Expert strategic advisors usually have over 20 years in business management and demonstrable organisational development experience of at least ten years.
The main objective of a Strategic Advisor is to provide trusted practical advice, in a responsible, timely and accurate way to the CEO or Owner of a business in keeping with its purpose, mission, vision and values.
The core competencies that the strategic advisor embodies include having a collaborative approach with all the connections of the business. Foremost in his/her capabilities are credibility where the main driver is through the lived values and trust.
He or she is always listening and interpreting data. Always attentive, is entrepreneurial in nature, based on experience and deep thinking and analysis.
This person can process information in a holistic way and is able to traverse the interfaces of functions within a company as well as the interfaces that exists between companies and other entities such as universities, government, and research institutions in the external environment.
The key duties of such an advisor are engagement and relationship building, problem solving and enhancing ad increasing the reach of the organisation that has engaged them.
In this sense the strategic advisor straddles the internal organisation and the external world and processes all the data available to deliver a result.
The mental acuity displayed brings with it the ability to traverse all the facets of problem solving and decision making, through conversation, engagement and generally making sense of the connections being established and enabling the interactions between seemingly disparate and diverse entities to deliver a whole new range of options to be considered.
As a strategic advisor, he or she weaves networks of like-minded connections to create new combinations of partnerships, service and product development activities that add value to the CEO or business owner.
The entirety of the work undertaken is future oriented and is based in emergent activity . This is done through building learning and knowledge networks, as well as having a demonstrated commitment to evolving, both personally and throughout the organisation that has engaged the advisor.
The strategic advisor uses all of his/her business expertise, his/her life experience and practice, and skills to supply the expertise and processes that foster and nurture the building of capacity in the organisation.
