Impact through Strategy

Strategy advisory that delivers tangible impact
for leaders of medium-sized organisations,
through our Impact-led, Open Strategy approach.

Market & Customer Insights

Get unique market & customer insights to make the right strategy choices.

Strategy

We include external perspectives, from customers, partners & front-line staff so you can make the best strategy choices.

Planning

We work with leadership teams to develop practical plans that target specific ways to deliver on key parts of the strategy.

Execution

We work with leadership teams to drive execution of the overall strategy and accountability of specific plans.

The conventional approach to strategy is losing its impact.

That’s why we’re Australia’s first Impact-led, Open Strategy consultancy
Strategy Insights

Take an outside-looking-in approach

We take an assumption-free approach to business strategy by putting your stakeholders at the centre.

Delivering tangible impact through our modern strategy approach.

We help you get market and customer insights from outside your four walls, so you have clarity to make the right choices.

Foundstone named ABA100® Winner for Business Transformation in The Australian Business Awards 2025

Client Case Studies

Hear how our clients adopted our Open Strategy approach and the outcomes.

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Prevention United

The Bridge Inc

Australian Medical Association (AMA)

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The time is now. For-purpose leaders and organisations need to uplift and embed impact across the organisation-wide strategy process, not as an afterthought, or face barriers to access impact funding.

Latest Webinars

Unlocking Social Impact Investment – for NFP leaders and funders 

As traditional government and philanthropic funding shifts, Social Impact Investment is becoming a critical part of the mix.

Lead with Intent: For-Purpose M&A Strategy and Execution

Industry leaders share unique insights on how organisations are developing and executing on their M&A strategy.

Articles by Us

Original articles written by us to provide insight into our real-world strategy experiences

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Planning Is Not Strategy

Strategy is not a document, a workshop output or a [...]

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Lead with Intent: Time to Rethink For-purpose M&A?

  More than 70% of not-for-profit leaders expect to pursue [...]

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Impact-led strategy for the new funding reality

  The time is now. For-purpose leaders and organisations need [...]

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Foundstone Conversations

Get live insights from our broader community

Foremost a strategy advisory, we also have real-world conversations with business and industry leaders about their latest challenges, learning’s and insights

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Krithika Randhawa, Associate Professor at The University of Sydney Business School

Impact-led, Open Strategy at The University of Sydney Business School

Roger Martin, World’s #1 Management Thinker

What is Strategy? Planning is not Strategy.

Julia Hautz, Co-Author of Open Strategy and Professor of Strategic Management

What is Open Strategy?

A survey of more than 200 top executives found:
“When Open Strategy was applied to just 30% of their organisation initiatives, those same initiatives generated 50% of revenues and profits.”

Taken from openstrategy.info

We specialise in strategy & impact for organisations in healthcare, human services, NFP, and impact investment-based organisations.

We partner with organisations to create lasting change.

We work predominantly with healthcare, human services, NFP, and impact investment-based organisations.

Our services are not cookie-cutter solutions.  They are tailored to suit your organisation and industry.

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