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WELCOME TO DISHER ADVISORY SYNERGY (DAS)

An advisory firm working with purpose-driven medium to large businesses and their founders, executives and boards.
We are committed to delivering best practice solutions that keep you aligned, credible and thriving.

Our passion is to support your success because your business succeeds, that success builds stronger, more vibrant communities.

Independent advice you can trust.  Impact that lasts!

Supporting purpose-driven companies
through three interconnected pillars

We offer engagement options based on one off or project based as well
as a variety of ongoing options including longer term partnerships.

Connect with us for a chat about how we can help you succeed.

FAQ’s about Advisory Services

An Advisory Board is a group of independent experts who provide strategic insight, fresh perspectives. Unlike a governance board, an advisory board has no formal decision-making power,  their role is to help you navigate complex decisions, answer questions about opportunities or growth. For purpose-led businesses, an Advisory Board helps protect your mission while accelerating impact.

An Advisory Board with a chartered focus on the problem or question, can bring skilled and experienced members into the Advisory Board creating output that the Governance Board or leadership team can use to make an ‘informed decision’.

Our process is designed to be tailored, efficient, and values aligned:

  1. Discovery or Connection Consultation — We meet with you to understand your business, your purpose, and your immediate and future challenges.
  2. Recommendation Report — We propose an advisory structure and focus areas based on your needs.
  3. Implementation — Whether it’s project based or an ongoing advisory partner program, we work alongside you to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.
  4. Ongoing Partnership — If you choose ongoing advisory support, we partner with you through quarterly check-ins, board meeting participation and or bespoke advisory sessions.

No.

While setting up a best practice advisory board is one of our offerings, we provide tailored personal advisory support without establishing a board.
You can engage us for specific strategic projects, leadership development, or growth scaling or impact alignment work depending on your needs.

Working with us gives you access to someone who is independent, someone with no conflict of interest who has your back and is there for you.

We can support you or manage the recruitment process, working closely with your leadership team to ensure all candidates align with your values, skills gaps, and future goals.

If you prefer, we can also train and equip your internal team to manage recruitment using a values based recruitment framework.

Typically, the end-to-end process from defining the advisory purpose, charter creation, recruiting members and onboarding the Board takes between 8 to 16 weeks, depending on the complexity of your business and the breadth of expertise required.  We will provide you with a timeline for your specific needs at the beginning of our relationship.

Yes. I can act as your founding independent Chair or assist in recruiting and onboarding a Chair who fits your unique culture and strategic needs.
In either case, I ensure your Advisory Board is set up for success with strong foundations and clarity of purpose.

We specialise in supporting purpose-led businesses across industries from social enterprises to for purpose commercial companies, professional services, technology, not-for-profit, non-government organisations, sport, animal welfare, aged care and environmentally focused organisations.

If your company is committed to creating positive impact while achieving commercial success, we are aligned to support you.

A Governance Board makes decisions.  It also sets the culture, strategy and leads the organisation.  It is accountable to its shareholders or stakeholders/members and its customers and society as a whole.

An Advisory Board provides options, considerations and thinking to solve a problem or answer a question.  They DO NOT make decisions.

This is a little like ‘how long is a piece of string’. The answer is it depends, what does it depend on – the charter or the purpose of the advisory board. If there is a problem you will need people with experience or knowledge in potential solutions associated with that problem or is the focus on a question and a future opportunity then you need experience and skills from someone or someone’s who know that space.

The short answer is best practice. A Certified Chair through the Advisory Board Centre work to provide best practise outcomes.  We understand the power of being independent and we have great connections (so excellent source of specifically skilled advisors) importantly we deliver a framework that not only delivers outcomes but can become a part of your business.

If you have questions, send me a message here.

Ready to protect your purpose and expand your impact?

Book a complimentary discovery call today. Explore how strategic advisory support can move your mission forward.

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