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Here we share the frameworks, tools, and reflections that guide our work, including our Collaboration Compass.

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Upcoming Events

Opportunities to reflect, practice, and connect with others in the work

Our events are designed to support you in leading and collaborating more thoughtfully in complex environments. Whether you’re joining a workshop, a Circle, or a longer programme, you’ll find time to slow down, learn alongside others, and develop practical ways to show up with more awareness and intention.

 

 

Find your People

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Chief People Officer or Charity Chief Executive?

Our Circles are confidential peer groups for you and your peers to connect, learn and grow together.

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For Chief People Officers and HRDs 

25th Sep 2025 | 8.45am
London Breakfast

Leadership in Complexity
A taste of the Circles experience.

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For Chief People Officers and HRDs 

8th Oct 2025 | 12.30pm
Virtual

Leadership in Complexity
A taste of the Circles experience.

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For Senior Leaders & Changemakers 

TBC
Virtual Session

Getting to Know the Collaboration Compass
A practical introduction to the Compass and how it can support you to lead, collaborate, and navigate complexity more effectively.

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RISE created a space that felt real, challenging, and genuinely supportive. I left with clearer thinking and importantly, a renewed energy to act.

Event Participant, BCorp Festival 2024

Beyond Control: A Complexity Lens

Our approach is grounded in a complexity-informed view of change. That means we recognise that change can’t be fully predicted, controlled, or managed in the ways we’re often taught. Instead, we explore ways of working that help us better navigate uncertainty and challenge more traditional assumptions about leadership and organisational change.

One of the key tools we use to support this work is the Collaboration Compass.

Collaboration Compass

Featured resources

Collaboration Compass Guide

Collaboration Compass Guide

An orientation to the Collaboration Compass with practical ways to understand and strengthen how you think, relate, act, and show up with others in complexity.

GUIDE
Peer Learning Playbook

Peer Learning Playbook

This playbook distils our years of learning through supporting organisations of all kinds to implement and sustain peer learning mechanisms to support effective collaboration, leadership, culture and purposeful change.

GUIDE

Our Methodology & Approach

Collaboration Compass

Our approach is shaped by the Collaboration Compass, a practice-based framework developed to support more effective collaboration in the real, often messy, conditions of organisational life.

Rooted in a complexity-informed view of change, the Compass doesn’t offer neat prescriptions. Instead, it brings attention to the everyday patterns, behaviours, and relational dynamics that shape how people work together. In doing so, it supports the development of the capacities and practices needed to navigate uncertainty, hold difference, and take thoughtful action in context.

In our work, the compass acts as both a lens and a prompt: to notice what’s helping or hindering progress, and to engage more intentionally in the ongoing work of making meaning and moving forward, together.

 

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Featured blog posts

YPO Forum Practices

The Power of YPO Forum Practices in Organisations

Explore how YPO-style peer learning forum practices in your organisation can build trust, enable collaboration, and transform organisational culture.

COLLABORATION, CULTURE
Let's talk about gossip

Let's talk about gossip

Gossip exists in every organisation. It's a natural part of human interaction and plays a significant role in shaping workplace culture.

COLLABORATION, CULTURE
Safe Space

"This is a safe space"... really?

“This is a safe space” For who? How do you know?! We can never really control or accurately predict what people will find more or less safe, however this doesn’t mean we should give up entirely.

CULTURE, LEADERSHIP
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7 challenges of uncertainty and complexity & why collaboration is key

Looking at 7 challenges people face when working with complexity and uncertainty and how we can be better with more effective collaboration.

COMPLEXITY, COLLABORATION
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