Insights

Essays from the practice.

Short, opinionated writing on the questions our clients are wrestling with — drawn from live engagements, not the conference circuit.

Organizational Design · 6 min read

Rethinking Organizational Design in a Post-Pandemic World

Hybrid work didn't just change where we work — it exposed brittle org charts that were already failing. We examine what high-performing teams have quietly been doing differently and why the next wave of redesign will be more biological than architectural.

Non-Profit Strategy · 5 min read

Why Most NGO Strategies Fail at Implementation

The strategy deck is beautiful. Six months later, nothing has changed. We unpack the structural and cultural reasons NGO strategies stall in execution — and the design choices that quietly determine whether a plan will move or sit on a shelf.

Leadership · 4 min read

The Stakeholder Engagement Mistake Even Smart Leaders Make

Most leaders treat stakeholder engagement as a communications exercise — something to delegate to comms or government affairs. The leaders who get it right treat it as strategy. Here is the distinction, and why it changes everything.

Program Design · 7 min read

Building a Theory of Change That Actually Changes Things

Theories of change have become a ritual: drawn up to satisfy funders, then quietly ignored. We make the case for a more rigorous, more usable approach — one that drives program decisions rather than decorating them.