PROJECTS
Supporting mission and ambition in Higher Education
Take the next step
Whether you’re looking to create solutions to live issues, engage your external partners or inspire teams within your university take the next step with us to inspire braver and bolder leadership. We use experiential techniques, supporting and stretching people to nurture a curious and developmental mindset.
Our Approach
Our approach is to challenge and ignite people through interactive, immersive experiences. A selection of the techniques we use includes: group challenges, simulations, thematic inquiries, provocations, personal and collective writing activities, stakeholder mapping and action planning, visioning activities, and structured forms of dialogue which bring about insight and inspire action.
Why working together is so important
Sheffield Hallam University
Building a narrative that gets noticed with the Business and Enterprise Team
This Business and Enterprise Team wanted a collective, energising vision that would speak to who they are and what they’re here to do, and that would resonate and engage people throughout the University. Using creative facilitation, we worked with the team to articulate their ambitions and help start make these a reality. A process of inquiry, requiring the team to manage a series of conversations with provocative external guests, helped to draw out people’s leadership and build collaboration.
Case Studies
A deeper dive into some of the projects we’ve worked on
Durham University: developing the Health@Durham strategy
“It’s been amazing, we’ve done more with Invisible Grail than we could’ve otherwise. We ended up with enormous engagement and people gave it tremendous commitment. The programme has exceeded our expectations.” Professor Charlotte ClarkeExecutive Dean (Social Sciences & Health), Durham U…
University of Lincoln: College of Arts
Connecting through shared narratives Invisible Grail helped create space to pull out the raw materials, and facilitated techniques that were useful to elicit people’s views. We now have an agreed narrative of where we will be in 2025. Our action plan is nearly there, and all schools will be runn…
University of Hong Kong: Partnership with the Faculty of Science
Paul has been a great help and collaborator over the last few years as we develop the Faculty’s capability.”Professor Matthew Evans, Dean of Science, The University of Hong Kong Since 2017 we’ve worked with the Faculty of Science at the University of Hong Kong, supporting emerging leaders …
London Metropolitan University: Bringing the Social Professions Together online
One of the best parts is that colleagues are fully-focused on the sessions. Working online really helps us build wholehearted trust in our team to work for the good of the students.”Kelly Cooper, Deputy Dean of the School of Social Professions, London Metropolitan University Since April 20…
University College Birmingham: Designing the future of corporate services
Working with Invisible Grail we were able to take people to a space where we could explore their unique leadership approach, grow their confidence and apply this to imagining and creating the future of corporate services for the University.”Professor Michael Harkin, Vice-Chancellor and Pri…
Sheffield Hallam University: Working in partnership to develop the University’s Teaching Excellence narrative
Invisible Grail was invited to work in partnership with colleagues at Sheffield Hallam University to capture and express the University’s narrative of teaching excellence in preparation for future submissions to the TEF. In partnering with Invisible Grail, Sheffield Hallam University was looking…
University of Edinburgh: Curating our narrative
This programme gave us a moment to recognise our commonality with one another and to use this to create a shared narrative for the future of our School. In working with Invisible Grail, we were able to tap into our creativity and find an innovative way to express our identity in ways we couldn’t…