Consultant:Design and Facilitation of Asia-Pacific Leadership Planning

Overview

The Area Management Team (AMT) leads regional strategic execution, cross-country alignment, and organizational performance across Asia Pacific. With increasing complexity in its operating environment—shifting partner expectations, internal transformation, and cross functional interdependencies—the AMT requires dedicated time to review progress, realign priorities, strengthen role clarity, and address operational obstacles. In addition to these operational and strategic needs, the AMT must deepen team cohesion, trust, and shared leadership behaviors to improve cross-team collaboration, strengthen communication, and enhance collective accountability.

Building trust is essential to enable candid dialogue, faster decision-making, and improved execution across diverse functions and countries.

To support this, the AMT will convene for a two-day, professionally facilitated leadership planning workshop. The workshop aims to build strategic alignment, enhance decision-making discipline, strengthen team cohesion and trust, and set a clear operating rhythm and execution plan for the first half of 2026. We are seeking an external consultant to design and deliver a leadership planning workshop scheduled for February 4–5, 2026.

To design and facilitate a two day leadership planning workshop that enables the AMT to develop a unified annual plan, clarify roles and decision rights, deepen understanding of departmental contributions to the regional strategy, resolve key obstacles hindering execution, and strengthen trust and team cohesion to improve collaboration and collective leadership effectiveness.

By the end of the workshop, the AMT should have:

The consultant will facilitate discussions and produce outputs covering:

• Trust and cohesion building exercises
• Annual priorities and departmental/individual KPIs
• Role clarity, decision rights, and collaboration norms
• Identification and diagnosis of critical obstacles
• Governance and decision-making structures
• Performance review cadence and operating rhythm
• Development of the AMT Terms of Reference and RACI

Core AMT members:

• Area Vice President
• Senior Director, Programs
• Director, Regional HR Business Partner
• Director, Resource Development
• Senior Director, Business Services
• Lead, Strategy & Governance
• Director, Special Projects (GRC)
• Director, Communications
• Senior Director, Terwilliger Center

The consultant is expected to deliver:

• Consolidated Strategy Summary – shared priorities, outcomes, KPIs
• Obstacle Log – with root causes, owners, and mitigation actions
• Role/Decision Rights Matrix (RACI) – TOR (combining the agreed AO AMT objectives, outcomes, RASCI, principles of engagement, and regular meeting and forward agenda)
• AMT Operating Rhythm and Governance Calendar
• Six Month Action Plan
• AMT Terms of Reference with RACI
• Workshop Report (submitted within 5 business days of workshop)
• AMT Terms of Reference with attached RACI

The consultant will:

• Design the agenda, methodology, and all pre work requirements
• Facilitate all sessions and ensure productive, outcome focused discussions
• Document outputs and prepare all templates and the final report

• Clear shared priorities and KPIs with Area Management Team
• Documented and owned mitigation plans
• Approved RACI for key decisions
• Published operating rhythm
• Six month plan operationalized
• Participant satisfaction rating of ≥ 4/5