Description

Strategic Advisory Partnership

Ongoing strategic support when the decisions do not fit neatly into one session

Some challenges need more than a single conversation.

Your organisation may be navigating a funding gap, preparing for growth, reconsidering its positioning, assessing new opportunities, managing a period of transition, or making a series of connected decisions where each choice affects what comes next.

The Strategic Advisory Partnership provides recurring strategic support over an agreed period, giving leaders access to experienced external thinking as the context evolves.

Rather than waiting until a challenge becomes urgent, we create a regular space to review what is changing, interrogate emerging decisions, assess opportunities, and course-correct where needed.

This partnership may be useful when:

• Your organisation is navigating funding uncertainty or a changing donor landscape.
• You are considering new partnerships, opportunities, or growth pathways.
• Leadership is making several interconnected strategic decisions.
• Your strategy is broadly clear, but implementation requires ongoing judgement and adaptation.
• You need an experienced external perspective without hiring a full-time strategy role.
• Your organisation is entering a period of transition, expansion, repositioning, or organisational change.
• You need someone who can retain context across conversations rather than starting from zero each time.

What the partnership includes

Monthly strategic advisory

Regular advisory sessions focused on the decisions, opportunities, risks, and priorities currently facing you or your organisation.

The agenda evolves with the work rather than being locked into a predetermined programme.

Review of opportunities

Where relevant, we can review emerging opportunities such as:

• Funding and partnership opportunities
• Strategic collaborations
• Programme or organisational expansion
• New positioning or areas of work
• Key proposals, concepts, or strategic approaches

The aim is not simply to ask, “Can we do this?” but also:

Does this fit where we are trying to go?

Strategic feedback

You can bring emerging thinking into the advisory relationship before it becomes a final decision.

This may include feedback on:

• Strategic direction
• Positioning and messaging
• Funding approaches
• Partnership decisions
• Organisational priorities
• Programme ideas
• Leadership or board considerations

Course-correction support

Strategy rarely unfolds exactly as planned. As new information emerges, we will examine what has changed, what assumptions still hold, and whether priorities, sequencing, or approaches need to shift.

The partnership creates space to adapt deliberately rather than reactively.

What you should gain

Over the course of the engagement, the aim is to help you build:

• Greater clarity around priorities and trade-offs
• Stronger strategic judgement
• Better alignment between opportunities and organisational direction
• Earlier identification of risks or strategic drift
• More confidence when making high-stakes decisions
• A consistent external thinking partner who understands the context of the work

Who this is for

The Strategic Advisory Partnership is designed for:

• Founders and executive leaders
• Nonprofit and social-impact organisations
• Funders and philanthropic actors
• Public-interest institutions
• Civic and policy organisations
• Leaders navigating growth, transition, funding pressure, or strategic uncertainty

How the partnership works

We begin by clarifying the key questions, context, and priorities for the engagement.

From there, we agree on a fixed advisory period and establish a regular rhythm for strategic conversations, reviews, and feedback.

Because the relationship develops over time, you do not need to re-explain the organisational context at every meeting. We can build on previous conversations, track decisions, and respond as circumstances change.

Investment

The Strategic Advisory Partnership is offered for an agreed fixed period.

The specific duration, meeting rhythm, priorities, and any additional deliverables will be confirmed at the start of the engagement.

Before you book

If we have not worked together before, I recommend beginning with a Fit & Focus Clarity Consult so we can understand your needs, assess fit, and determine whether an ongoing advisory partnership is the right pathway.