ACCELERATOR
Accelerator
Our Accelerators are curated events designed to foster meaningful change through an immersive and collaborative experience for you, your team and organization. By creating the space and structure to explore your most complex challenges with a different lens, we help you foster the inspiration, alignment and motivation needed to accelerate transformation momentum.
Innovation
Through creative generation exercises, external insights and group facilitation, we co-create an environment that fosters innovation and design-thinking to achieve meaningful outcomes together.
Navigate disruption
With the right environment, inputs and a range of experiential storytelling techniques, we set the platform and tone for you to thrive in your organization’s next chapter and future-proof your growth.
Team alignment
We create a safe space for participants to think and feel in new ways. This enables teams to reflect differently, unravel collective sticking points and reset their expectations.
Create a vision
Accelerator events offer a high-impact return on investment, with the time and space to gain perspective and inspire momentum that will extend beyond the event itself.
Our services
Vision, strategy and road mapping
Operating model
Leadership activation
New product design
Program mobilization
Digital and data transformation
Future of work
Brexit response
How we can help
We have collectively delivered hundreds of events over 20 years from groups of 6 to 100 across the globe with clients from multiple sectors including travel, financial services and many more.
Collaborative design
We co-create our events with you, assembling a design team to ensure active sponsorship and to test iterative event concepts. We will agree on the right outcomes needed from an event and apply our design-thinking methodologies to orchestrate the right data, inspiration and techniques ahead of the event.
Make the complex simple
Our team is skilled at unpacking complex business challenges and crafting event experiences that help solve them. Through experienced facilitation and careful planning, all participants will be brought on an emotional journey before deep diving into your organization’s most complex strategic problems with exercises designed to simplify getting to the answer, faster.
Bias for action
A safe space is created to challenge and guide participants forward when they face roadblocks. All events are purposefully designed to seek individual commitments from all participants, where only key decision-makers are invited who are going to shape, live and own the change.
Meaningful outputs
Events are designed to ensure participants are inspired, curious and excited about the future. The sequencing of activities builds momentum and team alignment as the day progresses, with participants ultimately leaving with an agreed upon output that genuinely helps your organization progress their transformation agenda with tangible decisions and actions.
”It wasn’t what I was expecting; it was better. The team is a lot more aligned, we’ve articulated our vision and it’s been very successful.
”Confidence and motivation has been consistently great across the team. I now know how we, as a team, want to behave and act. I can take that back to my team with confidence to tell them what we are going to focus on.
”It has been head and shoulders above previous sessions that we have run. When you look at the post-it notes around the room, it shows just how much knowledge there is and how many ideas there are. As a group we should reward ourselves. We should be more proud of what we do.
”I thought it was very good, high energy and great output. I think everyone was really up for it and that openness, honesty and alignment came through over these two days. It worked brilliantly!
Meet some of our team
Caro helps organisations design, activate and embed strategic transformation programmes, whilst applying creative approaches to facilitate behaviour change. She has led Accelerator events for cross-sector clients across the globe, from upfront strategy and roadmap design, to programme mobilisation, to leadership development. She is passionate about seeing organisations and individuals succeed, and believes Accelerator events are an incredible way to catalyse a team’s potential.
Dónal spent 12 months working as an experience manager designing and facilitating over 50 collaboration events to tackle clients’ most complex strategic problems, across all sectors. He thrives on applying design thinking methodologies to accelerating meaningful change with client leadership teams. He believes outcomes can be achieved faster and more effectively through integrating Accelerator events into complex transformation activity.
Isobel spent 6 months working as a co-facilitator designing and facilitating over 20 collaboration events for industry leading clients. She leverages a strong capability in collaborative methodologies to empower and support client teams to solve and design for complex organisational challenges. She is passionate about applying a strategic yet creative approach to problem solving – driving transformational business change in fast-paced environments.
Nicola is part of Gate One’s Accelerator team, training as a producer in early 2022. She has produced events for senior client teams including WHSmith, as well as helping to design and run the Gate One facilitator and producer training. She enjoys the people-focused approach of Accelerator events to solve complex client problems.
If you would like to speak to us about our Accelerator events, please contact Dónal Browne.
