One of Mary-Anne Waldren's great skills is bringing people and organisations together so they can achieve great things. Some  examples of this include:

• Teaming up with the ABC to kick-start National Science Week and pioneering a science-week model that has been copied around the world.
• Mary-Anne created countless opportunities for business growth, synergies, training and advice during the ICAN innovation festival, and tailor-made events that enabled international specialists to advise both industry and government sectors.
• She forged a 13-year partnership with the British Council that enabled British talent to be showcased via festivals and extensive media coverage and Mary-Anne to cost-recover speakers ranging from Lord Robert Winston and Sir David Bellamy to the late author Douglas Adams and vacuum cleaner baron James Dyson.
• ActewAGL's extensive 18-year partnership with the Australian Science Festival is a multi-award-winning one that has provided the festival with everything from staff to cocktail parties, cash and mentoring.

Mary-Anne Waldren has brokered sponsorship deals with these and other organisations:

ACTEW, ActewAGL, Rio Tinto, Bayer, Hindmarsh, Rock Development Group, Doma Group, the Master Builders Association of the ACT, the Land Development Authority, various radio and television stations ranging from the ABC to ten Capital, the British Council, IBM, Microsoft, Telstra, TODAY, Panasonic, Toshiba, Tower Software, Ricoh, Raytheon Australia, Ernst & Young, Flying Fox Design, the ANU, the University of Canberra, New Scientist, various Cooperative Research Centres, Diabetes Australia, CSIRO, The Canberra Times, the Canberra Centre, ACT Health, the National Convention Centre, Rydges, Qantas, The Distillery, the Australian Academy of Science, the National Museum of Australia, Fletchers Fotographics, dozens of government departments and missions, Capital Pathology, Dick Smith Foods, Questacon, King O'Malley's Irish Pub, Media Monitors, the Canberra Business Council, Living Simply, Velcro Brand Fasteners, Swish Group, KPMG, Old Parliament House, Australia Council for the Arts, TransACT, Canberra Arts Marketing, Benchmark Wine Bar, Ozemail, Travelmakers, Computerquest, Curtin University of Technology, the Malt Shovel Brewery, ACTION, Summernats, John McGrath Ford, National Capital Village Motel, Southern Cross Cruises, SMS Consulting Group and others.