Bespoke support for challenging projects.
I'll bring all my experience and expertise to bear to help you through a particularly ambitious or challenging piece of work with a clear outcome.
The strategy needs wiring up. The OKRs aren't aligned. The operating model has drifted. The team is waiting on a clear answer to a question the leader hasn’t had time to sit with properly. Most teams are carrying more open questions than the diary can hold.
The shape of every consulting engagement, regardless of length or scope. These are the conditions that make the work useful and impactful.
Every engagement opens with stakeholder interviews or a structured survey. The aim is to map where the team actually is before any recommendations get drafted, and to make sure the work answers the real question.
A clear written proposal with one or two options, fixed fee, fixed deliverables, and a defined end. Consulting that drifts is consulting that gets ignored. The scope is set so the work delivers results.
Outputs are written for the people who have to live with them. Plain English, short, structured, and free of consulting jargon. A strategy on a page, not a 60-slide deck the leader will never reopen.
My work focuses on aligning Strategy, Leadership, Teamwork, Culture, and Brand. These are the projects I do my best work on, and where fifteen years of tools and method come fully into play.
Consulting is shaped by the question on the table, but most engagements cluster around a familiar set of leadership team problems. These are the areas that come up most often.
Structured interviews and surveys across a leadership team or wider organisation. Anonymised, thematic, and written up as a short, honest read on where the team actually stands. Often the first step before an offsite.
Working alongside an executive team to sharpen and align on an existing strategy. Refining the cascade, tightening the language, identifying the choices that have been avoided or made without clear rationale.
Building or fixing an OKR set so it does the job it is meant to do. Distinguishing real OKRs from task lists, mapping ownership, and where useful, supporting adoption of software tools.
Decision rights, operating rhythm, roles and responsibilities, meeting cadence. The plumbing of a leadership team, often the piece that has gradually fallen apart as the company has grown.
Designing and delivering multi-month leadership and high-performance programmes. Sequencing the sessions, the coaching, the diagnostics, and the writing into one coherent arc with measurable outcomes.
Strategy documents, debriefs, board papers, internal narrative work, and structured write-ups after major sessions. The leadership writing the executive team has run out of time to do itself.
James reshaped the programme as it went, responding to clear business needs. What started as a piece of management development became a proper strategic intervention, and the business is better for it.Mark, CEOTechnology Company
Most engagements run as one of two shapes. A short focused piece of work, two to six weeks, scoped around a single question such as a strategy refinement, OKR redesign, or stakeholder diagnostic. Or a longer multi-month programme that wraps consulting around a sequence of workshops, often involving an executive team and a wider management cohort.
Senior leadership teams, CEOs, COOs, and HR or transformation directors carrying a real piece of strategic or structural work. Most clients are mid-market companies in growth or transition, with a leadership team that wants the work done well and quickly, and the bandwidth to engage with it properly.
Facilitation is the work in the room. Consulting is the work around it. The two are designed to reinforce each other. A diagnostic before an offsite means the day in the room arrives with the real questions already on the table. A written debrief afterwards turns the day into something the wider organisation can use.
Fees depend on the scope: length, depth of diagnostic work, number of written outputs, and whether the engagement includes facilitation alongside the consulting. Short focused engagements and multi-month programmes carry different fee bands. For a written proposal with options, get in touch and we will scope it together.
Most consulting engagements start with a simple exploratory chat where together we work out what would be most helpful.
