Advisory

Shaping direction and putting change into practice.

We work with leaders, boards and teams on strategic choices, institutional design and implementation. Our advice considers formal arrangements alongside the history, relationships, authority and influence that shape how an institution works in practice.

Discuss an Advisory Engagement

Practice areas

Three lines of advisory work

Institutional Strategy & Direction

Strategy development or review; strategic choices about growth, renewal or focus; prioritisation of resources; and implementation planning.

Potential outputs include clear strategic choices, agreed priorities and a practical implementation roadmap.

Start a Strategy Conversation

Organisation, Governance & Stewardship

Organisation and operating model design; board effectiveness; leadership responsibilities; decision making arrangements; founder or executive transitions; and governance frameworks.

Potential outputs include role and decision arrangements, governance frameworks, operating models and transition plans.

Discuss Governance or Transition Work

Transformation & Systems Change

Institutional reform; implementation support; partnership, coalition and consortium design; and coordination across organisations.

Potential outputs include change plans, shared governance and delivery arrangements, clear responsibilities and mechanisms for reviewing progress.

Discuss Transformation Support

Situations

When organisations bring us in

A strategy that needs to move from paper into practice
A founder or executive transition
Governance or decision making that no longer fits the institution
Organisational redesign
A transformation that has stalled
A partnership or consortium that needs clearer authority, roles and operating arrangements

Leaders in a facilitated roundtable discussion — Equinexus facilitated working session

Outputs

What the work can produce

Depending on the mandate, the work can produce strategies, implementation roadmaps, operating models, governance arrangements, decision architecture, transition plans, partnership frameworks, change plans and review mechanisms.

Outputs matter, but the aim is that the people responsible can use and sustain them.

How we work

Accompaniment is how we work.

We bring analysis, recommendations and constructive challenge; work through choices and trade offs with those responsible; support implementation within the agreed mandate; and build toward handover so the institution can carry the work forward.

Evidence

Organisations we have worked with

Advisory work across governments, universities, health systems, foundations and international institutions.

What are you trying to move forward?

Bring the ambition, decision or institutional challenge. Our first conversation explores your priorities, what has already been tried or learned, and what useful progress would look like.