We are an OD consultancy specialising in, change, diversity, leadership and development.
We’re here to work with you to help transform outcomes. We bring our whole life experiences, values and beliefs to our work. You get our passion, knowledge and skills.
Our clients testify to the strength, warmth and understanding that we bring to our work with them. We truly want to make a difference for you, so achieving your outcomes is vitally important to us. We want our work to count – and our clients say it does.
Listening to understand, and liberating unseen potential. Creating the future in the present, creating possibilities. The power of difference, a team and partnership approach. The long-term transformation, not the quick fix. Doing the stuff that really matters.
We are skilled practitioners from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. We work with a passion for social justice, humanity, and generosity, personal and organizational effectiveness. We focus on your outcomes and work with a belief in greater possibilities.
Our clients and programme participants gain the learning and experience they need through processes and interventions that are challenging, supportive and engaging.
We believe in positive change that goes far beyond making small shifts to a transformation of thinking, motivations and behaviours, to create a different future. Change can be difficult and uncomfortable. We draw upon our experience in Organisational Development and Human Resource Management to ease the changes you want and need to make, and to reap unexpected benefits.
Help leaders to consider and make shifts in how they engage and communicate with others, to ensure consistency in the message and the messenger.
Facilitate change strategy design, to ensure all voices contribute constructively. Support leadership teams and strategists in designing flexible change processes. Build sustainability into strategic plans.
Help your organisation to tell the stories that will communicate change, convince the head and persuade the heart.
Engage stakeholders in creative ways to maximize success.
We live and breathe diversity.
Our practitioners embody difference in ethnicity, gender, faith, class, sexual orientation, and disability. This gives our interventions real power and impact, achieving an outstanding track record in delivering projects and programmes that lead to sustained success for our clients.
Inclusive recruitment and selection processes
Talent management frameworks for diversity
Empowerment work
Culture diagnostic tools
Monitoring and reporting frameworks for EDS
We work to understand your aims, aspirations and issues, and turn these into highly effective interventions. We address attitudes and beliefs that block personal change, using technical and theoretical inputs and real life issues as the basis of learning, and in partnership with participants. We ensure they develop a toolkit of concepts, knowledge, strategies and transferable skills designed for their future.
Our methods will vary with your needs, and include our other services and:
Complete program development, incorporating a blend of elements.
Board development and consultancy.
Master classes and workshops.
Open space events.
Our approach goes beyond the usual. We improve the inclusiveness of key processes for fair and diverse recruitment, selection and talent management, and also bring benefits beyond that immediate purpose:
Spreading fair selection principles and skills.
Improving assessment skills.
Engagement in identifying personal development needs
Co-design and facilitation of centres with you.
Train and use your nominated in-house assessors.
Engage centre attendees as co-assessors of their own performance and development needs.
Coaching as part of the centre process.
Coaching enables individuals to make positive changes in organisational and personal life. It provides a safe space for exploration and challenge supporting all aspects of development.
Coaching within other development programmes brings other learning back to personal reflection and commitment, and maximize the benefits of other interventions.
Develops personal resilience, adaptability and strategic thinking.
Builds self awareness and understanding of personal impact.
Enables exploration and development of skills to build better relationships.
Enables coaches to consider options and develop strategies to achieve them.
Increasingly, organisations are appreciating its impact on skills and mindsets. Action learning helps to embed change into everyday culture. Your organisation will benefit from including Action Learning within development programmes, meeting both individual and system needs. You can also use it as a cost-effective stand-alone development intervention; and we run ILM accredited programmes to train your own Action Learning set facilitators.
Enables participants to identify and seize opportunities as well as solve problems.
Maximizes the learning from other development programmes.
Embeds learning and change into organizational practice.
Provides a creative space for developing strategy and innovative approaches to issues.
Bullying and harassment are highly destructive behaviours damaging individuals and working environments, with knock-on effects on relationships, productivity, and performance.
We can help you change these behaviours, working with you to foster a culture of respect and create a better workplace, where people are free and happy to give of their best.
Consultancy.
Co-creating policies, and developing strategies for implementation.
Design and delivery of induction and training.
Team and 1:1 coaching.
Mediation.
ILM accredited programmes – Transformational Action Learning Set Facilitation
We are an accredited ILM training centre, providing high quality delivery to develop Action Learning set facilitators who can contribute to individual and organisational transformation.
The ILM recognises our expertise in delivering training with real results that make a difference for you. Their rigorous approval process is your guarantee of an excellent standard of professionalism, care and flexibility in meeting your organisation’s learning needs. Our approach to developing facilitators goes beyond transactional skills to develop confidence to work with ambiguity and inspire sets to move towards third order thinking.
Our pass rates are above 90%. We are happy to put together bespoke programmes for your organisation. We also offer open programmes twice a year. Please contact us for details.
Your Enquiry will be dealt with within two working days.