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Direction & Governance

Working harder every year for the same result.

"Revenue's been flat for two years, leadership keeps turning over, and everyone is working harder for less result."

Almost nobody calls us early. By the time a leader picks up the phone, they have usually been carrying this alone for eighteen months and quietly wondering whether it is them.

If nothing changes

What this costs you.

  • Reserves erode while everyone is too busy to look at them.
  • Your best people leave first — they always do, because they have options.
  • The board finds out late, and then trust becomes the second problem.
  • One more year of this and the decisions available to you get worse, not better.
What we do

Turnaround & Revitalization

We stabilize first, then find what's actually causing the decline. Most turnarounds fail because they treat symptoms — cutting budget, replacing staff — while the structural cause keeps producing them.

Typical first finding: the organization is running Phase 4 complexity on Phase 2 systems. That gap — not effort or talent — is producing the strain.
The plan

Three steps.

01

Establish the truth

Two weeks. Cash position, real donor retention, actual capacity, and where the money and the hours are going. No recommendations yet.

02

Stabilise the bleeding

The three things that must stop immediately, and the two that must start. Sequenced so the organization can survive doing them.

03

Rebuild the base

Structure, roles, and rhythm rebuilt so the recovery holds after we leave.

What you get

Concretely.

  • 100-day stabilization plan with weekly checkpoints
  • Root-cause diagnosis across every layer
  • Cash and runway triage
  • Priority re-sequencing and a formal stop-doing list
  • Quick wins that restore team confidence
What changes

On the other side.

Twelve months on, the numbers move in the right direction, the leadership team is smaller and clearer, and you stop waking at three in the morning doing arithmetic.

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