Shared ambition. Collective action.
Building capacity and building bridges for climate, nature, and sustainable development.
Practice Overview
Robadey Group is a Geneva-based, boutique professional services firms that helps organizations and funders strengthen their strategic and organizational capacity, mobilize and deploy philanthropic resources, and develop effective partnerships and collaborative initiatives.
Founded and led by Jean-Louis Robadey and built on decades of executive and advisory experience in sustainable development, the practice provides flexible, high-value professional services to support the design and development of ambitious initiatives at different stages of development—from assessment, strategy, and detailed design, to planning, implementation, and development.
Philanthropy · Nonprofits · Public & International Institutions · Networks & Collaborative Initiatives
Strengthening the capacity to deliver, building the connections to go further.
Making progress requires clear direction, capable organizations, committed partners, and resources aligned with the work. We help clients bring these elements together through two complementary areas of support—building capacity, and building bridges.
Building capacity: strategy, organizational development and change, and program development.
We help leaders clarify direction, strengthen their organizations and translate priorities into action. Whether you are navigating a transition, developing a new strategy or strengthening delivery, we bring an external perspective and practical support.
Strategy and direction: Analyze the landscape, assess your position, build the business case, align stakeholders, make strategic choices and establish clear priorities.
Organizational development, management and change: Align governance, structures, capabilities and ways of working, develop operational plans, support teams through transitions and provide ongoing management capacity.
Program development: Assess context and needs/opportunity, engage with and survey stakeholders, develop theory of change and design program elements, program strategy and action plan, implement and develop program, assess, evaluate and learn.
Building bridges: philanthropy and resource mobilization, strategic partnerships, and collaboration and dialogue.
We help organizations and funders connect resources, expertise and relationships around shared goals. Our work spans philanthropic engagement, fundraising, partnership development and the design, development, and support of collaborative initiatives.
Philanthropy and resource mobilization: Shape philanthropic strategies, develop compelling cases for support and build funding relationships.
Strategic partnerships: Identify partners, engage and explore partnership opportunity, establish common ground, negotiate and develop practical arrangements for working together, implement, assess, learn, and evolve.
Collaboration and dialogue: Develop business case for collaboration, map collaboration landscape, convene stakeholders, develop shared plans, and turn shared ambitions into initiatives that can be funded, organized and delivered.
Organizational capacity, partnerships, resource mobilization, and collaboration reinforce one another. We work both within and across disciplines, adapting the technical combination to your needs.
Grounded in sustainable development
Experience grounded in your field
Our work focuses on climate, nature and sustainable development, drawing on decades of experience with philanthropic and corporate foundations, donors, impact investors, social entrepreneurs, public agencies, NGOs, international institutions, and collaborative initiatives. Jean-Louis has spent three decades working internationally, developing a deep understanding of the sustainable development ecosystem, of its various actors, and of important themes such as climate, nature, inclusive economic development—and what it takes to develop organizational and program strategies, build organizational capacity, accelerate innovations, build partnerships and collaborations, and mobilize resources to achieve impact.
I am an experienced, Geneva-based fundraiser, program- and partnership-builder, and facilitator of collaborations and dialogues. Building from a 25-year international track record advancing initiatives that support climate action, nature conservation, and sustainable, inclusive development—I support non-profit organizations, philanthropists, foundations, public agencies, and cross-sector collaborative initiatives.
Practice Overview
I support nonprofit leaders, philanthropists, and coalition builders who are creating initiatives that benefit people and the planet. I help them design and implement partnerships, collaborations, and multi-stakeholder dialogues, catalyze and accelerate innovative programs, and mobilize the financial resources they need to fulfill their mission. I provide flexible, agile, and bespoke professional services, tailored to support clients at a scope, scale, and budget aligned with their needs and capacities.
Practice Areas
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Collaboration and Dialogue
Advancing collective impact through collaborations, partnerships, and dialogue.
I support organizations and alliances in designing and managing collaborations, strategic partnerships, and dialogues that deliver collective impact. -
Program Innovation and Development
Designing initiatives that turn good ideas into measurable impact.
I help clients develop innovative solutions, programs, and enterprises that are evidence-based, fundable, and implementable — bridging strategy, design, and delivery. -
Resource Mobilization
Securing the financial resources your mission needs to grow.
I help organizations strengthen their fundraising strategies, build donor relationships, and communicate impact effectively. -
Organizational development
Helping organizations navigate complexity, sharpen focus, and deliver results.
I support boards, executives and teams clarify strategic direction, manage transitions, and build high-capacity programs and organizations.
Projects and Clients
I support non-profit, philanthropic, governmental, corporate, and multi-stakeholder programs and partnerships. I work across sectors and impact themes, with a special focus on climate, conservation, and sustainable, inclusive development. Please explore a sample of the projects and clients that I have had the privilege to support as a mentor, advisor, consultant, facilitator, and implementor.
Working together
I offer nimble, flexible services designed to advance impact collaborations, innovations, resource mobilization, and capacity development efforts. My services include coaching, mentoring, and thought partnership support; targeted advisory expertise; structured consulting projects; training, learning, and capacity-building; as well as facilitated convenings and workshops. For organizations requiring more extensive, long-term assistance, I provide tailored outsourced and interim support to meet your specific needs. These flexible engagements enable interventions that are right-sized and commensurate to the scope, scale, and budgets of the initiatives I support.
Locally grounded, globally connected.
Based in the heart of International Geneva, I engage locally and globally and leverage my international experience and networks to help NGOs, philanthropies, public agencies, corporate social impact initiatives, and multi-stakeholder collaborations design and activate powerful programs and partnerships. Whether you are building or implementing a grant mechanism, seeking aligned funders, or navigating complex stakeholder landscapes, I can help you move from opportunity to impact.
Let’s Work Together
Whether you are a nonprofit or philanthropic leader, public servant, corporate social impact steward, or the convener of an initiative that brings multiple stakeholders together, I would be pleased to explore how we might collaborate.
Contact me to start the conversation!
