Something is missing between your people.We build it.
Sound Familiar?
Decisions get made, but don’t stick
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Pressure & overload pool in parts of the organisation
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Important issues aren’t surfacing early enough.
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Follow-through drops after workshops & initiatives
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Friction builds between functions as coordination weakens.
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The organisation is adapting too slowly to changing conditions.
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A handful of people are holding things together.
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We strengthen the Connective Infrastructure in teams and networks.
The group rhythms, forums and practises that help execution hold under pressure.
This work is for you if..
Functional or Cross-Functional Leaders
You need coordination to hold more reliably, decisions to stick, and follow-through to survive contact with pressure.
Transformation & Change Sponsors
You need change to be adopted in practice — not just agreed to in the room.
Leads of an Employee Voice, Support or Adoption Networks
You need your networks to surface what’s actually happening — not just what’s comfortable to report.
People Leaders
You can see stress and overload pooling in parts of the org and need a more coordinated response than they’re currently getting.
Why the usual fixes don’t hold
“You’ve probably already tried to fix this more than once.
A restructure. A leadership programme. A culture initiative. Better processes. Maybe an away day that everyone agreed was excellent and then nothing changed.
Every organisation we work with has that list.
And in most cases, none of those things were wrong. They just weren’t working on the right layer.
The layer that was missing is what we call connective infrastructure - the rhythms, protocols and pathways that let reality surface, signals travel, decisions stick, and learning actually change how the organisation responds.
Fix the environment. The people will follow.”
Bilal Nasim, CEO
“Exceptional at creating the conditions for honest conversations in an organisation undergoing significant change”
Sian Evans, Director of Leadership Development at Simply Health
Do you have a glue work problem?
“Most organisations have a handful of people holding everything together.
They're the ones who remember what was decided three meetings ago. Who notice when two teams are about to collide. Who make sure information travels, decisions land, and the right people are in the right conversation at the right moment.
Nobody gave them that job. They just cared enough to do it.
Researchers call this glue work — the invisible connective labour that keeps organisations functioning. And it's fragile!
Why is it fragile? Because almost none of it lives inside a formal workflows. It happens in the margins.
Because it sits outside the official system, it never gets codified, never gets protected, and never gets replaced when the person doing it is no longer able (or willing!) to.
What we build is the structural alternative — rhythms, protocols and pathways that bring connective work out of the margins and into the operating system of the organisation. So it happens by design, not by the goodwill of whoever happens to care most.
Glue work is a symptom. Its presence means the infrastructure was never built.”
Michael Matania - Founder
Execution holds or drifts according to how these move through an organisation. We call them the four flows.
Reality
What is actually happening becomes visible and discussable early enough - before it becomes a crisis.
Signal
Important information reaches the right people, with enough clarity and context to act on - not just to note.
Decisions
Choices create genuine clarity, commitment and coordinated follow-through - not just agreement in the room.
Learning
The organisation updates how it works based on what is and isn’t working - rather than repeating the same responses under pressure.
What stronger flows deliver
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More honesty where reality needs to be named. Less silence, less avoidance, more participation in what’s actually happening. Leaders who can see strain early enough to act on it.
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Clearer escalation and routing. Stronger cross-functional coordination. Decisions that hold in practice, not just in the room.
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Stronger change adoption — in practice, not just in intent. Greater resilience during scale, transition or uncertainty. A leadership system that adapts rather than reverts.
What do we actually do with your people?
We have a library of over 50 individual, pair and group practices - each one designed to help a teams and networks do something specific.
Surface what's actually happening
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Practices that help reality become visible and discussable — before it becomes a problem.
Move Information to where it needs to go
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Practices that help signal travel clearly across teams, networks and functions.
Make decisions that hold
Practices that create genuine clarity, commitment and follow-through — not just agreement in the room.
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Update how the group works
Practices that help the organisation learn from what’s working and what isn’t — in real time.
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Where this work is most relevant
This work is strongest when delivered to coherent groups - teams, networks, or communities that already share some mandate, stake or purpose in the system.
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Where stress, friction or overload is concentrating in specific parts of the organisation — and the usual responses aren’t making it better.
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Where the network exists but isn’t surfacing what’s actually happening — or where signals are reaching the network but not travelling anywhere useful.
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Where the people closest to change have the most useful intelligence — and the least access to the decisions it should inform.
