Systemic challenges stand between people and opportunity. But every challenge can be an opportunity to connect, adapt and learn.
Systemic challenges stand between people and opportunity. But every challenge can be an opportunity to connect, adapt and learn.
Leveraging an organisation's systemic value to secure new, sustainable income
Recruiting and retaining impact-driven people by connecting frontline operations with purpose and mission
Deploying scenario based systems tools to shift the focus away from reactive firefighting towards proactive planning
Addressing unmet need by replicating and rolling out effective cross-boundary models, methodologies and behaviours
Sharing vital experience and critical learning with funders, service commissioners and change makers
Leveraging strategic systems leadership to influence and integrate the wider ecosystem: policy, partnerships and public narratives
We don’t teach systems thinking as abstract theory. We meet leaders where they are: clear-visioned, distinctively-missioned and values-led. Their platform may be burning and their colleagues may be feeling the heat. Jumping-off points are available, but safe landings are often hidden from view. We add value in the following ways:
Making the important conversations happen that turn pressure into progress, substitute urgency for understanding, and swap activity for adaptive growth.
Integrating plans that operate well, and operating models that integrate effectively. With evidence, equity and economics aligned, funders commit, teams deliver, and benefits grow and sustain.
Walking to the ecotones of our operating environment with leaders, and reclaiming transitional learning spaces for collaboration, co-design and shared decision-making.
Empowering today’s system integrators and tomorrow’s system leaders to embrace complexity, lead across boundaries, and keep people safe: less burn-out, clearer strategy, stronger impact.
Graham Beech has been at the forefront of transforming systems that shape national and local responses to neighbourhood safety, community-led rehabilitation, health inequalities, and addiction recovery for more than 20 years.
Graham specialises in promoting, developing and supporting systems change at grassroots, service, strategy, and whole system levels — turning bold ideas into scalable real-world propositions.
His key focus is on the interface between services and systems — between the frontline and the boardroom, for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises, clinical and non-clinical professionals, learned and lived experience, and between funders and the organisations and groups they fund.
Graham leads a talented team of strategists, fundraisers, practitioners, clinicians and writers with expertise in strategy, service design, stakeholder engagement and fundraising.
Our latest article, ‘That bountiful, byzantine space beyond the boundary’ – the second of two articles in a series – explores how systems thinking and focused boundary work can shape our systems, our relationships, and our capacity to lead change.
That beautiful, bewildering space beyond the boundary’ – the first article in this series – highlights lessons drawn from a leadership movement that designed in clarity and control whilst simultaneously inadvertently designing out collaboration and community.
A journey of discovery with my earworm’ explores how tired systems can be reawakened in new and meaningful ways, and how small groups can make a big impact on sizeable challenges.
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