What do I offer?

Essentially I help to build the capacity of organisations and leaders to collaborate effectively with others, especially to address their most complex challenges. This includes:

• Different parts of an organisation working in a more ‘joined-up’ way
• Organisations collaborating with other organisations/stakeholders
• Organisations engaging their communities
• Leaders helping directors of different parts of an organisation working more as a team.
• A whole system to align its efforts to address a highly complex social or environmental issue.

 

How do I offer this support?

By:

• Listening very carefully to what organisations and leaders are facing.
• Providing early advice around projects, and during periods of the most challenging moments of the like of a project.
• Providing briefing sessions to leadership teams, elected representatives and boards.
• Delivering sessions at conferences and symposiums
• Facilitating training
• Coaching collaboration champions in organisations.
• Coaching/mentoring leaders who are learning to do it differently.
• Co-designing processes to achieve enduring solutions with a diverse range of players around a particular issue.
• Facilitating sessions where it makes sense to utilise an independent person.

 

What are some different terms used that explain what I do?

• Collaborative governance
• Systems change
• Community engagement
• Stakeholder engagement/relations/management
• Risk communication
• Public participation
• Deliberative democratic processes
• Collective Impact
• Alternative dispute resolution.

 

Influences to my practice

• Appreciative inquiry
• Asset-based community development
• Systems transformation
• Dialogue
• Complexity theory
• Deliberative democracy
• Collective Impact