Our team · Women-led since 2016
About us
Who we are
Helping changemakers unlock change.
Social Good Outpost is a purpose-led communications and strategy studio, founded in 2016 by two sisters with a shared commitment to clarity, equality and meaningful design.
We’re a women-led team working across impact storytelling, public diplomacy & curated events — with a particular focus on empowering women entrepreneurs and gender-equality organisations across Australia and Southeast Asia.
Impact measurement and storytelling
Supporting measurement, evaluation and emotional engagement with the change your work creates.
Convening the region
Public diplomacy, strategy and regional program delivery, working with partners across government and civil society.
The founders
Our work brings together creative, strategic, and evaluative practices
Lara Stephenson
BCI · Cert IV Small Business Management
A communication designer and strategist working at the intersection of design, social impact and systems change. With over a decade of experience, Lara helps purpose-led organisations turn complex ideas into clear, compelling communication, from visual frameworks and digital products to reports, campaigns and participatory workshops.
Her practice brings together deep listening, storytelling of change and considered design, with a strong grounding in accessibility, collaboration and care.
Dr Elise Stephenson
PhD · BAsIntSt · BComn · BGovIntRelHons(I) · GAICD
A 2022 Fulbright Scholar and New Colombo Plan alumna — a researcher, strategist and entrepreneur recognised for her work in social impact and gender equality by Google, Deloitte, the United Nations Association and others. Elise curated the Young Entrepreneurs & Leaders Speaker Series across ASEAN as part of DFAT’s Australia now program.
Alongside her entrepreneurship, Elise is the Deputy Director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, a researcher in the National Security College, ANU, and an adjunct at Griffith Asia Institute, where her research focuses on gender and sexuality diversity, public diplomacy, national security, and international affairs.
What guides us
Designing with context and care
Women designing for equality
A women-led team, often working with women-led organisations. We draw on feminist design principles — equality, accessibility, inclusivity — and design with context.
Research-backed design
We create design and digital solutions mindful of the people they’re for — grounded in research, real conversations and best-practice standards.
We're purpose-led, too
Our social-enterprise model offers strategic mentoring to under-represented groups, supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Quality Education and Gender Equality.
Selected work · 2016 – 2026
Selected work.
Some of the programs, events and design we’ve delivered across Australia and Southeast Asia.
SGO WORK LOG · Nº 001–012
Australia & the Asia Pacific · 2016–2026
Australia-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Program
Designed and delivered the AAC's flagship youth leadership program across four consecutive cohorts.
Young Entrepreneurs & Leaders Speaker Series
Curated a touring series spotlighting young changemakers making a difference across the region.
‘Australia now’ ASEAN & Malaysia
An international cultural program focused on young people, policy, entrepreneurship and long-standing Australia-ASEAN ties.
Human Dignity Festival
Convened activists, leaders and community to mark 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Brumby Week & Bushmob
Three years of wild brumby observation and training for vetinarians, horselovers and young people in remote Northern Territory.
Impact Recorder
Built and launched a lightweight tool helping organisations record the change their work creates.
Business Coaching
Providing business coaching, mentoring and support to women starting their own businesses.
Wavelength Medical Education
Australia's first LGBTIQ+ medical education resource for medical students. Designed by LGBTIQ+ doctors and students for open access.
Master Storytelling
A course and self-reflection journey designed to help purposeful leaders communicate with clarity and integrity.
Charting our course, year by year.
From a two-sister design studio to a women-led enterprise working across Australia and Southeast Asia — a few of the waypoints along the way.
Two sisters begin — a social-enterprise studio helping non-profits reclaim their brand, voice and confidence.
Curates takes flight: public diplomacy and youth programs across ASEAN, for 'Australia now'. We become an accredited social enterprise.
Clarity first. We focus on strategic design that helps social enterprises find their purpose and direction.
We take the reins of the Australia-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Program (A2ELP) for the first of 3 years.
Our measurement tool, Impact Recorder, launches alongside a third A2ELP cohort.
Master Storytelling course shared and tools to help organisations communicate with integrity.
We’re here to help
Talk through an idea with us.
Reach out if you’d like to work through a problem you’re solving, a program you’re designing, or would like to have a chat.
