Realising what matters
Critical-analytical friendship -
making your way in challenging times
We provide critical-analytical friendship to support individuals, leadership teams and organisations clear paths and create the space needed to realise their personal and organisational visions.
With the depth of an analytical approach, and the invaluable light of honest critique, we bring a caring spirit of friendship, championing people, to build on what is good.
Drawing on decades of experience supporting and running for-profit and not-for-profit ventures, we can help you broaden and deepen your view of your situation, identify points of entry and leverage, free up energy, and navigate forward, so that you can get on with what matters most to you, and set aside what doesn’t.
Sounding board service
Sounding Board – for advice and support
Try our Sounding Board Service for independent, confidential advice and practical support to help you move forward with immediate challenges.
A free introductory session of 45 minutes
plus three 1-hour sessions for £250.
Why work with ADNOVAR?
Our philosophy
Take one step back and
two steps forward
There are times when personal proximity to problems or personal investment in ambitions limits our perspective and consumes all our energy without us getting where we want to be. We help people to take a step back in order to more forward again more confidently, clearly and boldly.
With a human-centred approach, we start with understanding where the people we are dealing with are - where their energy is bound-up and tied down - because the way forward is often located inside of what’s holding things back.
Realise what matters
Even the best of ideas backed by noble intentions can become mired in the difficulties of daily reality. Nothing keeps a project powering forward like the experience of making an impact in the ways you intended, whilst nothing undermines it quite like watching your mission disappear over the horizon.
When we lose our sense of purpose and the reward of realising it, the toll this takes on us as individuals, teams or whole organisations can be heavy. And sometimes the very energy of our mission itself can disrupt its realisation, when it leads us to neglect or overlook important but more mundane practicalities, with all the unintended consequences that can accrue from this.
Whether we’re supporting you directly with working towards your vision, or assisting you in tackling operational challenges that divert activity and energy away from your goals, we are always keeping in mind our own defining mission: to help you or your organisation do what you need to do to keep making your mark in the ways that really matter.
what we work on
We provide a full-service offer, touching on many areas, including the following:
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Vision, mission and values - establishing, realising, reviewing
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Governance and board reviews
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Generating revenue and managing cashflow
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Strategic and business planning
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Equality, diversity and inclusion
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Managing staff rupture and conflict
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Research and evaluation
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Client/service-user/member satisfaction
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Brand and marketing review
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Equality, diversity and inclusion
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Balancing work, life and wellbeing
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Crisis management
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Whistleblowing
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Mediation and negotiation.
Who/how
One-to-one, supporting individuals
Meeting regularly on a one-to-one basis, over a set timeframe to work on agreed areas and/or what the day brings.
Actions might include:
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Generating, reviewing, embedding principles
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Building strong, authentic, meaningful relationships that can power your work
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Managing and processing rupture and conflict as a source of growth
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Balancing work and life to ensure availability of necessary energy
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Building resilience and confidence to move with boldness and sensitivity to new conditions
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Growing satisfaction and enjoyment of activity.
Senior teams
Meeting as a group to work on a set of agreed issues or day-to-day problems.
In addition to one-to-one activities, actions with senior teams might include:
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Sharing and solving problems
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Assessing opportunity and risk
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Testing ideas and approaches
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Making difficult decisions
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Supporting team growth.
Organisations
Developing, implementing and managing strategic plans grounded in values and focused on social impact. Working across the organisation to support this process.
In addition one-to-one and senior team activities, actions at an organisational level might include:
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Mediating, negotiating and supporting change
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Restructuring roles, departments and organisations
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Working through different leadership approaches
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Refocusing and renewing mission, values and vision.
Meet the team
Nick Carley
Having begun my career as a youth worker and careers counsellor, I have a strong empathic, emotionally-intelligent and creative approach, based on a foundation of active listening. I’m an energetic entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience setting up and running businesses in a number of sectors including consultancy, IT, training, public relations, communications, community-consultation, and research and insight.
I am a very active chair of a London-based charity, the Minster Centre, which trains counsellors and psychotherapists, where I have been chair of the board for six years and a board member for eight years, working closely with the Chief Executive on a range of issues.
I enjoy problem-solving and conflict-resolution, as well as creative strategy work, and derive a great deal of satisfaction providing support and practical help to organisations that are trying to make a positive difference in the world.
Beth Carley, PhD
I am an integratively-trained psychotherapist, and my work at Adnovar involves contributing my skills in observing and analysing personal and relational dynamics to identify openings and possibilities that are subtle, hidden, denied or embryonic.
Prior to training as a therapist, I worked in profit and not-for profit environments in communications and governance, before undertaking academic research on community organising. I am fascinated and motivated by the challenge of helping people to discover within themselves and their relationships the wisdom they need to live and work meaningfully.