Services
Cut through complexity.
Secure your organisation’s future.
Uncertainty around stakeholder expectations, regulations and governance can put your organisation at risk. License2Operate
(L2O) provides expert guidance to help you navigate these challenges with confidence, ensuring strategic, sustainable, and well-managed outcomes.
The challenges you face
Many Boards and Executive Teams face growing uncertainty over securing agreements and approvals, maintaining stakeholder trust, and meeting evolving investor expectations. The challenges increase as regulations, sustainability (including ESG) mandates, and risk landscapes shift.
Failure to address these issues can lead to costly project delays, stakeholder resistance, and diminished investor confidence. L2O helps you navigate this uncertainty with strategic clarity and practical solutions, ensuring your license to operate remains secure in a rapidly changing environment.
Our solutions and services
We help you navigate complex legal, regulatory and stakeholder landscapes, ensuring you secure the agreements, approvals and long-term certainty you need to operate with confidence.
social license to operaTe
- Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with landowners, communities, and key stakeholders.
- Co-design engagement strategies that focus on mutual benefit and long-term project success.
LEGAL LICENSE TO OPERATE
- Navigate statutory approvals and non-statutory agreements with clarity and confidence.
- Demystify legal and regulatory processes, ensuring your organisation understands its obligations and opportunities.
- Break down complex approval pathways into clear, actionable steps that support timely progress.
INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY (INCLUDING ESG)
- Develop tailored sustainability strategies that align with domestic and international environmental and social standards.
- Ensure global best practices are embedded into operations, without unnecessary complexity.
ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT
- Strengthen your organisation’s positioning for ethical and sustainability focused investors.
- Develop project documentation and strategies that align with international ESG and financing standards.
Sectors we work with
Mining and minerals processing projects
Agribusiness projects
Renewable energy projects
How we work with you
We act as both trusted advisor and implementation partner, ensuring a seamless approach from strategy to execution.
Strategic guidance and coaching
From strategy, planning and review to crisis management and stakeholder negotiations
Execution and implementation
Program/project management support, building your internal capabilities for long - term success
Negotiation and representation
Ensuring your organisation’s perspective is clearly understood and articulated with landowners, governments, regulators, communities, and investors
Ongoing monitoring and communication
Regular updates on emerging issues, policy changes, and best practices to safeguard your license to operate
Our approach
L2O takes a holistic, practical approach, helping organisations integrate sustainable, strategic innovation at every level.
Diagnose
We quickly identify the root causes and risks affecting your project or organisation.
Design and align
We collaborate with you, communities, and key stakeholders to develop tailored strategies.
Implement
We provide hands-on support and guidance through agreements, approvals, negotiations and execution.
Sustain
We help you track, refine, and embed lasting improvements so you can confidently navigate the future.
Our impact and value creation
What our clients achieve with L2O's support:
- Accelerated approvals & reduced risks: Clear, strategic pathways for reaching agreement.
- Constructive community relationships: Win-win outcomes for local communities, First Nations peoples, landowners, and your organisation.
- Stronger investor confidence: Solid documentation and sustainability credentials that meet ethical and sustainable funding requirements.
- Peace of mind: Confidence that you’re meeting regulatory standards, managing social risks, and securing long-term business stability.

Let's get started
If your Board or Executive Team is looking to secure project agreements and approvals, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and navigate evolving sustainability and regulatory requirements, we invite you to contact us.

