We help world positive ventures
maximise their impact.

Sometimes all you need is a quick conversation to help get unblocked and move things forward. Our team of subject matter experts are available for 90 minute telephone or video brainstorms on an array of topics from the strategic to the tactical. If there's an immediate challenge or opportunity you'd like to discuss, but aren't quite ready to commit the time or resources to a strategic immersion, get in touch and let's get you connected with someone who can help.

Our interrogatory intensives achieve in 1-3 days what management consultants often take months to deliver. Underwritten by our 10-step framework, the end result is a set of clear, coherent, and actionable agreements for immediately and successfully executing an annual strategy to achieve the purpose. Our strategic immersions have been designed, tested, and validated through delivery to a range of clients including multinational corporations, multi-stakeholder initiatives, global foundations, development finance institutes, corporate innovation labs, academic institutions, conferences, communities, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits.

Rather than try to fit our team to your needs, we have spent decades building a vast network of subject matter experts, frontline practitioners, and hands-on entrepreneurs to tackle the unique challenges faced by your organisation. We’re not afraid to get our hands dirty, fly coach, and sleep rough, if that is what’s required to get the job done. Most importantly, we’re selective about who we work with, because we don’t believe we exist to give you what you want, but to give you what you need - even if that means  committing the cardinal sin of consulting and (respectfully) telling you you’re wrong.

Systems mapping involves a combination of desk research, field work, and ethnographic interviews in order to ensure that the entirety of the system is effectively understood. By identifying primary stakeholder groups, and better understanding their needs, we are able to determine how well the system has been designed for their purposes. The typical outputs of a systems mapping exercise are a visual representation of the system(s) under investigation, including call outs to areas that are sub-optimal, and early-stage recommendations for improvements.

Most systems are comprised of frameworks that help us to better understand them. Social systems, for instance, have been consistently defined according to the needs of the individual, the family, the community, and society at large. Complex systems are comprised of many such frameworks, many of which have never been intentionally designed to work together. The process of identifying, refining and conjoining overlapping and adjacent systems produces the skeleton upon which a future infrastructure can be developed.

Infrastructure is taken to mean many things, but in our case, it refers to the tools by which we get things done. With expertise in software and hardware design and development, Uncompromise transforms the theoretical to the actual. We favour open, non-proprietary frameworks for the opportunities they provide to work across traditional organisational siloes in services to the greater whole.

One of the common refrains in events for decades has been “How do we ensure the learnings, connections, and progress made here continue to grow over the next year before we gather again?” Yet, by and large, events have failed to achieve this outcome, and in a world of growing alternatives, mature, experienced, and credible people working on the front lines want to invest their time into getting things done.

Whether for an event of 50 or 50,000, we design and curate engaging programs that maximize the value for participants, partners, and coordinating organisations.

We are experienced facilitators and speakers on a range of topics in the impact space. Our presentation style is intended to incite challenges and emotion, and inspire audiences to action.

As facilitators, we’re not neutral - we believe that when it comes to tackling the urgent problems of our time, taking no sides is taking the side of passivity. We bring the full force of our knowledge and expertise to any engagement, working alongside participants to achieve meaningful progress towards a stated outcome over 1-5 days.

We believe that the most effective way to amplify collective knowledge and expertise is not merely through building organisations, but movements. Through community design, partnership activation, and alliance building, we strengthen and leverage your networks in harmony with our own. View a select list of our partners.