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.
There is a real difference between building a successful business and building something that matters. The best organisations manage to do both.
I founded and ran a registered NDIS provider, so I know how easy it is for purpose to get buried under the daily work. Rosters, compliance, cash flow, staffing. All of it matters, and all of it can quietly push the reason you started into the background.
The organisations that create lasting impact are the ones that keep their purpose at the centre, not just in their branding, but in how they actually make decisions.
Almost every organisation in our sector has a purpose statement. Many of them are beautifully written. But a statement is not the same as purpose. Purpose shows up in alignment between what you say you value, the decisions you make and the way people behave.
Participants, families and staff can tell the difference. They notice whether the organisation that talks about person-centred support actually listens when a participant wants something changed. They notice whether the organisation that talks about valuing its people actually treats them well when budgets are tight. Authenticity is not claimed. It is demonstrated, again and again.
A useful way to check your own organisation is to look at recent decisions and ask:
No organisation gets this right every time. But the ones that ask these questions regularly stay much closer to their purpose than the ones that do not.
Purpose is not only about doing good. It is also one of the strongest sources of resilience an organisation has.
When challenges arrive, and in this sector they always do, purpose gives people a reason to keep going. A team that understands why its work matters will push through a difficult period in a way that a team working only for a payslip will not. Purpose also helps leaders make hard decisions, because it gives them a clear standard to measure options against.
Organisations without a real sense of purpose tend to drift when pressure comes. Organisations with one tend to hold together.
There is sometimes an assumption that purpose and commercial strength pull against each other. In my experience, they support each other. A purpose-driven organisation still needs good systems, sound finances and strong governance. Without them, it cannot keep delivering on its purpose for long.
The aim is not to choose between doing good and doing well. It is to build an organisation strong enough to keep doing good for years to come.
The leaders creating lasting influence are the ones asking deeper questions about their work:
These questions are not answered once and filed away. They are worth coming back to every year, especially when the organisation is growing and the pressure to drift is strongest.
Success can be measured in a single year's results. Impact is measured over a much longer time, in the lives changed, the people developed and the communities strengthened. Building for impact means keeping both in view, and never letting the urgent crowd out what matters most.
Want a hand putting this into practice? Let’s talk it through.
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