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Forging Strategy

"...the result for us was a five-year strategy, wholly endorsed by all our stakeholders" Margo, Founder

I don't run workshops; I force strategic alignment and forge five-year blueprints in days. Your strategy is currently a liability. Ben Rouse ensures your executive team co-creates a future that's an unfair competitive advantage. Stop talking. Start executing.

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THE ALIGNMENT ENGINE™

The Truth Audit

Unflinching diagnostic of current strategic dissonance, leveraging objective data to dismantle sacred cows.

Friction Design

Structured, high-intensity activities that force cross-functional empathy and decision-making on the highest-stakes issues.

The Strategy Closure

The session ends with a Signed Mandate—a consensus-built, auditable strategic blueprint and clear 'OKR' ownership, endorsed by all stakeholders. No soft agreement, only hard decisions.

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What clients say about my approach

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"Ben developed such an impactful workshop where the whole team were able to engage with a key stakeholders from the customer, listening to them and working with them to develop tangible and personalised solutions"

- Alexandra (Head of Google for Education, Northern Europe)

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"His ability to grasp often complex business matters helped in his moderation of a clean and focused workshop and the result for us was a five-year strategy, wholly endorsed by all our stakeholders.

Needless to say, we would return to Ben again in the future."

- Margo (Founder, proSapient)

"At a crucial point in our growth, Ben supported the team's alignment on values and workstreams in order to develop our high-performance culture. We have the ingredients needed to formulate clear tangible next steps as individuals and within each team to drive our strategy, and we had the most amazing response from all our employees who also took away so much from the day"

- Gabrielle (COO, thymia)

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THE DECADE STARTS NOW

If your 2026-2030 strategy is not yet an unfair advantage, you are already losing. Your first step is to engage us for a low-friction, high-value assessment.

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Meet Ben.

The founder of Evolving Design, Ben is dedicated to facilitating teams to grow better businesses with effective collaboration. Ben started Evolving Design in 2018 to bring human-centred design skills to teams who do not have easy access to design agencies and teams. Ben built up his skills through education and training, where facilitating a group of 30, 15 year olds to learn maths made him resilient and adaptable. Supporting leaders to facilitate change in their organisation has developed his wider expertise to bring this all together to help teams solve big challenges with facilitated workshops.

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