Sustainability Accelerator Advisory Services
We are big fans of in-the-trenches visionaries. And we are confident that the bold,
innovative, enterprising, get-your-hands-dirty, change-makers out there will uncover sustainable solutions to eradicate poverty, enable social justice, heal debilitating disease, and save our planet.
Yet scaling brilliant solutions is tough, and we’re here to help.
We have a twenty-year track-record and proven processes, tools, and systems that will help you realize critical results, and we’ve figured out how to do it at a low cost so that your funds funnel to those who need it most.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Community engagement seeks to better engage stakeholder communities to achieve long-term sustainable outcomes, processes, relationships, discourse, decision-making, or implementation. To ensure success, our approach employs strategies and processes sensitive to the community-context. We focus on human centered design (HCD) and optimizing stakeholder experience (SX).
Human Centered Design
HCD is a design approach that puts the people you aim to serve and other critical stakeholders at the center of the design, innovation and execution process. Our HCD process is iterative and connected to metrics and results.
We focus on systems thinking across ecosystems and working with beneficiaries, users and providers to build solutions and strategies that drive sustainable impact.
Optimize Stakeholder Experience
Stakeholder Experience (SX) is how your stakeholders perceive your organization, based on their interactions with it. It is the sum of perceptions of your organization and spans the full stakeholder journey map of every interaction, from what they first see on your communication materials to how they feel about the conversation with your support team after services are rendered.
The better the interactions, the better the experience. Our SX experts will work with you to clarify your stakeholders needs and then identify and implement high-impact action to improve transactions, deepen service-level, and anticipate stakeholder needs.
ORGANIZATION EFFECTIVENESS
Organizational effectiveness is the extent to which an organization sustainably reaches its goals. Every organization needs periodic check-ups and adjustments to run smoothly and function well, and when stakeholders experience significant disruption, agile organizations are quick to change, transform, and retool systems and talent and leadership practices.
Organization Transformation
Embedded systems are often the core deterrent to sustainable change. As
such, our organizational transformation process will help you uncover and map implicit and explicit systems that impede individual and organizational growth and sustainability.
We then facilitate a systems-thinking design process to identify and amplify value-generating strategic work and launch a volley of agile transformation projects that culminate in sustainable transformation (structure, skillset, mindset).
Change Management
The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace and organizations need a sustainable balance in the way they operate, lead through change, and invest in excellence that incorporates the right level of structure, rigor, measurement and governance in an agile way.
With our stakeholder-centric process, strategic tools, and expert facilitators, we help you solve for misaligned priorities, poor delivery quality, lack of leadership, and unmet return on investment to ensure a sustainable future and consistently deliver strategies and initiatives on time, on budget, and with excellence.
Leader & Team Assessment
During 30 years of research, we have built the world’s largest and most authoritative database on leadership, culture, and human capital systems. With the data in hand, our Leadership Capital Index and an accompanying standardized assessment tool allows impact investors to comprehensively measure leadership.
We provide unique insights and rich data on individual leaders, leadership teams, and whole organizations that directs strategic investment in leadership and human capital systems to accelerate growth, and provides valuable insights for executives, boards, and investors.
Talent Management
The fundamentals of people strategy and human capability —leadership, organization, culture, talent, and HR— are essential to ensure your organization is sustainably strong, agile, innovative, and responsive. Our talent management team helps organizations elevate their most important asset: their people.
Using a variety of engaging approaches, tools and best practices, we leverage large datasets and years of experience with organizations around the world to support development of your mission, vision, values, leadership competencies, talent acquisition strategy, performance management, potential and succession.
IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT
We champion your brilliant sustainable solutions by providing end-to-end program implementation support that equips and empowers local leadership and provides a wide range of capabilities across various sectors and expertise. Our solutions link strategy, innovative resource mobilization, and coaching of talent to design, launch, scale, or transform impactful initiatives.
Scale Sustainable Solutions
Our unique process enables you to analyze success factors in currently successful solutions, gather stakeholder feedback about how your solution fits (or doesn’t) in new target environments (geographies, populations, politics), and then conduct rapid pilots to quickly scale sustainable solutions and accelerate impact.
Our aim throughout scale-up support is to transfer capability such that local leaders are equipped to maintain scaled solutions in the long-run.
Ensure Effective Project Execution
Our project execution approach is powered by our signature Impact Accelerator methodology, a highly impactful approach that allows for swift and sustained implementation across the full value chain of strategy and programming.
Our work ranges from boosting complete initiatives to developing management, operational, and technical capacity, as well as providing bespoke standalone support.
