Strategy + Leadership = Success
The most successful organisations have a clear view of where they want to be in the future and how they’re going to get there. Whether you’re in the UK or overseas, our strategy consultants can help your organisation develop the winning strategy, the innovative training solutions and the high-level leadership skills to achieve its most ambitious vision for the future.
“An organisation without a strategy is like a ship without map or compass.”
All organisations (whether businesses, charities, schools or government departments) need a strategy in place that explains how they are going to achieve their most ambitious vision for the future by exploiting the opportunities, and overcoming the obstacles, that our complex and ever-changing environment creates. However, thinking strategically and then developing and implementing strategies that work is not that easy; if it were, all organisations would have an effective strategy in place and few of them would ever fail.
This is where we can help. By working with you to develop a completed strategy and/or running bespoke programmes to upskill your own strategy-making and leadership teams (such as our award winning Strategy Masterclass), Craig Lawrence CBE and his team can help your organisation excel in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. Scroll down to find out more about us and to see some of the many organisations we’ve worked with.
More than just strategy consultants
Author of Getting Strategy Right (Enough), a UK Government guide to developing effective strategy, and the best-selling ‘Quick Guide to Effective Strategy‘, Craig, our senior strategy consultant, has a proven record of developing highly innovative strategies that exploit opportunities to deliver outstanding results; he set up his consultancy in 2020 because he was struck by just how many organisations struggle to do the same. A Fellow of both the Institute of Consulting and the Chartered Management Institute, Craig has worked with a wide range of organisations across many sectors, helping them to develop the strategies, high-level leadership skills and award winning training solutions that have enabled them to excel in today’s complex, high-risk and ever-changing environment.
A proven approach to developing effective strategy
You can see some of the organisations that Craig has worked with at the bottom of this page; you can also find out more about Craig at this link, including his service with Gurkhas and his last appointment as a Major General in the British Army, as well as his role as the lead for teaching strategy, strategic planning and strategic leadership at the UK Government’s ‘strategy school’ in London. Or watch his recent ‘short’ on YouTube, which explains the approach that Craig and his team take to developing effective strategy at this link.
Our Services
Our strategy consultants offer a complete and fully scalable strategy development service, ranging from an interactive presentation to help you think about how to approach your own strategy-making (which makes an excellent start to a management board ‘Away Day’), through to working with you to develop a completed strategy or delivering an award winning course to upskill your own strategy making capability.
We believe that high level leadership requires a different skill set to that at the lower levels. We therefore offer a series of presentations and workshops to help you explore these differences. We also design and deliver leadership development programmes and provide executive mentoring.
One of our training and education courses recently won a national award for excellence in design and delivery. We apply the same expertise to helping our clients develop innovative solutions to their most complex training and education problems.
The other services we offer include emergency response planning (ERP), executive mentoring, chairing panel discussions, conference and seminar facilitation, wargame and premortem facilitation, peer review of academic articles and expert advice to media projects.
Some of the organisations our strategy consultants have worked with
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