Dom Courage

Consulting

Break New Ground, Together

We’re living in an era of disruption. Old models are breaking down, and new possibilities are emerging. Leaders face unprecedented complexity, competing priorities, and the pressure to deliver meaningful impact. Navigating this landscape requires clarity, adaptability, and the courage to work differently.

Over the last two decades I have helped organisations do things they’ve never done before. Whether responding to the Ebola pandemic, delivering critical infrastructure, reshaping humanitarian systems, or developing social enterprises, my strength lies in connecting people, ideas, and disciplines to make change both possible and actionable

How can I help?

There is no one key to enabling change. Real progress happens when we work at multiple levels: understanding the wider system you operate in, unlocking the dynamics within your organisation, and delivering visionary projects that demonstrate the future. These connected levels each require a different set of tools, but all serve the same purpose: unlocking possibilities for meaningful, lasting impact.

Systems Change

Scale your impact by thinking systemically and collaborating between organisations.

Let’s explore complex challenges and symbiotic relationships to unlock new possibilities and strategies for lasting, systemic impact.

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Organisational Transformation

Align your organisation with your strategy and purpose to unlock greater impact.

Partner with me to create clarity, uncover hidden dynamics and shape a shared roadmap for meaningful change.

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Strategic Projects

Turn bold ideas into new possibilities through exceptional project development and execution.

Work with me to clarify purpose, prioritise your portfolio, and create adaptive project plans that foster trust, momentum, and lasting change.

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Testimonials

“I value your support tremendously and I trust you intrinsically with what is an incredibly difficult and sensitive agenda. You have not only done a fantastic job, you have also done this in a very kind, humble and unassuming way, which helped tremendously in the formation of the transformation”

Gabriella Waaijman, COO at Save the Children International about my work on the One Humanitarian Team Transformation
“Dom had to process a vast amount of varied information and synthesise this into an analytical document – which he did extremely successfully. The Surge Model Review Current State Report has been extremely well received – and this result has been in the main due to Dom’s attention to detail and ability to provide clear and precise analysis.”

Nicola Upham - Director of Humanitarian Strategy and Delivery [on Humanitarian Surge Review]
"You've been an integral part of many of the most important and innovative undertakings. Going about your business as a vital shaper and influencer with quiet professionalism and determination. You are a person of great moral certitude, practised with flexibility and agility that looks to accommodate and make space for others. You are kind, widely admired and dedicated in your deep conviction"

Gareth Owen, OBE

Reading that changed my mind…

“Love without power is dangerous because power is never absent - only sometimes concealed”
“Our problems are also our gateways to the future… The hardest times can also offer the most far-reaching opportunities for renewal.”
“Unlike a stand-alone decision or a goal, a strategy is a coherent set of analyses, concepts, policies, arguments, and actions that respond to a high-stakes challenge”
“We have invented a kind of alien mind. But how do we ensure the alien is friendly?”
“The key to creating or transforming community, then, is to see the power in the small but important elements of being with others… How are we going to be when we gather together?”
“Who holds power? No one knows anymore. Political power is itself one of those fossil words, behind which lies an unknown.”
The current aid platform does not cut it, because it is limited in its access colonial in its practise, and centred in expensive transnational bureaucracies.
“Since no one has had the vision to see the entire beast, everyone has grabbed hold of some part or other and railed on in utter ignorance about the rest”
“When you have difficulty giving a precise name to a human being that is where misfortune begins…”
“the interaction of three shapers - variety, interdependence and change dynamics - drives organisation designs”
“We need versatile and flexible leaders who are artists as well as analysts, who can reframe experience to discover new issues and possibilities.”
“this story isn’t just about cheese it is Daddy”

My daughter Eva (6)