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STRATEGIC Refresh
Bring your strategy back to life — with clarity, coherence, and momentum.
Why now?
Most organisations don’t need another plan — they need their strategy to live in their culture, decision making and ways of working.
The world is changing faster than our planning cycles can keep up.
Three-year strategies feel stale within months. Teams drift, duplication rises, silos continue and progress stalls — not from lack of ambition, but because energy gets trapped in over-planning and under-practising.
The Strategy Lab brings strategy back to life. It sees strategy as a living practice.
It helps leadership teams see clearly, align quickly, and act coherently — turning effort into momentum and direction into results.
What challenges is this designed to meet?
Strategy isn’t amplifying effort or driving the outcomes we need.
Our context is shifting rapidly, and we’re not responsive enough, opportunities are missed.
We’re delivering a lot, but duplication and misalignment are draining resources.
Our strategy looks great on paper but doesn’t live in practice.
The world around us is shifting faster than our organisation is adapting.
Leaders feel reactive, fatigued, and unclear where to focus next.
Who’s this for?
The Strategy Lab is for public-sector and health-sector executive teams who are leading through complexity and transition.
You might be:
Facing reform, funding shifts, or strategic inflection points.
Seeking to reconnect strategy to lived reality.
Working across silos, systems, or jurisdictions.
Ready to replace static planning with adaptive practice.
Ideal for:
Local Health Districts and agencies
Departmental branches or reform units
Executive or senior leadership teams
Cross-sector collaborations
What’s included —
how we work
The Strategy Lab is a structured yet adaptive process, typically delivered over 1-3 months, that helps leadership teams realign focus and create a rhythm for ongoing adaptation.
Dialogue Interviews
What happens: Confidential one-to-one conversations with leaders and key system actors. Insights report.
Purpose: Surfaces the real issues, relationships, and leverage points.
Strategy Lab Workshop
What happens: A one-day facilitated session with your leadership team.
Purpose: Builds shared seeing, aligns priorities, and identifies the few moves that matter most.
Synthesis & Refresh
What happens: Strategy report and 90-day roadmap.
Purpose: Captures insights, creates alignment, and establishes rhythm for quarterly reflection.
Iteration & ACTION
What happens: Teams act, learn, and adapt over 90 day sprints. Short follow-up sessions review learning and refine direction.
Purpose: Turn strategy into ongoing practice — embedding a living rhythm of alignment, action, and reflection.
This process replaces lengthy strategy reviews with a living rhythm of sensing, learning, and adapting.
What outcomes can I expect?
After one Strategy Lab, teams typically experience:
Sharper focus
Clarity on the few strategic moves that create disproportionate impact.
Faster decision-making
Shorter time from insight to action.
Less duplication
Reduced rework, clearer accountability, more progress.
Reclaimed energy
Renewed momentum and motivation across the team.
Greater coherence
Alignment that feels natural, not forced.
Increased adaptive capacity
Leaders see patterns, not just problems.
When strategy is refreshed regularly, effort magnifies and alignment becomes momentum.
Why invest?
Even high performing organisations lose 30% of strategic effort to duplication, drift, and misalignment.
The Strategy Lab gives that capacity back — enabling your existing people and resources to deliver far greater results.
It’s a high-leverage investment in focus, clarity, and coherence:
Economic value: Less wasted effort, higher return on the same investment.
Strategic value: Real progress on complex priorities.
Cultural value: Stronger relationships, trust, and cross-system collaboration.
Leadership value: Builds reflexes for sensing, learning, and acting in complexity.
Why now — what’s the cost of waiting?
The longer strategies sit on the shelf, the more resources leak into drift and rework.
A Strategic Refresh keeps your organisation aligned and adaptive — saving time, reducing fatigue, and turning complexity into coherence.
Investment
Engagements are typically scoped between $30K–$90K, depending on scale, depth, and follow-through support.
This includes Dialogue Interviews, a one-day Strategy Lab, synthesis report, and facilitation of your next 90-day refresh cycle. Scope expands to broaden engagement dependent on the nature of the strategic discussion.
Next Steps
If your strategy feels stagnant, if your resources aren’t optimised — or you sense your system is ready for renewal — let’s start a conversation.
I take on a limited number of strategy clients each year.