Unlocking system potential
A Partnership Approach: Meeting You Where You Are
We collaborate with you and your system at your current stage, working together to uncover your strengths and challenges. By identifying what is working well and areas for improvement, we help you reveal your system’s assets and identify barriers. Our work often focuses on the unseen and unknown—those elements just beneath the surface and at the interconnections—forming the foundation for impactful, system-wide interventions.
Our consultants are systems thinkers who maintain a holistic perspective when engaging with individuals, groups, or the entire system. Taking an asset-based approach, we build on what you already have, highlighting and leveraging shared strengths and resources.
With sustainability at the core of our work, we start with the end in mind. Our aim is to ensure that the systems we help establish continue to evolve and thrive long after our involvement ends.
Our Approach
We develop tailored architecture and infrastructure, complemented by:
- Online resource hubs
- Practical toolkits
- Customised frameworks
These resources are designed to guide your organisation’s ongoing growth and support long-term success.
We do this in three ways:
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Systems Leadership Development
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System Interventions for powerful transformation
System Transformation
Systems Leadership for True Organisational Transformation
Systems leadership requires sustained dedication. Our whole-systems approach is designed to support sustainable change by integrating key elements tailored to your organisation’s unique needs:
- Core Programmes and Interventions
These foundational components address systemic challenges and enhance leadership capacity across the organisation. - Targeted Support
Focused assistance in priority areas, identified collaboratively during the discovery, design, and planning phases. - Exemplar Hub Implementation
A ‘test and learn’ phase to pilot solutions, evaluate outcomes within the system, and refine strategies for successful scaling, spreading, and embedding.
We seamlessly integrate your existing architecture and infrastructure with carefully selected new elements, strengthening your organisation’s capacity for change. This customised approach ensures alignment with current frameworks while incorporating postmodern thinking, equipping you to be future-ready and adaptable.
Innovation Challenges
Intensive Events: Tackling Wicked Issues Together
Our intensive events bring your entire system together to collaboratively address complex challenges (‘wicked issues’). These sessions focus on delivering immediate results while building a sustainable future. System leaders learn and adapt in real time, enhancing their capacity to navigate complexity.
Our offerings range from bespoke leadership development programmes to short interventions for accelerated design, all tailored to align with your strategic approach and complement your existing strategies, frameworks, and programmes.
Innovation Challenge Events
Large-scale events designed for organisation- or system-wide development, using a dialogic approach. These in-person-only sessions accommodate delegation sizes ranging from 40 to 700 participants. They are ideal for creating shared frameworks and fostering alignment across the whole system.
Accelerated Design Events
These powerful interventions teach teams to collaborate effectively, making them ideal for:
- Co-designing strategies and frameworks
- Achieving system alignment
- Developing collaborative pathways
Innovation Challenge Leadership Programmes
A comprehensive 18-month programme encompassing design, delivery, and evaluation. This programme uses Action Learning Sets to enable system teams to:
Execute collaborative work
Develop and apply systems theories
Foster collective leadership within the system
Enabled Leadership
Enabled Leadership
Multi-level leadership is essential, and we support you in building and refreshing governance structures and board development. Leading organisations collaboratively requires significant unlearning at all levels to foster collective leadership and distributed decision-making while maintaining effective board oversight.
Board Development Sessions
Leadership Circles
A series of 10 facilitated 1.5-hour meetings, led by a group dynamics specialist.
Executive and Sub Executive Coaching
One-to-one or team-based coaching tailored to your needs.
Organisational Role Analysis
A reflective approach working together with the individual, team, and organisation to generate deep insight. Explore key questions such as:
What drives you?
What seeks you?
What provokes you?
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Joining the dots for systems leaders everyhwere ”
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