Thinking Partner

We help people address the biggest questions on their agenda, like:

• How do we run a hospital system that can cope with a new wave of COVID and clear the backlog in our specialist areas?
• How do we get our teams to create new ways of innovating together across our portfolio of technologies and regions?
• How do we lead a shift in our business from animal to plant-based food products?
• How do we lead digital transformation in our heritage business?
• How do we lead an organisation to move beyond an experience of abuse and bullying?
• How do we work as an executive team to integrate a merger three times our size?
• How do we grow responsibly in a net-zero world?

The questions we help our clients address fit into the category of classic wicked challenges – they’re complex, they’re important and the solution cannot be copied from a textbook.

They are what we call “explorative” challenges. Existing knowledge, existing maps of the world, simply don’t have the answer.

People call us when they need to go exploring. When they need to create something that has never existed.

We become their thinking partner. Experienced guides in the art of exploration. Bringing radically different ways of seeing an issue so that new conversations, new collaborations and new solutions emerge.

We work in deeply participative ways. As a result, clients realise that their own teams have levels of imagination and insight that everyday organisational life sometimes impedes. Out of this work springs real and practical solutions based in the messy reality of where you are and what you have.

We bring a rigorous and practical way of finding things out and getting things done. If this sounds like something you need, please just call us. We’ll listen, we’d love to help you explore.