Confidential Strategic Counsel

In a rapidly changing world how do you shape your future?  How do you formulate your vision, create the right strategy and really make it stick?

To fully invest in your long-term interests you need to play with ideas, be creative and test your thinking with the experts.  Part of our business strategic consulting, our Confidential Strategic Counsel is a confidential sounding board for executive and senior managers to explore their ideas and clarify approaches ahead of sharing with colleagues.

Since 1996, EDL Founder and Co Director Steve Gorton has facilitated MBA strategy programmes with some of the UK’s major business schools.  Thus, armed with a wealth of practical and cutting edge thinking across the conceptual and operational strategic planning process we can help you crystallize and articulate your vision.

Creating effective holistic strategies which take account of the whole system in which your organisation operates, our flexible Horizon Planning methodology has made real differences for FTSE 100 companies, as well as national and public sector organisations.

"…liberating, insightful and helpful"
Chief Constable
"It is probably the single most valuable two hours I have ever spent in my business life."
Strategy & Planning Manager, 3M, EMEA

Useful Documents

Performing from Strength
When we identify our strengths and values and use them as a basis for the way we operate – enhanced performance and success follows. This article helps you to increase your self-knowledge and put your insights into practice.
Performing from Strength
Thinking About Strategy

Many organisations do reasonably well in defining the “Where do we want to go”. Sometimes they pay sufficient attention to the “Where are we now?” yet it is often when it comes to the “How do we get there”, that they fall down. We explore some of the ways for you to get things right

Thinking About Strategy