Most strategy retreats produce good conversation and no decisions. We pair expert facilitation with rigorous analysis of your programme and impact, so your board and executive team leave aligned on the mission, focused, and clear on what to do next.
Confidential · Senior-led · Evidence-based
You work directly with senior practitioners. No junior staff standing in for senior advisers. Our team combines facilitation expertise with impact analysis and institutional strategy from humanitarian and international development experience.
Ekci Suyapno founded SA Analytical to close a gap she saw repeatedly over fifteen years in international development: the distance between what the evidence says and what organizations are able to agree on. In complex humanitarian and development contexts across Myanmar and the Middle East, she coordinated multi-sector assessments, trained teams who carried them out, led the analysis, and then brought the findings back to the table to facilitate multi-stakeholder strategy. She worked with government bodies, UN agencies, international organizations, and local communities, often in frontline environments where decisions couldn't wait. Few people have been on both sides of that process: building the evidence and getting a room full of competing mandates to act on it. Through SA Analytical, she brings that full cycle to board members and executive teams, designing data-backed decision processes that produce multi-stakeholder alignment and a defensible strategy leaders can stand behind.
Stephen brings over 25 years of experience spanning front-line humanitarian operations, executive leadership and international policy. A former NGO Country Director, ICRC delegate and European Commission humanitarian expert, he has led organisations with budgets of up to USD 25 million and more than 650 staff. Today, he draws on this experience to help foundations, non-profits and leadership teams navigate complexity, align competing priorities and translate strategy into effective organisational action.
Organisations typically bring us in when their programmes have outgrown their strategy, and the board, executive team and staff are pulled in too many directions and need to get everyone pointed the same way.
“We’re stretched across too many programmes and can’t say what we won’t do.”
“Our board and staff see our strategy differently.”
“We have data, but it doesn’t drive our decisions.”
“We have a strategic plan nobody uses.”
We don’t just run the workshop. We do the analysis beforehand, so the decisions made in the room are grounded in evidence and your operational reality.
Cut through competing demands. We guide your board and executive team through the hard trade-offs between programme areas and leave you with clear priorities, including what to stop doing.
You leave with: ranked priorities 01Bring trustees, executives, and programme staff into one shared view of your mission and direction, with clear roles in how decisions are made.
You leave with: a shared vision 02Data that settles the debate. We analyse your programme portfolio, needs assessments, impact analysis, and operating landscape so governance decisions rest on evidence rather than opinion.
You leave with: decisions you can defend 03Our Neglect Tracker compares how severe each humanitarian crisis is with how much global news attention it receives. It is the kind of evidence we bring into the room before priorities are set.
Sources: ACAPS INFORM Severity, GDELT Project, OCHA FTS. Updated monthly.
A process built for decisions, not just discussion.
We start with your context: conversations with your board and senior leaders to understand the decision, the stakes, and the tensions.
We analyse your programme, impact, and landscape data, so the room works from shared facts.
A tailored workshop where your board and staff work through the trade-offs and build real operational alignment.
You leave with clear programme priorities, a documented strategic direction, and next steps with named owners.
Tell us what your board or team is trying to decide or resolve. We’ll come back within one business day with a few thoughts on how a workshop could help, with no obligation.
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