$100.00 excluding tax

Strategic Advisor and Business Designer: Design Innovation, Strategy, and Futures (Embedded Strategic Design Partner)

Services

  • Business Strategy
  • Leadership
  • Startups

Goal:

  • Grow
  • Launch
  • Manage

Overview

I operate as an embedded Business Designer/ Strategist and Futurist, continuously designing, building, and refining ventures, systems, and growth pathways from within on a retainer basis. This is a hands-on partnership focused on turning ideas into functional MVPs, operational systems, and scalable execution.

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Description

Retained to continuously design, build, and refine the client’s business or system targeting Startups building and iterating quickly; SMEs scaling operations and entering new markets; NGOs, multilaterals and programs moving from concept to implementation; and organizations needing continuous strategic design support, this service model positions me as an embedded Business Designer, Strategist and Futurist giving the institution the capability to build, scale, or transform rapidly. I work across:

  • Business design and innovation
  • Strategy development and execution support
  • Process and operating model design
  • Product/service system innovation
  • Market entry and expansion strategy
  • Institutional or program redesign

Over the engagement, clients receive:

  • Functional and thriving MVPs (ventures, services, or platforms)
  • Business Model Systems
  • Operational Workflows and Process Systems
  • Go-to-Market Engines
  • Systemic MVPs (where relevant)
  • Transition Roadmaps

What Actually Changes (Outcomes)

  • Ideas become launched initiatives
  • Teams move from confusion to structured execution
  • Organizations gain internal design and strategy capability
  • Systems begin to function, not just exist

Assumptions

  • Includes up to 3 rounds of revisions based on Client feedback
  • Client will provide constructive feedback and guidance in reviews
  • Client will review & accept Deliverables with 5 days of final submission
  • Client will provide relevant source materials & data, licensed, company and brand assets & guidelines, etc.
  • Out-of-scope or additional requests will require a separate Engagement
  • Consultancy fees indicated exclude project input cost

Price

$100 USD per hour | Minimum 60 days | Over a minimum 6-month+ contract

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