Welcome to The Ideas Facility

We are a small, creatively led consultancy, bringing insights across design, strategy development and implementation for organisations focused on growth.

About

Our purpose is to enable individuals, teams and organisations to grow, by establishing the conditions for success so that failure is not an option. We do this through facilitating and unlocking creative thinking to consider new options for growth. We listen. We coach. We facilitate. We design. We deliver.

Companies across the UK invite us and our team of collaborators, to address the opportunities they face, and we help them achieve their ambitions by bringing the following elements together.

What we do

Identity, change and strategy
Brand strategy
Vision and values planning
Design strategy
Setting direction
Communication strategy
Brand identity
Culture mapping
Brand communications
Employee engagement

Building people capability
Leadership coaching
Culture development
Team performance coaching
Change resilience

Growth and winning work
Proposition shaping
Growth strategy development
Building innovative cultures
Bidding to win

Our Approach

Today’s organisational choices demand a Purpose driven approach. Our clients invite us to be creative in motivating their people to transform their brands through thinking boldly, creating authentic engagement and delivering meaningful outcomes.

We are collaborative and build long term relationships and help our clients achieve their strategic aspirations, by creating meaningful ways to express who they are, where they are heading and what they stand for.

We do this by working together across three key areas:

Vision and strategic drivers
We immerse ourselves in our clients' business, gaining an in-depth understanding of their market and commercial position and objectives. We want to know their purpose and their ambitions, to help define their brand strategy and to reflect what makes them ‘tick.’

Culture and Behaviours
We understand how gathering around a set of values, building a shared purpose and creating social connections builds cultures that display levels of high performance. We harness this in our approach, to build business ecosystems that thrive across all areas of the way they work.

Engagement and communication
Culture comes to life through the ways we display trust in our people. It builds a sense of belonging. We look for the narratives and stories that bind people and organisations together and use these to create engagement strategies and communications campaigns that work.

Methodology
We bring the following capabilities together:

Design
We use design thinking principles, processes and methodologies to bring coherent solutions across all aspects of identity, brand, product and service propositions.

Consultancy
We work in partnership with our clients and build collaborative, design-led and creative relationships, to help them solve problems that stay solved.

Facilitation
We facilitate creativity and bring a variety of design thinking and creative problem-solving methods and techniques to encourage thinking that leads to action.

Coaching
Our coaching approach enables people to develop new approaches and behaviours to address change and performance, supported by a range of psychometric tools and options to facilitate improvement.

Mentoring 
We work alongside our clients to embed skills and capability through practice. We mentor leaders in a non-executive capacity to bring insights and different perspectives to help people and organisations to thrive.

Let’s work together

We’re always looking for opportunities to build relationships and deliver exciting projects. Please contact us and let’s start a conversation.