Restoring Purpose
Strategy is the scaffold of an organisation. But for strategy to hold, it needs to be agile, responsive, and deeply rooted in purpose. At One Little Spark, we design imaginative interventions to help organisations distil institutional noise and align strategy, culture, and governance to build systems with soul.
Imagination isn’t just for creatives. It is a teachable, strategic capability essential for everyone (operational leads, administrators, and managers) to keep the system running. By looking beyond rigid audit culture, we help you design the creative architectures that enable genuine, sustained innovation and systemic clarity.
Our Strategic Interventions
Radical Facilitation & Strategic Foundries
Reimagining the away day as a high-heat strategy lab.
We replace the standard committee room with a high-energy Foundry for focus and possibility. Using speculative tools and futures thinking, we help teams work across boundaries and dissolve the silos that stall progress. Working together, we help you to make the move from crisis management to Systems Leadership.
The Outcome: Teams that can deliver the day-to-day while developing the shared agency to build a collective future.
Living Strategies and World-Building
Agile frameworks for a volatile world.
Static five-year plans are relics. Drawing on systems thinking, we help you author Living Strategies that are resilient and responsive. We move beyond optimisation to help your organisation think through multiple possible futures, ensuring your strategy is a living, breathing guide rather than a shelf-bound document.
The Outcome: A “North Star” that remains fixed and clear, providing organisational stability even when the landscape shifts.
Opportunity Architecture & Strategic Grants
Designing the frameworks for high-impact investment.
A grant or a bid is an opportunity to think otherwise. We help institutions develop radical visions for the future through relational agency and codesign. We identify the strategic intersections where your goals align with stakeholder needs, architecting the frameworks that help position your organisation for large-scale bids and civic partnerships.
The Outcome: Compelling, visionary bids that restore purpose, support growth, and deliver measurable social value.
My Approach
My work acknowledges the gritty reality of leadership: the need for efficiency, the pressure of budgets, and the importance of stewardship. I help you move beyond a reliance on mere optimisation. Instead, we harness Strategic Imagination to build organisations that are not just fit for purpose, but resilient enough for whatever comes next.
