KS Insight's strategy practice helps our clients address their most pressing challenges relating to strategy, adaptive change, and recurring complex problems through diagnostic processes based on adaptive thinking, scenario planning, and system mapping. Our clients include governments, companies, and executive teams.

Today’s most urgent social challenges are complex, messy, and have no clear remedy. In order to address these challenges, leaders will be required to go beyond traditional ways of thinking and standard operating procedures. At KS Insight we draw on Adaptive Leadership – a framework pioneered at Harvard Kennedy School and backed by over 40 years of research – to help our clients understand the nature of challenges they are facing and develop the strategies needed to address them.

Our facilitated scenario planning can help organizations think about the future, plan for success and shape their trajectory. Whether tasked with managing growth, making high-stakes decisions, restructuring, or imagining new ventures, scenario planning can help elucidate potential future contexts and align key stakeholders around strategic direction. The end result is flexible, allowing organizations to adapt to a changing environment while remaining focused on their overall goals. 

Understanding how structures, stakeholders, beliefs, and decisions in a given system are interrelated is a key skill for the adept leader. Systems are complex - full of hidden issues, conflict, and unexpected opportunities. Through mapping exercises that help organizations and individuals understand how systems are structured and function, KS Insight helps our clients impact change in those systems in a meaningful and durable way. 

SUPPORT AND STRATEGY IN BUDGETING PROCESSES

We believe that budgets are the most tangible expression of an entity’s priorities and goals. While others see numbers and spreadsheets, we see opportunities for engagement, strategic decision-making and shared problem solving. We bring experience building multi-billion dollar budgets in times of deep budget cuts, as well as generous surpluses, to our core work of leadership development, strategy design, and executive coaching.  We work with your core financial team and key leaders to design a budget process with the transparency and engagement appropriate to your environment. Through small group facilitation, and individual coaching, we support your team in aligning investments with your goals, and navigate the difficult but crucial conversations that concrete budget work entails.