Federations
Many of our clients are international federations, national federations or governing bodies, with whom we work on their complex problems, across their diverse activities and responsibilities. We understand the uniqueness of these organisations, including their governance and stakeholder dynamics. Federations operate in fast-moving environments, whether participation and elite, commercial, or regulatory.
Our core focus is on helping to create strategies and plans that are inspirational and forward looking, and at the same time pragmatic and achievable. We work with clients on fit-for-purpose operating models and implementation plans, as well as evaluation and reporting.
How can we help you?
We support federations’ elite sporting ambitions by developing frameworks for athlete pathways and ways to identify, develop and sustain healthy talent pipelines, as well as mass participation strategies, to drive grassroots engagement and membership growth. We have a strong track record in analysing governance structures, and helping creation change, as well as regulatory and integrity plans and operations. Commercial strategies, public sector funding and commercial investment are also core for us. We have helped many federations bid for and deliver major events, and design their own event and tournament products at all levels. A growing part of our work is to help clients analyse their operating models, to identify ways to create efficiencies, to get best value for pressured financial positions.
Examples of our previous work
- Developed federation strategies to build competitive national teams
- Developed blueprint of recommendations and roadmap of change for sustaining national football participation​
- Conducted full strategic review of recreational game to grow national base of cricket participants ​
- Developed women's football strategies for international and national football federations
- Developed international federation's future World Cup global innovation strategy
- Led for multiple clients on creating new competitions of global significance, and bidding for global events