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In uncertain times we're required to navigate changing and complex situations that call for different mindsets, processes and toolkits to those we've traditionally used. We need to equip ourselves with the critical and creative capacity to create tangible value in changing contexts.

 

Let’s talk about how you can be effective.

systemic change

Effective Adaptation

FUTURE advisory

Future Clarity

speaking & coaching

Be Inspired

Bring clarity to initiatives that seek to bring about change in complex or ambiguous situations. Advisory services are unique to your needs and focus on developing insights, capability and alignment. Systemic analysis, and design, to shift business models, organisational or societal systems that are based on creating real value for all.

Increase your understanding of your changing landscape, options and implications. Future-oriented research and generative narratives enable you to identify opportunities and understand future options and interactions. Usefully inform your decisions so you can be more effective.

Those creating change know there’s no map to follow and that it can sometimes be a lonely and frustrating path. Tomorrow’s leaders need to be able to create new directions with adaptability and humanity. Generative coaching helps you expand your thinking, generate new possibilities & tap into your innate creative talent. 

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FIONA INGRAM

Creativity in Complexity

Fiona has an uncommon and right-for-the-times skill-set that weaves together strategic foresight, social innovation, business innovation and human-centred design. She thrives in complex situations and bring the skills, imagination and experience to bring about change.

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She’s driven by curiosity and has a deep comfort exploring off the beaten path to identify future directions. She’s able to synthesise what’s important, explain it in plain language and marshal change by using the energy of the current system.

 

Her experience spans startups to corporates, government and social organisations. A natural explorer and generative thinker, Fiona enjoys helping others take brave and effective steps to create value.

Working with Fiona is great. She has the curiosity to awaken people’s authentic inspiration and awe for new possibilities. It’s a very human process that she leads, one that holds the key for the kind of transformation people and organizations are really after.

Greg Bernarda

Advisor, speaker, Strategy & Innovation Designer

Co-author, Value Proposition Design

Fiona is an inspiration to work with. She is intelligent, empathetic, passionate and motivated. She is great at cutting through complex problems and developing innovative solutions that come to feel like common sense.

The ability to understand complex problems and relay them back in simple terms was widely regarded and provided for structured and coherent reports that delivered exactly what we needed for our clients.

Natasha Yemm

Director, Future of Work

Australian Government Department of

Jobs and Small Business

Lexie Walter

MetroHub Manager

CYP Design & Construction Joint Venture

I brought Fiona into the Social Innovation team in the Australian Government because her unique combination of design insight and foresight gave us the capacity to navigate complexity and facilitate connections across the agenda. Her approachable manner, skilful engagement and quick humour saw her quickly become a trusted go-to person well beyond our team.  

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Rosemary Addis

Executive Director

Impact Strategist

Honed through decades of cross-sectoral leadership, Fiona's ability to skillfully lead structured conversations created the space needed for me to gain clarity about my organization's direction in a way that left me feeling a deep sense of ownership from the process. 

Fiona is exceptional at helping people make sense of very complex topics. She doesn’t dumb down realities; she helps people navigate slippery and uncertain situations with confidence. I admire how she combines pragmatism with strategic integrity to help people translate theory and ideas into meaningful action.

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donnie maclurcan

Executive Director, Post Growth Institute

Josie Gibson

Director, The Catalyst Network

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