“Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors,” goes the proverb. It’s in the choppy waters of transition and uncertainty that leadership is tested the most. Whether the challenge is funding cuts, programme closures, or grappling with calls to shift power, localise or decolonise, it’s natural for boards and senior management teams to feel stretched, overwhelmed, and pulled into survival mode. When this happens, focus often narrows to protecting what is left, firefighting, or attending only to immediate threats. The horizon disappears.
INTRAC and DevHub are offering half-day leadership alignment workshops to help leadership teams from a single organisation to pause, take stock, and chart a course forward together. The aim is to help those leading transition to reconnect with the organisation’s purpose, increase alignment, and draw on collective insights and strengths to navigate forward. These are confidential, non-judgemental, facilitated spaces, tailored to your organisation’s context. They are designed to facilitate conversations between board members, or senior management team members or both together.
Depending on your organisation’s specific needs, by the end of the in-house workshop(s), leadership teams will have benefited from one or more of the following:
- Reconnected with their organisation’s purpose, values, and bigger picture, ensuring decisions are rooted in what matters most
- Identified strengths and surfaced current dilemmas or areas of misalignment
- Discussed which are the priority issues that require leadership focus now
- Deepened understanding of the leadership competencies and styles most needed in this moment
- Defined one or two next steps for moving forward with greater alignment and confidence
Workshop prices start from £2,000, depending on the level of tailoring needed. Workshops are expected to be available from November 2025.
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About the facilitators: Ajoy Datta
Ajoy Datta is an organisational consultant and coach with almost 25 years’ experience working in the UK and internationally across the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Formerly a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) for almost a decade and a senior associate at On Think Tanks (OTT), he has led projects on influencing policy & practice and organisational change/learning, working closely with governments, foundations and international NGOs across Africa and Asia.
Ajoy now works within the UK’s National Health Service as an internal Organisational Consultant at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, supporting leadership development, team effectiveness, and culture change. Alongside this, he is a Senior Associate with The Development Hub and an independent consultant to international networks and INGOs on leadership, change, equity and learning.
He is undertaking a professional doctorate in consultation and the organisation at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where he is also a visiting lecturer. His current research interests include how leaders and organisations stay reflective and purposeful in complex, uncertain and stressful environments. He writes about this on Substack.
About the facilitators: Lucy Morris
Lucy Morris is an organisational change specialist with more than 25 years of experience of working in the not-for-profit sector in humanitarian and development contexts both in the UK and overseas. Her career has spanned work with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the UN, the Red Cross, faith-based and secular INGOs and national NGOs in the UK, Africa, Asia and Central Europe.
As Head of Programmes at the former international children’s charity EveryChild, she led the development of new partnerships and programmes, and was part of the Senior Leadership Team responsible for managing organisation’s closure following a strategic decision to close down and hand over all remaining assets to a new network of national organisations working directly with communities. This was referred to by NESTA as arguably “the most disruptive innovation in the sector in recent times”.
Today, she works as a Principal Consultant for Organisational Development at INTRAC, providing consultancy, research, and training support at the interface of national and international partnerships, and is a qualified coach specialising in Executive, Career and Team coaching.