Who we are

One partner

Strategy stalls without operations. Programmes struggle without leadership. Reforms fade without capacity. So we work across the whole chain — Economic Resilience, Development Works, Capacity Works, Leadership Works — each on its own or all together.

Start small. Earn trust.
Then scale what proves out.

The right moment

The sector is changing fundamentally, and we see an opportunity to rethink how organisations are led, how they collaborate and how they create lasting impact. Global challenges need local solutions with global connections: climate change, migration, cybersecurity and the digital divide, global health and education.

Budgets shrink. Expectations grow.
Results are the new currency.

Our principles

1 · TRUST

Most of what is broken in the sector is, underneath, a trust problem. Controls multiply because funders do not trust partners to use money well, and funding stays short-term because donors do not trust organisations to know their own priorities. We work the other way: as an embedded partner who shares risk rather than a distant auditor, with decisions placed as close as possible to the people who live with their consequences.

Trust, in practice.

We stay only as long as we add more value than we cost.

2 · PRAGMATISM

We choose tools for the context, not the trend. We do not believe in global masterplans: development works when it is grounded in the local context and in firm evidence, tailor-made, realistic about human behaviour and alert to unintended effects. We are pragmatic about method, never about our convictions: fairness, local agency and shared decision-making.

No masterplan.

Just what works, where it works.

3 · ECONOMIC THINKING

Development and economics are intertwined. We treat support as a respectful investment, not a gift, expected to create lasting value rather than dependency, and we always weigh the economic and political dimensions alongside the technical ones. Our background in consulting and banking means we can structure and evidence results, not just report on activities.

Investment, not charity.

Taken together, this is the position we bring to every engagement:

Pragmatism over dogma.
Partnership over oversight.
Participation over assumption.

Both sides of the table

We come from the for-profit world: management consulting, financial services, compliance. We then led and advised major international non-profits. We read a balance sheet and a theory of change equally well, and that combination is rare.

The Founders

We will grow and shortly announce new shareholders.

Peter Fechner began his career in molecular biotechnology (MSc, Technical University of Munich) before moving into strategy consulting. He spent seven years at The Boston Consulting Group, working in its Social Impact practice with NGOs, civil society organisations, public-sector bodies and healthcare clients. From 2016 he worked within the SOS Children's Villages network: first at SOS Children's Villages International, where he led a global review of programmes in more than 90 countries, and later as Executive Board Member of SOS Kinderdörfer weltweit (until 2026), with responsibility for finance, digitalisation, fundraising and strategy. Earlier volunteer consulting assignments with TechnoServe in Côte d'Ivoire and Endeavor in Chile and Argentina gave him experience of the sector in the field as well as in the boardroom. Peter's regional focus is Latin America and Africa. He works in six languages and concentrates on making strategy work in practice.

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Lanna Idriss began her career in the for-profit world. After roles at Xchanging, Deutsche Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers, she spent more than 15 years in banking, leading operations, compliance and large-scale IT transformation programmes at ODDO BHF Bank. She then moved into the non-profit sector, first as Managing Director of Amnesty International Germany and later as CEO of SOS Children's Villages Worldwide in Germany (until 2026). In both roles she led governance, safeguarding and organisational reforms, including the restructuring of an international office, and worked with a wide range of INGOs and NGOs and public institutions. Lanna combines financial and operational expertise with a long-standing commitment to human rights and child protection. Her German-Syrian background informs her work on the Middle East, and her programme responsibilities also covered East Africa and Asia. She holds an M.A. in Political Science, Arabic Studies and International Law (Universities of Bonn, Hamburg and Damascus) and an Executive MBA (University of Mainz, McCombs School of Business and Dalian University). She teaches leadership in non-profit management at the University of Hamburg and the Hertie School of Governance, serves on the advisory board of Transparency International Germany, and advocates treating development cooperation as investment and partnership rather than charity.

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