About Stellar Partnerships
Australian corporate partnership experts
Stellar Partnerships was founded by Sharon Dann and Linda Garnett, Australian corporate partnership experts who help nonprofits build, strengthen and grow high-value corporate partnerships.
Stellar Partnerships is a specialist consultancy working on partnerships between businesses and the non-profit sector. We know what it takes to create great partnerships- we’ve worked on hundreds of them worldwide. We help you understand the perspectives of your partner, create clarity and understanding in the partnership, mitigate partnership risk and find a win-win for both of you. Every partnership is unique, so if you’re a non-profit looking to build corporate partnerships or a business needing support with CSR and finding the right community partner, we have solutions for you
Our mission
To make the world a better place through partnerships between corporates and not for profit organisations.
Our promise
We promise you smart, strategic and specialist support for your partnerships. Good, honest advice from people who care about your success.
Why choose us
Stellar Partnerships brings a unique combination of Perspective, Problem Solving and Potential to your organisation.
Perspective
and insights across the non-profit and corporate sectors, that help you look at partnerships through fresh eyes.
Problem-solving
that gets to the heart of your particular situation and gives you a clear path ahead.
Potential
and opportunities that are the right fit for your organisation and help you achieve your ambitions.
Meet the team
Linda Garnett
Linda Garnett is the co-founder of Stellar Partnerships, a corporate strategist and one of Australia’s leading specialists in corporate nonprofit partnerships.
Before moving into the nonprofit sector, Linda spent more than 20 years in senior corporate leadership roles across the UK, Canada, Japan and Australia. She led billion-dollar deals, developed new business strategies and built partnerships across complex organisations. Then she got tired of trying to buy the world and decided she’d rather help save it.
Linda has since worked with organisations including Save the Children, headspace, World Vision, Cancer Council and febfast. She brings a rare corporate perspective to partnership strategy, helping nonprofits understand what businesses value and build partnerships that deliver meaningful commercial and social outcomes.
Linda is the co-author of Partnerships Reimagined and co-creator of Stellar’s corporate partnership frameworks and training programs.
Meet the team
Sharon Dann
Sharon Dann is the co-founder of Stellar Partnerships and one of Australia’s leading corporate partnership consultants for nonprofits.
She has worked in fundraising and corporate partnerships since 2001, beginning as a backpacking fundraiser before starting her own face-to-face fundraising business later that year. Her experience spans major gifts, trusts and foundations, partnership strategy, acquisition, pricing, proposals and partnership growth.
While at Save the Children UK, Sharon developed the corporate partnership strategy behind Christmas Jumper Day, securing multimillion-dollar partnerships with businesses including John Lewis, Westfield, Morrisons and Asda.
Today, Sharon helps Australian nonprofits turn partnership ambition into something commercially credible and practical. She is particularly good at finding the real problem underneath a stalled partnership program and fixing the proposition, strategy or capability rather than simply demanding more prospecting.
Sharon is the co-author of Partnerships Reimagined and co-creator of Stellar’s corporate partnership frameworks and training programs.