Strategy & Culture

Set your course and embed your strategy

We help you craft strategy, develop your culture and steer through change, so that everyone in your organisation is clear and engaged in where the organisation is heading and how to get there.

We partner with you to build the foundations that set your organisation up for success.

From strategic planning to culture change and implementation support, we bring structure, insight and deep facilitation experience. We help your people engage with the process, own the outcomes, and stay accountable to the future you’re creating together. The result? A strategy that lives in practice—and a culture that supports people to deliver it.

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of clients report being more collaborative*

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– from clients surveyed in our Impact Report 2025

Strategy & Culture

Engage us for strategy facilitation, change management support or culture development. We’ll combine our deep expertise with yours to create meaningful impact for your organisation’s next phase.

Strategic Planning

Build your roadmap for the future

When you’re navigating a changing and complex context, you need a plan that gives you clarity, insight, and alignment.

We work with you to develop a strategic plan that’s visionary and practical, partnering from the environmental scan to the offsite and beyond.

Our process not only delivers concise and clear outputs but also builds shared ownership and strengthens your team’s culture along the way.

You’ll leave with a clear Theory of Change, a plan on a page, and the tools to help your team bring the strategy to life over time.

When your strategy is well-crafted and co-created, the impact doesn’t stop with the plan — it ripples out, strengthening confidence, collaboration, and decision-making across your organisation.

Strategy Implementation

Move from strategy setting to execution

If you’re holding a freshly minted strategy and want to get better at turning strategy into action, we help you with everything you need to take your strategy execution to the next level. We can help you:

Co-design and facilitate a session which supports ownership and buy-in from managers to frontline staff and links the strategy to operational and business planning
Enable leaders and managers to define dependencies, assign roles and responsibilities, and phase the work in ways that sets everyone of for success
Set you up with a simple system that rolls up effort into tracking and reporting – from managers, to executive, to Board
Help you design your Executive and Management team meetings and agendas so that strategy is the anchor, and the conversations drive progress.

If you’re interested in understanding how to design and steer through the implementation chapter so that you’re set up for success, we’d love to support you.

Culture Development

Define the values and behaviours that matter, and live by them

We help you develop a culture that inspires, aligns and enables your people to deliver on your organisation’s purpose. We begin by mapping your current culture and defining the future you want to create, then design a practical program of change that embeds new mindsets and behaviours over time.

Through values definition, behaviour mapping and phased implementation, we create the conditions for clarity, accountability and engagement at every level. With deep facilitation experience and a structured approach, we ensure culture is not just an idea, but a lived experience that drives sustainable success.

Change Management Support

Steer change with skill.

We support you to define the change you are needing and to co-create an approach that will support it becoming the new normal.

Together with you we’ll understand and shape activities that put your people into a ‘towards’ state around the change and bring them on the journey so that they’re leading.

Our experience in change spans organisational, service and site mergers, culture change, and strengthening domains like agility and innovation. We bring a systemic and practical approach.

"Thank you for your incredible facilitation and development of our Strategic Plan. As a community-based not-for-profit, we are a diverse group of passionate and committed Board Directors and Executives, and sometimes the conversations can get quite heated with so many diverse points of view.

Barb Barkley and Nicola Rothmann's expert weaving of narratives, opinions and objectives equipped us not only with a robust, achievable and measurable Strategic Plan, but also a greater awareness and understanding of our common vision, direction and of each other."

Ali Anderson

CEO, ITEC

“It was such a pleasure to work with Leadership Space to ensure our Strategic Planning Day was a success. Elise and Barb's friendly and efficient approach, combined with a structured and logical format, ensured that the whole team was engaged and that we produced excellent outcomes that will enable us to put a coherent and achievable strategic plan into practice.”

Clive Miller

CEO, Support Act

"Our strategic planning process was focussed and inclusive, thanks to the facilitation and support of Elise at Leadership Space. We now have a strategic plan that the board engages with at each board meeting and that the whole organisation can depend on for clarity in direction and impact.

Elise also guided us through the review of our board skills to assist with ongoing recruitment.

I am an enthusiastic referrer of the full suite of services at the Leadership Space."

HOST International

Wendy Brooks, Chair, HOST International

“We genuinely enjoyed the support from Leadership Space as they walked beside us on our journey as a leadership team. It involved carving out space to realign our strategy and team to set ourselves on the path to achieving our full potential. I am confident we will be able to access new funding, and will be able to deliver even greater social impact as a result. Thank you.”

Jodie Wainwright

CEO, Milk Crate Theatre

“A wonder to work with. Simple, smart and fast, with great quality outcomes!”

Kathy Packenas

Acting CEO, Asthma Australia

"Thank you for your brilliant work facilitating our strategic planning workshop. It was an exhilarating day, challenging in all the right ways, and your ability to keep our energy focused, the conversations flowing, and then to distill them with such clarity is outstanding. It was exciting to feel a room full of people working so well together, acknowledging the transformative changes that are essential for our ongoing survival and relevance. We feel very fortunate to be working with you."

Genevieve Lacey

Chair, Australian Music Centre

“A fantastic facilitation job. You listened, engaged, adapted and connected deeply and that was before we got to the two-day off-site! You then did an excellent job facilitating the large and diverse group. We’re really grateful that you helped us nail what it was we were striving for – to bring people together with a positive energy and culture with a commitment to working together into the future.”

Professor Kristy Muir

CEO, Centre for Social Impact

"Elise brought both structure and a nurturing approach to extracting and challenging our purpose as an organisation as well as the meaningful ways to set priorities ready for action. A highly valuable workshop!"

Leadership Development

Leadership Teams