Belonging Co helps leaders drive participation, trust and engagement
Belonging Co delivers strategies, engagement, and programs for organisations and leaders wanting genuine impact across cultural inclusion, community participation and social cohesion.
Founded and led by Mantej Singh. 20+ years of experience. Recognised for innovative community engagement, cultural inclusion, and community building work.
Make the #Belonging Shift
Belonging is the new standard for community participation, cultural inclusion, and social cohesion.
It matters for leaders because strong social and cultural inclusion outcomes require a shift from compliance and symbolism towards trust, participation, connection and shared responsibility across difference and disadvantage.
This is the #BelongingShift.
Listen to Episode 1 of the Belonging Shift Podcast
Why Belonging is the new standard for communities, businesses, and leaders
Four ways you can partner with Belonging Co to make the #Belonging Shift
1. Diagnose
Audit, Strategy & Governance
Review what’s enabling or blocking belonging, community connection and participation.
Identify gaps, risks and opportunities.
Shape practical strategies, governance models and frameworks.
2. Deepen participation
Engage & Co-design
Drive high-trust engagement and listening sessions.
Design with racial literacy, cultural awareness, and valuing lived experience as expertise.
Move beyond consultation towards deeper participation and stronger relationships.
3. Activate and build community
Program & Activation Design
Design programs, partnerships, and activations that create belonging in practice.
Turn strategy and engagement into experiences and connected communities.
Design community-led solutions and ideas.
4. Build leadership capability
Speaker, trainer & coach
Workshops and training on cultural inclusion and belonging.
Help leaders build capability, confidence and shared language.
Sessions co-designed with you to suit your context.
Belonging Co can support you in different ways
One-off session or a defined project.
A fixed-term advisory role embedded in your team.
Why choose Belonging Co
Experience across engagement, place making, cultural inclusion, anti-racism and social impact.
A belonging mindset that values community and lived experience as expertise.
Go beyond optics, compliance and tick-box inclusion and consultation to genuine engagement and co-design.
A systems lens to explore what is enabling and blocking trust and participation.
An understanding of governance needed to support community led and community first.
Focus on practical ideas and embedding a belonging mindset across the business.
Led by Mantej Singh
Belonging Co was founded by Mantej Singh in 2025. Mantej brings to this work 20+ years of experience across community engagement, social outcomes, placemaking, diversity, and inclusion. He has driven complex inclusion outcomes and won awards and recognition for his work.
Belonging Co was founded from a simple but deeply held belief: a sense of belonging is not a ‘nice to have’ — it is foundational to thriving communities, effective institutions and meaningful social impact.
Long before Belonging Co existed, Mantej was asking the same question that still drives the work today:
Who gets to belong?
Who is being left out by the way our systems, spaces, experiences and organisations are designed?
How do we increase community participation?
Let’s work together to make the #Belonging Shift
What people are saying
“thoughtful, grounded approach to complex issues and recommendations that are evidence-based, practical while keeping an eye on what will work in practice”
“deep commitment to community, equity, and principled leadership”
“authentic, pragmatic and insightful training for staff and executive”
“love your focus on relationships and your invitation for us to move beyond traditional and tick box ways of operating. Wonderful to be in the room and experience you in action”
“instrumental in leading the co-design of training sessions focused on addressing bias in relation to CALD staff. One of the sessions, specifically tailored for people leaders, became a cornerstone of our workplace learning.”
Belonging Shift Podcast
Conversations about leadership, community, place and the future of belonging and the shifts needed to move beyond good intentions and into meaningful action.
Belonging Shift Audit
A 5-minute strategic executive self-diagnostic for assessing trust, participation, and impact from a belonging lens. No forms to fill, no information to share.