“For the first time since the industrial revolution, you cannot build a company fit for the future without building one that is fit for human beings. And we should be grateful we’ve been given this chance. Because the management pioneers of 100 years ago were trying to work against the grain of what it means to be human. We’re not.”
Organisations thrive when their teams are liberated to operate with autonomy and purpose.
Particularly in today’s world with its pace of change, high customer expectations and employees seeking rewarding, meaningful work.
But management and accountability norms are not designed for this era: they were forged in markets far less commercially sensitivity to these issues and with far lower pressure for a more human and responsible business model.
Shoremount is an award advisory firm specialising in forward thinking governance: setting teams free to do their best work.
Mainstream experience
Non mainstream difference
Thinking more deeply and dynamically
than the status quo consulting firm
“I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystems collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address those problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy… and to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation and we, (Lawyers) and scientists, don’t know how to do that.”
There is more to the current context than changing trends and technologies.
Companies are experiencing the consequences of a deeper reconsideration of the hyper rational materialism that has permeated institutional thinking for decades.
The prolonged exclusion of a more sacred, transcendent story has created such a flat, disenchanted existence for society that it has fed a meaning crisis: disconnecting people from themselves, their communities and nature.
And despite widespread investment in ‘corporate culture’, institutions simultaneously devalued some of the core ideas that long underpinned the social cohesiveness they sought, such as tradition, virtue, mythos and sense of place.
Shoremount’s differentiating factor, aside from being a first mover in the impact space, is our understanding of this underlying shift and its practical implications, enabling you to become prescient as well as relevant.
Private advisor
Public excellence
Decades of experience and expertise
from across the sectors and disciplines
“Shoremount is a highly articulate advisor already inhabiting the future of sustainable and flourishing business and the inherent re-imagination of the relationship between employer and employees in a thriving workforce. I recommend them to any leader brave enough to be on the right side of history earlier than most.”
“Being able to have a discreet conversation with someone who isn’t working alongside us on a day to day basis yet understands the landscape is of great personal and strategic benefit. It’s also a relief to have someone available that isn’t only interested in selling me a project.””
“John’s counsel, support and practical guidance was absolutely invaluable at a time of major professional and personal challenge and I would have struggled to navigate it without him.”