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our APPROACH

A Methodology for Working Relationally in Complex, High-Stakes Systems

We call the Akani approach ‘Who Works!’ It is our framework for embedding relational practice and systems leadership across complex change settings. Who Works! helps people navigate messy realities — from public services under pressure to business environments. It reveals patterns, strengthens relationships, and creates space for shared purpose and sustainable action.

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Where It Applies

Wherever relationships meet complexity, Who Works! can help.

We work with systems — the formal and informal networks of people, processes and relationships that shape how your organisation actually functions.

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Meet Our Founder & CEO

Johnathan Reed

Johnathan Reed, Founder & CEO of WealthWise Advisors, has dedicated over 20 years to helping clients achieve their financial goals with confidence and peace of mind. With a vision to create a firm centered on integrity, personalized service, and long-term relationships, Johnathan founded WealthWise Advisors to provide clients with expert guidance that is as trustworthy as it is effective.

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Turning Insight into Action

Collaborative Knowledge Networks

Collaborative Knowledge Networks are the enabling structures at the core of the Who Works! method. They bring together lived experience, professional insight, and strategic dialogue — creating a shared space where complex problems can be understood, held, and addressed. This is where the work becomes real: grounded in trust, shaped by those within the system, and capable of lasting change.
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WHAT SETS IT APART

What Makes It Work?

We don’t deliver training. We don’t drop in with a framework and leave you to figure it out. Who Works! is built to be felt — through reflection, microgames, shared language and structured disruption. It’s not a theory. It’s a relational methodology that helps systems see themselves more clearly and start to move.

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THE WHY BEHIND IT

Why This Method Exists

Who Works! helps people feel how systems behave — not just in theory, but through lived experience. We create space to slow down, reflect and shift the conditions that shape how work gets done. Because when people break down, so do the systems around them. And when systems fail people, everyone pays the price.

 

This method is built on a core truth: Well-being and workflow are inseparable. Burnout is a systemic signal — not a personal failure. So we pause. We listen. We rebuild — with care, clarity and you at the centre.

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THE STRUCTURE UNDERNEATH

What’s Under the Surface

Every tool we use — from the System Mirror to Postcard from the Future — is part of a wider process designed to help people sense what’s really happening, make meaning together and take action in ways that stick.
Who Works! is flexible by design — but always grounded in five core moves:
Sensing. Surfacing. Patterning. Prototyping. Embedding.
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DELIVERED IN PRACTICE

How the Method Meets the Room

Who Works! is most powerful when it’s lived. We deliver the work through facilitated sessions, collaborative design, and custom-built workshops — from leadership retreats to multi-agency away days. If you’re ready to create space for something different, we can help shape what that looks like.

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Want to Talk About What’s Possible?

Whether you’re leading a system, managing a service, or building a team — we can help.

Emily Carter, CPA

Tax & Estate Planning Specialist

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Great for strategy sessions, culture reset, or team alignment.

Michael Thompson, MBA

Investment Manager

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Use it for check-ins, resets, or just to name the atmosphere.

Sarah Jennings, CFP®

Senior Financial Advisor

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Ideal for surfacing hidden norms or challenging status quo thinking.

THE TOOLS IN ACTION

Microgames That Shift Systems

These aren’t icebreakers. They’re fast, human, structured games that surface what’s really going on — in teams, relationships and systems. Designed to spark reflection, reveal patterns and invite change.

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