Strategic Planning
This approach is for those facing:
- Climate, biodiversity, and ESG challenges that resist resolution into neat solutions
- Contradictory mandates where standard approaches tend to produce plans that get reabsorbed by the context that created the need for the plan
- Cross-departmental or whole-of-government coordination where conventional alignment mechanisms fail
- Situations where the imperative for clarity demands ignoring what’s real leading to a forceful sense of tension
What this involves:
Rather than confining your context to a predetermined framework, we attend to what your context reveals. This means:
- Enabling tensions to become productive rather than forcing premature resolution
- Noticing where institutional architecture constrains what’s possible
- Creating space for what needs to conflict and connect
- Developing a strategy that stays true to complexity rather than performing certainty for external audiences
What you develop:
Not a conventional strategic plan document, but the capacity to sense, navigate, and work differently with ongoing complexity. This might include strategic direction that acknowledges tensions, governance approaches attuned to your constraints, and ways of working that don’t require resolving contradictions prematurely