counselling, training, community work and senior management. Joel was the Senior Training Consultant for the Department of Community Development, focusing on the development of their services and funded Not-For-Profit services. This passion for organisational, governance and management development was sparked from his own experience as Executive Officer of a youth organisation in Perth. Between 2001 and 2004 Joel established and managed the Not-For-Profit Development Unit for the WA Council of Social Service. The achievements of the unit have been recognised through a Community Services Industry award for the Development of Community Services in 2002 and a Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership award in 2004. Since then Joel has been part of establishing the WA Committee of the International Association of Public Participation and is currently the state coordinator of this voluntary committee.

Joel has been a guest lecturer as part of the Masters program in Organisational Psychology run by Curtin University and has provided numerous presentations at conferences around the state. His education and training background includes Certificate in public participation (International Association of Public Participation), postgraduate studies in counselling and coaching and has completed both the Cert IV Workplace training and assessment and the Diploma training and assessment systems. Joel is a member of the Psychotherapist and Counsellors Association of WA, the Australasian Facilitators Network and the International Association of Public Participation WA. In 2004 Joel became a fellow of Leadership WA, a program for emerging leaders in WA and in 2005 became a Judge for the State Governments Community Industry Services Awards. Joel is currently the state coordinator for the WA IAP2 committee.


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Kim Brooklyn

Senior Consultant
B.A., Post Grad.Dip.Psych., MPsych

Kim has gained considerable experience during her 30 years working in government, Not For Profit and the private sector. With a career that started in nursing, Kim's career has evolved over the last 16 years to include a solid background in counselling, training and management. Throughout her career and especially over the past six years, Kim has actively engaged with individuals, families, communities, and organisations to determine the most meaningful, socially sustainable, and cost effective service/programs to best meet their identified needs.

Kim has specific experience in:

Training: Designing, developing and delivering training/education packages that are specific to a community/agency and or wider audience needs.  Examples include supervisor training, facilitation and engagement practices, whole of community suicide prevention, working effectively and appropriately with people with mental health problems, counselling skills (micro and macro), working with Indigenous people (counselling and community development), governance.

Consulting: With an emphasis on developing ‘doable’ plans, Kim works with agencies and consumers/stakeholders to identify existing strengths, areas for improvement, and using this information works with services/service providers to determine specific and general strategies to assist clients to achieve sustainable operational and service excellence. Examples of this work in 2007 includes organisation reviews and strategic/succession planning for ATLAS, Manna Industries, Tammin Alcoa Landcare Education Centre (TALEC).

Program Development: Design of state and community based service delivery models for both Indigenous and non-indigenous services, modification of existing models to suit community and customer/client expectations; review and development of supervision models to assist rural and remote workers to achieve high quality service provision.

Research: Identification and utilisation of research methods to access both quantitative and qualitative information germane to a specific and/or general area of interest.  Particular training and experience in the design, administration, scoring, and interpretation of questionnaires, and surveys. Experience in undertaking structured and semi structured interviews, focus groups and informal group facilitation; and also providing theoretical and practical explanations/frameworks for all of the above.

Direct Service Delivery: Psychological services to people from all walks of life (i.e. differing socio-economic status, cultural backgrounds, professional, para-professional and individuals and community).

Community Engagement:  In the design and delivery of specific community services; in determining community concerns, expectations and requirements (and documenting same); and in accessing perceptions regarding specific issues.

Recent publications:
Contributor:
 
 
 		 Garvey, D., (2007). Indigenous identities in contemporary psychology: Dilemmas, developments, directions. Thompson Nelson Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Australia. Indigenous Psychological Services (2006) NSW Review of Social and Emotional Wellbeing Services
   



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