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.
Positivising conflict
Conflict is one of the few hallmarks I see in all high performing teams. It is not a “bad thing” to be avoided, quite the reverse. In my experience, teams that avoid all conflict eschew all hope of excellence
Raising the performance bar
What do you do when one of your key players is struggling to perform? How do you decide whether they can turn things around or if you need to make a change? Here are the four questions to help you make that call..
Engaging new ideas
The biggest challenge for entrepreneurs and change-makers is how to get others to see the value of their ideas. The one thing to remember though, is that their rejection is no reflection on your idea. Here’s why…
Revolutionising strategy
Year after year, non-profits continue to try and wrestle strategies from convoluted, backward-looking, MBA-style processes, which shed virtually no light on the one or two meaningful conversations they actually need to have.
Webinar: the future of volunteering
13th April, 5pm to 6pm. Over 10 million people have volunteered during the pandemic, many for the first time. A one-off event, or the start of something new and powerful? Join me in conversation with Catherine Johnstone, CEO of Royal Voluntary Service, on the future of volunteering.