Ref. NX-2291Confidential
Brightwell LogisticsLogistics · 2,400 staff
+£4.2mannual EBITDA recovered
Network redesign and pricing discipline across 31 depots, delivered in 14 weeks.
Nexaru is an independent advisory for leadership teams facing a hard call. We turn complexity into one clear decision — and a plan your people will actually run.
4.9/5 from 120+ client engagements
Fig. 01
Pricing review with a client CFO, Zurich.
Note 01 — Logistics
“They found the £4.2m we’d been walking past for two years — and showed us how to keep it.”
Hannah Okafor, COO · Brightwell Logistics
§ 02 — Position
Why leadership teams call us
Most advice ends in a slide deck. Ours ends in a decision — made faster, owned by your team, and measured against the numbers you already report.
i.
Senior people only
A partner leads every engagement, every week. No pyramid, no hand-offs to juniors.
ii.
Fixed fees, fixed scope
You know the price and the deliverable before we start. Day rates don’t reward clarity.
iii.
Measured for a year
We track the agreed outcomes for twelve months after we leave — and report them to your board.
§ 03 — Practices
Five practice areas, one standard of rigour
Where we earn our fee.
§ 04 — The record
Audited by our clients, not by us
Evidence before opinion.
Margin uplift
Engagements
Repeat clients
Value identified
Time to decision
§ 05 — Method
Sixteen weeks, on average, from first call to new way of working
Four steps from first call to lasting change.
The same disciplined sequence on every engagement — so you always know what happens next, who owns it, and what it costs.
Step 01 · Weeks 1–3
Diagnose
We interview the people closest to the problem and rebuild the numbers from source. You get one fact base everyone agrees on.
Step 02 · Weeks 4–6
Design
Two or three real options, priced and risk-rated. We pressure-test them with your team until one is clearly right.
Step 03 · Weeks 7–16
Deliver
We stay to make it work: weekly governance, quick wins first, and blockers escalated within 48 hours.
Step 04 · Months 4–12
Embed
Your managers run the new way of working. We track the agreed outcomes for a year and report them to the board.
§ 06 — Selected outcomes
Shared with client permission
The files stay confidential. The numbers don’t.
Three recent engagements, summarised the way we report to boards: one result, one sentence, one reference number. Open the folder.
§ 07 — People
Average of 19 years in industry before consulting
The people in the room.
§ 08 — Proof
Margins that keep improving after we leave.
Most programmes peak at handover. Ours are built to compound: the operating rhythm we install keeps paying back for years, because your team owns it.
Median EBITDA margin across 42 operational engagements, 2019–2025. Source: client management accounts.
EBITDA margin · median client
+6.5 pts
§ 09 — Clients, in their own words
§ 10 — Insights
Short essays from the partners
Notes from the working sessions.
Strategy
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6 min read
The twelve-page board paper
Why the most consequential decisions deserve the shortest documents — and the structure we use to write them.
Pricing
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7 min read
Why pricing projects fail in month four
The analysis is rarely the problem. Discipline erodes quietly once the project team leaves — here is how to stop it.
Operations
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5 min read
Cost-out without the hangover
Blunt cost targets cut muscle along with fat. A better approach starts with the work, not the headcount.
§ 11 — Next step
Bring us the decision you’ve been postponing.
The first conversation is 45 minutes with a partner, free of charge and under NDA if you prefer. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you who is.
Reply within one working day
A partner on the first call — never a salesperson
Fixed-fee proposal within five working days