Advising, educating, creating

We supercharge your future possibilities

"A partner that thinks about future context when advising us about today."

Services

We advise, educate and create on preparing for the emerging era.
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Advise

Consultancy – planning to deployment

Roadmapping

Skills/culture audits/diagnostics

Digital/skills/culture strategy

Policy recommendations

Revealing Trapped & Untapped Skills (TUS)

Facilitating transformation conversations

Coaching & Mentoring

Educate

Masterclasses (online and in-person)

Courses (bespoke / on demand)

Train the trainer

Micro-lessons

Implementation tools

Case studies

Remote delivery

Online conferences

Create

Standards

Blueprint creation

Concept architecture

Collaborative design sessions

User-centred design

Models

Approaches

Systems

Upskilling across all landscapes.

Digital Transformation

We guide you to digitally transform effectively, advising you on the skills your organisation needs to navigate the emerging era with confidence.

People & Leadership

We educate and mentor your leaders to develop high-performing teams and regenerative cultures primed for the emerging era.

Emerging Technology

We design skills strategies, programmes and structures to help you remain flexibile, resilient and sustainable, and to capitalise on the opportunities of emerging technology.

Audits

We run diagnostics and interview staff to identify skills gaps, gauge sentiment, culture and operational blocks, and to discover trapped and untapped skills to ensure you bring your staff with you through the changes and upskilling requirements.

Strategy

We use our experience gained from shaping global frontier tech and skills initiatives, and leading sectoral and organisational upskilling to help you define strategies to meet your organisational needs.

Operations

We assist you to operationalise strategy and embed effective organisational procedures and programmes, to enable smooth transitions, healthy regeneration and sustainable growth.

The emerging era requires new skills

We partner with organisations to prime them for the emerging era

Advisory Services

The emerging era needs empowered people

We educate on the essential leadership and organisational skills for the emerging era

Education Services

The emerging era begins with ideas and possibilities

We contribute to skills initiatives in partnership with organisations, foundations and global communities

Creation Services

Future-prime with

Education

We take you on a journey of connection and learning with our courses, collaborative learning experiences and masterclasses, providing you with tools and resources to upskill your organisation.

Consultancy

We partner with you to gain perspectives & insights, reveal and release the value of trapped and untapped skills (TUS), implement skills programmes and regenerate.

Initiatives

We partner with foundations, organisations and communities to design global frontier tech initiatives, and develop standards, new approaches and systems.

Our unique approach: Mesh

Our unique approach helps us to gain a comprehensive overview and understanding of your organisation’s strategic, operational, cultural, leadership and skills needs. It draws on our extensive work defining open practices that prepare individuals for navigating frontier and emerging Web3 technology, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain. It is formed around the concepts of:

Tenets

The tenets...

Express the values that inform our approach and practices to generate them. They are interdependent and inform each other.

Lenses

The lenses...

Provide a rounded perspective of the organisation with different vantage points for considering skills needs and aid a systems thinking approach.
Acronym: COG

Conditions

The conditions...

Articulate leadership and organisational behaviours that aid the implementation of upskilling at scale.
Acronym: ORBITALS

Connection

Connection prompts knowledge sharing across the organisation and beyond to external stakeholders and communities. It aids sustainable regeneration and evolution by bringing together many skills, perspectives and an ecosystem of support.

Visibility

Visibility promotes behaviours and processes that aid seeing the unseen, revealing trapped and untapped skills and gaining insights to the skills needs of the organisation.

Trust

Trust is required for individuals and teams to accept new skills requirements, develop themselves and to perform at their best. We use tried and tested techniques to gain your team’s trust and catalyze their professional development.

Core

Perspective:

Leadership team learning culture and behaviours
Individuals’ skills-awareness and learning behaviours

Operational

Perspective:

Organisational skills programmes, processes and frameworks
Organisational learning culture

Global

Perspective:

Wider context and skills requirements of the emerging era
Global skills initiatives, developments and standards

Open

Encompasses approaches, ways of working and cultural norms that promote the open characteristics of adaptability, transparency, inclusivity, collaboration, and community. Prompts a mindset and behaviours that are beneficial for implementing sustainable, wide-scale upskilling.

Regeneration

Prompts a willingness to transform through continuous cycles of change, and to generate and regenerate to remain relevant and be sustainable.

Balance

Prompts balancing of different perspectives and needs, such as balancing the needs of the individual with the needs of the organisation and wider stakeholders to achieve sustainable change.

Information flow

Empowers knowledge building, informed decision-making, the exchange of data, ideas and information, contribution from distributed and potentially decentralised experts, and engagement with communities.

Trust practices

Are key to developing sustainable relationships and partnerships, empowering teams, defining ethical behaviours and enabling a culture of learning and regeneration.

Awareness

Vital for individuals and organisations to understand where they are now, where they want to go and what skills they need to get there.

Learning

A pre-requisite for upskilling, rapid adaptation and regeneration. Enabling the connecting and weaving of distributed knowledge with collaborative learning opportunities enables individuals to learn through the exchange of ideas and provides opportunities for connection, exploration and network formation to aid a sustainable learning culture.

Sustainability

Cultural norms, behaviours and mindsets that will result in sustainable upskilling to regenerate, remain relevant, be resilient and future-proof the organisation.

What people say about us

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"Grainne [and team] built a great rapport with the stakeholders and quickly understood the problem, the business and the wider context in which we operate. They helped us enormously to make sense of where we were and what we still needed to do in order to make progress with our project."

"So easy to do business with, innovative in everything they do and a delight to work with."

"[They] engage with people they have never met before and they have great interpersonal skills. They can work with a difficult or guarded audience to tease things out of them and get a good outcome. This is real art - how they engage people and get concepts across."

"Thank you for your contribution and excellent work on our workshops!"

"These are the technologists, thinkers and builders, past and present, who help us keep the Internet alive and accessible — a global community dedicated to preserving the power and potential of the world's largest public resource."

(Ardcairn founder, Grainne Hamilton, listed on the Mozilla Monument)

"The team’s skills and expertise in digital technologies for learning, productivity, change and teamwork together with their ability to coach and challenge, has really helped us develop as an educational organisation. I would wholeheartedly recommend them."

"City of Learning UK is a project which utilises these digital badges as well as the many resources within cities such as museums, libraries, workplaces and colleges."

(Cities of Learning UK cited in UK Government strategic review of good work)

"I know learning outside the classroom can give me the skills I need for the future, but I don’t know what’s out there in the city. If [Cities of Learning] can help with that, that will help a lot of young people like me."

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