Consultancy helping leaders get and give great advice.

What we do

We offer a range of Strategic Navigation Services designed to help you map out the journey to achieve your outcomes.

Benefit & Solution Mapping: Working through your options in response to complex challenges.

Investment Logic Mapping: Facilitating workshops to support investment cases using the Investment Mapping Standard.™ This includes problem definition, benefits mapping, and business case development.

Risk Mapping: Helping you identify the risks you need to manage, and the risks you want to take - forming a plan to use risk to help you succeed.

We can help you sort through the clutter and get your plans on track.

We can help you build capability in your team with workshops and training, strengthening their ability and confidence to give great advice.

Our Team Workshops cover critical success tools such as:

Have confidence your team has the right tools and training to give great advice.

We give focused support to you by working alongside your team, to help you build the best possible advice.

Help you get value from your experts: by summarising complex research and analysis into simple and clear stories, and helping shape the advice / ‘so what?’ to help the work be used.
We help you ask (and answer) the right questions at critical times: Such as designing & commissioning your research.

We offer ‘critical friend’ support: When you’re facing complex challenges and need someone to help you figure out where to focus and what to do, I listen hard and give you my best advice to help you succeed.

We offer recruitment and selection support and advice: when you’re building your team I provide an ‘outside and expert perspective’ to help you figure out and find what you’re looking for.

We help you translate your analysis and advice into information decision makers can use. Turning insights into action.

"Thanks to Steven, we now have a clear understanding of how to approach our complex problems and an actionable strategy to drive our work for the next three years."

CR (Tier 1 - public sector leader )

YesSuits
"You provided such a useful space for us to explore and further our knowledge in storylining, so thank you for adding to my kete of knowledge, I will be using these tools moving forward."

Aretha (small public sector agency)

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"Steven’s storylining workshop is an excellent investment for those wishing to add further rigour to writing reports/providing advice. The workshop process was engaging and enjoyable, aided by using examples relevant to our business, and plenty of opportunities to ask questions and discuss what was being presented, and group exercises. An unexpected benefit of the workshop was its value as a team building exercise."

Corrine de Bonnaire Rangahau
Aotearoa Research New Zealand

MashIt
"Thank you for a great workshop. Everyone leant something and some of us learnt a lot! I think the method you taught will be a great discipline. It was also a great team building exercise! Kia pai tō wiki!"

FabuFit
"It was so useful, and I definitely will be using it moving forward. Great way to get things organised for a project."

Geeta (small public sector agency)

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