We explore, clarify and codify your future strategy
We work with leaders of ambitious, progressive organisations to get to the heart of the issues holding their business back from fulfilling its potential and devise and deliver strategies to overcome them.
Our work leads to greater clarity and intent, a focused strategy to deliver success, and alignment across your teams, systems and actions.
The result? Impact, results, and lasting change.
Clients have said that we act as a bridge from the latest theory and thinking to practice, and from vision to action.
Our mission is to help leaders accelerate their journey to the clarity, focus and alignment that is critical to their organisation’s success.
Over the last ten years, we have worked with growing SMEs, start-ups, social enterprises, charities and FTSE 100 businesses, being exposed to many different sectors and challenges. This breadth of experience has informed our unique approach to strategy development, and the tools and insights we create.
Who we work with
We typically work with the leaders of three types of organisation:
Ambitious scaling businesses that recognise the value of an outside voice to challenge and support their journey
Businesses, teams or departments facing either a daunting challenge or exciting opportunity, and want help to plan their response
Mission-led ventures looking to create a sustainable business model
Our clients are highly driven to succeed, yet humble enough to accept that they may need help to achieve their vision.
We work for organisations across many sectors that share certain values - purposeful, generative, intentional, impactful, aspiring, people-led, and who wholeheartedly believe in their purpose
Whatever your background or type of organisation, we work with you to design and deliver the transformation you seek. You won’t find any cookie-cutter solutions in our work, just a set of proven tools and methods and an open mind to help uncover the right path for you.
What you get from working with us
clarity
Explore your context and the emerging trends, signals, patterns and models to make sense of the future and what it means for you. A deeper understanding will create clarity on the destination you are striving to reach.
focus
Big ambition needs clear thinking to become an actionable and winning strategy. It takes hard work to instil simplicity and focus, but it’s even harder to win without them. Strategy beats sweat.
alignment
Converting vision into action is the difference between success and stagnation. Even the clearest vision and the smartest strategy will fail if they can’t be translated into simple, ordinary, everyday actions. Together we build a platform to turn ambition and strategy into results and impact.
Our services
Strategy sprints
An intensive 4-6 day process to rapidly get from challenge or opportunity to a coherent action plan. This process is best suited to early-stage companies who want to quickly translate vision to action, or teams in larger organisations dealing with an urgent issue.
#100days
An in-depth and engaging project-based offer to create clarity, focus and alignment across your team over a 100-day period. Together we work through a strategy development journey to create a robust roadmap for your organisation.
Strategy as a service
An embedded service to help answer the difficult questions about a firm’s future by providing an ongoing, thoughtful assessment of your company and market, and making recommendations for action. This service catalyses the search for the truth about your business’s performance, leading to better decisions and greater value creation.
About Matt
I help ambitious mission-led businesses get the big decisions about their future right. I help my clients drive effective, sustainable, impactful change, introducing new balance to their emerging futures. Together we create innovative strategies and align the organisation to deliver. Together we build a system for success.