Advisory & Projects

Clear thinking for complicated projects

Lachlan works with organisations, businesses and community leaders navigating planning, aviation, stakeholder engagement, and organisational change.

Combining experience across government, industry, and community leadership, he helps clients understand the problem, navigate the system and identify a practical way forward.

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Planning & Development

Planning due diligence, preliminary site and land-use assessments, development pathways, planning controls, and early-stage project advice.

Aviation Strategy & Advocacy

Advice on grassroots aviation, flight training, sector policy, organisational strategy, advocacy and stakeholder engagement.

Stakeholder & Government Engagement

Helping organisations map stakeholders, frame issues, prepare engagement strategies and navigate government/ community interfaces.

Organisational Renewal & Community Engagement

Governance, volunteer organisations, generational engagement, program design and rebuilding organisations around a clearer purpose.

Looking for a speaker, panellist, or MC?

Lachlan is also available for keynotes, talks, panels, workshops and event hosting across leadership, aviation, youth voice, careers and community impact.

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Selected Projects

Planning Due Diligence

Preliminary planning assessment for proposed industrial food-manufacturing operations across two sites, including zoning, permissibility, operating impacts and likely approval pathways.

Organisational Renewal

Rebuilding a historic aviation institution into an operating flight-training organisation, including governance, fleet growth, partnerships, and program development.

National Advocacy

Policy, stakeholder, and media engagement across regulatory, cost, and industry issues affecting the general aviation industry.

Community Programs

Design and delivery across civic education, youth leadership, health, community advocacy, and major events.

How I work

Understand the Issue

Get clear on the actual problem, constraints and desired outcome.

Navigate the System

Identify the relevant policy, planning, stakeholders, approvals or organisational dynamics.

Find the Practical Path

Turn complexity into clear options and actionable next steps.

Have an idea worth shaping?

For advisory, project, advocacy or collaboration enquiries, get in touch with a short outline of what you’re working on and what kind of support you’re looking for.

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EXPERIENCE ACROSS GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, & COMMUNITY

SYD • LAX • Worldwide

hello@lachlanhyde.com.au

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Acknowledgement of Country

I respectfully acknowledge the original custodians of Greater Western Sydney. Recognising peoples of the Eora, Gundungurra, Tharawal, and Dharug Nations have accessed the land beneath us and skies above us for thousands of years.

I pay respect to their elders and communities past, present, and emerging.