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  • We help groups adopt new ways of organising, distributing leadership and making effective decisions together.

  • We help groups assemble around a shared mission and set strategies that account for allies as well as competitors.

  • We help teams develop cultures for conscious evolution, rooted in collective awareness, hope and agency.

  • I want to call out the role that Bramble has played. We’ve tried at this before and fallen flat on our faces, and I think we’ve become more cynical about wanting to do it… You’ve brought tenacity and real skill, you know what each of you bring to the party, and you play those roles with great humour and wit and heart.

  • The CASH Coalition brought in Bramble to help figure out our shared strategy and focus… Working in a deft, creative and fun way to harness the strengths of the group and the power of the place we were in, Julian ensured we balanced the time and energy we spent together beautifully. We remained animated, motivated and productive through three long days, and left with renewed momentum. To anyone else forming or sustaining a coalition, I strongly recommend Bramble.

    Chris Jochnik, President and CEO, Landesa

Recent projects

  • In 2024-25, we worked with a global network of 400+ climate professionals whose leadership team wanted to restructure itself to realise its ambitions for impact and scale. We designed an 11-month, participatory design and development journey that resulted in the implementation of a new multi-polar leadership structure and the selection of an refreshed operating model, supported by 360 assessments and team coaching to make the new structures a success.

  • In 2023-24, we helped the CASH coalition align around a strategy and action plan. Working with its executive director and core team, we co-designed and facilitated key in-person and virtual meetings for the emerging coalition and created a digital tool for coalition members to depict value exchange in their ecosystem.

  • Since 2023, we have been working with a new power company who wanted to articulate a set of values that could speak to its unique model, diverse heritage and role in the energy transition. We supported the CEO, management team and employee representatives to draft and seek feedback on a set of values before bringing these to life through a series of engagement sessions with the team.

  • In 2024, we designed and facilitated a process for a loose network of scientists, practitioners and managers to prioritise the most critical R&D for the regeneration and survival of Caribbean coral reefs.

Case study: creating a collective vision for an agentic future in which AI amplifies the best of our work

How can we cultivate hope and agency to bring about a better future across an organisation overwhelmed by demands for short-term performance?

The change we needed

The Chief Research & Development Officer of a global consumer goods company gave us a challenge: how could the whole R&D leadership team collectively imagine a radically better future in which their core values and most joyful work are amplified by a deep partnership with agentic AI – and then set about making it a reality, in five years time?

The tension or dilemma

We needed to overcome the gravitational hold of the present and imagine change that is energy-giving, not a source of loss and fear in an organisation very much gripped and exhausted by years of focus on short-term performance and demands to transform. Power was spread across a matrix structure, and positive momentum and consent were needed to unlock real investment and focused attention.

The outcomes

We hosted a ‘generative decision-making’ process for the extended R&D leadership team in which these catalytic action proposals were debated, sharpened and ultimately agreed upon. This was hard-edged, surfaced real dilemmas to be navigated, and was commented upon as ‘the most engaged and productive’ session they could remember.

The inspiration

Our work is informed by the power of radical awareness, hope, and agency – and we were inspired by leadership teams and boards who have included their younger colleagues and less powerful voices from their ecosystem to collectively imagine an inspiring leap forward for their organisation. We are also inspired by the work of futurists, artists and changemakers such as Bill Sharpe, Wendy Schultz, and Augusto Boal, and generative decision-making processes from Percolab.

The intervention

We designed a future-back visioning and pathway mapping process for the 15 most senior leaders, to create a ‘generative image’ of the future and possible accelerators and pitfalls on the pathways there. We then designed and facilitated a four week ’future design sprint’ in which three teams of employees from across the business envisioned, stretched and then analysed the catalytic actions needed to accelerate towards this desired future.

What we’re learning

The future of agentic AI systems can be uncertain and scary for many employees, but if peers across the business are given an opportunity to explore, envision and imagine pathways to a better future, hope and agency can increase, with pitfalls and competing commitments surfaced early.

New collective sense-making and deliberation methods can allow large leadership groups to engage more deeply with their fears, concerns and hidden competing commitments to seismic changes like agentic AI adoption

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