Ever sat there trying to work out a tricky matter and wished you could bounce ideas off someone who was a strong strategic thinker?
Ever needed someone to come up with solutions for the way forward so you could get on with other priorities?
And we don’t just come up with ideas, we see it through to ‘yes’.
JUSTIN HANNEY
An action-orientated, optimistic Executive with a strategic mindset, Justin is an outstanding communicator with experience and commitment to public benefit outcomes.
His previous roles with the Victorian government mostly focussed on interfacing with the private sector and leading on investment, business and regulatory reform policy, capital projects that entailed public/private partnerships.
JESSIE WRIGHT (nee KEATING)
Jessie cares deeply about working with organisations and solving problems to improve individuals and communities’ quality of life. What sets her apart is her natural ability to inspire, motivate and energise people – rallying teams around a shared purpose and bringing momentum to complex challenges. Whether it’s aligning a room full of stakeholders or breathing life into a bold vision, Jessie brings a spark that turns possibility into action. She is highly motivated by being able to bring clarity and alignment to teams and problem solving.
NATALIE REITER
As a dynamic and highly motivated Senior Executive with a strategic mindset, Natalie achieves best value public outcomes through solving problems by remaining focused on the desired outcome while responding to the various perspectives of stakeholders. She’s a great listener, smart, without ego and extremely empathetic. Applying these strengths to “get to yes” has been the essence of why she’s achieved outcomes others have not been able to deliver.
We have particular expertise in business and government services in the planning and corporate areas. Applying a discipline of evidence based decision making nuanced by political and other realities of the day to work out the most efficient way to get to your desired end point.
You will be leveraging many decades of experience in solving all myriad of problems on the business and government services space of planning and corporate areas. That means applying a significant collective understanding of what works, what doesn't and which path is likely the quickest way home.
You have limited resources and want to expend as few of them getting to your desired end-point.. We get that and want it for you too. By focussing on the quickest way home, we will all be most efficient and will have solved your problem, ready to move onto the next!
Providing advice and facilitation to developers regarding alignment of their vision with the relevant authorities plans
Organisational
Executive advisory on business and service offerings
Development of locally responsive plans to align with the State or Local Government Vision
As well as good old methods of analysis and contemplation, Al is providing unparalleled opportunities for efficiencies here. We take advantage of Al as another tool in the kit with data and insights triangulated to ensure intellectual rigour.
The Chainsaw company, Stihl, has the mantra ‘few moving parts’. When I started with them in marketing, I didn’t understand the benefit. I assumed more moving parts would connate engineering superiority, I was wrong. Fewer moving parts means fewer points of failure. It’s been a lesson I’ve applied to all strategy and planning since. Keep it as simple as the complexity will possibly allow and where possible, reduce the complexity of the challenge down to its most simple construct, focussing 80% of the effort there, never forgetting to round out the solution with the last 20% that would otherwise have you brought undone.
The whole team of stakeholders will ideally be on the same page for the endeavour. No one enjoys wasting resources going around in circles because there’s disagreement on the best way forward. Alignment not just on where we’re going, but how we’re going to get there, is often achieved through conversation and most particularly, having an in-depth understanding of the various stakeholder interests that guide their view. Keeping everyone informed of progress will then help to ensure alignment is maintained. We often do this through brief stand up check ins and it never ceases to amaze that while you may not think you need to touch-base, the dividends always pay off.
As they say, you don’t need to be terrific to start, but you have to start to be terrific. Once you’ve agreed the way forward, you’ll have significantly better chance of achieving your outcome if you work swiftly to get there as quickly a possible. Dilly dallying and delays will likely mean your stakeholders lose interest and invest their resources elsewhere and your project loses energy. It can be tough to reignite the machine, so at StrategyEQ, we strike while the iron is hot and then work relentlessly to get you to where you want to be as efficiently and effectively as possible.
The path forward will present natural milestones for you to lock in and celebrate achievement. These are often about signed off approvals: getting out to consultation; in-principle agreements and finally ‘getting to yes’, whatever that means for what you’re trying to achieve. Most importantly, StrategyEQ is adept at remaining focussed on what will ensure makes the endeavour considered a success once it’s done, remaining respectful and appreciative of stakeholder inputs through the process and diligence about solving all the niggles that need to be smoothed out as you reach the finish line.
A bit like a game of snakes and ladders, the path to achieve the outcomes you’re seeking is rarely linear. StrategyEQ will work with you to lock in achievement of milestone so when curveballs come in, the gameplay remains in tact as much as possible. And if we need to, we’ll help you pivot.
So much of the hard work is done in the last 5% of the project plan. People finally read the proposal; realise the rubber is hitting the road and are now not sure they want it to proceed; stakeholders come up with why nots to counter proposed whys. At StrategyEQ we’ve rarely worked on a project that’s just sailed through, generally it rakes enormous application and diligence to solve all the last minute concerns and close it out, getting to yes, whatever yes mean for you.
