Lived Experience Consulting
LEX Consulting helps organisations use lived expertise as practical intelligence for policy, service, research and operational decisions.
Explore service →Lived experience consulting for better decisions.
LEX Consulting provides independent lived experience expertise, co-design, policy advice, system reform, research input and specialist advisory services across Australia.
Service directory
Choose the right starting point.
Each service page explains the work, the organisations it can support and the type of engagement that may be useful.
Co-Design & Engagement
Good co-design gives lived expertise a meaningful role in shaping the problem, options, decisions and implementation—not just a place to react to a finished proposal.
Explore service →Policy & System Reform
LEX Consulting connects frontline knowledge with policy intent, implementation realities and the system effects that emerge across services.
Explore service →Government & NGO Advisory
Independent advice for organisations making decisions about services, reform, engagement, evidence and operational priorities.
Explore service →NDIS & Disability
Disability and NDIS decisions are experienced through eligibility, planning, service access, support relationships and the wider systems around a person.
Explore service →Mental Health
Lived experience insight can help mental health organisations understand how crisis, treatment, recovery and service pathways are encountered over time.
Explore service →Justice & Corrections
Justice systems are experienced across police, courts, custody, supervision, services and community reintegration—not as separate policy compartments.
Explore service →Alcohol & Other Drugs
People encounter alcohol and other drug systems through treatment, harm reduction, recovery, justice, health, housing and community services at the same time.
Explore service →Child Protection & Family Services
Child protection and family-service decisions affect children, parents, carers and communities across multiple institutions and over long periods of time.
Explore service →Neurodivergence
Accessibility is shaped by communication, process, environment and institutional expectations—not only by an individual’s diagnosis or support needs.
Explore service →Research & Evidence
Lived experience can strengthen research when it shapes the question, method, interpretation and use of findings—not only the recruitment stage.
Explore service →Speaking, Panels & Workshops
Thoughtful speaking and workshop engagements connect lived experience with the decisions, systems and professional practices an audience can influence.
Explore service →Engagement pathway
From a defined question to practical next steps.
Organisations can engage LEX Consulting for a project consultation, advisory arrangement, workshop, research contribution, policy review, stakeholder engagement, panel or speaking engagement.
Start with the decision, service, policy or question you need to work through. The scope, format, confidentiality expectations and intended output can then be agreed before the engagement begins.
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