The Commercial Charity Book
The Commercial Charity tells you everything you need to know to develop profitable earned income, and how to apply business principles and techniques to dramatically increase any non-profit’s reach and impact.
Leadership Essentials: Expert Sounding Board
I will provide you with immediate objective feedback and advice on any decisions, ideas, opportunities and challenges you wish to discuss, enabling you to confidentially talk through your thoughts, clarify your options and alternatives, and make better, more confident decisions.
Break New Ground: Structured Advisory Support
I will challenge your thinking, offer new ideas and perspectives, diffeerent frameworks for thinking and action planning, and prepare you for success every step of the way.
Leadership Team: Rapid Development
For CEOs who want to dramatically elevate the capability, effectiveness and performance of themselves and of their leadership teams.
Business Development Fast Track
An intensive development programme specifically designed for non-profits that need to rapidly improve their commercial acumen and skills.
CEO Breakfast Seminars
Our twice-yearly, invitation-only seminars are the only place where CEOs of the UK’s largest charities come together to share their insights and experiences around the sector’s greatest challenges and opportunities.
A time to talk
We can get far more from our in-person interactions than mere productivity. We can get ideas, inspiration, creative thinking. We can get a space to genuinely bounce off and explore. We can get a time, just to talk.
CEO Breakfast January 2022
Thursday 20th January 2022 8am to 9:45am – How can we build better, stronger, more purposeful coalitions, and embrace collaborative working to unlock the full potential of our collective impact?
Hospice UK Annual Conference
Thursday 4th November 2021: Martyn will be speaking at the Hospice UK annual conference on the topic of innovation and earned income opportunities
Surpassing the limits of charity
There is a broad and fertile valley between the opposing mountain ranges of selfless charitable altruism and naked commercial self-interest.
A strategy for success
What does success look like for your organisation? And if I asked each of your team, your executives, and your trustees that same question, would they all answer in broadly the same way?
A climate for collaboration
Collaboration between organisations within the sector has never been more essential, so how can we break down the barriers that seem perennially to prevent us from making it actually happen?
Why we don’t do what we should
Why is it, that even when we know what we need to do, and why we need to do it, we still don’t? Because there are four “traps” we need to avoid if we want to succeed.
The perfect proposition
How do you design new commercial ideas so that you can deliver to customers flawlessly, retain them year after year, and grow them continually over time?
The adaptable organisation
The ability for any large organisation to learn, adapt and respond to a rapidly changing environment, largely comes down to two things: how good are its hothouses, and how well can it propagate its limes.
The corporate opportunity
If we want to access the income, impact and influence we could gain from a new generation of corporate partnerships, we will need to meet business leaders where they are, and take the time to educate and lead them to where they need to be.