Our approach to
envisioning giving back
One of emHrge's first clients is a U.K.-based professional services firm, one that committed itself to giving back to the communities in which it does business and to the profession it's a part of. While the commitment was there from the beginning, the firm didn’t start out with a clear vision of what it sought to accomplish or how it would go about delivering on that vision.
Question: How could they go about delivering on their vision, thereby fulfilling its commitment, in a meaningful, high-impact, and fiscally responsible way?
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Answer: Look to emHrge for help.
The opportunity before us
Being (relatively) new, yet already successful, means that "bandwidth" is an issue at ndapt, a UK-based Board advisory & professional pension trustee services firm: It's founder, managing directors, and consulting principals are busy (to say the least). Adding to both the challenge and the opportunity is that this group of committed professionals come from multi-dimensional diverse backgrounds.
While the desire to give back is universal across the firm, uniting around a common, clearly articulated vision for the firm's give-back program had proven difficult: Lots of potential ideas, too little time, and no vehicle through with to reach consensus.
After a few discussions during which we guided senior ndapt leaders through a discovery process, we were able to work together in:
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Developing proposed guiding principles for the firm’s give-back program.
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Creating a project roadmap that led to the establishment of the program’s vision, mission, guiding principles, focus areas, and objectives for both the near- and long-term.
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Establishing metrics designed to balance qualitative and quantitative goals and setting up the framework for measuring results.
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Identifying key stakeholders in the process.
Throughout the process, emHrge™ challenged our client to think strategically: How connected to the business would the give-back program be? To what extent did the firm want to actively engage clients and advisors? Was it important that give-back activities connect in some way to the services?
Next, we assisted our client in the development of a survey tool to gather input from key stakeholder groups. The tool featured a core group of questions which were then adapted for use with each group. We also assisted our client in preparing for interviews with select stakeholders.
Once our client had deployed the survey, collected survey results, and conducted stakeholder interviews, we reviewed the data and provided ndapt with our observations and recommendations.
With guiding principles and stakeholder input in hand, our client developed the roadmap for the ndapt giveback program. The firm is now well on its way to giving back in a way that's fully aligned with their values and objectives - delivering on the promise the team made to each other to do well by its clients and its communities.
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Reference available upon request.
Our approach
Concurrent with this project, emHrge also made a key introduction of ndapt to SuitUp, an organization that equips students for life beyond the classroom by partnering with schools/youth organizations and businesses to develop, organize, and implement engaging educational competitions in communities across the U.S. and beyond. As a result of this introduction, ndapt is partnering with SuitUp as part of its giveback program activities.