Navigate + Connect + Act

Working with organisations and places to tackle complex challenges, build stronger partnerships and turn shared ambition into action.

People work together when they believe they can achieve something together that none of them could achieve alone. That is where meaningful collective action begins.

At the mouth of the Dart, downstream from Totnes, stands the Froward Point daymark - a fixed navigational marker that shows ships where they are and helps them decide where to go next. That’s the idea behind Daymark Consulting.

How Daymark can help

Daymark Consulting works with people, organisations and partnerships facing complex challenges - understanding what is happening, building the relationships and shared purpose needed for change, and turning collective ambition into action.

> Understand the conditions for change

Understand the relationships, assets, power, barriers and opportunities shaping a challenge, and identify where there is potential to make progress.

> Align people and organisations

Move beyond coordination towards genuine collaboration, building shared purpose, priorities and the relationships needed to act together.

> Facilitate leadership and collective action

Create the space for difficult conversations, challenge assumptions and help leaders and partners navigate complexity, power and change.

> Develop narratives and engage communities

Building the shared story that creates understanding and purpose, and helping communities and stakeholders shape priorities, influence decisions and contribute to action.

> Turn strategy into action

Design the governance, roles and ways of working that turn agreement into delivery - reducing friction and helping organisations move from plans and programmes to practical action.

Ways to work with Daymark

> Finding your bearings

A short diagnostic to understand where things really stand. This might include conversations with the people involved, a review of existing evidence and a session to test what emerges. The result is a clear account of where a partnership or initiative is now, what is getting in the way and where there is realistic potential to make progress.

> Building shared purpose

Facilitated sessions to help a group move from coordination towards genuine collaboration. The work creates space to develop a shared purpose, agree priorities and build the relationships needed to act on them.

> Designing for delivery

Practical support for partnerships that know what they want to achieve and need the structures to make it happen. This might include terms of reference, roles, decision making, governance and reporting arrangements.

> Ongoing support

For chairs and senior leaders who want a consistent thinking partner rather than a discrete piece of work, Daymark can provide support on a retained basis.

How we work

> Listen

Listen to people, communities and place - understanding needs, assets, relationships and the voices that are missing.

> Learn

Bring evidence, data, lived experience and different forms of expertise together, challenge assumptions and develop a clear understanding of what is needed.

> Act

Turn understanding into practical action, testing ideas, learning from experience and adapting as we go.

> Embed

Connect people, build confidence and help changes in relationships, power and practice become sustainable.

Who we are

Daymark Consulting was founded by Jeff Chinnock, who has spent his career working with organisations, communities and partnerships to tackle complex social challenges.Jeff's experience spans international development, public policy, regional development, health and local democratic leadership. Most recently, he led partnership and health equity work at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and co-chaired the One Eastern Devon Local Care Partnership.Across those roles, the common thread has been helping people and organisations navigate complexity, build relationships, challenge assumptions and create the conditions for collective action.Based in Totnes, Jeff works with organisations and partnerships across Devon and beyond.

Our principles

  • People and communities have agency: The task is to remove the conditions that prevent them exercising the power they already hold.

  • Place matters: Change must work with the grain of local history, assets, relationships, inequalities and power.

  • Shared purpose comes before partnership: Clarity makes collaboration meaningful and effective.

  • Relationships are infrastructure: Trust enables risk, innovation and shared leadership.

  • No single perspective is enough: Professional, technical, lived and local knowledge should inform one another.

  • Institutions matter: Their power can enable agency rather than control outcomes.

  • Evidence should inform action: Movement builds confidence; confidence strengthens relationships; relationships make more ambitious change possible.

Please get in touch:

If you’re trying to find a way forward on a challenge that no single organisation can solve alone, let’s talk.Get in touch:

Tel: 07786 333996

Daymark Consulting - Totnes, Devon

If you need support or are stuck then please contact me.

Find your bearings. Build the connections. Turn understanding into action

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Last updated: October 2026
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