Create Impact.
Innovate for Better.
Drive Business Success.
Empower Communities.
The van Diemen Project is here to make your opportunity matter. Scroll down to find out about how we can help.
The van Diemen Project is a leading business advisory and impact advisory firm based in Launceston, Tasmania. Proudly Tasmanian, we are dedicated to providing expert business advice and strategic support to help small businesses, social enterprises, and community organisations thrive. Our focus is on delivering tailored business solutions that foster sustainable success and create meaningful social and economic impact across Tasmania and beyond.
We empower small businesses, community organisations, and impact-driven enterprises to start, grow, and sustain their operations by offering hands-on, easy-to-understand business advice, strategic planning, and impact analysis. With over 6,000 individuals impacted by our award-winning services, The van Diemen Project is committed to helping you seize opportunities and achieve business success in Tasmania and beyond.
Businesses
At The van Diemen Project, we are passionate about supporting businesses of all sizes. Every year, we help hundreds of small businesses across Tasmania and regional Australia overcome challenges, adopt new technologies, and drive impact through improved customer interactions. Our business advisory services include workshops, business reviews, coaching, mentoring, and participation in the Digital Solutions Tasmania program—an Australian Government initiative to support small businesses. We provide business advice to help small businesses in Tasmania and beyond succeed in today’s competitive market.
Community Organisations
Community organisations and not-for-profits are the heart of Tasmania and communities across regional Australia, and we want them to be as innovative and impact-driven as the businesses we support. Whether it’s sporting clubs, social support agencies, or other impact organisations, we offer business advice, training workshops, and strategic planning to ensure community organisations and not-for-profits to thrive.
Our advisory services empower these organisations to overcome challenges and make a meaningful difference in Tasmania and regional Australia.
Impact Driven
Everything we do is focused on driving impact. Whether it’s through social enterprise advisory, leadership coaching, or business development programs, The van Diemen Project is committed to making a difference in businesses, organisations and community groups across Tasmania and regional Australia.
We provide tailored business advice to help impact-driven businesses in Tasmania grow and refine their strategies, ensuring that they can deliver sustainable outcomes.
What we do
As passionate problem solvers and action-oriented in all that we do, we love jumping in to support growth, drive change, focus actions and innovate for better for everyone we get the privilege of working with.
Business Review
Through our comprehensive business reviews, we help Tasmanian businesses of all sizes evaluate their current strategies, identify growth opportunities, and implement actionable business advice across all aspects of business – finance and cashflow, marketing, operations, customer service and much more. With our expert guidance and mentoring, businesses can innovate, gain clarity, and drive positive impact in their markets.
Strategic Review & Planning
Our strategic planning services offer Tasmanian small businesses, not-for-profits and community organisations the clarity they need to innovate and grow.
The van Diemen Project works closely with boards, leaders, and key staff to develop business strategies that drive sustainable development and social impact.
Innovation & Co-Design
We bring years of experience running workshops around the world to help Tasmanian businesses and organisations leverage their creativity and drive new solutions. Our innovation workshops empower local networks to co-design and collaborate on better outcomes for their regions, fostering sustainable development across Tasmania.
Business & Leadership Coaching
Our business and leadership coaching services are designed to support key decision-makers in Tasmania and beyond. Through one-on-one mentoring and business advice, we help businesses grow, adapt, and achieve their goals in an ever-changing market. Our coaching is tailored to deliver impactful outcomes for small businesses and impact-driven enterprises.
Business Training & Workshops
With extensive experience in both business and education, The van Diemen Project delivers practical workshops that equip small businesses with the tools to drive change from within. We’re passionate about bringing our business advisory services to communities across Tasmania and regional Australia, helping local businesses strengthen their operations and innovate for future growth.
Digital Solutions Tasmania
Recognised as a leader in supporting small businesses nationally, The van Diemen Project coordinates the Digital Solutions Tasmania program, which is an initative of the Australian Government.
Through webinars, business advice, and one-on-one mentoring, we help small businesses across Tasmania adapt to the digital world and achieve greater success.
Let’s Talk More…
We know that every individual, business and organisation is unique, and we love coming alongside to provide our advice, knowledge, skills and experience to help you make your opportunity matter and get to where you want to be. Sometimes it is just easier to let us know where you are at, and we can talk about how we can help from there – so don’t hesitate to get in touch and let’s talk more!
