BEAUTIFULLY CLEAR STRATEGY – MADE BY YOU
Sharper focus
More choices
Bolder breakthroughs
An existential question about your organisation’s survival
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A business model that no longer sustains your business
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A top line, bottom line or draw-the-line challenge
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A profitable revenue growth dilemma
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A money-that-no-longer-fits-your-mission mismatch
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A commissioner who demands more than they pay for
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A strategy whose shelf-life is shrinking
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An operating model you need to replace, reshape or get off the ground
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An over-reach-your-people-to-reach-more-people dilemma
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Pre-merger, post-merger and going-through-the-merger blues
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A regulatory performance deficit
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A misaligned board that’s misaligned with a misaligned executive
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A tricky decision that’s tricky to make but needs to be made
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A partnership that bites – but not in a good way
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A how-do-I-explain-my-impact-to-a-funder tension
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ACTION THROUGH CONNECTION
We go to the places where problems are already being felt, for example, at key points of tension and transition between communities and institutions, youthhood and adulthood, and clinical and non-clinical care.
We gather people, resources and movement around things that need to change.
Together, we make sense of what’s happening, decide what needs to happen next, act on it, learn from it, and build momentum for change.
That means not yielding to the first explanation. Working and working and reworking our understanding of what sits at the bedrock of the challenge. Changing the lens. Unearthing new evidence. Looking beyond received wisdom, including our own and that of those we work with.
This way of working is grounded in decades of domain and business experience. Introducing AI adds another dimension – allowing us to broaden, deepen and extend our lines of enquiry; push ourselves further; test everything we say and do with more rigour; and strengthen the evidence and logic connecting ideation to implementation.
OUR FOUNDER DIRECTOR
Graham has worked in and alongside organisations and communities experiencing sustained delivery pressure for more than thirty years.
Throughout this time, and across multiple contexts, he has repeatedly developed structured ways of helping organisations move from ambiguity to aligned action. Graham’s work consistently follows a repeatable pattern of helping organisations and communities frame the right questions, convene the right people, generate credible options and make better collective decisions.
He’s spent much of his career working with people facing challenges that are both messy and sticky and that sit between organisations, sectors and services – where responsibility is fragmented, continuity is difficult to sustain, and outcomes depend on relationships, trust and collective effort.
As well as working closely with a wide range of subject matter experts, he has developed ways of using strategic AI partners to scrutinise, challenge and support his thinking, and that of the teams he works with, without doing the thinking for them.
A former chief executive and strategy director, Graham has led organisational transformation and turnaround, operating model redesign, growth and commercial development, commissioning, governance and nationally significant programmes across government, the NHS and the charitable sector. His cross-boundary experience shapes how he works – leading whilst learning from many different perspectives and dealing with the practical realities of turning strategy into implementation.
WORKING TOGETHER
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