St Christopher's Multi-Academy Trust
From 6 Months to 2 Afternoons: How Dynamic Genie Transformed Strategic Planning
The Challenge: A Humanly Impossible Task
Phil Banks, CEO of St Christopher's Multi-Academy Trust (21 schools), faced a challenge familiar to many education leaders: developing a comprehensive strategic plan during term breaks, when leadership capacity is already stretched thin.
Phil explains the capacity constraints facing education leaders (1:31)
Before Dynamic Genie
- •6-month strategy development process consuming leadership time
- •External consultants drafted document with limited staff input
- •Staff felt excluded from the process
- •Strategy gathered dust, 15% implementation rate after 12 months
- •Total cost: £100,000 including significant staff time
The Solution: Dynamic Genie Workshop
Instead of a 6-month consultant-led process, St Christopher's used Dynamic Genie to co-create their strategy in a single collaborative day.
The Democratic Process
Phil Banks was particularly impressed by how Dynamic Genie ensured every voice was genuinely heard, not just collected.
How Dynamic Genie ensures genuine stakeholder participation (2:31)
AI as Thought Partner
The AI didn't replace leadership thinking, it extended it.
AI as collaborative thought partner (2:07)
How AI personas represented stakeholder voices (2:39)
The Results: From 6 Months to 2 Afternoons
After Dynamic Genie
- •1-day collaborative workshop with 12 key stakeholders
- •Strategy co-created by those who'll implement it
- •Genuine ownership across all levels
- •87% of priority actions underway within 3 months
- •Investment: £12,000 + 1 day staff time
Timeline Transformation
The dramatic timeline compression (0:24)
Complete project timeline explained (1:33)
Quality & Accuracy
Despite the compressed timeline, the quality didn't suffer.
AI synthesis captured thinking accurately (2:06)
What you get for the investment (1:58)
Investment Reality
Phil Banks provides a candid comparison of the true costs involved.
True cost comparison: traditional vs Dynamic Genie (1:58)
The Real Cost Comparison
Traditional Consultancy
- • £50k-100k+ consultant fees
- • 6-12 months leadership time
- • 80% probability of shelf-ware
- • 15-20% implementation rate
Dynamic Genie
- • £12k fixed investment
- • 1 day stakeholder time
- • Strategy implemented immediately
- • 87% implementation success
The Serve-Energise-Matter Analysis
Before Dynamic Genie (Traditional Approach)
Result: 3.6 million heartbeats consumed that failed all three tests
After Dynamic Genie
Result: 3 million heartbeats reclaimed for transformation work that serves, energises, and matters
"A term's work... potentially six months... in a couple of afternoons essentially."
— Phil Banks, CEO
Phil's Overall Assessment
Would Phil recommend Dynamic Genie? (0:58)
"The real strength for me is it's really highlighted everyone's voice within the organisation. It would be very easy for me as the CEO to dominate that conversation, to put my views into the system. But because everyone's going away and putting their own input in and then it's coming back, it very much is allowing every stakeholder an equal voice within that system. And that I think is why we've ended up with such a powerful strategic plan at the end of it because it really is co-constructed."
— Phil Banks, CEO, St Christopher's Multi-Academy Trust (21 schools)
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