Sharp Thinking. Clear Direction. Competitive Advantage.
We design and facilitate strategy and business planning sessions that help you cut through complexity, unlock fresh thinking and set a direction that delivers real-world results.
Whether you’re refining your business model, planning growth, aligning your senior team or shaping transformation—we’ll help you create clarity, alignment and momentum.
Where We Add Value
We work with ambitious organisations that want more than just another away day. Our sessions help you:
- Gain competitive advantage through sharper positioning and smarter decisions
- Accelerate growth with focused, high-impact plans
- Build strategic thinking capability across your leadership team
- Tackle challenges like market disruption, sustainability and digital transformation
- Align internal teams around purpose, priorities and performance
- Get beyond “what we’ve always done” to unlock bold, practical next steps
What We Deliver
Every session is custom-built around your goals, context and people. We bring:
- Expert external facilitation that gets the best from your team
- Smart tools and structured thinking techniques (no fluff, no filler)
- Space for challenge, creativity and bold decision-making
- A sharp focus on outcomes, accountability and delivery
We also help you tackle the things that typically hold strategic sessions back—groupthink, post-it fatigue, unclear outputs and slow follow-up.
Strategy & Business Planning Workshops That Work For You
We facilitate:
- In-person strategy days and planning retreats
- High-intensity virtual strategy sprints
- Multi-session programmes to develop and embed strategic thinking
- Team workshops focused on a specific theme, challenge or horizon
Themes We Often Work On
- Competitive differentiation
- Accelerated growth strategy
- Business model innovation
- Market expansion and customer strategy
- Organisational capability development
- Digital transformation and technology strategy
- ESG, net zero and sustainability planning
- Leadership alignment and decision-making culture
- Purpose, vision, values and organisational direction
Why The Big Bang Partnership?
We’re experienced facilitators who specialise in strategic innovation and business growth. We bring:
- A mix of creative and analytical tools to stretch thinking without losing focus
- Experience across sectors—from corporates to scale-ups and public bodies
- Practical outputs, not just frameworks and flipcharts
- Momentum and confidence to move from planning to delivery
Led by expert innovation strategist Dr Jo North, our sessions are grounded, energising and built to deliver value beyond the room.
Let’s Talk
If you’re ready to challenge assumptions, strengthen your strategy and drive real progress—we’ll help you get there.
Contact us to plan your next strategy session.
Our in-person and virtual, remote strategy and business planning sessions will give you and your team the time, space, structure, focus and energy to step back from the day-to-day to shape your plans on:
- What you want your business to look like in the future
- Internal and external challenges and opportunities
- What is important to you – your purpose, vision, mission and values
- How you want to grow your business
- What you need to do to get from where you are now to where you want to be
We run our strategy and business planning sessions over 1 or 2 days, at the end of which you will have:
- A shared vision and prioritised business goals
- Awareness and consideration of challenges and opportunities
- Short, medium and long-term objectives
- Team confidence in and commitment to the plans
- A roadmap for implementation with clear ownership and accountability
As we do for all types of events that we run, we will document all the work created in your strategy and business planning sessions and write everything up for you, with photographs of delegate work included, so that you have a full record of your event and a clear roadmap for implementation.
