ORISHA COLLECTIVE
Advisory Services
Find a way forward through complexity.
Not every challenge needs a training program.
Sometimes you need an experienced external perspective to help you make sense of a situation, think through your options, strengthen an approach or navigate a complex piece of work.
Orisha Collective provides tailored advisory support across communication, leadership, partnership building, stakeholder engagement, dialogue and international development.
Advisory engagements are shaped around the question or challenge you are facing. They may involve a focused piece of advice, a facilitated process, review of an existing approach or ongoing support alongside a broader initiative.
When Advisory Support Can Help
- An important stakeholder relationship is not working as well as it could
- You are entering a new partnership or development environment
- Your organisation is preparing for a sensitive conversation or consultation
- Different perspectives or priorities need to be brought together
- You need to strengthen communication around a complex issue
- A team is navigating cross-cultural or institutional complexity
- You are designing a leadership, communication or capability initiative
- You need an external perspective on an existing strategy or approach
- You need someone to facilitate an important discussion or process
The starting point is the challenge rather than a predetermined service.
Areas of Advisory Support
Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
Support to strengthen how an organisation communicates with the people and institutions that matter to its work.
This may include:
- Clarifying key messages
- Stakeholder communication
- Engagement approaches
- Communicating complex or sensitive issues
- Strengthening presentations, forums and consultations
- Communication across organisational or cultural boundaries
Partnerships
Partnerships can become difficult when expectations, priorities, institutional cultures or ways of working do not align.
Advisory support can help organisations think through:
- Partnership strategy
- Roles and expectations
- Stakeholder relationships
- Trust and credibility
- Competing organisational priorities
- Communication between partners
- Difficult or stalled relationships
- Sustaining partnerships through periods of change
Dialogue, Consultation & Difficult Conversations
Some organisational challenges cannot be solved simply by communicating more.
They require better conversations.
Orisha Collective can advise on and facilitate processes involving:
- Stakeholder dialogue
- Consultation
- Difficult organisational conversations
- Competing perspectives
- Collaborative problem-solving
- Co-design
- Professional forums
- Panels and roundtables
The focus is on creating conditions in which people can contribute meaningfully, differences can be explored constructively and conversations can move towards action.
Leadership & Governance
Advisory support can assist organisations, leadership teams and boards working through questions relating to:
- Leadership communication
- Stakeholder relationships
- Organisational dialogue
- Governance communication
- Inclusive decision-making
- Leadership development
- Communication during change or uncertainty
Expert Review
Sometimes what is needed is not a new strategy but a thoughtful review of work already underway.
Orisha Collective can provide an independent communication, leadership and cultural lens on materials including:
- Presentations
- Stakeholder communication
- Learning materials
- Program content
- Consultation materials
- AI-generated content
The aim is to identify where language, framing, assumptions or approach could be strengthened before the material reaches its intended audience.
International Development
Specialist advisory support is available for organisations working across international development environments, including development-partner relationships, stakeholder engagement, institutional environments, partnerships and cross-cultural communication.
Facilitation
Facilitation can form part of an advisory engagement where an organisation needs an independent person to help guide an important conversation.
This may include:
- Stakeholder discussions
- Leadership conversations
- Workshops
- Consultations
- Professional forums
- Panels
- Partnership discussions
- Difficult conversations
The role of facilitation is not to provide the answer.
It is to create a process in which people can engage with the issue, hear different perspectives and make meaningful progress.
How an Advisory Engagement Works
Advisory support can be as focused or as involved as the situation requires.
A piece of work may begin with a single conversation to understand the issue and identify where external support could add value. From there, the engagement might involve advice, review, facilitation, program design or a combination of approaches.
There is no requirement to fit the challenge into a predefined package.
Have a challenge you would like to think through?
Tell us what you are working on, what is proving difficult and where an external perspective may be useful.
We can start there.