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Know where you’re going. Build the capacity to get there.

Helping organisations establish direction, identify opportunities, align priorities, and translate their vision into actionable strategies.

Senior colleagues planning around a table of papers.
Randomised trial · Indian textile firms

Firms given expert management advice raised productivity by 11%.

Source: Bloom et al., “Does Management Matter?”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013.

You might recognise this.

If one of these sounds like your week, start here.

  • The plan lives in one person’s head.
  • Our strategic plan is three years old and nobody opens it.
  • Every priority feels urgent, so nothing moves.
  • The board and the team are working toward different things.

What the work includes.

Sized to your organisation. You choose what you need now, and we tell you what can wait.

Strategic plans
A plan built from your mission, your strengths and the capacity you really have. Not a template, and not a one-day workshop.
Business strategy
Where to grow, who to serve and what to stop doing, so the plan has a clear direction behind it.
Organisational assessments
An honest look at how the organisation runs today: people, processes, decisions and capacity.
Growth strategies
What has to change in people, process and governance before the next stage of growth, and in what order.
Implementation roadmaps
Who does what by when, with the check-ins that keep the plan in use after the planning is over.
Performance measurement
A few measures that show whether the plan is working, reviewed on a schedule the team keeps.

What changes when it’s done.

Every engagement runs in three stages: understand, structure, implement. This is what you should notice at the end, and the kind of working document you keep.

  1. Clear priorities

    Decisions get measured against the plan, not against the loudest request.

  2. One direction

    Board, leadership and staff can describe where you are going in the same words.

  3. A plan in use

    The roadmap has owners and dates, and it gets opened every month.

Priorities for 2027 · one page

Three priorities. One owner each.

  1. 1Open the second locationOperations lead · decision by 31 MarchAgreed
  2. 2Hire and train two team leadsOwner · in post by JuneIn progress
  3. 3Monthly numbers the whole team seesFinance lead · from FebruaryOpen

Not this year: New product line Rebrand

Illustration of a one-page priorities sheet. Your plan is built from your own situation.
A board meeting around a conference table.

Let’s clarify what comes next.

Tell us where things stand. We’ll reply to arrange a discovery call, and tell you honestly if we’re the right fit.

You’ll speak with Jessica McKay, MBA, CIPM, principal advisor.

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