Client: Good Grief Ltd Assist the Board of Directors and senior team with the annual strategic planning cycle, including how to embrace new business models and developing an agreed set of outcomes for the next three years.
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Sustainability: shaping the future as well as the now
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph The final report on a review of the sustainability of six not for profit enterprise operated under the auspices of the Congregation, including the application of a bespoke analytical framework and assessment methodology as the basis for advising on how to take these entities into the future….
Briefing on sustainable nonprofit enterprise
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Culminating a year of study and review of not for profit enterprise operating under the auspices of the Congregation, this presentation provided the analytical framework and assessment methodology for advising on how to take these entities into the future.
Sustaining projects in evolving circumstances
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Following on from series of papers developed for the NSW, SA, New Zealand, Queensland and Victoria Provinces to address issues of sustainability in institutional ministries, this work will now be extended to the works under the auspices of the Congregation.
The importance of breaking ranks in the board room
Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall write about deserving trust – including the part where sometimes that trust requires dissent, and breaking ranks in the board room. Corporate governance has been a topic de jour routinely over the last decade or so. Some attempt to shroud it in professional mystery (perhaps to generate the…
Coffee on the (volunteering) road
Q: What do Chicago in winter, San Antonio in a hurricane, and Turin in late spring have in common? A: They are all places on the trail for our intrepid Managing Director while at work for her voluntary service with Zonta International – and rumour has it that they all have stellar coffee culture! “No…
Coffee on the road … in Aotearoa
We try to be polite about it, and not gloat, but one part of our work that we really love is exploring. Exploring a problem is the best deal in town, and when it comes with a side order of coffee in beautiful places, it is easy to do great work and find a fantastic…
Vail Alexander Solzhenitsyn, старший раскольник
Closer to the dawn of time, when I was at high school, the nerds of a generation got their illicit jollies by reading really daring, subversive things like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Subversive for both left and right – left because it discredited the communist motherland, right because well, it was…
Industry self-regulation
Client: Australian Communications Industry Forum (now Communications Alliance) Achieving Effective Self-Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry A broad platform for reform, this 4 month study consulted all participants in the work of ACIF, consumers, industry and government officials alike, in order to architect a new approach to self-regulation. With more than 80 reform recommendations, the final…