The Genesis of Sora Strategies and Challenging the Consulting Status Quo

Sharon and I have worked closely together, though not always at the same organisation, for close to a decade. Looking back, the genesis of Sora Strategies started during the initial days of COVID 19 as we collaborated on creating business resilience for our client at the time, an Australian Federal Government agency.

A lot of new ground was broken in helping both them and all organisations navigate what was coined "the new normal". As we moved beyond the initial stages of the pandemic, a new term was coined, the "permacrisis", and we commenced navigating the unending landscape of supply chain disruption, geo-political unrest, financial instability, and an ongoing pandemic.

permacrisis

an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events

Fast forward to 2023 and although the pandemic has evolved, not much has changed with our permacrisis. Organisations are still navigating an ever-changing array of financial, technical, natural disaster, and operational risks and issues. 

Even given this recent history, the metrics tell us we are less prepared than before:

• 70% of projects still fail
• Less than half of organisations are prepared for another global pandemic
• Only a quarter are prepared for supply chain disruption
• GDP growth to hour worked is still trending negative (-0.5%)
• 40% of leaders think their organisation has high quality leaders (17% drop)

Our landscape is continuing to evolve rapidly, though. The World Economic Forum has said that current events are creating a polycrisis, "where disparate crises interact such that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part".

Clearly the thinking that got us here won't get us there.

We began ideating what would become Sora Strategies in mid-2023. Sharon had returned from a Crisis Management and Business Resiliency course at MIT, and we were both speaking at an industry conference. We picked up our work from the early days of the pandemic, and began exploring ways to combine our areas of expertise and work with organisations to empower them to not only survive, but thrive.

We created Sora Strategies to not do what has already been done, but rather to create what is needed to move forward. We are world class facilitators and coaches. We think differently. 

We challenge the consulting status quo.

• We focus on creating preparedness; getting you ready by thinking ahead of the curve and what's coming towards you.
• We strive to enable you to become a resilient, robust organisation as quickly as possible.
• We specialise in taking strategic approaches to problem solving.
• We are world-class facilitators and guide you and your teams through highly impactful workshops.
• We think big, look global, and apply local.

We want you, as Winston Churchill famously quipped, to "never waste a crisis".