Creativity & Futures
Strategic Theory of Change Masterclass
Design the system. Enable the change. Through ThinkPlace's Strategic Theory of Change methodology, participants will learn to design systems, identify pathways and align stakeholders to create meaningful public and social impact.
Creativity & Futures
Strategic Theory of Change Masterclass
Design the system. Enable the change. Through ThinkPlace's Strategic Theory of Change methodology, participants will learn to design systems, identify pathways and align stakeholders to create meaningful public and social impact.
Many organisations aspire to create meaningful social impact, yet struggle to connect their vision with practical action. Too often, strategic plans focus on activities rather than outcomes, or become static planning documents that fail to guide real-world decisions.
This highly experiential workshop introduces participants to ThinkPlace's Strategic Design for Theory of Change—a human-centred approach that combines systems thinking, strategic facilitation and co-design to help organisations design meaningful pathways for change.
Rather than treating Theory of Change as an academic exercise, participants will learn how to understand the system they seek to influence, identify the people who matter most, design strategic pathways towards impact, and build a practical roadmap for implementation.
By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a draft Strategic Theory of Change for their own challenge, together with practical tools that can be applied across programmes, policies and organisational transformation initiatives.
Upcoming sessions
This workshop is designed to customise strategic planning sessions for teams and organisations. For more information, contact us at info@thinkplace.com.sg
Who is this programme for and what will you learn
Designed for professionals leading strategy, policy, programmes and organisational transformation, including:
Public sector leaders and managers
Social service organisations
Foundations and philanthropic organisations
Community and non-profit organisations
Strategy and planning teams
Innovation and transformation teams
Learning Outcomes
Understand the systems, stakeholders and behaviours that influence long-term change.
Apply ThinkPlace's Four Voices of Co-design to reframe complex challenges into clear strategic outcomes and public value.
Design strategic pathways that connect vision, interventions and measurable impact.
Develop a practical Strategic Theory of Change that can guide implementation, collaboration and evaluation.
Segment 1: Seeing the Bigger System
Explore why many initiatives struggle to achieve lasting impact and learn how systems thinking and the Four Voices of Co-design can help organisations better understand the challenges they are seeking to influence.
Segment 2: Designing the Desired Outcomes
Learn how to define meaningful outcomes, identify priority actors and articulate the desired shifts in behaviours, experiences and systems.
Segment 3: Designing the Pathway of Change
Explore pathways for change, identifying interventions across people, organisations, communities, policies and systems.
Segment 4: Turning strategy into action
Translate the Strategic Theory of Change into practical implementation by considering governance, partnerships, indicators and next steps.
Programme outline
Meet your trainer
Regional Director, ThinkPlace Singapore and Asia
Dr. Debbie Ng
Dr. Debbie Ng, PhD, is a distinguished design leader with over 18 years of experience driving transformative change across complex public and social challenges through human-centred design. As Regional Director of ThinkPlace Singapore and Asia, she collaborates with organisations across sectors to shape innovative, sustainable futures, leveraging design as a powerful force for social good. Debbie is a pioneer of the design thinking initiative in Singapore in 2007, and continued to serve under various capacities in the Public Service Division of the Prime Minister's Office, SPRING Singapore and Singapore Polytechnic.
Debbie excels in navigating intricate, multi-dimensional problems where solutions are ambiguous, applying her expertise in design leadership, complex systems thinking, ethnography, co-design, and service design.
Fueled by a deep commitment to empowering others, Debbie dedicates herself to building internal change and transformation teams and coaching leaders to be empathetic, creative and adaptive leaders.