Advisory & delivery services
I help organisations make sense of complex problems and turn that clarity into action. My work focuses on six areas where clarity, alignment, and senior judgement matter most.
Strategy Facilitation & Decision Clarity
Strategy is fundamentally about making choices. I help leadership teams cut through noise, challenge assumptions, and articulate a clear direction using frameworks like Playing to Win and Business Model Canvas.
My focus is on clarity, alignment, and practical next steps, not meandering through theoretical models or creating endless slide decks. The outcome is a strategy people understand, believe in, and can execute.
What I do
- Strategy workshops
- Decision‑making support
- Turning strategy into action
- Aligning teams around a coherent narrative
Executive Capacity & Organisational Bandwidth
Executives in growing organisations often face periods where the demands of the role exceed the available bandwidth. I provide senior, trusted execution capacity, the kind that keeps momentum without diluting ownership.
I take on the organisational, cross‑functional, or operational work that needs doing but isn’t getting done. My role is simple: make the executive more effective, not replace them.
What I do
- Clarify priorities and help leaders stay focused on the work that matters
- Provide senior support on cross‑functional and organisational work that needs progressing
- Prepare high‑value leadership outputs such as policies, board papers, and communications
- Maintain momentum during periods of peak load or organisational pressure
Critical Project Recovery & Delivery Leadership
Large programmes fail for predictable reasons: unclear ownership, weak alignment, unrealistic plans, or political drift. I step into complex, high‑stakes environments to diagnose what’s really happening and chart a credible path forward.
Sometimes that means leading the recovery directly. More often it means coaching/mentoring the existing team to do it themselves. Either way, the outcome is the same: clarity, alignment, and a return to predictable delivery.
What I do
- Rapid diagnostic of root causes
- Clear recovery plan
- Hands‑on leadership, mentoring or coaching
- Cross‑functional alignment
- Path back to predictable delivery
Major Account & Client Leadership for Growing Firms
When organisations win larger clients, the gap in expectations can become significant. I help organisations navigate that gap, helping them structure programmes, manage senior stakeholders, and build confidence on both sides.
This includes commercial support, programme shaping, and coaching internal teams to operate at enterprise scale. The result: stronger relationships, bigger opportunities, and fewer surprises.
What I do
- Senior client engagement
- Structuring large programmes
- Commercial negotiation support
- Coaching teams to operate at scale
- Supporting firms to operate confidently with a larger, more complex project portfolio
Organisation Growth, Scaling & Transformation
Growing organisations face a predictable set of challenges: unclear roles, inconsistent processes, leadership gaps, and operational friction. I help companies build the teams, structures, and ways of working needed to scale without chaos.
This includes org design, leadership coaching, hiring strategy, and evolving operating models. The goal is simple: create an organisation that works, and keeps working as it grows.
What I do
- Advice on org design and team structure
- Leadership mentoring
- Scaling processes and ways of working
- Hiring strategy support
- Turning chaos into a functioning operating model
'Make or Buy' Strategy Support
When leaders face a make-or-buy decision, the stakes are high: cost, capability, speed, and long-term ownership. I help organisations navigate that choice with clarity and senior judgement.
This means understanding what the organisation can realistically deliver and what external partners can genuinely offer. When the decision is to deliver in-house, I help build internal capability and the processes essential to success. When external support is the right path, I help organisations get the very best out of consultancies. After 20 years inside consulting firms, I know the pitfalls that derail success and how to avoid them.
What I do
- Clarify the problem and the decision criteria
- Assess internal capability and delivery confidence
- Evaluate external options and partner suitability
- Build internal capability or set up external partners for success
- Shape a clear, confident plan for the chosen route