I’m Traidy Bugeja-Naidoo. I partner with organisations across the disability and community services sectors, plus not-for-profit and social impact, from a founder who built and ran a registered NDIS provider.
A registered NDIS provider. Built it, ran it, and lost sleep over it. I’m not advising from a textbook.
Most consultants speak compliance. Most advocates speak community. Few translate between both.
His ability to weave lived experience with practical tools made the conversation both moving and actionable. He created a space where everyone, from frontline workers to sector leaders, felt seen and inspired.
Chosen Family has set a new benchmark in this space. Their LGBTIQA+ training is grounded in lived experience and delivered with a high level of professional insight. This training is not just important, it’s essential.
Traidy is a powerhouse: poetic, affirming, and deeply grounded in lived experience. He doesn’t perform impact, he embodies it. I couldn’t recommend him more highly.
If you’re looking for a speaker who brings soul, strategy, and substance, Traidy is the voice you want. He doesn’t just talk change. He activates it.
Nothing can prepare you for hearing Traidy speak. He is a lyrical, eloquent, engaging, and powerful presenter. Speaking with love, compassion, and deep knowledge of what he shares.
Whether Traidy is sharing personal, lived experiences, or offering practical ideas and tips, he has a unique ability to connect, inspire and motivate people.
Traidy’s strength lies in his ability to weave personal storytelling with advocacy, always underpinned by themes of liberation, belonging, and inclusive care. He speaks with authenticity, humility, and clarity, resonating with audiences from all walks of life.
Traidy is wonderful and always brings with him an energy and a realness that really engages you in the topic at hand. By the end of it I felt empowered, challenged, and ready to slay.
Ten advisory services across governance, operations, leadership and inclusion. Engage one, several, or weave them into a programme. Every engagement begins with a complimentary consultation.
Board governance, NDIS and regulatory compliance, risk and policy, from a registered-provider founder and ISO 9001 Lead Auditor.
Provider strategy, registration, intake design, growth and operational support, from someone who built one.
Fractional executive leadership, board and growth strategy, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Lived-experience-led inclusion frameworks, staff training and policy review that shift culture from surface to core.
What would change if you had one trusted, experienced operator beside you, just one day a week?
In Australia in 2026 a senior executive, a COO, BDM or General Manager, costs $210,000 to $290,000 once superannuation, leave, recruitment and onboarding are counted. Most growing organisations can’t justify that yet. Most growing organisations need exactly that.
Engage me by the day or by the project. No superannuation. No sick leave. No recruitment cost. No 12-week onboarding curve. No hardware. No payroll tax. Most clients save $80,000 to $120,000 a year against an equivalent full-time hire, and get more relevant experience in the bargain.
I founded Chosen Family. I’ve recruited support workers, run intakes, sat through audits, redesigned policies, navigated complaints, made payroll, and lost sleep over participant outcomes. When I sit alongside you, we’re not theorising. We’re working from shared ground.
Boards don’t see operations. Staff can’t be the audience for doubt. Family is tired of hearing about work. I can be the audience. I’m legally trained, professionally bound, and I will never repeat what you tell me.
Book me as your fractional Business Development Manager for one or two days when you’re entering a new market, scoping a partnership, or running a campaign. Seven hours of senior strategic energy, focused entirely on your organisation.
I work with mission-led organisations that carry real responsibility to the people they serve, and real scrutiny from the systems around them.
Registration and the new pathway, audit readiness, intake and growth, from a founder who built and ran one. Sole traders through to multi-site organisations.
Governance, sustainable growth and board support that protect the mission while the funding environment shifts underneath it.
Fractional leadership, governance uplift and strategic planning at the top table, plus confidential advisory for the person carrying it.
Mid-sized NDIS providers, training organisations, government and council inclusion teams, and community-sector founders navigating audit, growth, inclusion, workforce, or reform pressure.
Sydney-based, servicing nationally. Approximately 70% of engagements run remotely. On-site work is available nationally, with travel billed at cost.
It means designing from the participant’s experience back to the policy, instead of from the regulator forward to the participant. Every intake form, audit and training is treated as a touchpoint with a real human life.
Yes. Raise it on the discovery call and we’ll find a structure that works for your organisation.
A capped portion of hours each quarter is available for community-led, queer, CALD or First Nations organisations at sliding-scale or pro bono rates.
Yes. Certificates are available on request.
Book a complimentary 30-minute discovery call. We’ll talk about what you’re carrying. I’ll tell you whether I can help, whether someone else would be better suited, or whether you don’t need anyone at all. No pitch. No pressure. Just a conversation.
Based in Sydney. Servicing nationally.
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Consult Traidy acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work, and pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We are a queer-led, CALD-led practice. We work inclusively with disabled, queer, CALD and First Nations communities.
Consult Traidy provides general expertise only. Nothing on this website constitutes specific legal or clinical advice.
Most people looking for a provider, a consultant or a service start in the same place: a search bar. If you are not there when they look, you are not part of the decision.
Many purpose-driven organisations do excellent work and are almost invisible online. They rely on word of mouth, referrals and reputation. Those things matter and always will. But a participant, a family member or a board looking for help today will usually search first and ask around second. Being found is no longer a marketing extra. It is part of being accessible.
SEO, short for search engine optimisation, simply means making it easier for search engines to understand what you do, so they can show you to the people looking for it. It sounds technical. Most of it is not.
People do not search in your internal language. They do not type "capacity building supports" or "integrated service delivery model." They type "help finding NDIS support worker near me" or "how to get NDIS registered."
The simplest improvement most organisations can make is to describe their services in the words their clients actually use. Ask your team what questions people ask on the phone. Those questions, answered plainly, are the pages your website needs.
A single page listing everything you do makes it hard for search engines, and people, to work out what you are best at. A clear page for each main service, saying who it is for, what it involves and how to get started, gives each one a fair chance of being found.
If you serve a particular area, the local basics matter a great deal:
A site that loads quickly, works well on a phone and is easy to read helps everyone, including the people you most want to reach. Clear headings, readable text, descriptions on images and simple navigation make a site more accessible and easier for search engines to understand at the same time. For organisations in disability and community services, accessibility is not optional. It is part of living your values online.
Helpful content builds visibility over time. A short, honest article answering a question your clients keep asking can bring people to your site for years. You do not need to publish every day. You need to publish useful things consistently.
SEO is slow. Results usually build over months, not weeks. Be careful of anyone promising the top spot on Google quickly. No one can honestly guarantee it.
The organisations that do well online are rarely the ones with the cleverest tricks. They are the ones that describe their work clearly, keep their details accurate and keep answering the questions their community is asking. Do that well and the people who need you will find you more easily, which is the whole point.
Want a hand putting this into practice? Let’s talk it through.
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