Australian Enterprise Awards 2026 | 83 AIS-Jan26258 Anywhere in the world, one thing is true – quality disability support is built on relationships and reliability. The best outcomes can only be achieved when those accessing disability support services feel safe and heard, understood by a consistent team who value them and their goals. Committed to this practical, real-world support and everyday consistency, Im With You Pty. Ltd helps participants and their families to feel wholly confident. CEO Dean Jefferson caught up with us for more on the back of the company’s recognition in this programme. An NDIS disability support provider working with participants and their families throughout Australia, Im With You currently has active teams in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and on the Gold Coast. As its encompassing name suggests, the company works with a wide range of people, from those with complex physical disabilities to individuals living with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities. Across its work, I’m With You prides itself on offering tailored supports, not forcing people into a one model solution. Often described as a ‘boutique’ provider, Im With You maintains a deliberately focused operation to deliver a high-quality, consistent, and relationship-driven service. This allows it to be reliable and practical, delivering outcomes that really matter across its services, which span everything from day-to-day assistance to support coordination, telehealth and administration solutions, occupational therapy, and support upon on a person’s transition back into their home life after leaving hospital. The goal is the same across these services: stability and progress. This helps people to live the life they choose, which is an aim so noble that we felt it best for Dean to explain it in his own words: “We believe participants should feel respected and listened to, have genuine choice over who supports them, and be able to rely on a service that shows up, follows through, and documents properly.” Embodying these qualities, Im With You has nurtured trust with participants, families, and support coordinators alike. Behind the combination of clinical thinking and person-centred support that defines this operation is a well-rounded, multidisciplinary team, including registered nurses and experienced business professionals, with decades of combined experience across disability and health services. This breadth of expertise brings strong business capability, critical thinking, and well-designed processes, which is why the organisation focuses on matching the right workers to the right participants, prioritising clear communication, and ensuring the team is thoroughly trained and well supported. These focus areas align Im With You with the disability support sector more broadly, across which there has been a shift towards higher expectations around quality, safeguarding, outcomes, and sustainability. Australia is a fitting example of this, and with its NDIS environment continuing to evolve, the challenge for providers like Im With You is to stay ahead of these changing regulations and sector changes, without sacrificing on the warm and consistent support they provide across their service to set a new standard. “Compliance isn’t boxticking, it’s how we protect participants and raise the standard of care.” Given disability support is a complex, emotionally demanding field, it is essential for the company to create an environment where staff are supported, confident, and clear. To ensure this is the case, Im With You nurtures staff from the very beginning, first through practical onboarding and then via ongoing training, concise care plans, and frequent check-ins. Dean added: “The most integral part of our working environment is trust, trust that staff will do what they say and that participants will be treated with dignity and respect.” From this foundation of trust, Im With You is aiming for sustainable growth for the remainder of 2026, without ever losing sight of the quality and consistency that participants rely on across its multiple locations. As for what this growth looks like, the company plans to strengthen its systems, develop its people, and expand thoughtfully – all whilst retaining its hardfought status as an industry leader in quality, dependability, safeguarding, and support coordination. Delivering an experience that is genuinely person-centred across its Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Gold Coast disability support, Im With You Pty. Ltd is more than deserving of the award for Excellence in Disability Support & Advocacy 2026 in our Australian Enterprise Awards. More on the full scope of its fantastic work can be found below. Contact: Dean Jefferson Company: Im With You Pty. Ltd Web Address: www.imwithyou.com.au/ Excellence in Disability Support & Advocacy 2026
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