IStrategic Away Day services are a particular speciality over the past 25 years.
I run strategy days for boards and staff to ensure that the huge investment of time and resource involved is rewarded by achieving the aims that you set out for them. Clients from across the UK are listed below – I have worked both with small founder lead and vision-led organisations as well as major cultural institutions with boards, senior teams and all staff away days.
Small organisations I have worked with in the past
Age UK Hereford and Worcester
ALVA – Association of
Leading Visitor Attractions
Autin Dance
B and A consultancy – offsite
Beatfreeks Consultancy
Big Cat Agency (now Leopard Co)
Birmingham LGBT
Bloomsbury Festival
Bone Ensemble
British Origami Society
Capsule
Cultural Learning Alliance
Coventry Biennial
Curious Minds
DASH
European’s Welfare Association
Fabric/ Horizon Showcase partners
Fierce Festival
Grand Union
Imagineer
Jewellery Quarter Development Trust
Lapworth Museum
LIFT – London International Festival of Theatre
Movema
New International Encounter (x 2)
One Tenth Human
Out of Joint Theatre Company (which became Stockroom)
Oxford House
Quench Arts
SAMPAD
Soul City Arts
Take A Part
Thames Festival Trust
Transform Festival
Vivid Projects
Winterbourne House and Gardens
What clients have said
Feedback received from colleagues was really positive which means it was worth it! Elżbieta Kardynał, Director, European’s Welfare Association
We could not have been as productive as we were [on the day] without you and [the next day] was also very successful.
Adam Woodhouse, Chair, British Origami Society
It was a brilliant day’s thinking and conversing. I totally enjoyed it. It’s not often that you get to enjoy the thing you’ve set up and you totally made this possible.
Sally Shaw – Director, Firstsite Gallery Colchester
Thank you all for your time and energy during the away day. I personally got loads out of the day, and it felt so good to have board and team working together to grapple with the future!
Amy Letman – Artistic Director, Transform Festival
I think it was the best strategic discussion we’ve had as a board in my time on it and this was achieved in significant part by the role you played, in planning the agenda and in facilitating us through it with skill, energy and good humour.
Stephen Warrington – Chair of Thames Festival Trust Board (former Partner at McKinsey)

