Advising, educating, creating

Supercharge high performance with...

Consultancy

We partner with you to gain perspectives & insights, reveal trapped & untapped value, implement innovation and transformation programmes, and to help you regenerate.

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 and adapt.

Frontier tech

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

Empowering high performance across all contexts

People & Leadership

We educate and mentor your leaders and teams on practices and approaches that empower high performance, employing our unique Mesh method to create a sustainable culture of learning.

Digital Transformation

We guide you through digital transformation, advising on the skills, processes and cultural practices your organisation or initiative needs to navigate the change with confidence.

Sustainable Evolution

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

Diagnostics

We run audits and diagnostics to identify skills gaps, to gauge sentiment, surface cultural and operational blocks, discover trapped and untapped value, and identify opportunities and challenges to inform changes that are needed.

Strategy

We use our experience of shaping global, national and local transformation initiatives, and leading sectoral and organisational upskilling, to define strategies that will 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.

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

Services

We deliver numerous advisory, education and creation services to empower high performance.
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Advise

Consultancy
Planning frameworks
Roadmapping
Audits
Human-centred design
Policy recommendations
Trapped & Untapped Value (TUV) diagnostics
Facilitation

Educate

Masterclasses (online / in-person)
Courses (bespoke / on demand)
Coaching & mentoring
Train the trainer
Collaborative design sessions
Case studies
Remote delivery
Online conferences

Create

Digital/skills/culture strategy
AI planning
Automation architecture
Skills-based hiring processes
Micro-credentials programmes
Standards
Blueprints
Policies
Collaboration

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 empower high performance. It is formed around the concepts of:

Tenets

The tenets...

Express the values that inform the Mesh approach. They are interdependent and inform each other.

Connection

Connection prompts knowledge sharing across the organisation and beyond to external stakeholders and communities. Sustainable organisational evolution is aided by connecting components, skills and an ecosystem of support.

Visibility

Visibility promotes behaviours and processes that aid seeing the unseen, revealing trapped and untapped value and skills through gaining insights to processes creating blockages and revealing opportunities to generate value within the existing infrastructure of the organisation.

Trust

Trust is required for individuals and teams to perform at their best and adapt to rapid changes. Ethical behaviour is essential for the organsiation to be trusted by the wider ecosystem.

Lenses

The lenses...

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

Core

Perspective:

Leadership team behaviours
Individual skills-awareness and 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

Conditions

The conditions...

Catalyse (re)generative behaviours and processes and help optimise operations and contribution.
Acronym: ORBITALS

Open

Encompasses practices and cultural norms that promote the open characteristics of adaptability, transparency, inclusivity, collaboration, and community. Structuring elements so they can be reused, remixed and repurposed.

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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