The Executive Support Package

For purpose-driven leaders who are already effective — and ready to go further, deeper, faster.

This unique executive-level package combines strategy, coaching and rapid communications delivery. Designed for leaders navigating complexity, fiscal constraint, and constant change.

Sound familiar?

You hold the kaupapa, the team, the board, the funders — and the strategy doc that keeps getting pushed out.

You didn't get to where you are by lacking ideas, drive, or capability. You got here because you care deeply, think strategically, and hold more than most people realise.

You're stretched because the work is genuinely complex, the resources are genuinely tight, and there are genuinely not enough hours in the day for someone operating at your level to do it all well.

What if you had a partner who could think at your level, move at your pace, and actually help you get the important things done?

Not a coach who stays in the room. Not a consultant who produces reports you don't have time to read. A working partnership — someone who genuinely has your back.

"All of this is incredible. These are the words and concepts I couldn't begin to imagine. You expanded the universe and revealed the truth already present. It feels deep and spacious and true."

"The Board absolutely loved your work. It was perfectly timed, languaged and connected. Thank you."

Tric Malcolm
Pou Arahi / Executive Officer, Kore Hiakai Zero Hunger Collective

How it works

Weekly sessions with real progress on the areas that matters most.

Each session moves across three domains — but with full flexibility to go where the week needs it most. The structure holds you, not the other way around.

Executive Coaching

Your space to think out loud with a trusted partner. To work through the complex, the stuck, and the strategic. Leadership development grounded in real challenges you're navigating right now.

Strategic Planning

Focused prioritisation and decision-making. Translate insight into clear next steps. Identify the power moves. Maintain alignment with your broader direction even when the day-to-day pulls hard.

Working Together

Hands-on, focused work to actively progress priority initiatives — messaging development, narrative mapping, theory of change, board papers, strategy documents. Whatever needs to move.

The 20/20/20 split is fluid — on any week what needs the most time gets the most time.

Support beyond sessions

The work doesn't stop when the session ends

Each week includes an additional hour of follow-up support — used to progress what we surfaced together. That might mean focused execution, a piece of delivery, or fast strategic input on something urgent that can't wait.

On any given week, this might look like:

A media release drafted and ready to send
A fundraising narrative sharpened for a key funder
Board papers and briefings that land clearly and credibly
A communications strategy mapped
A narrative map or theory of change developed
A creative brief that unblocks a project
A team planning process facilitated

No two weeks look the same. That's the point.

Is this you?

You'll know this is for you if any of these land

You're tired of being the only one who holds the whole picture

Everyone comes to you because you hold the strategy, the culture, the relationships, the vision. It's a lot to carry alone, so you rarely get to just think. Yet as a leader, that is the most powerful thing you do.

You want someone who challenges you, not just supports you

You're not looking for cheerleading. You want someone who can genuinely meet you where you are, push your thinking, and help you see what you can't see from inside the work.

The important work keeps getting displaced by the urgent

You've got multiple competing priorities – the strategy document, the narrative refresh, the board paper that needs to land. You need protected time and someone to move it with you.

You want to grow, not just cope

You're not in crisis. You're in motion — and you're ready to develop yourself alongside your organisation. Sustainable leadership means investing in both, and you know it.

In practice

When you're supported, you show up differently — for your board, your team, your community

Kore Hiakai Zero Hunger Collective

Tric came to our strategy session, and then her child was hospitalised overnight. She was sleep-deprived, stretched, and had a board meeting looming the following day.

The strategic work I had developed for her landed in her inbox while she was at the bedside. It was board-ready; she didn't have to generate something from scratch on top of everything she was already carrying.

She walked into the board meeting with a fresh narrative and strategic documents her board described as the most connected, culturally resonant work they had ever seen. A Māori board member immediately located the metaphors in Te Ao Māori, and the board spent the next hour in a generative conversation about systems change through an Indigenous lens. Her Samoan trustee said he wouldn't have to translate it for his people — it just made sense.

That's what protecting the capacity of a leader looks like in practice. It's not crisis management, more like seeding the conditions for clear, resonant, culturally anchored strategic thinking to happen.

The philosophy

Built on hope-based leadership practices

Hope isn't a soft idea. It's a practical leadership competency: the capacity to hold realistic challenges and genuine possibility at the same time — to maintain agency when the environment feels unstable, and to lead others forward when the path isn't clear.

Leaders who develop hope as a practice don't just survive complexity — they navigate it with more clarity, more confidence, and more capacity to bring others along with them. This isn't about positive thinking. It's about building the internal and strategic conditions that make forward movement possible, even when everything around you is shifting.

Your thinking partner

Megan Salole

Megan Salole is the Principal of Big Picture Thinking — a strategic communications and leadership advisory practice working at the intersection of systems change, narrative strategy, and social impact.

For over two decades, she has worked with NGOs, foundations, Iwi, government agencies, and grassroots movements on the hard problem underneath most strategy challenges: when the narrative is confused, the strategy often is too.

She co-founded ActionStation, helping to ignite a civic community of 400,000+ New Zealanders mobilising collective voice for policy change. She has worked in political environments, campaign strategy, civic innovation, and deliberative democracy.

She is also a visual thinker and illustrator — which means she doesn't just help you clarify your strategy, she can help you communicate it in ways that actually land. She runs The Hope Dispatch, a newsletter exploring the role of narrative, imagination, and hope in systems change.

Megan's leading edge is hope-based strategy: the ability to visualise and then operationalise preferable futures. Big Picture Thinking is based on the Kāpiti Coast, Aotearoa New Zealand.

10-week Executive Support Partnership

One leader. Weekly sessions with real progress on the areas that matter most.

Weekly 60-min session + 60-min follow-up execution hour
20 hours of partnership over 10 weeks
Effective weekly rate: $570 + GST
For-purpose discount already applied
Further discount for two or more consecutive cohorts

$6,000

+ GST · 10 weeks

Twenty minutes is enough to know if this is the right fit.
Reach out: megan@salole.co.nz

Let's talk

Twenty minutes is enough to know if this is the right fit

If any of this resonated, let's have a conversation. Twenty minutes is enough to know if this is the right fit — for you, for where you are, and for what you're carrying.