Ways to work together
Three ways in, whatever season of organisational growth you are in. Every engagement starts with a free half hour conversation, and you will always have a clear scope and a fixed price before anything begins.
The Full Review
The natural next step after the free check, where the whole picture becomes one plan your team and your board have both agreed to.
What you get
- ✓Three to seven priorities, agreed with your people, each with a name beside it, so it is clear what is being carried and by whom
- ✓A 90-day plan, presented to you and your board together, so the work starts with everyone already behind it
- ✓A verified picture of where you are strong and where pressure is building, drawn from interviews with your people and a look at your documents, not from a single view
What usually happens next: some organisations take the plan and run it themselves, some pick the first priority and make it a Signature Project, and some keep senior support alongside them as a Foundation Partner.
- ✓You can feel the pressure but find it hard to name
- ✓Growth has outpaced the old ways of working
- ✓You want an outside pair of eyes before the next season
- ✓Your team and your board are each carrying a view of what comes first, and you would like one shared picture
Signature Projects
A defined piece of work that solves one specific problem, whether it sits in a single one of the eight areas or across a few that are pulling on each other.
What you get
- ✓One problem, one scope, a fixed price and a finish date, all agreed before any work starts
- ✓Working sessions with the people who have to live with the answer, your team, your board, or both
- ✓The finished thing in your hands, built for you: a strategy on a page, a true-cost funding model, a risk register or an outcomes framework
- ✓A handover that leaves your people running it, and a check-in a month later to see it is holding
What usually happens next: the work stays with your people, and if it helps, we stay alongside you as a Foundation Partner while it beds in.
- ✓One priority is clearly the thing to fix next
- ✓You need working systems left behind, not just a report
- ✓You want your people confident to run it without us
Foundation Partner
Senior capacity beside your chief executive, month in and month out, so no decision has to wait for the next meeting and no one is carrying it alone.
What you get
- ✓A 90 minute session with your chief executive every month, and as much advice in between as you need, by email, voice note or phone, answered by the end of the next working day
- ✓Your health check re-run every quarter, so your score becomes a picture of movement rather than a moment in time
- ✓A one page update each quarter that goes straight into your board pack, and a working session to reset the priorities for the months ahead
- ✓A growing set of templates and tools built for the eight areas, yours to keep and use whether or not we are still working together
- ✓You are carrying the leadership load alone
- ✓A Review or Reset is done and you want the gains to hold
- ✓You would like someone to think out loud with before a decision, not after it
- ✓Your board wants senior capacity without a senior hire
How it usually goes: the free health check, then a conversation, then a review or a project, and ongoing support alongside you if you want it.
All prices exclude GST, travel and any significant third-party costs.
Priced for the community sector
Every engagement is sized to your organisation, so a small community trust pays less than a large provider. When budget is tight, we do not water down the work, we shape the scope to fit, so whatever we do together is done properly.
Much of this work counts as capability building, which many funders support, and we will help you frame the grant application that pays for it.
The free health check and our first half-hour conversation are always free, and you will get a clear scope and a fixed price before anything begins.
Questions people ask
How much does it cost?
We are a small organisation. Is this really for us?
Will this make us dependent on a consultant?
What happens after I take the health check?
Who do we work with?
Not sure which way in?
Start with the free health check, or a half hour conversation. Either way, you will leave with a clearer picture than you came with.
Book a conversationThe Full Review
The natural next step after the free check, where the whole picture becomes one plan your team and your board have both agreed to.
From $5,000What you leave with
- ✓Three to seven agreed priorities, each with an owner
- ✓A 90-day action plan
- ✓A findings presentation for your board
- ✓A verified eight-area health score, built from evidence rather than self-assessment
- ✓The strengths worth protecting
- ✓An honest read on where the pressure is building
- ✓The material risks worth naming
Typically four to ten weeks, depending on the size of your organisation.
From $5,000. Most of the organisations we work with land between $8,000 and $15,000, depending on size and how much ground there is to cover. A reduced-scope Community Review is available for smaller grassroots organisations. All prices exclude GST, travel and any significant third-party costs.
Signature Projects
A defined piece of work that solves one specific problem, whether it sits in a single one of the eight areas or across a few that are pulling on each other.
The Sprint
From $5,000 · one focused problem
What you leave holding, depending on which area we work in
- ✓Strategy. A strategy on a page, with the three to five priorities your board and your team would both name.
- ✓Governance. A clear line between the board’s job and management’s, with delegations and a board calendar to match.
- ✓Funding. A true-cost picture of what your services cost to deliver, and a funding plan that looks past the next twelve months.
- ✓People. A structure that fits the work now, with role descriptions and a simple way of talking about how the job is going.
- ✓Service delivery. Your core service documented so quality does not rest on one person, and a way of hearing from the people you serve.
- ✓Impact. An outcomes framework, the tools to collect what it needs, and a report your funders will recognise as evidence.
- ✓Systems. Your key processes written down, and your tools set up so finance, contacts and files work together.
- ✓Risk. A risk register your board can use, with the top risks named, owned and reviewed on a rhythm.
The 90-Day Reset
From $15,000 · several connected problems
- ✓Clarify. Get an honest picture and agree what matters most
- ✓Align. Put the plan, owners and rhythms in place
- ✓Embed. Make it stick, so it runs without us
A Sprint runs over a few weeks. The Reset runs over 90 days. Most Sprints land between $8,000 and $16,000, and most Resets between $18,000 and $30,000, depending on the size of your organisation and how many areas are pulling on each other.
All prices exclude GST, travel and any significant third-party costs.
Foundation Partner
Senior capacity beside your chief executive, month in and month out, so no decision has to wait for the next meeting and no one is carrying it alone.
From $1,500 per monthWhat you get
- ✓A 90 minute session with your chief executive every month, with a short written record of what was decided
- ✓As much advice in between as you need, by email, voice note or phone, answered by the end of the next working day
- ✓A monthly note on what has changed in the sector and in funding, and what it means for an organisation your size
- ✓Your health check re-run every quarter, so your score becomes a picture of movement rather than a moment in time
- ✓A two page movement report each quarter on where the eight areas have shifted and what is worth pushing on next
- ✓A one page update each quarter, written to go straight into your board pack
- ✓A working session each quarter to reset the priorities for the months ahead
- ✓A growing set of templates and tools built for the eight areas, yours to keep and use
- ✓On a 12 month term, a half day session with your board or leadership team, and a partner rate on any other work
An initial six or 12 month term. A partnership is not extra hands. It is senior support beside you, so the decisions get made and the plan keeps moving in the months when everything else is loud.
From $1,500 per month. Most partnerships sit between $2,250 and $4,000 a month, depending on the size of your organisation. All prices exclude GST, travel and any significant third-party costs.