THE THRIVING CULTURE STRATEGY SYSTEM
Strategy That Actually Sticks
In today’s environment, having a strategy is not the challenge. Making it stick is.
Many organisations invest significant time creating a strategy, only to find that months later:
Priorities have blurred
Teams are unclear on how they contribute
Leaders are working hard, but not always together
Execution slows and silos quietly re-emerge
At Thriving Culture, we help organisations move beyond strategy as a document and embed it into how leaders lead, teams work, and decisions are made.
Our Approach: A Strategy System Delivered Through a 12-Month Partnership
The Thriving Culture Strategy System is designed to operationalise strategy over time — not just define it.
We partner with senior leadership teams over 12 months to create clarity, embed execution, and align leaders to deliver together. Many organisations continue into Year 2 and 3 as their strategy evolves and the organisation grows.
This is not a one-off strategy session.
It’s a system that holds strategy in place through complexity, change and growth.
Our work is guided by a simple framework:
Clarity → Embed → Align
The Ripple of Accountability runs throughout the engagement — building individual, shared and collective accountability so the strategy holds at every level of the organisation.
Phase 1: Clarity
Designing the strategy
We start by creating clear strategic direction and ownership.
Together, we:
Clarify strategic intent and enterprise priorities
Define what success looks like using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
Identify the strategic initiatives that will move the strategy forward
Make trade-offs explicit
Establish individual accountability across the senior leadership team
What this gives you:
A clear and shared direction
Focus on what matters most
Leaders aligned on priorities and ownership
Phase 2: Embed
Operationalising the strategy
This is where strategy becomes part of everyday operations.
We work with you to:
Translate the strategy into a clear operating rhythm
Build consistent review, decision-making and follow-through
Develop a shared strategy story leaders can communicate with confidence
Clearly articulate how each team contributes to the strategy
What this gives you:
Strategy moves from a document to execution
Teams understand how their work connects to enterprise priorities
Shared accountability becomes visible and actionable
Clear articulation of how teams contribute to the strategy
Phase 3: Align
Leading and delivering together
Strategy rarely fails within teams — it fails between them.
In this phase, we focus on horizontal leadership and collaboration.
Together, we:
Work on real business challenges that require cross-functional collaboration
Clarify shared outcomes that sit between teams
Facilitate senior leadership forums to build relationships and trust
Surface and address silos that slow execution
What this gives you:
Leaders working together, not in isolation
Stronger relationships across the senior leadership team
Collective accountability for enterprise outcomes
How We Work Together
The Strategy System is delivered through a 12-month partnership and typically includes:
Senior leadership sessions at key points across the year
Regular checkpoints to embed the operating rhythm
Targeted forums focused on real business challenges
Support between sessions to sustain momentum
The exact cadence and structure are designed with you, based on the size, complexity and maturity of your organisation.
Who This Strategy System is For
This engagement is designed for organisations that:
Have a senior leadership team accountable for enterprise outcomes
Are navigating complexity, growth or change
Want strategy to translate into consistent execution
Are ready to work across silos, not reinforce them
It is not designed for organisations looking for a one-off planning session or a strategy document without follow-through.
Designed to Evolve, Not Be Rewritten
This strategy system is built to hold direction while allowing flexibility.
Rather than rewriting the strategy every time conditions change, the operating rhythm and leadership conversations adapt — while the strategic intent remains clear.
This enables organisations to respond to change without losing focus.
Beyond the First 12 Months
Many organisations continue into Year 2 and 3 as priorities evolve, leaders change, or the organisation grows.
Ongoing partnership typically focuses on:
Refreshing strategic priorities
Strengthening cross-functional collaboration
Re-aligning leaders as the organisation matures
The system remains the same. The organisation grows within it.
What Leaders Notice Over Time
Organisations using the Strategy System typically experience:
Clearer priorities and fewer competing agendas
More effective senior leadership conversations
Faster decision-making with fewer escalations
Stronger ownership across and between teams
Strategy discussed regularly — not just annually
Ready to Operationalise Your Strategy?
If your organisation is ready to move beyond strategy development and embed strategy into how leaders lead and teams work, we’d love to explore whether this partnership is the right fit.
Let’s create a strategy that holds — and delivers — over time.
Happy Clients
Claire made the whole process of establishing the 2030 Strategy look very easy. We covered so much in such a short time that, looking back, it seemed not possible. It was a fun process too, and the outcome is great.
Claire is a great facilitator. She makes sure that everybody has the opportunity to contribute, whilst keeping the group focussed on its objective and on the right path. We really did achieve a lot in the two days, which was impressive and rewarding. I would definitely recommend Thriving Culture to other companies.
Getting our 2030 Strategy on a single page in just two days was a great achievement. It is a meaningful document, both realistic and aspirational.
Let’s Build Your Future Together.
Your leaders and teams are the backbone of your business. When they thrive, your entire organisation thrives. If you’re ready to invest in the future of your leaders and teams, let’s start a conversation. Together, we can create the conditions for your business to not just survive—but truly thrive.
Thriving Culture would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land where we live and work, the Bundjalung nation of the Arakwal people, and pay respects to elders, past, present and future.
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