Whether you’re aiming to grow your profits, reach or impact, building a business strategy can be tough. Understanding competitors, economic uncertainty, changing demands and time constraints can leave you with more questions than answers.

Thanks to our work with executive leadership teams in multiple public and private sector organisations, we’ve whittled down the process to help you cut through the noise and identify the must-have ingredients to secure the long-term competitive advantage. Our approach will leave you with a clear, compelling strategy that’ll allow your organisation and teams to thrive.

Most leaders today understand that their people, culture and goals should be aligned. Staying on track is challenging, especially if you find yourself focusing on each element in isolation. If your leadership, strategy and culture are out of sync, the result friction will reduce performance, create conflict, stretch resources and erode morale. Your teams will struggle to perform at their best.

We can help you understand and align your organisational design, strategy and culture to optimise performance and create happy, successful teams.

Organisations that can adapt to change quickly and confidently have the competitive advantage. But strategic change usually has many moving parts. The people involved can feel left behind, and the benefits are often slow to realise. After years of research and our work supporting large and complex change programmes, we have created a proven framework to help you develop a top-to-bottom implementation strategy for organisational change. It's quick to integrate, easy to communicate and internally led.

Business Strategy:
Without a clear focus, your organisation will get bogged down in the day-to-day and fail to grow. Our open-minded and flexible approach to strategy development is proven to produce more resilient and innovative results. Using an interactive approach, we test assumptions, identify gaps, assess competition and support you to develop a clear and deliberate strategy.

Scenario Planning:
No one knows what the future holds – but we can help you prepare for the unexpected. We support you to identify early warning signs in your external environment for both unexpected surprises and potential opportunities, so you can move quickly to take the right action. We’ll also help you stress-test your strategies in different scenarios so you can spot the pitfalls and reinforce your plans and processes.

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Strategic leadership development:
Our no-nonsense approach equips your leaders with the skills, tools and competencies to navigate today's changing and challenging environment. They’ll have everything they need to unlock employee potential, manage change and deliver results with confidence.

Culture development:
You can’t build a culture with post-it notes and fun days out (though many consultancies try!). We go beyond that. We give your leaders practical tools to understand and create the environment, behaviours and values for a business culture that engages employees – and actually delivers your strategy.

Strategic alignment:
Got a specific performance issue or operational challenge? There could be a mismatch between what your leaders are saying, what your staff are doing, and your strategy (if you even have one). We can audit your situation and untangle your strategy, so your success doesn’t slip through the gaps between goals and actions.

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Strategic Change:
We apply a structured approach to understand the type, scale and context for your transformational goals. We dig into the psychological, leadership, management and technical angles on the problem, so we know exactly what’s needed to drive change. You’ll get a step-by-step roadmap to take your organisation from where it is now to where you need to be to, so you can optimise performance, continue to serve customers and keep your teams on side.

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