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Strategic frameworks, templates, and systems to help you align stakeholder priorities, communications, and organisational impact.

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The Alignment for Impact Framework
(coming soon)

A strategic foundation for research organisations that want to focus their energy where it counts. It helps teams connect internal capabilities and goals with the needs of their most important stakeholders — so strategy, org design, culture, impact planning, and comms all pull in the same direction.

  • 📝 Working paper (in development)

  • ⚡ Two page summary (in development)

  • 🛠️ Stakeholder Navigator database (in development)

  • 📚Case studies (in development)

The Adapt and Align Comms Model
(coming soon)

A practical model for bringing clarity, coordination, and adaptability to your research org’s communications. It takes a holistic view — aligning strategy, messaging, infrastructure, and process — and treats adaptation as an ongoing practice, not a one-off fix.

  • 📝 Working paper (in development)

  • ⚡ Two page summary (in development)

  • 🛠️ Stakeholder Navigator database (in development)

The Constellation Influence Strategy
(working paper now available)

A strategy for scaling thought leadership by activating and harmonising trusted voices across your team. Built around seven practical steps, it supports researchers to grow their influence in ways that align with organisational goals — one star at a time.

  • ⚡ Quickstart guide (in development)

  • 🛠️ Thought Leadership Matrix (in development)

  • 🛠️ Content Format Matrix (in development)

The Stakeholder Mosaic Model
(coming soon)

A fresh approach to defining stakeholder profiles using aggregated insights rather than fictional personas. It’s structured as a nested system — enabling teams to zoom in and out across stakeholder groups, profiles, and individuals to inform strategy at every level.

  • 📝 Working paper (in development)

  • ⚡ Quickstart guide (in development)

  • 🛠️ Stakeholder Mosaic Profile Template (in development)

  • 🛠️ Stakeholder Mosaic AI Assistant (in development)

  • 🛠️ Stakeholder Navigator database (in development)

The Outcomes-First Content Model (working paper now available)

A step-by-step model that empowers academic teams to create content that actually drives change — instead of wasting effort on content that doesn’t deliver. The model starts with audience and outcome, not format, so that your content is a lot more likely to actually help influence that policy, secure that funding, or change those hearts and minds.