Calibre Communications and Consulting supports innovation in knowledge organizations and technology-based businesses through training, consulting, campaign development and management, job tools and publications.
Calibre Communications is a consulting and training company. We
offer: ‘Innovation support—at your service, but not on
your payroll!’
Calibre’s mission is to apply strategic and tactical marketing
expertise and tools to support successful client innovation, from
ideation to the marketplace.
We help our clients plan, develop, market and exploit innovative products and processes. We help you achieve successes today, while building skills for tomorrow.
Pioneers in strategic science and technology marketing and innovation management, we have an outstanding track record of fostering new staff skills and an ‘innovation culture’ for our clients.
Our commitment, your guarantee
Our commitment is to support client innovation independence.
- We deliver significant, measurable results for clients through award-winning training, marketing intelligence and marketing campaigns.
- We transfer innovation job tools as we work with you to build durable skills.
- We help you design and manage highly successful cross-functional team-based projects linked to your strategic objectives.
- Our work helps you deliver unique competitive advantages and significant commercial outcomes.
- Our international network of market, finance and IP experts and trainers offers a wealth of experience working in and with knowledge organizations in the USA, Europe, Australia and Asia.
- We can provide end-to-end expertise, from concept to R&D, to market and technology evaluation, to supervising shop floor implementation of new technologies.
Calibre Communications and Consulting guarantees its work. If you are not satisfied that we have provided the agreed results for any project, we will work with you until we do, at no additional cost to you. If you are not able to apply the knowledge and tools we offer in our training courses, we will be ‘on call’ for you for up to six weeks until you can.
Calibre Communications and Consulting associates have developed successful national and international marketing strategies, campaigns and trainings for public and private sector knowledge organizations.
Clients have included:
- Association of Research Managers (Australia)
- AURIL (UK)
- CSIRO (Australia)
- Federal Laboratories Consortiuum (USA)
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (USA)
- National Business Incubation Association (USA)
- ProTon Europe (Belgium)
- Royal Mail (UK)
- Technology Transfer Society (USA)
- TII (Belgium)
- Victorian Department of Primary Industries, Melbourne, Australia
Testimonials, media, and awards
What participants have said about Calibre’s training courses:
- "Interesting material, excellent presenter."
- "The workshop was very well-conducted and received."
- "Judy is a very well-rounded presenter, offering many experiences and new information. She made the course interesting and dynamically interactive."
- "Judy tailored the course to 'fit' a diverse audience and to stimulate thinking and discussion. Her style is engaging, knowledgeable and flexible."
- "Judy did a great job! She provided a motivating presentation, applicable to our group."
- “I appreciated the clarity of the explanations and I enjoyed the informal atmosphere.”
- “Good balance of theory and practical exercises.”
What participants have said about Calibre workshops:
- “The [Research Investment Challenge] workshop was very well conceived and executed.”
- “Very well organized, good facilitation, group breakouts were excellent.”
- “Very worthwhile overall objectives, raised some issues around commercial launch [of health-related products] that I had not previously considered, particularly related to costs of value addition and eventual affordability to the community.”
- “Very useful and timely.”
- “We broke through quickly to end up with consensus on the key issues we wanted to progress. We will take this [project] through to grant application.” (Ed note: The grant was successful and the project supported!)
- The strategic marketing plan [developed by Calibre Communications for our organization] makes excellent reading, and I must congratulate you on the quality of the work.”
- “Judy’s expertise and background knowledge of the food industry were invaluable, and together with her facilitation skills, played an essential role in our workshop’s success.”
- “Our summary of Judy’s style? She is a creative lateral thinker who provides practical outcomes; energetic, passionate, engaged; the glue and the engine of high performing teams; and a knowledgeable mentor.”
- “The workshop in Brussels was particularly well-received and congratulations on producing such high-quality supporting materials.”
What reviewers have said about Marketing scientific results and services: a toolkit:
- “Uniquely tackling one of the most challenging issues
in R&D—the successful commercialisation and marketing
of scientific discovery in an increasingly sophisticated and demanding
marketplace—this book is essential reading for every member
of the project team.” Prof Peter Wilton, Stanford University
- “Scientists need to work smart, this book gets you
there.” Dr Michael Siminovitch, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
- “ Marketing scientific results and services: a toolkit is an important and highly useful resource for people developing, positioning and transferring technology. The first edition was invaluable; the second edition is even better.” Stephan Wellink, University of Technology, Sydney
Calibre Communications principals have been the recipients of
many awards, including the CSIRO Award for Commercial Excellence
2000,
CSIRO Award for Partnership Excellence 2004; Leadership Development
Consortium 2000; AMI Award for Marketing Excellence, 1997; CEO’s
Study Award to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1996, among
others.
Source: TII Newsletter 2003
Source: ‘Positioning Knowledge Organizations’ Master
Class, Dublin 2005.
Source: A fore sighting project conducted by Calibre Communications
in 2000 attracted wide media attention, providing the client with
outstanding strategic planning inputs, intensive opportunities for
client engagement, and positive a public relations profile.
