How We Work
At Hornbeam Partners, we take a flexible, adaptive approach to solving complex challenges. We blend analysis, facilitation, and collaborative engagement to help you understand your situation, align stakeholders, and turn ideas into action.
Our framework is built around four key phases, each designed to help you make real progress while adapting to the evolving needs of your organisation.
Phase 1: Understanding the Situation
We begin by exploring the full picture, with stakeholders. Digging deep into the challenges you're facing and uncovering hidden connections and interrelationships. This sets the stage for informed decision-making, ensuring we tackle the real problem, not just its symptoms.
Phase 2: Aligning Stakeholders and Strategy
We work with you to bring diverse stakeholders together, using their expertise and perspectives to find ways to improve situations, or address the problem. We find consensus if we can, win-win solutions where possible, and accommodations that everybody can live with if not (common in complex situations).
Phase 3: Creating Foundations for Delivery
We help you put the right structures in place, ensuring your plan is grounded in practical, actionable steps. This includes setting up the governance, processes, and feedback loops that will keep everything on track, joining up across teams, disciplines and even organisations. Organising for impact, beyond formal structures.
Phase 4: Delivering with Flexibility
We can stay with you through the delivery phase, helping you get things done with stakeholders whilst maintaining a clear focus on the big picture. Whether you hands-on delivery, support, coaching or health-checks, we ensure that your plan stays adaptable, focused, and effective, even when faced with the unexpected.
Why Our Approach Works
We’ve honed this framework through years of experience in sectors where complexity is the norm. Our approach is designed to adapt to your specific needs, ensuring that solutions are not only designed to work but also built to last.
The framework isn’t ‘once and done’. It is recursive with constant reflection between phases – reflecting the need for ongoing learning. Engagement with it can start at any phase - it is not a linear step by step process.
We work with clients to build understanding and skills to continue to use our framework and some of the tools that we apply within it, after we have gone, integrating the principles into how their organisations will work for the future.
Our Services
We have learned to do what we do through experience and know that we can only help if we tailor what we do to how clients work and the real circumstances that they are facing. We can help clients to address complex situations in lots of ways including:
End-to-End Strategy to Implementation
Strategy Making & Business Case Development
Operating Model Design
Executive & Team Coaching
Collaborative Partnership Building
Delivery Health-Checks
Systemic Risk & Opportunity Planning