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Strategy workshops and away days that help leadership teams decide together.
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Strategy is the tough choices an organisation has made about where to compete, how to win, and what to deliberately set aside. It is the discipline of direction, ambition, and advantage. Strategy works best when it spreads widely through the organisation, into the daily choices people make.
I offer a range of services to help you shape a clear strategy and keep it alive, from working on how your leaders think, helping the team focus across the year, and seeing how well it travels through the organisation.
Bespoke leadership programmes built from a set of core themes, with strategic thinking at the heart of them. Choose the modules your leaders need most, grounded in the real work your people do, so they lift their gaze from the day to day to where the organisation is heading. They leave with practical tools and a network that lasts.
A quarterly two-day offsite that keeps your strategy alive and your leadership team moving in the same direction. A single annual plan tends to drift by the spring; a cadence catches the drift before it sets, revisits the priorities and keeps progress deliberate across the year. This is my flagship offer for leadership teams.
A monthly facilitated peer group for leaders who run things at your level in a variety of different organisations. Honest conversations, fresh thinking and real-world advice from people who understand the pressures because they carry them too. A dedicated space to reflect, challenge your thinking and decide your next moves.
My Alignment Diagnostic reads your organisation across five dimensions and shows where the leadership team and the wider organisation see the strategy differently. It makes visible how far your strategy has really travelled, and how faithfully, so you can close the gap between the plan at the top and the reality on the ground.
Each workshop is built on the framework above. Run as one-offs or part of a wider programme.
A high-impact strategy workshop built on my Strategic Intent framework, helping leadership and functional teams make clear, specific choices about where to focus, how to compete, and what to step back from.
An open workshop introducing the full OTSP methodology, with case studies including Apple, Netflix, and Ferrari. Suitable for individual leaders and senior HR professionals.
A practical half-day introduction to the Strategic Intent framework, through Strategy Radar and Strategic Storytelling. Clear tools, applicable immediately.
Learn to read signals of change early and think in scenarios. Leave with practical tools for looking further ahead and navigating uncertainty.
Field notes and insights from the work.
Self-contained tools from the wider Creative Huddle toolkit.
If reading this page has surfaced something specific about your own team's strategic clarity, let's talk.
“James ran an offsite for our board to define our strategy for the coming years. It was incredibly helpful to have a skilled facilitator to help us analyse our business, clarify our thinking and challenge us to make decisions on our future direction. Everything was clearly summarised in a concise report afterwards, which helped us maintain momentum and take tangible outcomes from the day.”Chris Peach, Chief Financial Officer, Munnelly Group
