LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION
Practical, strategic, and place-based leadership support that helps councils navigate complexity, align vision, and unlock long-term impact that matters.
Local Government Reorganisation is one of the most significant leadership challenges councils face in a generation. It demands more than structural remapping. It requires leaders who can hold complexity, build trust across boundaries, and turn disruption into lasting change for places.
We partner with councils to ensure LGR is a platform for innovation, stronger partnerships, and better outcomes for communities.
Our LGR Support Portfolio
We provide tailored support for councils at every stage of reorganisation. Change on this magnitude creates pinch-points where governance tensions, service integration, and cultural differences collide.
Traditional approaches wait until decisions are final, delaying benefits and embedding uncertainty. We take a parallel approach, working alongside local leaders, and with national bodies, to explore choices, make meaning together, and do what’s possible now, as we build coalitions that endure.
Our support is adaptive, relational, and rooted in the uniqueness of each place. We work at different scales, from neighbourhood to region, and our services can be delivered as standalone interventions or woven together for dynamic, enhanced impact.
Future-Ready Leadership
A new approach to developing leaders to accelerate reorganisation and devolution in local government. This locality-based intervention convenes leaders, partners, and communities in focused sprints to unblock challenges and co-create solutions.
Community Leadership Development
Reorganisation can disrupt long-standing community relationships. Our programmes strengthen local civic leadership so communities stay connected, influential, and actively shaping priorities as new governance arrangements take effect.
LGR Top Team Support
LGR places extraordinary pressure on senior leadership. We create reflective environments for Chief Executives and senior officers to strengthen cohesion, explore strategic choices, and lead with confidence in uncertainty.
Senior Leadership Networks
We give senior leaders rare space to pause, reflect, and plan. Cross-area networks help them share learning, explore strategic choices, and build relationships that support bold, place-led transformation.
System Connectors & Change Catalysts
Middle leaders are the system connectors and change catalysts who keep organisations functioning well during transition. Our systems leadership accelerator equips these leaders with adaptive skills, emotional agility, and practical tools for leading change.
Strategic Advisory Role
We act as trusted advisors to senior officers, Chief Executives, and members offering insight, challenge, and support on governance design, political dynamics, and coalition-building, helping leaders navigate transition with clarity and confidence.
Our Design Principles: Supporting Council Leaders in LGR and Devolution
These principles guide how we support council leaders through LGR & Devolution, ensuring our work delivers real impact for places and communities.
• Clarity and Adaptability
We help leaders cut through complexity with clear frameworks and adaptive approaches that respond to evolving political, financial, and community contexts.
• Co-Design with Stakeholders
Transformation succeeds when it is shaped together. We work alongside senior teams, elected members, and partners to build ownership and trust in new arrangements.
• Anchor in Place-Based Impact
Every change must deliver real benefits for communities. Our support is rooted in local priorities, ensuring governance and leadership decisions translate into tangible outcomes for places.
• Whole Leadership Ecosystem
System change is not just about top teams. We strengthen leadership capacity across political, executive, and civic spheres—creating alignment and resilience throughout the organisation and beyond.
• Communication as a Core Capability
Narrative drives confidence and legitimacy. We help leaders craft and sustain compelling stories of change that engage stakeholders and maintain public trust.
• Wise Experimentation
Reorganisation & devolution are full of unknowns. We help leaders create safe spaces for purposeful experiments that test new ways of working, build confidence, and reduce fear of failure while learning fast.
Download: Leading the Shift: Five Leadership Responsibilities for LGR
A practical guide exploring five critical leadership responsibilities for LGR: focusing on work that matters, making meaning together, investing in system connectors, building community leadership, and creating conditions for wise experimentation.
Book a Strategic Consultation
A confidential 60-minute session to explore your LGR & Devolution challenges and how we can support your leadership team. We’ll discuss your specific context and identify opportunities for tailored support.