Our Services
How we help for-purpose leaders soar.
Working with leaders to generate ideas, capability and capital.
Strategic Planning – Projects and Retreats
We believe that traditional approaches to strategic planning do not allow for lateral thinking, and in essence, new ideas. However, if we are to address society’s most wicked challenges, seeking transformation, new ideas are exactly what we need.
We do strategic planning differently- by first engaging in an expansive, creative process, before we turn to look at what an organisation does today.
After bringing in traditional tools to stress test ideas, we then we take the all-important step of translating concepts into pragmatic action, so that the final document doesn’t just end up buried deep on a website, but clearly guides the decisions of Boards and Executives.
Strategic Thinking - Training and Mentoring
Strategic Thinking is not just a muscle you use once every three years, impactful leaders use it daily!
To see, understand and adapt, they need to have a well-developed strategic thinking muscle.
Some leaders believe that they ‘just can’t think this way’. Some are newer executives who
haven’t developed the strategic thinking muscle. All of them were parts of teams who could only move as fast as the slowest member.
We believe that everyone ‘can think this way’. It’s like singing. With the right training and
practice, anyone can be taught to sing.
Strategic Action and Project Support
assistance with strategy implementation. By combining senior executive mentoring,
hands-on project support, and integrated reporting, we empower organisations to
execute their strategies effectively and achieve their goals. This service offers a
tailored, proactive approach to managing complex projects and driving strategic
success, ensuring that leaders and their teams can focus on what they do best while we handle the execution details.
Senior Executive Mentoring: Spark Strategy offers bespoke mentoring for senior executives to guide them through the complexities of strategy implementation.
Workshop Facilitators
Outcomes-focused strategy must be designed with input from beneficiaries. Co-design is therefore a pivotal step of any strategic initiative.
We have developed a market-leading reputation for co-design processes that involve vulnerable participants. We understand the balance between sensitivities and driving outcomes, and we know how to remove power from a room when there is a combination of lived experience, funders and practitioners in a session.
In addition to external community engagement, our projects also involved a number of internal facilitated sessions with our clients. These workshops enable teams to lift their heads above the day to day.
Operating Model
A typical Not-for-profit funding model is not resilient. With heavy reliance on government grants and philanthropy, many organisations are exposed to risk of funding loss or do not have discretionary funds to target towards areas where they see need.
Through our business model projects, we work with clients to explore new revenue streams, with the aim of diversifying and increasing income. Our profit for purpose solutions can comprise a range of opportunities such as commercialisation of products and services, strategic partnerships and asset realisation.
With strong networks in the venture philanthropy and impact investing arenas
Impact Measurement
Recent years have seen the rise in demand for organisation’s to demonstrate their impact. This demand has come from funders, donors, staff and the community, and with the rise of trends such as consumer-directed and outcomes-based funding, this expectation is only going to increase.
While impact measurement has become an arguably over-complicated discipline in its own right, we help our clients to cut through the noise and create evidence-based, compelling narratives that demonstrate the impact they are creating.
The process starts by ensuring that there is a clearly articulated theory of change, then it’s about mapping data that you already have