Wisdom Council & Strategy Fishbowls

Strengthen your strategy with the wisdom of trusted peers

Sometimes, the smartest next move isn’t found in another framework or PowerPoint deck, it comes from a well-placed question, a fresh perspective, or a conversation that surfaces what’s been unsaid.

Our Wisdom Council and Strategy Fishbowls offer a powerful, human-centred way to test and evolve your strategic thinking with input from experienced systems leaders, thinkers, and practitioners.

Whether you're leading change in healthcare, social systems, business, or policy, we offer courageous thinking partners, not canned advice without the need to employ an expensive agency long-term.

  • A Wisdom Council is a small, curated group of advisors from our wider collective, selected for their lived experience, diversity of thought, and deep listening skills.
    They gather to hear your challenge, reflect together, and offer guidance that’s grounded, generous, and often unexpected.

  • In a Strategy Fishbowl, your team shares a key strategy, plan, or decision point in a structured, facilitated format. The council then discusses it in real time, while you listen.

    It’s a live sensemaking process where:

    • You hear what others notice, question, or appreciate

    • Insights arise that you might never access internally

    • Silence, intuition, and storytelling have a place alongside analysis

    • Discovery call – We get to know your goals, context, and what you want feedback on

    • Council assembly – We invite the right mix of people from our trusted network

    • Facilitated session – We create the space, hold the container, and guide the process

    • Synthesis & support – You get a short insights brief and options for follow-up coaching or action labs

    • Break out of echo chambers and internal blind spots

    • Test strategy against real-world complexity

    • Access insights that balance head, heart, and gut

    • Reconnect with your purpose and direction

    • Create space for reflection, not just reaction

  • Leaders, teams, and organisations facing:

    • A new strategy or transformation plan

    • A pivot, crisis, or critical decision

    • Complexity, conflict, or uncertainty

    • The need to slow down, reframe, or refocus