Let’s create better futures together.

The Good Cartel connects brave hearts and minds in pursuit of a common ‘good’: futures we can all be excited about.

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“Creating better futures through meaningful connections requires developing relational intelligence, taking collective action, reflecting and sharing along the way. The Good Cartel is my offer to all the brave hearts and minds who believe that better futures are still within our reach.”

Meet the human behind The Good Cartel…

Sarah Patterson (she/her) is an award-winning multi-disciplinary designer with decades of experience working to achieve positive social outcomes across the public and private sectors. She has a diverse background, having piloted and implemented social policy initiatives with the Australian Government for almost a decade before exploring architecture and eventually, strategic design.

An expert strategist, facilitator and partnerships broker, Sarah now helps purposeful humans unlock their collaborative potential.

What we do

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    Consulting

    We work with purpose-driven organisations to create strategies to enable better futures and offer partnership brokering services to help them build meaningful connections.

    For more information, get in touch.

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    Connecting

    We offer monthly curated events through The Good Cartel Collective aimed at supporting brave humans at the edges of their practice to create better futures together.

    To find out more and express your interest in being part of The Collective see here.

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    Exploring

    For those who want to know the essence of meaningful human connections stay tuned for our podcast and book featuring real stories from humans who have taken the brave step to pursue a common purpose with others.

    Sign up below for new episode release dates and opportunities to be a beta reader.

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    Sharing

    Our blog posts and resources are designed to support others to develop their relational intelligence and build more meaningful connections in pursuit of purpose.

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“People today will mostly focus on the points of connection, the nodes of interest like stars in the sky. But the real understanding comes in the spaces in-between, in the relational forces that connect and move the points.”

— Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World