WELCOME Â TO STRATEGY COACH
Guiding organisations to design and realise their strategy
We assist organisations to design strategy and transformation programs that realise value.
We can support you with designing and critiquing your plans, performing a capability assessment to improve performance, facilitating workshops and one on one sessions to provide advice to leaders in your organisation.
OUR EXPERIENCE
Our leader Kristy Fotiadis, has supported large corporates, medium sized business, Government and for purpose clients. She brings over 20 years experience, as a management consultant. Most recently she was a Partner within a professional services firm. Kristy has covered strategy, mergers and acquisitions, operating model design, organisational design, effectiveness reviews and enabling organisations through digital transformation. Kristy's style is approachable and pragmatic. Her approach considers the organisation as a whole and people's role in achieving success
OUR SERVICES
BRINGING TOGETHER BOARD AND /OR EXECUTIVES TO DISCUSS STRATEGY
We support Board and Executive teams through both an exploratory and structured process to define their strategy and recognise what is required to make it succesful.  We have led Board and or Executive retreats, offsites, leadership days to brining perspectives forward, support constructive dialogue and provide leaders an immersive experience to think.  We custom design our workshop approach for each organisation.  This may include defining a sense purpose, agreeing strategic objectives, an assessment of the current state, where they will play, how they will succeed, the capabilities required and uncovering any barriers that may inhibit them realising the strategy.
PLANNING AND REALISING YOUR STRATEGY
Whilst a clear strategy is imperative to guide the organisation, defining it is only a small step on the way to success. Bringing your leadership team and people together to realise the strategy is where the hardwork takes place that leads to success. We work alongside your leaders to coach and support them along the way.  This may include defining the detailed initiatives that support the strategy, involving and consulting with people across the organisation and defining how they will monitor their progress towards achieving objectives.
PLANNING AND INTEGRATING A MERGER OR ACQUISITION
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Mergers are hard work.  They take significant organisational time, effort and focus away from your core business.  We act as an independent advisor during deal selection to ensure appropriate fit and critiquing if perceived value can be realised. We then continue to support with integration planning to ensure deal value is actually realised.  Â
For organisations that have recently completed a merger or acquisition and are yet to realise the intended value, we come in an perform a health check and develop a plan for capturing unrealised value.
IMPROVING YOUR OPERATING MODEL OR ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
Based on better practice organisational design and a customer centred view, we lead an assessment of existing business functions and define a plan for improving the value and capability of team. This may include a new organisational structure, improved technology, aligning the operating model and considering interactions with the broader organisation. Â This can be performed across the whole organisation or at an individual business unit / function level,
STRATEGIC ADVISORY / COACHING
To support leaders and their people in realising the strategy, we work side by side with leaders to coach them along the way.  This includes fortnightly formal check in sessions to check in on progress, offer guidance and suggested approaches to solving problems including consulting tools and templates, as well as adhoc advice as required.
IMMERSIVE INSIGHT WORKSHOP SERIES
These workshops focus on creating 'deliberate mental space' for Boards and / or Executive teams to have meaningful dialogue on important organisational items. Significant planning occurs prior to the workshop to bring together disparate information across the organisation and turn this into insights. During the session, attendees work through these insights in constructive group discussions to answer 'so what does this mean for our organisation?'. From here a plan of a pragmatic plan of action is developed to ensure meaningful progress and change can be made.
IMMERSIVE INSIGHT WORKSHOP SERIES
These workshops focus on creating 'deliberate mental space' for Boards and / or Executive teams to have meaningful dialogue on important organisational items.  Significant planning occurs prior to the workshop to bring together disparate information across the organisation and turn this into insights. During the session, attendees work through these insights in constructive group discussions to answer 'so what does this mean for our organisation?'. From here a pragmatic plan of action is developed to ensure meaningful progress and change can be made.
UNDERSTANDING REVENUE AND COST DRIVERS
Creating commercial insight to support sustainability
These workshops create a simplified and safe environment to allow Board members to understand where and how their organisation makes money and the areas they need to be focussing on. Using data visualisation, we breakdown and summarise the revenue and cost drivers of an organisation into an easy to understand series of visual diagrams overlaid with insights.
Board members who are often removed from the organisation and non Finance executives are given concisely presented information allowing them to understand the the income and expense components of the organisation, without drowning in typical line item management reports. This workshop presents a breakdown of key categories, where these have changed and creates room for discussion on why and generating insights, followed by developing a plan to ensure growth and / or sustainability.
These visualisations can also be created into ongoing dashboard reports that allows Boards and Executives to regularly track this information.
OUR PROJECTS
EXECUTIVE STRATEGY DAY
Consumer Products
We recently brought together the extended leadership team for a growing consumer products organisation. The day involved assessing their current state, competitive environment, consumer drivers, followed by where and how they will grow.  To achieve their goals the leadership team identified enabler for success covering people, technology, markets and customers.  Following the session we worked with the client to define a framework for the revised strategy to allow them to easily and visual communicate with their leaders and people the focus for the next three years.
WORKFORCE FLEX
by Strategy Coach provides experienced professionals through innovative project or activity based solutions
Every organisation is grappling with severe workforce shortages.  Workforce flex presents an innovative way to challenge our existing preconceptions and consider the 'building blocks' of a role, a project, or a set of tasks and delivering these via by a flexible and sometimes shared workforce. We have a network of experienced professionals after part-time flexible arrangements. Areas of expertise cover Powerpoint professional, strategy, transformation, project management, performance improvement, change management and customer experience. We invest the time to understand your requirements, provide advice to ensure the project or role is scoped correctly and connect you with a suitably matched professional.
CONTACT US
LOCATION
Emirates House
Level 3 / 257 COLLINS STREET Melbourne
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Public Transport
Tram: Take a tram down Collins Street and the stop near the corner of Swanston Street will bring directly in front of the building.
Train: Take the train to Flinders Street station.
Parking
Hourly rate parking is available at Green co
Flat rate parking (see conditions) is available at QV
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