Strategy (& Doing)

The impact of great strategy

Strategy embeds culture, delivers outcomes, and serves as a catalyst underpinning leadership, teams and departments.  When clear, certain and concise, strategy is an organisation’s engine: creating energy and driving purpose.  When collectively owned, understood and valued, the performance that follows is always strong.

We know the power of great strategy.  We are passionate about working with leaders to design it and stakeholders to create. 

‘Our strategy now embeds change and delivers lasting impact.  It is proudly owned throughout the organisation.’

CEO, Anon

Our expertise

Diverse industry experience has enabled us to distil and develop strategic expertise.  We know what makes strategy meaningful and sticky.  We know the importance of the accompanying organisational rhythm that enables delivery; and we understand the high value communications that extrapolate strategic success.

Organisational strategy must be contextual, deeply resonate with all stakeholders and have the built-in agility that enables advantage.  We work with leaders on all aspects of strategy.   The services outlined below are those that we are most often asked to support with.

‘Co-creation of strategy with stakeholders is powerful.  The process enabled us to build new relationships and focus decision-making.  Engagement with [the organisation] has increased significantly.’

Board Chair, Public sector

How we can help

Vision and values that embed culture

• We facilitate work with stakeholders to understand their perspectives and experience of organisational value.  We gain insight into how each value resonates with different groups; understanding of values strengths in organisational history; and explore future possibilities and opportunities

• We run a series of experiential, inclusive workshops through a design-thinking approach.  This enables us all to understand organisational values in action; and to define and refine what they are, and what they are not

• We create multi-modal communication strategy that reflects experience of executives and stakeholders.  We ensure language is nuanced, meaningful, memorable, and embeds culture.

Strategy creation and organisational rhythm

• We facilitate creation of a clear, concise strategy; remembered across the organisation; energising through shared purpose; meaningful to every stakeholder

• We support leaders to ensure strategy translates into deliverable outcomes and impactful results through co-designing an aligned organisational rhythm that enables delivery

• We co-design scenario planning and impact measurement that give robust performance insight and enables maximisation of organisational potential and opportunities 

• Executives and Boards have increased capacity for strategy-making confidently aligned with future stakeholders and the market of tomorrow.

Growth, governance and recruitment

• Developmentally, we support executive teams and Boards to review and evaluate strategy

• We work with teams to conduct landscape, potential and opportunity analysis; and to utilise insight to co-design agile growth strategy

• We advise how to maximise the impact of governance through ensuring alignment of organisational architecture, strategy and governance

• We provide coaching for new Chairs, interim board leadership, executive, and board recruitment that secures the very best expertise and cultural fit. 

Interim executive leadership and transformation

• We provide interim executive leadership, highly experienced in change, lasting transformation and stakeholder engagement

• Concurrently, we offer coaching and mentoring to build internal capacity.  We also advise on or run comprehensive recruitment processes that ensure you secure the best candidates

• Our approach sets up substantive post-holders for success.  At the time of transition, we support new leadership through coaching and at initial board and stakeholder meetings as needed.