Stakeholder Mobilisation: The Volunteer Army Sprint
Strategic Adaptation only takes hold when the people closest to the work design the response — not when it is handed to them.
74% of CEOs expect significant organisational redesign in the next two years. Most of those redesigns will fail at the point where a strategy needs to become action people own.
Traditional stakeholder management prepares the ground for change — it doesn’t make change happen. This service designs and facilitates a quarterly business agility planning event built on Kotter’s volunteer-army model and dialogic facilitation techniques (World Café format): leaders present the strategic picture, a cross-organisational task force defines the response, and self-selecting teams commit to outcomes for the next two weeks, the next quarter, and beyond.
It’s the fastest way I know to convert a strategy everyone nods at into action people actually own — because the people doing the work designed it.
Best for: CEOs facing a change agenda too broad and complex for a conventional project structure, where the real barrier is not the plan but the absence of genuine organisational buy-in below the top team.
What you get: a facilitated 1.5-day planning event, OKRs and a rolling roadmap for each workstream, and a repeatable model your team can run quarterly without me in the room.