Business Plan Alignment & Leadership Offsite · Prepared for
ACLE
A structured alignment process spanning discovery, co-design and a facilitated full-day offsite, to align ACLE's leadership team around shared priorities, cross-functional execution and the behaviours that support strategic delivery.
Thank you for the opportunity to shape this leadership offsite with ACLE. Based on your proposed approach and ACLE's operating context, we see a valuable opportunity to create clearer alignment across business plans, strengthen collaboration across functions, and turn strategic intent into a small number of practical leadership commitments.
For a business operating across EPC, BOP and O&M in complex renewable energy environments, alignment matters not just at a planning level, but in how leaders work together day to day.
Our role would be to design and facilitate a focused process that helps the team step back, make sense of interdependencies, and leave with clarity, ownership and momentum.
We propose a short discovery and co-design process, followed by a facilitated full-day offsite and optional follow-through support, so the time in the room is sharper, more grounded and more productive.
Opposite combines strategy, facilitation, organisational psychology and human factors to help complex teams make better decisions and turn intent into practical action.
Designing work and systems around how people actually think, feel and behave. We translate engagement and lived experience into clear system level insights.
Building leader and team capability to work well in complex environments. Recommendations are supported by practical tools and behaviours, not just policies.
Co designing solutions with users, testing and iterating quickly. Surveys, interviews and recommendations are usable, intuitive and easy to action.
Applying systems thinking to risk, fatigue, workload and decision making. Work design guidance is grounded in safety and performance science.
This multidisciplinary mix allows us to support both the human dynamics and the practical architecture of strategic alignment.
A selection of the organisations Opposite has partnered with.
Moving ACLE's leadership from parallel business plans to a more integrated operating picture, one that is easier to communicate, easier to act on, and more resilient under delivery pressure.
ACLE is operating in a high-accountability, delivery-focused environment, spanning engineering, construction, operations and maintenance across utility-scale renewable projects. In this kind of context, misalignment rarely shows up as a strategy problem alone. It appears as duplicated effort, blurred ownership, missed dependencies, competing priorities, slower decisions and friction between functions.
As ACLE continues to deliver across EPC, BOP and O&M, the leadership challenge is not simply agreeing on the plan. It is creating a shared view of what matters most, where teams rely on one another, what needs to stabilise versus accelerate, and how leaders must work together to deliver consistently.
A well-designed offsite creates the space to connect these dots, helping leaders move from parallel plans to an integrated operating picture that is easier to communicate, act on and sustain under delivery pressure.
We propose a short discovery and co-design process, followed by a facilitated full-day leadership offsite and optional follow-through support.
This is a structured alignment process that combines pre-work, synthesis and facilitation. Rather than asking leaders to solve everything live in the room, we do the upfront sense-making needed to make the offsite sharper, more grounded and more productive.
The process gives ACLE:
A clear, end-to-end scope spanning preparation, facilitation and documented outcomes.
A structured path from kick-off and discovery, through concept development and facilitation, to consolidated outputs and a practical basis for implementation.
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The full day will move through three connected parts, building from an aspirational future to a clear set of shared priorities:
Depending on the tier selected, the engagement can be extended to maintain momentum and deepen impact:
The offsite will be led by a small senior team with experience in facilitation, organisational psychology, human-centred design and alignment in complex operating environments, well suited to a session that needs to balance strategic discussion, practical implementation and clear documentation.
Doctor of Organisational Psychology with deep experience in leadership development, facilitation, business improvement, human-centred design and Human Factors.
Nick has worked across transport, infrastructure, energy and government, helping organisations simplify complexity and improve strategic and operational performance. He is particularly strong at designing workshops that move beyond discussion into clarity, prioritisation and commitment, well suited to facilitating leadership conversations where delivery, interdependency and risk all need to be held together.
Holds advanced organisational psychology training and specialises in experience design, leadership development, culture work and training design.
Ashleigh has supported major clients with leadership programs, simplification initiatives and user-centred design work. In this engagement, she will support offsite design, co-facilitation and real-time capture of key themes and actions. Her strength is translating discussion into practical, accessible outputs that teams can use after the session as well as during it.
These examples reflect Opposite's experience in strategic workshops, team alignment and leadership development.
More broadly, Opposite has supported strategic workshops, leadership offsites, team alignment and capability programs across transport, infrastructure, energy, logistics, health and government, bringing organisational psychology, human-centred design and facilitation together to turn strategic intent into practical, owned action.
Three scalable options, quoted as fixed-price lump sums exclusive of GST. Option 2 provides the most balanced approach and is our recommendation.
| Option | Description | Investment (ex GST) |
|---|---|---|
| Option 1: Alignment Offsite | Discovery interviews and business plan review, 90-minute co-design session, full-day offsite with two facilitators, and a summary of actions and commitments. | $18,000 |
| Option 2: Offsite + Follow-UpRECOMMENDED | Everything in Option 1, plus one 2-hour virtual follow-up session and a refinement of priorities and accountability check-in. | $22,000 |
| Option 3: Offsite + Implementation Roadmap | Everything in Option 2, plus a comprehensive outcomes report with strategic alignment summary, risks, interdependencies and an implementation roadmap. | $28,000 |
| Feature / Deliverable | Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 leadership interviews | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Business plan and document review | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Visual synthesis of themes / interdependencies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 90-minute co-design session | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Full-day offsite facilitation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Two Opposite facilitators on the day | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Summary of actions and commitments | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2-hour virtual follow-up session | — | ✔ | ✔ |
| Refined priorities / accountability check | — | ✔ | ✔ |
| Comprehensive outcomes report | — | — | ✔ |
| Implementation roadmap & accountability framework | — | — | ✔ |
| Phase | Activity | Effort | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 | Leadership interviews | 1.25 days | $2,500 | Included in Milestone 1 |
| Phase 1 | Business plan review and synthesis | 2.50 days | $5,000 | Included in Milestone 1 |
| Phase 1 | Co-design session and agenda finalisation | 1.00 day | $2,000 | Included in Milestone 1 |
| Phase 2 | Offsite design and materials | 1.50 days | $3,000 | Included in Milestone 2 |
| Phase 3 | Full-day facilitation with two facilitators | 2.00 days | $4,000 | Included in Milestone 2 |
| Phase 4 | Follow-up session, refinement and summary pack | 2.75 days | $5,500 | Included in Milestone 3 |
| Total | Total fixed fee | 11.00 days | $22,000 |
| Add-on | Scope | Cost (ex GST) |
|---|---|---|
| Additional leadership interviews | Up to 5 extra 30-minute interviews plus synthesis. | $2,500 |
| Online half-day implementation workshop | Focused online session to embed commitments into operational planning. | $4,000 |
| Leadership communications pack | Slide-ready summary for broader internal communication. | $3,000 |
| Executive coaching support | 3 × 60-minute coaching sessions for senior leaders. | $2,300 |
Opposite is available to begin the discovery phase shortly after engagement, with the full-day offsite scheduled to suit ACLE's leadership calendar, subject to confirmation of date, participant numbers, location and final scope.
Given the importance of pre-work in a process of this kind, we recommend confirming timing early so there is adequate time to complete interviews, review business plans and shape the session toward practical outcomes on the day.
This offsite is a chance to create shared direction, surface the dependencies that matter most, and define the leadership commitments that will help ACLE execute with greater clarity and cohesion. We'd be glad to tailor the agenda and pricing once participant numbers, location and desired outputs are confirmed.