Tailored for What's Possible
Strategic Planning & Engagement
Effective strategy emerges not from the top down, but from the collective intelligence of those closest to the work. Drawing on the Prosocial framework—rooted in Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning research on thriving commons—we guide organizations through participatory planning processes that align shared purpose with clear, accountable action. Using the Core Design Principles as a foundation, we surface what your group genuinely values, build consensus around priorities, and design adaptive structures that keep everyone engaged and moving together. The result is a living strategy that people actually own, rather than a document that collects dust.
Enhancing Collaboration
When groups or partnerships struggle to collaborate, the problem is rarely a lack of skill—it's a lack of the right conditions. We help create those conditions by helping teams build trust, develop psychological safety, fair processes, and shared identity while honoring the diversity that makes groups resilient. We facilitate experiences that surface underlying needs and values, turning conflict and difference into a source of creative tension rather than division. Drawing on Nonviolent Communication and storytelling practices, we move from positional disagreement to genuine understanding—discovering the common ground that becomes the foundation for durable, purposeful collaboration.
Culture crafting & governance guidance
Culture is not what you declare—it's what you and your people practice, day after day. Using the Prosocial framework, we work with organizations to assess how well their current norms, structures, and behaviors reflect their stated values, then co-design the actions, feedback loops, and decision-making practices that bring culture to life. When combined with building the psychological flexibility of individuals and a culture of shared responsibility, this work helps groups develop the collective habits of transparency, equitable participation, and mutual accountability. The goal is a culture that regenerates itself—one where people are not just aligned around purpose, but genuinely equipped and invested in each other's and the group’s flourishing.
Why We Do What We Do
The world of work is changing—faster than most organisations can keep up with. Leaders are navigating unprecedented complexity, teams are stretched thin, and people are increasingly disconnected from their work, each other, and themselves. Burnout is endemic. Workplace culture is under pressure. And the old playbook—more hierarchy, more efficiency, more top-down direction—is not working.
The traditional model of leadership development has run its course. Adding more tools and frameworks to individuals in positions of authority does little when the real challenges are collective: how do we make better decisions together, bridge difference, retain talented people, and build organisations that are genuinely resilient?
What We Know to Be True
The future belongs to organisations that invest in shared leadership—cultures where influence flows horizontally, where every voice has genuine value, and where the intelligence of the whole is greater than the expertise of any individual. This isn't idealism. It's increasingly what the evidence demands.
The most effective, adaptive, and sustainable teams, organisations and partnerships are those where people feel psychologically safe, connected to purpose, and genuinely heard. Where collaboration is a practice, not a platitude. Where self-awareness, deep communication, and collective wisdom are treated as core competencies—not soft add-ons.
What We Do About It
We work at the intersection of people, culture, and systems change. Drawing on the Prosocial framework—built on decades of rigorous research into what makes groups genuinely thrive—we help teams, organisations and partnerships move from fragmented and reactive to coherent and adaptive.
We don't come in as experts with the answers. We create the conditions for your people to access the wisdom already in the room. Through participatory facilitation, evidence-based consulting, human-centred coaching and innovative impact assessment, we help teams develop the skills and structures that make great work or partnerships —and great workplaces and communities—possible: emotional intelligence, authentic communication, shared accountability, and the resilience to navigate whatever comes next.
The result is not a one-time intervention. It's lasting cultural change, built from the inside out—good for your people, and good for the people they serve.
Why Work With Us
Because we bring together what is rarely combined: rigorous methodology and genuine human warmth. Head and heart. Structure and emergence. We meet your team, group, organisation or partnership where it is, and we walk alongside you toward where it needs to go—with practical tools, deep facilitation experience, and an unwavering belief in the collective capacity of your people.
Who We Love To Work With
Our work has taken us across a wide range of sectors—corporate, healthcare, education, community development, regional development, government and the arts. What these contexts share is more significant than what separates them: people trying to work well together, organisations navigating change, and teams seeking to do something meaningful in the world. The challenges of culture, collaboration, and leadership are not unique to the public or community sectors. Many businesses are grappling with exactly the same questions: how do we retain good people, make better decisions together, and build something we're genuinely proud of?
We are selective about who we partner with.
We do our best work with groups, organisations or partnerships that:
Have genuine leadership buy-in. Not just sign-off, but real commitment to being part of the process and modelling the change they're asking of others.
Are ready for depth. We are not in the business of tick-box workshops or surface-level interventions. When teams have been through what can feel like endless rounds of culture change, leadership and wellbeing interventions and the broader culture remains unchanged, these interventions can breed cynicism, disengagement and can cause more harm than good. The organisations we work with are willing to engage their people meaningfully—across levels, roles, and perspectives.
Are values-led. Whether public, private, or community-based, our partners share a genuine commitment to the wellbeing of their people, their communities, and the broader world. Profit is not the problem; exploitation—of people, environment, or future generations—is where we part ways.
Believe in participation. The best outcomes emerge when the wisdom of the whole organisation is engaged, not just its leadership. We look for organisations willing to invest in broad, genuine participation.
If you're looking for a quick fix or an off-the-shelf solution, we are probably not the right fit. But if you're ready to do the deeper work—to build a culture that genuinely reflects your values and unlocks the full potential of your people—we'd love to talk.