Make Corporate Affairs’ value clear.

And build a function that delivers it.

I help Heads and Directors of Corporate Affairs in mining, energy and resources connect their team’s work to business priorities, and put better ways of working into practice.

Richard Wilson, founder of Transformation Partners
Richard Wilson Corporate Affairs leader. Former BCG Principal. About Richard

The path to this work

  1. GovernmentPublic policy and government
  2. AssociationsIndustry associations
  3. EnerNOCLed regulatory and government affairs
  4. BCG, PerthPrincipal. Strategy, operating models and implementation
  5. TodayFounder, Transformation Partners

Three ways into the work.

Each starts with a decision you need to make, and ends with something your team can use.

Value and performance

Make your contribution clear.

Connect Corporate Affairs to business priorities, useful measures and a credible case for investment.

Explore value and performance

Operating models

Give the function a clear way to work.

Connect purpose, priorities, responsibilities and everyday decisions in a model your team can use.

Explore operating models

Capacity and AI

Make room for the work that matters.

Remove unnecessary activity, improve a selected workflow and give the team the capability to keep it working.

Explore capacity and AI

Selected work

Making the case for the function’s value.

A 12-person public affairs team needed its executive team to see how its work contributed to the business. We changed the work, and made the contribution visible.

Read the case study
Case note
Australian energy
Team
Public affairs, 12 people

What followed

  1. Four weeks

    The team’s leader returned to the leadership group that had rejected the business case, with the changes to the team’s work.

  2. Six weeks

    The business case was approved.

  3. Six months

    The CFO asked the leader to present the operating model to other functional leaders.

Anonymised. Richard’s account of the engagement.

Bring the situation as it is.

A 30-minute conversation about what your function needs to deliver and what is getting in the way.

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