The Productive Pessimist ' s working practice is to ask 5 questions of clients whom we're helping to address strategic, systemic, and crisis challenges in their focus remits. 5 questions. No more, no less. Asking so few questions compels everyone in the room to focus on the "real problems", and set aside their personality clashes, their fixations, their personal perceptions of "the problem", and come together to bring through meaningful responses. The business community, once they finally accept they do have problems, engage quite well with the challenge. The charitable sector, however... I'd like to say the non-profit sector doesn't even accept they have any problems, because that would at least be reasonable, and make a lot more sense than the real situation, which is that the voluntary sector does nothing other than complain about all the "problems" it has. And yes, many of those problems are genuine, and valid. But, despite all...
Solving business' REAL problems. The Productive Pessimist offers business consultancy focused on inclusive practice and inclusive recruitment, as well as inclusive design of corporate, private, and public spaces. We are lived experience specialists, with professional expertise across private, public, and VCSE sectors.