Presentation given by Jonathan Clemo at the 2018 Annual Norfolk Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector Conference

1. Leading your organisation
to a sustainable future

2. • It’s a funding question but a leadership
challenge
• A lack of a long-term strategy conversation
• A lack of a clear business model
• Sometimes a disengaged board
• Sometime an operationally orientated senior
team
• Unprepared for crisis
• A hail-Mary pass (we’ll put in ten extra bids
that will get us the money in 2 months with no
extra bidding resources)
What’s the challenge

3. • Being clear on mission
• Decision points
• Scenario planning
• Create Headspace
• Try new things/being disruptive/letting
go/rapid prototyping
• Talk about it constantly, positively but
maturely (what’s the story? Clarity not
certainty)
What seem to have worked