Bring the intervention question to the accountable person.
The Network is for experienced practitioners who can put a material intervention question in front of an accountable person. Intervene carries the assessment and commercial conversation.
Documented governance, risk controls and escalation routes do not establish whether a consequential system can be stopped in time.
- Detect that something has gone wrong.
- Escalate to someone with the authority to act.
- Decide that it has to be stopped.
- Intervene before the harm is irreversible.
Who the Network is for.
A question like this does not travel well from a stranger. What matters is not a contact list. It is enough judgement and standing to recognise when an organisation should confront this question at all.
- Former regulators and supervisors
- Who know what a supervisor asks next, and what an unsatisfying answer sounds like.
- Former CROs and risk executives
- Who have carried the accountability themselves and know where the evidence usually runs out.
- Independent governance and risk advisers
- With live client relationships, at or one step from the accountable executive.
- Specialist consultants
- Where the intervention conditions are particular and the general framing does not reach them.
- Experienced chairs and non-executives
- Who have put the question to an executive and know how rarely it gets a straight answer.
Early sight of a field still being defined.
Intervention Readiness is new enough that the evidence base is still forming. Participation puts you close to that work, and close to people carrying the same question in other sectors. What is on offer is intellectual access, not commercial access.
- Occasional discussions
- Small groups, experienced people, one problem at a time. Chatham House Rule where it helps. No pitch, no training, nothing to sign, and sometimes a short anonymised note afterwards.
- Somewhere for sector experience
- How intervention fails is particular to a sector. Submitting that experience, or challenging what we have concluded, runs through the same documented route open to any external practitioner and is judged on quality alone.
- Occasional briefings
- A short research note when there is something worth saying.
The role itself is small, because a small role is one you can fill without spending standing you took years to build. Where you judge that an organisation should face this question, you say so. Establishing the need, qualifying the opportunity and carrying the commercial conversation is our work. Nobody is asked to sell AGDA®, explain Intervene, qualify a prospect, negotiate anything or defend the methodology. If an organisation has questions, they come to us.
What this is not. Participation is not accreditation and carries no authorisation of any kind. It grants no access to the AGDA® criteria or rubric, no licence to use the method, and no standing to assess anybody. There is nothing to progress through and nothing to qualify for.
Participation creates no commercial relationship. Intervene sometimes works directly with advisers, researchers and specialists where there is a specific reason to, and such an arrangement is separate work rather than a step up from anything. It confers no authority over an assessment and no influence on a verdict.
Nobody with a commercial interest goes near the verdict.
Intervene retains responsibility for the AGDA® assessment. The Network is designed so that commercial relationships cannot reach the assessment itself.
- A commercial introduction never affects AGDA® evidence, interpretation, scoring, findings or verdict.
- No commercial payment varies according to the outcome of an AGDA® assessment. Any fee arises on contract signature.
- Commercial participation confers no methodological authority. Evidence, challenge and sector insight may be submitted through the same documented route open to any external practitioner, and are judged on quality alone.
- Participation is not open to anybody holding a current supervisory or regulatory role.
- Where somebody holds a current directorship, trusteeship or fiduciary role at an organisation, they may take part, and no payment arises in relation to that organisation.
- No payment arises where it would be improper under an organisation’s own policies, or would breach law or regulation, including the Bribery Act 2010.
- Where a commercial arrangement exists, the client is told before they sign, not when the verdict arrives.
We would rather lose an introduction than answer a question about whether a verdict was bought.
Taking part carries no fee, and most people who do will never have a commercial arrangement with us. Where it is appropriate and you are able to accept one, Intervene may separately agree a disclosed commercial introduction arrangement, on terms set out in that agreement rather than here and subject to everything above. If that is of interest, say so when you write. If it is not, nothing changes.
There is no form. There is a conversation.
Write to us and we will reply. If it makes sense, we talk for twenty minutes. Nothing is signed and nothing is joined.
A person replies within one to two working days. We do not auto-reply.
Intervene Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 17317647. This page is not an offer of payment and creates no contractual engagement. Taking part confers no status and no commercial entitlement. Any fee arises only under a separately signed agreement and is unaffected by the outcome of any assessment.