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.
Webinar: a strategy for system change
Tues 1st November 2022, 5pm to 6pm. How to make your vision come true with system-based strategies
The good news
How the “good news” of having an economic crisis on the back of a pandemic can show us how to rise to the challenge.
Webinar: the earned income opportunity
Tues 27th September 2022, 5pm to 6pm. Come along to hear and discuss the untapped opportunities of charity earned income, and why now it’s more pressing than ever.
The implications of agility and empowerment
Charities are having to become ever more reactive and responsive, which means words like agility and empowerment are now right at the top of virtually every organisational agenda.
The power to challenge
The irony of the charity sector is that, while we have the rules and oversight of a regulated industry, and the risk aversion of a conservative institution, most charities have all their power vested in just two people…
CEO Breakfast September 2022
Thursday 22nd September 2022 8am to 9:45am – How can we unlock the full potential of our extended leadership teams, to genuinely empower the talented people across our organisation?
Video: the future of charity leadership
Recorded in a live seminar from June 2022, Martyn examines the legacy and lessons of the pandemic and the growing challenges being faced by charity leaders, and asks: what sustainable, effective leadership needs to look like in such extraordinary times.
Future-proofing charity leadership
There are a million and one things charity leaders can do within their organisations, but get these two fundamental things right, and everything else will flow from there.
The fallacy of the manager as a coach
Coaching has become a byword for enlightened management. But it’s also become a shorthand for a mythical panacea and the default style all managers should adopt. It’s none of those things.
The secret of high performing coalitions
In a race between a team and a committee, the team will always be able to travel lighter, move faster, and go much further in actually shaping the future.