As strategy, evaluation and learning partners, we help groups clarify the impact you want to have, define the hypotheses that underpin your work, make sense of what’s working and what isn’t, and translate learning back into strategy.

We design and facilitate processes for funders, grantees and ecosystems who want to:

• recognise the expertise that already exists in communities and places

• learn actively from peers and the wider field

• seek and act on insights along the way rather than waiting for the final report

• surface honest feedback without fear of reprisal

• co-produce knowledge while investing in the relationships you need to sustain collaboration and change the systems around you

• seed and develop communities of interest and practice and re-energise, refresh and extend existing communities

As organisational development partners, we help teams develop the structures, processes and practices they need to change the systems around them while staying true to their own values.   

We support teams who want to:

Shape your capabilities, roles, systems and ways of working around both the impact you want to have and the values you want to uphold

• Co-design structures and operating models with their colleagues, partners and other stakeholders that allow for conscious, systemic evolution

• Implement designs that distribute power while clarifying accountability

• Move from start-up to scale without losing the cultural DNA that made you great in the first place

• Build your cultural capacity for ongoing adaptation, rather than relying on periodic major restructures

As programme designers and facilitators, we help groups come together to build the alignment, relationships, energy and commitment they need achieve their collective goals.

We design and deliver in-person and virtual gatherings our own programmes and for other hosts who want to:

• curate cohorts of unlikely peers

• hold safe space for active participation and real dialogue

• create the right conditions for challenge, learning and collaboration

• engage and inspire senior leaders without reinforcing unhealthy power dynamics

• draw wisdom from the places in which they gather