'Kangaroo Island Business Climate' Roadmap
HUBS / Kangaroo Island Hub
Co-designing a local business community solution
Disasters are impacting the Kangaroo Island business community like never before. A constantly changing climate requires a new culture of business risk reduction and resilience.
To build capabilities in business people across the Kangaroo Island region, Resilient Ready (formerly corporate2community) has been funded to create a FREE solution for the local business community.
This ‘Kangaroo Island Business Climate’ Roadmap will enable every person who owns, operates or works in a local business (including not-for-profits) to do business better – in the good times and bad.
Funded by SAFECOM, this project is a collaboration between Resilient Ready, the South Australian Department for Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS) and the Kangaroo Island Business Hub.
Members of the Kangaroo Island business community can access their Roadmap for free until 30th June 2026.
Take the Roadmap Survey Log in to your dashboardYour roadmap in 3 steps
Step 1: Scorecard
Begin by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of your business by taking a survey of 16 ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions, and review your scorecard.
Step 2: Roadmap
Move through your tailored roadmap of 16 two-minute learning modules. These help provide a plan to help your business embed resilience into everyday practices.
Step 3: Certificate
Earn your roadmap certificate by completing each learning module, and see your business thrive.
Step 1: Scorecard
Begin by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of your business by taking a survey of 16 ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions, and review your scorecard.
Step 2: Roadmap
Move through your tailored roadmap of 16 two-minute learning modules. These help provide a plan to help your business embed resilience into everyday practices.
Step 3: Certificate
Earn your roadmap certificate by completing each learning module, and see your business thrive.
A commitment to building local capabilities
Engaging with the community to co-design
Kangaroo Island business community representatives have been participating in Steering Group sessions to guide the direction of this project over the past 12 month. The grant also includes engaging a local Kangaroo Island person to work in the project team.
In addition, 6 discovery workshops were held in person across the Kangaroo Island region and online in June 2022. This important step enabled us to test the capability building tool concept and source local business people with lived experience.
Findings informed this Roadmap’s ‘business climate’ theme to ensure each micro-learning module is relevant, tailored and beneficial to the entire Kangaroo Island business community.
As a Kangaroo Island local, I'm excited to be bringing together our business people to explore new opportunities and see what comes of our collaboration.
Maria Waters
Kangaroo Island Local Project Engagement and Support
Designing a solution for every person in business
This ‘Kangaroo Island Business Climate’ Roadmap welcomes every business owner or operator from across Kangaroo Island to participate – including not-for-profits.
Our Resilient Ready micro-learning approach supports every person with any level of understanding to take small steps in:
- building resilience
- reducing risks, and
- strengthening community connections.
Disasters across Kangaroo Island are becoming more frequent, more impactful and compounding. There has never been a more important time to set you, your business and your community up to thrive.
Get your tailored Roadmap and start doing business better
Every participating business will:
- Learn up to 16 new things about the benefits of understanding your business, knowing your risks, planning your response and building your networks
- Make up to 16 small steps in positive behaviour changes to improve how you do business in the good times, and get you ready for the bad.
key delivery team
Maria Waters
Kangaroo Island Stakeholder Engagement and Support
Maria Waters
Kangaroo Island Stakeholder Engagement and Support
Maria is a Kangaroo Island stakeholder expert working on project delivery.
Mel Peverill
Program Manager
Mel Peverill
Program Manager
Mel works across multiple projects sharing her community development and resilience-building skills.
Renae Hanvin
CEO + Founder
Renae Hanvin
CEO + Founder
Renae is the CEO + founder of Resilient Ready, driving Australian and global innovations.
Kangaroo Island Business Hub
Delivery Partner
Kangaroo Island Business Hub
Delivery Partner
The Kangaroo Island Business Hub through the Department for Industry, Innovation & Science is supporting the delivery of this project.
Frequently asked questions
The ‘Kangaroo Island Business Climate’ Roadmap is an online capability building program specifically designed for businesses operating on Kangaroo Island. The aim of the project is to enable every business person across Kangaroo Island to do business better – in the good times, and the bad.
The project focuses on reducing disaster risks and limiting the impact associated with natural hazards on Australian communities and economies. We know that people are the foundation for building resilience, so Resilient Ready Hubs focus on building people’s capabilities.
This ‘Kangaroo Island Business Climate’ Roadmap solution aims to:
- support a new culture of risk understanding, risk reduction and resilience
- develop a co-designed tool that’s relevant to, and inclusive of, the Kangaroo Island business community
- integrate a micro-learning platform for businesses – small steps can drive big change.
This is achieved in the development of a local capability building Roadmap tool with a ‘Kangaroo Island Business Climate’ theme.
This FREE project is open to every business owner, operator and employee operating within the Kangaroo Island Local Government Area. This includes people working in not-for-profits and government entities.
Business people from outside this region are ineligible to participate.
This project was funded under the Disaster Risk Reduction Grants Program funded by the Australian Government and the South Australian Government. Views and findings associated with this initiative/project are expressed independently and do not necessarily represent the views of State and Commonwealth funding bodies.
This project is being delivered by certified social enterprise Resilient Ready (formerly corporate2community) in collaboration with the South Australian Department for Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS) and the Kangaroo Island Business Hub.
This project development concludes in early 2023. The online tool is available to Kangaroo Island based business people until 30th June 2026.
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