CAPRESE's network
CAPRESE is intentionally small, but not isolated. Over many years, we have built relationships with consultants, facilitators, technical experts, academics and institutional practitioners who share our concern for thoughtful, responsible and human-centred work.
This network allows us to bring together the right combination of experience when a client situation requires more than one discipline, geography or perspective. It also helps us remain connected to different professional worlds: private sector organisations, international development, environmental management, organisational development, learning, facilitation and executive education.
Why the network matters
Clients do not always need a large consulting firm. They often need the right people: experienced, thoughtful, trustworthy and able to work well with others. CAPRESE’s network enables us to remain agile while drawing on a breadth of expertise that would be unusual in a small organisation working alone.
The network is not simply a list of contacts. It is a way of working: bringing together people whose skills and values fit the situation, and doing so without losing the human scale and continuity that clients often value.
Fields of expertise
Through our colleagues, associates and long-standing professional relationships, CAPRESE can draw on expertise in areas such as organisational development, leadership, facilitation, group and team dynamics, project and programme management, evaluation, knowledge management, sustainable development, environmental management, marketing, finance and information technology.
This breadth matters because real organisational challenges rarely respect disciplinary boundaries. A strategy question may also be a leadership question. A learning mandate may also involve culture, incentives and implementation. A development programme may require both technical understanding and careful attention to institutional relationships.
PREMAnet and sustainable development expertise
CAPRESE has long-standing relationships with professionals engaged in sustainable development, environmental management and international cooperation. Many of these connections have been developed through networks such as PREMAnet, whose work has supported the spread and practice of Profitable Environmental Management.
These relationships help us connect organisational learning and capacity building with the practical challenges of environmental and social programmes.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY and facilitation partners
Our connection with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitators is not simply a matter of methodology or capacity. The approach requires a particular respect for participants, for shared meaning-making and for the client’s own intelligence. Those values matter to us more than the tool itself.
LEGO is a global household name, but the method is not valuable because the bricks are famous. It is valuable when facilitators use it responsibly to help people think, listen, build, explain, question and understand together. Used poorly, it becomes novelty. Used well, it can help create the kind of serious, human and participatory space that CAPRESE values.
For this reason, we work with partners who understand the principles behind the method and who approach client relationships with care, humility and professional discipline.
Partners and communities of practice
CAPRESE’s network includes independent consultants, partner organisations and communities of practice in several countries. Some bring specialist technical expertise. Others bring deep experience in facilitation, leadership development, coaching, learning design or institutional change.
What matters is not simply that we know many people. It is that we are able to recognise which combination of people, skills and perspectives is appropriate for a particular client situation.
Working with us
We are always interested in relationships with people and organisations whose work is serious, humane and thoughtful. The best collaborations are grounded not only in professional competence, but in shared respect for clients, participants and the complexity of the situations they face.