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TRIUMPH Action Group · Organisational learning
TRIUMPH & HEAL Academy
From founding action-group leadership to the co-creation of a delivery-ready learning academy.
PlatformTRIUMPH Action Group
Local ChampionsFounding member and co-creation lead
FocusCapacity strengthening · Learning · Systems
OutputHEAL Academy
Mission-led organisations needed learning and capacity support grounded in the realities of their work—not a generic programme imposed from outside.
- Help found and shape the TRIUMPH Action Group.
- Lead the collaborative process through which HEAL Academy was co-created.
- Bring theory-of-change, programme-design, facilitation and evaluation expertise.
- Translate action-group insight into a practical model that partners could carry forward.
- Collaborative discovery and theory-of-change development.
- A structured academy model shaped through the TRIUMPH Action Group.
- Programme architecture, learning design and monitoring-and-evaluation thinking.
- Implementation planning and handover to support continued delivery.
Results and evidence
19leaders developedLeaders strengthened their practice through facilitated learning, secondments and collective design.
60+people convenedThe action group connected organisations and practitioners around shared challenges and learning.
1delivery-ready academy modelThe final architecture connected learning design, delivery planning and evaluation.
Sharedcapability and ownershipPartners retained shared language and a model they could carry forward.
What the work shows
Capacity strengthening works best when organisations are co-authors of the model. The process should build shared language, ownership and capability—not only produce a programme document.
“The methodology was built through collective intelligence: listening to lived experience, testing assumptions and turning learning into a practical structure.”
Local Champions · Project reflection