Strategic Partnerships
Strategic advisory, facilitation and fractional support for leadership teams and organisations - from focused off-sites to ongoing partnerships around decision-making, operating rhythm, leadership alignment, growth and change.
The growth ahead. The team built on trust. The way of working that needs to be intentional to match the ambition.
WHO IT’S FOR
For leadership teams and organisations that want to sharpen how they think, decide and operate together.
Sponsored by CEOs, founders and executive leaders who know that culture, standards and how the team operates aren't separate from performance - they're what drives it.
The work can take different forms depending on what the business needs.
It might be strategic advisory around a specific challenge or period of change. A leadership off-site designed to turn discussion into decisions. Or fractional support for a defined period - working alongside the team as an experienced, independent leader, bringing perspective, additional capacity and ownership where it's needed.
WHAT YOU’RE ARRIVING WITH
A leadership team or organisation that is capable, ambitious and already delivering - but where the next stage is asking more of how people think, decide and work together.
The challenge might be growth, change, misalignment, inconsistent decision-making, unclear ownership or simply the need for more senior capacity around a critical period.
High standards may already exist, but not always explicitly.
How decisions get made.
How disagreement gets handled.
How communication lands.
How the team holds itself accountable - internally and to others in the business.
What gets escalated.
What gets owned.
What excellence actually looks like in practice.
Too often, those things are assumed rather than agreed.
Or the issue may be broader: the business needs experienced support around a period of change, growth or execution, without immediately adding another permanent senior hire.
WHAT THE WORK DOES
The work is designed around the business need rather than a fixed format.
That might mean working with the leadership team to define operating standards, strengthen decision-making and create clearer accountability.
It might mean facilitating a focused off-site around a specific priority, challenge or shift in direction.
Or it might mean working alongside the organisation for a defined period - providing strategic counsel, additional leadership capacity and ownership around agreed priorities.
Where facilitation is the right intervention, sessions are designed around the KPIs, targets or business priorities the team is working towards. Time-boxed. Practical. Built to turn discussion into decisions in the room.
Where the need is broader, the relationship can extend into ongoing strategic advisory or fractional support - helping shape decisions, strengthen operating rhythm, create structure where it is missing and keep momentum around the work that matters.
The role is always the same at its core: an experienced, independent perspective at the table, with the credibility to challenge senior leaders and enough commercial understanding to work with the reality of the business, not outside it.
"Rhian helped us turn a strategic conversation into something the team could actually use. We left with clearer standards, stronger alignment and five non-negotiables that now shape how we work, decide and hold each other accountable.
P - VP Commercial, Growth Leadership Team Workshop
WHAT YOU’RE LEAVING WITH
Clearer decisions and stronger alignment around what matters.
Defined standards for how the team operates - named by the team, owned by the team.
Greater clarity around ownership, accountability and how decisions get made.
A shared definition of excellence - for the team and for each person in it.
Stronger communication and greater confidence in how the team works together.
More structure and momentum around the priorities the organisation needs to move forward.
Where the work is ongoing, a clear operating baseline to return to as the business evolves - with regular resets to address what has drifted, what has changed and what now needs attention.
FORMAT AND INVESTMENT
The structure depends on the work.
This might include:
a focused half- or full-day leadership off-site
a short-term strategic advisory engagement
quarterly leadership-team partnerships
fractional support over a defined period
a combination of advisory, facilitation and ongoing support
The scope, cadence and level of involvement are designed around the business need.
By application - begins with a Rhi.View
Priced according to scope, duration and level of involvement.
Paid in full upfront or in 2 instalments