Find Your Way Forward with Discovery Sprints
Facilitated, Creative and Innovation Workshops to Solve Fundraising, Leadership, Team & Organisational Challenges
Find out MoreAre You Feeling Stuck? Wondering How To Solve a Problem? Want To Explore an Opportunity? Innovate? Unlock? Build? Engage?
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You are faced with huge challenges - you need to lead a team and deliver the day to day work, so how do you build for the next phase?
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You can see challenges but don't have the bandwidth, time or insights to stop and work them through.
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Leading from wherever you are, sometimes means you can get stuck and find yourself going round the same problem. You need space to think and explore.
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You may want room to work through your strategy, a plan, a product, or a process.
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You may want room to innovate and create something completely new
It's easy to rely on old ways to plod on, rather than think differently and creatively. Time, money and the focus on the short term often prevent action and success. Alongside that, perhaps a lack of experience and knowledge means people get lost in the pressure.
What if there was a process, method and some experience that could give you and your team the opportunity to tackle those challenges? What if you could harness your creativity? Be challenged, guided, work through your challenges together and find a way through? What if you were empowered to take real action guided by a coaching experience together?
Introducing Your Discovery Sprint Facilitator, Coach & Guide
Stephen George brings over 40 years of leadership and fundraising experience across local, national, and international organisations. He has held senior roles and consulted for NGOs including Scope, UNICEF, NSPCC, Maggie’s, RNIB, and Action on Hearing Loss.
His work spans strategy development, brand and fundraising planning, team leadership, and organisational change. He coaches and facilitates innovation and design sprint workshops for teams at all levels.
Stephen has spoken at international conferences, delivers coaching and training globally, and shares his insights as a blogger, speaker, and podcaster. He is currently supporting a range of UK and global organisations.
His approach is open, practical, creative, and grounded in real-world experience — challenging and supportive, safe and creative and always fun, inspirational. aspirational and can do.
Adam Heuman
"Stephen was everything you could hope for in a facilitator – energetic and personable, backed up by a huge bank of expert knowledge and experience. He tailored the session brilliantly to our organisation and as a result we got huge value from it" - Adam Heuman Director of Engagement, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
What are Discovery Sprints?
A Discovery Sprint is a creative process for finding ideas and solving big or small challenges, focussed on the user, customer or supporter first.
A Discovery Sprint takes the process and approach from Design Thinking and Design Sprints and blends it with traditional strategic, operational, organisational, fundraising, business and leadership innovation, creativity and consultancy. It's faster, focussed, fun and done together.
Discovery Sprints are an innovation process, with facilitated online or face to face workshops (or both) using creative and collaborative methods to solve your challenges and find new opportunities. They are available in 3 flexible ways to give you options to create and craft one that suits you. Firstly, a short, fast Express Sprint, that lasts half a day or a focussed session. Secondly a more focussed sprint process for a day or more, and lastly a creative consultancy and coaching process created as a bespoke solution for your challenge, delivered over a timeframe you decide.
What do you get in a Discovery Sprint
- Powerful methods and an easy step by step process focussed on collaboration and creativity
- Facilitated by an expert guide, coach and experienced fundraiser
- Brings teams, talent and viewpoints together in a shared process
- Focused on your specific challenges and opportunities and tailor-made to focus on getting results
- Flexibility in sprints to allow you to do small fast ones, bigger ones, longer and deeper ones from small challenges to big change and transformation
- Online only space and face to face workshops, through specially designed workshops and workspaces, using digital whiteboards, and using group and one to one video calls and/or face to face workshops
- Coaching and development alongside to build teams and better leadership and performance
- Over 35 years of global fundraising, strategic, operational and leadership experience brought to the creative process
- An action plan and report, checklists, handouts, accountability
- Harnesses your teams and collaboration and builds a common experience and sense of purpose
- Always focussed on the user, customer or supporter first
Want to Explore & Find out More?
Drop me a line and let's have a chat. I can help you explore options and help you find a way forward. Click the link to send your details and we can easily set up a call or email. No strings, just an old fashioned conversation, to get it right. If not me I can help you find another way! I'd like to help if I can!
Lets Talk3 Powerful Benefits from a Discovery Sprint Experience
The Discovery Sprint brings together 3 powerful benefits and reasons you should consider
- An expert guide and facilitator to get your team to work together to solve and create
- A Leadership, Strategic, Operational and Fundraising expert with 35 years of experience who can challenge, support, ideate and create with you
- A coach who can get the best out of people, teams and leaders helping you influence and lead and deliver results
There are 3 Versions of a Discovery Sprint
Discovery Express
A short intense half-day or full session creative problem solving workshop built around a single key challenge that we agree and Stephen facilitates.
Discovery Design
A day sprint created for your challenge with a before and after period, using a design sprint discovery & creative process, workshop & coaching built in
Transformation
A longer bespoke creative change & transformation programme to unlock a bigger challenge, using workshops, consultancy, training & coaching
We Plan & Deliver Each Sprint With You In Control
- Briefing - We explore and define the challenge, we work with you to hone down the issue, problem or opportunity and agree where you want to go
- Framing - We frame the problem or challenge. Defining the problem with real clarity is often missing and in this we get to the heart of the issue
- Plan - We plan the process. We agree the people. We find the evidence. We build the sprint. We agree the How Might We Questions. We prep the people
- Sprint - Using expert facilitation and guidance we deliver the sprint. Bringing people together in a shared experience, we work the problem or challenge.
- Action - We collate the actions and the map. We help you find your way forward. We stay the course and help you deliver a transformation
We use the How Might We Question rooted in Design Sprints to focus, defining the nub of the problem or opportunity, through the right questions.
Focus, Create & Innovate Solutions & Find New Ways Forward. Together.
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This is what people have been saying after workshops or training from Stephen
'I really enjoyed this - Stephen George was a breath of fresh air, his enthusiasm and sense of humour were great'
'Stephen George was phenomenal - interesting, engaging and extremely knowledgeable'
'Sometimes someone helps a little seed of an idea or concept that has been looking for a way to spring up and come to life. I felt this and am now excited to bring some new ideas to fruition'
'Stephen was a standout - practical and passionate'
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