Inside the box are the tools that make the strategy work stick.
These are practical, battle-tested frameworks Matt uses with clients to shape strategy, align teams, and accelerate progress.
Refined through years of high-stakes sessions with leadership teams across sectors they bring clarity faster, reduce confusion, and turn good conversations into real outcomes.
The right tools at the right moment during facilitated sessions can transform how leadership teams think, decide, and move forward together.
These are practical tools – not theory – shaped by real strategic challenges and deployed in the room with dozens of CEOs, boards, and executive teams who needed clarity, not complexity.
The tools demystify and democratise strategic thinking and planning – making the strategic work easier and accessible to every participant during our collaborative sessions.
The right tools at the right moment during facilitated sessions can transform how leadership teams think, decide, and move forward together.
These are practical tools – not theory – shaped by real strategic challenges and deployed in the room with dozens of CEOs, boards, and executive teams who needed clarity, not complexity.
The tools demystify and democratise strategic thinking and planning – making the strategic work easier and accessible to every participant during our collaborative sessions.
A dynamic system that builds genuine strategic capability from within. This eight-stage cycle transforms your team into the architects of your strategic future through continuous loops of strategic thinking, planning, and execution, including four innovative bridge steps that address typical failure points.
Make sense of your environment without getting lost in the noise. This practical approach to strategic foresight helps leadership teams spot the signals that matter and prepare for futures that could reshape their industry. Uses the innovative CAGOT™ matrix which modernises the tired SWOT and PESTEL processes invented in the 1960s.
Identify and amplify what makes your organisation genuinely distinctive. This tool helps leadership teams move beyond generic strategy to build sustainable competitive advantage rooted in their unique strengths and market position.
Turn a raft of strategic options into clear, confident choices. This framework captures collective strategic wisdom across your team and structures complex decision-making, ensuring all perspectives are heard and decisions stick.
Move beyond single-lens strategic thinking to build diversified portfolios that work. Navigate scenarios with complex trade-offs between financial performance, capability demands, social impact, risk levels, and regulatory constraints—creating a portfolio of strategies that are ambitious, well balanced, and achievable.
Bridge the gap between strategic intent and operational reality. A performance management system that ensures strategy translates into measurable progress by connecting vision to expectations, accountabilities, and action across four critical dimensions of senior leader performance.
Move beyond strategy documents that gather dust. Transform strategic plans into compelling narratives that engage teams, build understanding, and create genuine ownership of your vision—both inside and outside the organisation.
Ready-to-use frameworks that speed up strategy documentation. Choose from multiple PowerPoint and Word templates, tailored to your needs. Once the strategic thinking is done, these pre-built formats save hours and deliver polished, consistent outputs—no need to start from scratch.
All tools can be enhanced with AI capabilities at the client’s discretion – expediting real-time prototyping of strategic scenarios, analysing and consolidating large complex datasets (surveys, analytics, market intelligence), and amplifying the distinctly human elements of strategy: intuition, creativity, insight, and emotional intelligence.
AI handles the heavy lifting of data processing while preserving the collaborative, human-centered strategic conversations that drive genuine alignment and ownership.
All tools can be enhanced with AI capabilities at the client’s discretion – expediting real-time prototyping of strategic scenarios, analysing and consolidating large complex datasets (surveys, analytics, market intelligence), and amplifying the distinctly human elements of strategy: intuition, creativity, insight, and emotional intelligence.
AI handles the heavy lifting of data processing while preserving the collaborative, human-centered strategic conversations that drive genuine alignment and ownership.
Each tool works independently or as part of an integrated approach within facilitated sessions. They’re not rigid methodologies – they’re flexible and adapt to your organisation’s context, culture, and strategic challenges.
Matt introduces these tools organically during strategy sessions, choosing the right instrument for the conversations and decisions at hand. The goal isn’t to use every tool, but to apply the ones that help your team think more clearly and move forward with confidence.
Each tool works independently or as part of an integrated approach within facilitated sessions. They’re not rigid methodologies – they’re flexible and adapt to your organisation’s context, culture, and strategic challenges.
Matt introduces these tools organically during strategy sessions, choosing the right instrument for the conversations and decisions at hand. The goal isn’t to use every tool, but to apply the ones that help your team think more clearly and move forward with confidence.
Let’s start with a conversation about your strategic challenges and explore which approaches might fit best.
Let's start with a conversation about your strategic challenges and explore which approaches might fit best.