strategy . planning
Why choose to work with formed?
I typically work with organisations with purpose. Whether in the commercial or not for profit space, if your organisation has a strong ambition or mission, I can create the blueprint to achieve it.
Organisations that hire me are often in a pivotal place, needing board level expertise and wide sector experience in order to chart the way forward, but without the need to hire an additional team member on a full time or permanent basis.
These pivotal places often involve:
01
Scaling
A surge in company ambition – moving from start up to scale up or at a point of having secured equity.
02
Market changes
A change in the market – from a slump to a key audience or technological shift, necessitating a change in strategy to drive success.
03
Mission & direction
A renewed mission or organisational direction – requiring a clear roadmap across the short-medium term in order to achieve this across all areas of communication and/or commercial.
04
Leadership
New leadership at CEO or director level, where an organisation requires an expert assessment on the status quo and the potential for growth.
What are the benefits of working this way?
- Strategy and planning on demand: Benefiting from strategic planning experts that become embedded in your organisation over time, in an on-demand way to suit your organisational flow and challenges.
- Expertise without the hit to the bottom line: Being able to access C suite level leadership at a fraction of the cost of adding to the organisation’s headcount.
- Pattern recognition: Through working across multiple organisations in multiple sectors, our clients benefit from deep expertise in each area of strategy and the transferable insights gained from similar situations.
- A blueprint for the medium term, not just a sticking plaster: We balance the need for immediate results with the longer-term ambition, meaning that organisations have a full blueprint for future growth.
- An external perspective they can trust: Bringing fresh eyes and wide expertise to the challenges at hand, working with us offers the board a trusted, expert perspective they can trust.
- The confidence to make big decisions: Using industry experts, backed with proven insight and detailed projections, boards can have confidence in making long term organisational decisions.
- Access to our network of trusted agencies and suppliers: Our trusted network of agencies and suppliers, built over 25 years, is at your fingertips as and when you need them.
- Planning and management deep dives: Increasing days at certain times of year in order to lead and deliver key planning and budgeting milestones, product launches, campaigns or events.