Align
Translating strategy into shared direction
A leadership community explores what a strategy means for its work. Parallel facilitated conversations and AI-supported synthesis connect perspectives and prepare a shared discussion of priorities.
Find common ground. Then move together.
Common Ground helps leaders and teams find common ground across different perspectives, needs and contexts — and turn it into shared direction, sound decisions and an organisation that can adapt.
Experienced practitioners guide the work. AI supports selected moments, where it adds value. Your people keep the judgement and the decisions.
Does this sound familiar?
Situations leaders bring to us
- Priorities compete and the team pulls in different directions.
- Decisions keep coming back to the table.
- A new strategy has not yet changed how people work.
- You need clarity on who owns what, which decisions teams can make, and which require leadership.
- A transformation is under way, but people understand it differently.
- A critical priority needs a cross-functional team with a real mandate and accountability for results.
Align · Decide · Organise
Three connected moments where change becomes tangible
Each can stand alone; one engagement often combines all three. In each, we pass on the skills so your teams can carry the work themselves.
Align
Build shared direction
Your team needs a shared direction, but priorities and perspectives pull you apart.
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Decide
Make decisions people can act on
You need to make a consequential choice, and hear the perspectives that matter.
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Organise
Organise to deliver and adapt
Your strategy is clear. Roles, responsibilities and ways of working need to support it.
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What makes the work different
Strategy, organisation and people — together
We work with all three at once. Concerns and disagreement matter because they shape understanding, commitment, coordination and action. We design each process around your business challenge; meetings, seminars, workshops and coaching are only the formats.
- Strategy
- Purpose, value, priorities, trade-offs and direction.
- Organisation
- Roles, accountabilities, coordination and adaptation.
- People
- Relationships, concerns, emotions, voice and commitment.
AI-augmented collective intelligence
Human facilitation. AI that expands what the group can see.
We are pioneering an approach that brings experienced human facilitation together with AI that listens and contributes during the conversation — in agreed parts of a meeting, seminar or strategic intervention.
In dialogue with the facilitator and the group, it reflects what has been expressed, connects contributions across the room and helps reveal blind spots: assumptions taken for granted, overlooked perspectives, tensions and possibilities not yet recognised.
The group then examines these contributions, challenges the framing of the issue and explores what becomes possible. Our facilitators combine strategic and organisational expertise with close attention to human dynamics and skill in working with AI live — helping teams deepen their understanding and move more readily toward decisions and action.
Mirror
Reflects back what people have expressed and connects contributions across the room.
Lens
Helps reveal blind spots — assumptions, overlooked perspectives, tensions — for the group to examine.
Possibilities
Helps explore what could become possible.
Convergence
Drafts formulations, priorities, proposals or accountabilities from many contributions.
Continuity
Where agreed and set up, keeps a contextual resource your team can consult after the work.
AI use is selective. Some engagements use it substantially, some briefly, some not at all. How it works, and its limits
Situations we help with
What the work can look like
Organise · Decide
Launching an empowered cross-functional team
Sponsors and members agree the team's mandate, scope, decision rights and resources — with P&L responsibility where relevant — then define roles, priorities and working practices so it can deliver.
Organise · Decide
Making governance work day to day
Teams clarify roles and accountabilities, how decisions are made across levels, and how they coordinate and resolve issues without unnecessary escalation.
Align · Decide
Leading a sensitive transformation
A leadership team works through strategic choices and human concerns, then builds a shared narrative and practical next steps. Selective AI support can help shape the communication and keep context for follow-up.
Align
Discovering collective potential
A group explores its experience and capabilities, examines new readings of its collective potential, and develops possibilities for new services or collaboration.
Capacity building
Learning across time
A learning programme connects successive sessions, prepares relevant peer-group questions, and helps participants and faculty revisit earlier discussions.
Generalised illustrations of the kind of work we do — not named case studies. AI was not used in every situation.
Who you work with
Senior practitioners, an experienced network
Mickaël DrouardCo-founder
Eric-Axel ZimmerCo-founder
From Fabric to Common Ground
Fabric is becoming Common Ground: the same consulting practice, with a clearer offer around alignment, decisions and adaptive organisation. Collective intelligence remains at the heart of our work, alongside deeper leadership work, refined methods and new possibilities through AI.
Discover what’s evolving →- projects
- 1,000+projects
- client organisations and entities
- 70+client organisations and entities
Fabric's historical track record, 2018–2025, from its own historical assessment. 2025 is a partial snapshot. Not figures for Common Ground alone or for AI-supported work.
Selected organisations we have worked with
Historical references spanning Fabric's work since 2018, across different forms of collaboration — direct delivery, partnerships and learning programmes. Not all concern AI, and none implies endorsement or a current contract.
In their words
“Fabric gives you perspective on how you can run your business in a different way.”
“Fabric was constantly adapting to us”
“The work helped us turn empowerment into concrete team practices, with clearer roles, shared priorities and a more effective way to make decisions together.”
“Combining Collective Intelligence and AI has opened up a groundbreaking approach to guide groups through change.”
“The Lab for Systemic Change, led by Mickaël, brings together real-world business challenges, inner development and AI, giving our corporate partners a space to reflect on the impact they want to have on the world.”
What is your team working through?
Tell us about your situation. A first conversation is exploratory — we listen, and share how we might help.