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Where candour is low, decisions aren’t holding, or the team is adapting too slowly to what’s actually happening in the organisation.
“Mycelium Helped our leaders manage conversations that had previously been avoided. A great partner - always flexible, adaptable and professional. I would highly recommend.”
Marion Martin, Head of L&D at OFGEM
Connective Infrastructure is not Workflow Design.
Workflows help tasks move.
Connective infrastructure is the glue that teams and networks need to stay aligned, make good decisions, and act on what they learn.
Why Mycelium?
Mycelium is the fungal network beneath the forest floor that moves nutrients, carries signals, and connects the root systems of all trees in the forest - invisibly, continuously, under pressure.
This describes exactly what’s missing in most organisations. Not better people or better performance. A better connective layer.
The infrastructure that lets reality surface, signal travel, and the system respond before problems become crises.
The network you can’t see is often the one doing the most important work.
How the work unfolds
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1. Diagnose
We identify where Reality, Signal, Decision and Learning are not moving well enough — and what that is costing the organisation in practice.
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2. Design
We define the specific rhythms, protocols and pathways needed to strengthen flow in your context. Not a generic framework applied from outside — a defined infrastructure built around how your organisation actually works.
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3. Install
We put the changes into operation with the people who need to use them. This is where infrastructure becomes practice — and where most change efforts stop too soon.
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4. Support
We stay close enough to help the changes hold. Adoption under pressure is where connective infrastructure either becomes real or reverts. We make sure it becomes real.
The Starting Point is Free
Before any paid work begins, Mycelium runs a structured diagnostic at no cost. It gives you and your sponsor a clear view of what is happening, where flow is breaking down, and what should be prioritised first.
Step 01
Flow Scan
A structured conversation that identifies where Reality, Signal, Decision or Learning are weakening — and what that pattern looks like in your specific context.
You leave with clarity on the problem.
Step 02
Flow Brief
A concise written summary of the issue, where it is showing up, and what needs to change first. Designed to be shared with a sponsor or decision-maker.
You leave with a document that does the internal work of building the case - so you’re not doing it alone.
What changes?
By the end of the work, the organisation has a connective infrastructure that is defined, understood and usable — not a framework that lives in a document.
People know how
The practices with the greatest impact on Reality, Signal, Decision and Learning in your context are known, owned and in use - by the people who need to use them.
The rhythm of those practices is clear - daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly - so execution holds by design rather than by luck.
Everyone knows when
Accountability is collective and structural, not dependent on the right people being in the room.
Everyone owns it
“We've been working with Mycelium since 2018 across multiple projects in our business.
They've worked hard to gain a deep understanding of the diverse and complex nature of our organisation - which has enabled them to develop work that is bespoke and designed to produce tangible and sustainable change. Nothing ever feels off the shelf.
Craig Redihough, Group Wellbeing & Belonging at Sky
Where this has worked
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Stress hotspots and pressure pooling at The NHS
16% improvement in how effectively leaders recognised and responded to strain in real time — in one of the most pressured environments in the public sector.
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Decisions in Leadership Teams at Ebay
A 31% improvement in leaders’ ability to make clear, decisive decisions when conditions were shifting fast.
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Transformation Networks at Novartis
During a major global footprint consolidation — closing sites across two continents — 97% of participants left ready to apply new ways of working.
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Employee Voice Networks at Sky
Currently working with Sky to redesign their Forum Reps Network from the ground up — building the rhythms, escalation routes and close-the-loop infrastructure that lets insight from hundreds of employees travel clearly into the decisions that need it.
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Learning Agility at Meta
New practises for coordination and learning cadence within the team responsible for the Workplace app
“The tools were easily applicable and the discussions invaluable. Our leaders chose to keep meeting weekly to review the practises and share experiences I would certainly recommend working with Mycelium."
— Marguerite Fraser, Head of Talent Management, Morningstar
Most organisations run on glue workers - people who hold everything together through individual heroics and informal workarounds.
Connective Infrastructure is what replaces them.
Let’s look at it together
If you’ve read this far, you can probably see where flow is breaking down in your organisation.
The Flow Scan gives you and your sponsor a clear, specific view of what’s happening, where connective infrastructure is involved, and what should change first.
It’s the only free work Mycelium does. And it’s the right place to start.