What we do.
Breakthrough outcomes emerge when leaders design the precise conditions for transformative dialogue around the decisions that matter most.
After 20+ years navigating complex organisational challenges, we've learned that extraordinary results require extraordinary conversations to get there.​ We work with senior leaders whose challenges demand more than textbook solutions; they're navigating stakeholder complexity, transformation that requires challenging established assumptions, and strategic opportunities that conventional approaches can't unlock. Our Conversation Architecture methodology creates the conditions where breakthrough thinking becomes inevitable.
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Whether through strategic intensives, ongoing thinking partnerships, or comprehensive transformation programmes, we design the conversations that unlock what's genuinely possible.
Our Offerings.
Breakthrough Strategy.
When you need rapid strategic clarity
on a focused challenge
Sometimes you need breakthrough thinking on a specific strategic question without embarking on a major transformation programme. Whether it's revising your strategy, gaining stakeholder alignment on a critical decision, or working through a strategic challenge that's been cycling without resolution, you need focused intervention that creates clarity quickly.
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Our Approach:
When you need rapid strategic clarity, we use conversation architecture to design focused strategic engagement that cuts straight to the heart of your challenge. We architect precise conversations with the right stakeholders to surface insights quickly and create the clarity needed for confident decision-making. This approach delivers breakthrough thinking at the speed your strategic decisions require.
What You Get:
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Focused stakeholder engagement (interviews, workshop design)
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Strategic intensive dialogue designed around your specific question
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Clear outcome: strategic decision, stakeholder alignment, or pathway forward
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Rapid turnaround (weeks not months).
Investment: Tailored to project scope and requirements.
Perfect for: strategic sense-checking and pivots, multi-stakeholder initiatives, cross-cultural change projects.
"I don’t know where I, or Force of Nature, would be without Deepa’s counsel. She helped me turn a nebulous idea into a grounded project plan and, one year on, an established organisation.
Sometimes you receive advice so far from where you stand that it feels impossible to make actionable. Deepa, by contrast, creates the conditions for you to be majorly ambitious while holding your hand so you don’t fall flat on your face. She’s unafraid of asking hard questions (ones I would never even think to!), but will stick around to help you answer them. I am eternally indebted and grateful."
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Clover Hogan, Force of Nature.
"Working with Deepa has been transformational for both me and my business. From the very start, I felt extremely comfortable with Deepa; after our first session I already felt like I'd known her for years! This comfort was crucial for me to be able to speak openly and share the challenges and tribulations of running a business with someone who not only gets it, but is able to prod, coach, and guide in a invigorating, provoking and enriching way.
Throughout our time, I've felt complete peace of mind that I was working with an absolute professional who is not only at the top of their game, but is leading the field. Deepa's ability to combine expertise and professionalism, with compassion, and creativity is second to none."
Andy George, VAULT Creative Arts.
Critical Friend
Strategic thinking partnership for leaders
navigating complex organisational paradoxes
When you're wrestling with challenges that don't have textbook solutions - stakeholder tensions, mission vs commercial pressures, transformation that requires challenging assumptions everyone takes for granted - you need someone who understands the paradoxes that paralyse complex organisations and systems change.
Our Approach:
Most advisory conversations follow predictable patterns. But when you're navigating paradoxes standard approaches just reinforce existing thinking. We use Conversation Architecture to design strategic thinking sessions that surface the assumptions you're not even aware you're making, hold space for the tensions you're avoiding, and push you to explore the edges where your real breakthrough thinking lives. We offer a two-tier package depending on your needs and the speed/ intensity you want to travel - hit the more details button below.
What You Get:
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Strategic thinking sessions designed using conversation architecture principles for productive dialogue.
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Confidential space where we create the conditions for you to examine what you really want, not just what you think you should.
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External perspective that guides you beyond familiar patterns when stakeholder interests conflict or transformation requires challenging everyone's assumptions.
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Strategic thinking partnership that structures your thinking processes to move beyond recurring discussions.
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Additional 90-minute sessions when you need deeper support for specific challenges or opportunities.
Investment: from £1,900.
Perfect for: senior leaders, founders, executives driving complex change.
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Strategic Projects.
Large-scale transformation using conversation
architecture for systems change.
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Major strategic transformations - whether developing regenerative frameworks, navigating complex systems change, or creating alignment across multiple stakeholders - require more than traditional consulting approaches. These initiatives involve diverse perspectives, competing interests, and the need for breakthrough thinking that can only emerge through carefully designed engagement processes.
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Our Approach:
We combine deep strategic expertise with conversation architecture to design and deliver transformation projects that create lasting change. Rather than imposing solutions, we architect the conversations that allow breakthrough insights to emerge from within your stakeholder ecosystem. This approach ensures both rigorous strategy development and genuine stakeholder ownership of outcomes.
What You Get:
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Comprehensive stakeholder analysis and conversation mapping
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Custom conversation architecture designed for your transformation challenge
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Strategic framework development through designed dialogue processes
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Multi-stakeholder engagement using brave spaces and skilled questioning
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Implementation roadmaps co-created with key stakeholders
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Ongoing conversation design support throughout project delivery
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Knowledge transfer so your team can sustain the transformation approach
Investment: Tailored to project scale, complexity, and timeline
Perfect for: Framework development projects, regenerative transformation initiatives, multi-stakeholder systems change, complex partnership development, organisational transformation programmes, stakeholder-driven strategy development.
Example: Developing a comprehensive regenerative agriculture framework that moves beyond environmental indicators to include social and economic measures - creating diagnostic tools through stakeholder dialogue that ensures practical implementation and genuine sector transformation.​
"Working with Deepa on developing Earthed’s strategy has been nothing short of transformative. She guided us to pause and reconnect with the “magic” of what we’ve achieved over the past 20 months since launch, no small task when you’re in the thick of delivery. Deepa created the space for reflection, helping us truly see and appreciate the scale and significance of our work so far.
From that grounded place, she helped us look forward, clarifying our future vision in a way that feels both inspiring and achievable. Deepa brings a powerful presence and energy to this work, blending strategic expertise with real joy and playfulness. Crucially, she doesn’t stop at lofty ambition. She helps translate vision into practical, actionable pathways, grounded in realistic targets and operational clarity.
We’re deeply grateful for her contribution. She’s helped us build a Theory of Change that doesn’t sit on a shelf but it’s already shaping how we grow and make impact."
Christabel Reed, Earthed.
A few of
our Clients.
Some of the great organisations we've worked with as us, and in partnership with others.
Our Labour of Love.
Every year we pick a Labour of Love client. This is an issue we care deeply about or a founder that we really believe in, they just may not have the funds to pay for our services. They get the same Support, Counsel and Challenge like all our clients, just with the spirit of the gift economy and paying it forward.
If you think that you, or your organisation could do with some love, please get in touch and let's see what we can do.
Past Labour of Love clients include: Tarkebien, Know your Stars, the Ashiyaana Foundation, Force of Nature, The Industree Foundation, The Vaults Festival, Amalurra.