How we are different
At The van Diemen Project, we don’t just provide business advice—we offer a unique combination of impact and business advisory services that drive results for individuals, businesses, and communities across Tasmania. Our values set us apart, and we’re committed to working with you to create meaningful change.
Inquisitive Minds – We are always curious and seeking more knowledge and opportunities.
Our impact advisory and business advice services are fuelled by curiosity. We’re always seeking new opportunities, asking the right questions, and finding creative solutions to help small businesses and community organisations overcome challenges.
Build as a Village – We believe we do better work when we seek the ideas, opinions and support of others.
We believe collaboration is key. Our wide network of subject matter experts and mentors ensures that we deliver the best outcomes for small businesses and community organisations across Tasmania. We create a safe space for open dialogue, celebrating different skills and perspectives to foster innovation and growth.
The Heart of a Person – We always put people first, and we remember that at the centre of each idea or business is a person.
As we recognise that we are people working with people, at the centre of our decisions is to help business leaders, decision makers and owners to thrive in life, not just in business. The van Diemen Project takes the time to build connections with people, focusing on what matters to each individual we meet with as well as the business, with our outcome to look at how we can build the organisation as well as the person in everything we do.
Teach People to Fish – We put the building blocks in place for ongoing momentum.
In all that we do at The van Diemen Project, our impact and business advisory support are meant to help create a stronger foundation for what comes next with confidence. This means that we are focused on empowering and encouraging businesses, rather than creating a dependency on our support, with a focus on growing momentum with knowledge alongside our experience. Our training, advice and workshops enable all kinds of growth, beyond just looking at addressing the immediate problem.
Uncompromised – We are independent and objective.
We pride ourselves on providing independent, objective, and actionable business advice. Our goal is to help small businesses, community organisations and social enterprises in Tasmania and regional Australia succeed with honest, realistic support and business advice that drives meaningful change.
Where Our Name Comes From?
Even though we are proudly Tasmanian based, our business name honours the tenacity, creativity, curiosity, diplomacy, fearlessness, compassion, care and entrepreneurial spirit of Anthony van Diemen. As a young man he started his own business, and after some challenges, persevered to rise through the ranks to become the Governor-General of Batavia (modern day Jakarta) from 1636 to 1645 – and along the way showed a character we still follow today.
The van Diemen Project Team
Adam Mostogl - CEO & Chief Entrepreneur
Adam brings his years of experience in education, entrepreneurship, social enterprise, business and community development to encourage everyone he interacts with.
Never one to slow down, Adam has inspired over 23,500 students to solve challenges in their local communities, mentored over 1200 people to start their own business and challenges everyone to focus on impact, showcased through being one of Australia’s Top 40 Entrepreneurs & Executives under 40 in 2023, Australia’s Most Influential Educators in 2024 and the Young Tasmanian of the Year in 2015.
Focused on providing clarity in all endeavours, actionable business advice, pursing social impact, Adam regularly shares his experience with others as well as the team of The van Diemen Project to multiply what we can achieve to make opportunities matter.
Anna Cui - Project Manager
Highly curious and observant, Anna is the superglue to projects and initiatives of The van Diemen Project, bringing her energetic approach to every opportunity.
A life-long learner, Anna is currently studying her MBA, creating another opportunity to apply her experience in hospitality, retail and academic research in topics such as leadership that sits naturally along what she does within our team.
Championing projects of significance and complexity across everything we touch, Anna helps everything at The van Diemen Project happen, and does it all in her way that energises everyone around her.
Our Impact
The van Diemen Project is proudly Tasmanian in the way that we work, the support that we offer and the place that we call home. That is why we’re proud to display the Tasmanian mark on our materials for workshops and training, as well as here on our website. And you will often see us at Brand Tasmania events too, as we’re passionate about helping more people, organisations and businesses quietly pursue the extraordinary.
The van Diemen Project supports the Sustainable Development Goals, both through the work that we do but also as an advocate of these goals across the community as a global framework for people, planet, peace and prosperity. Our impact and business advisory work intersects with the goals;
- SDG 8, to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
- SDG 9, to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation.
- SDG 11, to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
while much of the impact and business advisory work elevating the other goals.