The Deep & Meaningful Consultancy

Deep & Meaningful helps international development organisations navigate complex stakeholder challenges through our conversation architecture methodology. We specialise in supporting business, NGOs, foundations/ funders, membership organisations and development agencies tackling systemic injustice and socio-economic and environmental challenges, whether they're stuck in recurring strategic discussions or actively seeking to innovate and design transformational change in inclusive and lasting ways. Our approach transforms how organisations engage with complexity - whether that's aligning diverse stakeholders across cultures and sectors, designing multi-partner collaborations that actually work, or creating the strategic clarity needed for sustainable systems change. We've worked with organisations from grassroots movements, global networks to UN agencies, helping them move from endless planning to genuine transformation. Drawing on experience as COO of Catalyst Now (a global membership organisation of social entrepreneurs), we understand the unique governance and stakeholder complexities that membership bodies face and have worked with social entrepreneurs from around the world and in complex markets. We recognise that development challenges require carefully designed dialogue that brings together diverse voices and navigates productive disagreement, cultural contexts (including differing sense of humours!) and philosophies. We create the conversational conditions that unlock what's been stuck and help turn ambitious visions into collaborative action. Services include strategic breakthrough intensives, critical friend engagements for senior leaders, and bespoke conversation design for complex multi-stakeholder initiatives. Conversation architecture for breakthrough outcomes in international development.