Navigate: Building the Future From the Inside Out

Starting From What Already Exists

Navigate starts from a simple belief: cities do not need to be fixed by importing ideas from elsewhere. They move forward when they understand, trust, and organise around what already exists.

In Liverpool, that means recognising the depth of creative talent, entrepreneurial energy, and technical capability already shaping the city. Navigate exists to help those forces connect, align, and move with intent, without trying to control or redefine them.

Navigate is a collaboration between GoodShip* and Liverpool Chamber, bringing together complementary perspectives: GoodShip’s systems-led, purpose-driven approach and the Chamber’s deep-rooted connection to the city’s business and professional community.

A Shared Approach Between GoodShip* and Liverpool Chamber

This collaboration reflects a shared way of working.

At GoodShip*, the focus is on listening first, understanding systems as they are, and supporting people and organisations to act with clarity and purpose. Liverpool Chamber brings long-standing relationships, insight, and influence across the city’s business ecosystem. Together, they create space for conversations that are grounded, open, and shaped by those closest to the work.

Navigate applies this combined thinking at a city scale.

Connecting, Not Directing

Rather than positioning itself as a leader of the ecosystem, Navigate acts as a connector within it. Its role is to bring people together across creative, technology, entrepreneurial, and professional communities, and to create the conditions for honest conversation, shared understanding, and collective direction.

This means convening founders, educators, professional services, and practitioners to surface what is already working, what is emerging, and what is getting in the way of progress.

Mapping Opportunity, Not Providing Answers

Navigate is focused on opportunity mapping rather than answer-setting. It looks at where growth is already happening, where it could happen next, and how better alignment between skills, education, and industry can support long-term progress.

This is practical, grounded work, shaped by lived experience rather than theory, and informed by voices across the ecosystem, not just the loudest or most visible.

Why Community Matters

Community sits at the centre of Navigate’s approach. Sustainable growth does not come only from infrastructure, funding, or policy. It comes from relationships, shared spaces, and regular interaction that allow ideas, skills, and opportunities to move more freely.

This emphasis on trust, continuity, and connection reflects how GoodShip* works with organisations over time, and how Liverpool Chamber supports collaboration across the city’s business landscape.

From Insight to Action

Insights gathered through Navigate’s conversations directly inform future events, programmes, and knowledge-sharing activity. Just as importantly, they help make visible what already works across Liverpool’s creative and tech landscape.

Clearer signposting makes it easier for people to find the right opportunities, organisations, and networks, strengthening the ecosystem as a whole.

A Long-Term Commitment

Navigate is not a one-off initiative. It is an ongoing collaboration between GoodShip* and Liverpool Chamber, built around dialogue, reflection, and action.

The shared ambition is straightforward: to help Liverpool define its own direction for growth and impact, shaped by the people already building the city today. Meaningful progress happens when communities are listened to, connected with care, and trusted to shape their own future.

Read more via https://wenavigate.co.uk

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