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 both remotely across the UK, and in person in Great Yarmouth and Waveney, and central Norwich. Our corporate consultancy services focus on strategy, inclusion, growth and diversification, crisis management, and change management. We are lived experience specialists in neurodiversity inclusion, disability and mental health inclusion, and trans inclusion.