strategic consulting, group facilitation,
leadership advisory, breakthrough communication
business leaders | creative professionals | entrepreneurs | team managers
multinationals | startups | social enterprises | government | cultural institutions | community groups
Elevate
performance.
Common client challenges:
“How do we get everyone fired up about our vision?”
“We’re missing out on opportunities - it’s like we’re working in the past instead of gearing up for the future.”
“We’re growing so fast. It could kill our unique culture.”
“We’re driving in the dark without headlights - we can’t see where we’re going.”
“We’re just not on the same page - in the boardroom, on the frontline, and in between.”
“We have great people but our mojo is fading - how do we re-engage them?"
“We want to renew our brand for what’s coming next.”
“We want to define our bigger mission and we need a plan to execute it.”
My solutions toolkit:
Vision chartering: clarifying core values, purpose and mission to drive effective operational strategy
Action planning for communication, business transformation and growth-critical launches
Facilitating board collaboration and decision-making, developing leadership presentations and keynotes
Future scenario planning and interactive war gaming
Brand strategy, guidelines and rollout
Aligning ESG impact with new category invention, product innovation, business plans
Leadership and manager mentoring, coaching and team-building
Customized employee engagement programs
Thought leadership panel discussions, public speaking
Inspire your audience.
“Steven is one of the best speakers I have ever seen. Not only is his quality of thinking at the highest strategic level but his delivery is just as powerful. He speaks with humility, humour and has an uncanny ability to sew together disparate themes of business and human understandings into a clear narrative. A knock out personality who left us all thinking differently.”
Ruth Nye, Account Director at The Good Relations Group
“Steven brings a wealth of knowledge and insight and overlays it with an infectious energy to deliver messages that will make you sit up and consider the role of businesses as a force for good. Be ready for an inspiring session.”
Tom Probert, Senior Marketing Manager at British Gas
Work stories
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Vision for impact
A leading international social enterprise is transforming itself for its next 30 years of growth and impact. I worked with the CEO, Leadership Team and non-exec board to identify and distill which aspects of their operation needed to evolve, and what needed to stay. Insights were refined into a concise, actionable, memorable and stirring charter. We then defined a set of strategic pillars around which operational transformation objectives and metrics could be aligned. The future-proofed new vision and strategy was rolled out across the organization through a series of virtual interactive employee workshops. Meanwhile, ongoing board and leadership team facilitation accelerated the cascading of the plan through all divisions and functions.
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A nation's transformation
A Middle Eastern nation is transforming its economy and culture on an unprecedented scale. I worked with the leadership of its real estate development arm and its tourism ministry to reimagine and brand an ancient UNESCO World Heritage site, luxury residential and retail zone, ecological nature reserve and tourism destination. The site is adjacent to the capital, and is at the heart of the nation’s cultural origins. Together, we recruited and led a coalition of leading brand designers, museum professionals, storytellers, and television and virtual reality producers to create a new identity, illuminate the national historical narrative, and communicate its future evolution to the world.
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The power of purpose
The founder and CEO of a rapid-growth communications startup was eager to define a directional and visionary purpose to drive his next wave of investment and growth. I collected insights from his cofounders and key members from all levels of the team, and analysed the competitive marketplace. Together, the CEO, CTO and I defined the future ambition for the firm’s technology development. This drove the distillation of a bold but precise purpose statement. We produced a powerful CEO keynote and a virtual all-hands event. Then, with the CHRO and the CMO, we created the rollout plan that engaged employees in building their own operational plans to scale up and drive the broader vision.
