Complex information. Real-world impact.
We use strategy, knowledge translation and training to help people and organisations communicate complex ideas with clarity, confidence and impact.
About the honeyguide
In parts of Africa, the Greater Honeyguide bird leads people through the landscape to hidden wild beehives. The bird cannot open the hive itself. The human cannot easily find it. But together, they succeed. After the honey is harvested, the bird feeds on the wax and larvae left behind.
This is one of the rare cases where humans and a wild animal intentionally exchange information for mutual benefit.
Complex work often functions the same way. Research institutes, NGOs, and mission-driven organisations each hold important pieces: evidence, practical experience, policy context, and operational know-how.
Impact only happens when these pieces can be understood across boundaries and used together.
Honeyguide helps to bridge that gap — connecting evidence, people and practice so complex work can be understood, trusted and used.
Common client challenges
Is your work strong, but not being used?
Do you struggle to explain your work in plain language?
Do you find it difficult to explain your value to funders and investors?
Do you invest time and energy into reports that get very few reads?
Do your team members tell different stories about what you do?
This is not a communication problem. It is a strategy and translation problem.
What we do
At Honeyguide Strategic Communication, we help teams to clarify their message, align partners, and turn complex evidence into writing and visuals that people can understand and use.
Clients leave us with:
One clear story
Sharper engagement
Shorter, stronger outputs
Confident speakers
Aligned teams
Stronger cases for funding
Systems that save time
What our clients say
“Tali (Honeyguide’s Director) is probably the most impressive science communicator I have ever had the fortune of working with. She has a unique (and rare) ability to fully grasp research findings, understand the methods and associated uncertainties behind these, and then communicate the findings in a wide variety of innovative formats and to different kinds of audiences.”
Georgina Cundill Kemp, Senior Program Officer, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
“Dr. Hoffman and Mr. Bosworth [from Human Element Communications] made every effort to ensure that the science communication training course they produced was up to UNEP’s quality standards. They are … highly flexible and client-oriented.”
Andrea Hinwood, Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme
"The multi-layered communication strategy that Tali (Honeyguide’s Director) developed for our organisation helped us to understand how to have real impact on our key audiences, and how to achieve this impact given our small team and funding limitations. She helped us play to our strengths and was a real pleasure to engage with."
Nicoli Nattrass, Co-Director, Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa