§ 01 — Services
Five practices. One standard of rigour.
Every engagement is led by a partner who has run the function before, priced as a fixed fee and measured against outcomes your board already tracks.
Strategy & Portfolio
8–12 weeks
Decide where to play — and what to stop doing.
For leadership teams facing a portfolio choice, a market entry or an acquisition. We build the fact base, frame two or three real options and take one recommendation to your board.
Portfolio and business-unit reviews
Market entry and growth strategy
M&A theses and commercial due diligence
Board strategy offsites
Typical outcome: one board-approved decision, fully costed
Operations & Performance
12–16 weeks
Take out cost and friction without breaking what works.
For businesses whose margins have drifted. We map the work, not the org chart, and redesign networks, procurement and processes with savings tracked to the P&L.
Network and footprint redesign
Procurement and spend reviews
Process redesign and automation
Working-capital release
Typical outcome: 3–7 points of EBITDA margin
Pricing & Commercial
10–14 weeks
Get paid properly for the value you already deliver.
For B2B companies where price is set by habit. We rebuild price architecture, tighten discount governance and align sales incentives so the gains hold after we leave.
Price architecture and list-price reviews
Discount governance and deal desks
Sales incentive redesign
Price-increase programmes
Typical outcome: 2–4% realised price uplift
Transformation & PMO
16+ weeks
Make change land — on time, on budget, and for good.
For programmes that are slipping or about to start. We design governance that speeds decisions up, run the integration office and hand it over to your team.
Post-merger integration
Programme design and mobilisation
Transformation office as a service
Recovery of stalled programmes
Typical outcome: programme back on plan within one quarter
Board & Leadership Advisory
Monthly
A trusted second opinion before the hardest calls.
For CEOs, chairs and boards who need an independent view. We review plans, write board papers and sit alongside leadership teams through the decision.
Independent plan and budget reviews
Board papers and investment cases
CEO and chair counsel
Leadership team effectiveness
Typical outcome: faster, better-documented decisions
§ 02 — Ways to engage
All fees fixed and agreed before we start
Start small, or start with everything. You decide.
Diagnostic
3 weeks
A fast, fixed-fee look at one problem. You get a verified baseline, sized opportunities and an honest recommendation — including “don’t hire us”.
Rebuilt baseline from source data
15–20 stakeholder interviews
Sized opportunity range
Go / no-go recommendation
Programme
12–20 weeks
Our core engagement: design and delivery with your team, through to a new way of working that runs without us.
Everything in the Diagnostic
Option design and board paper
Weekly delivery governance
12-month outcome tracking
Advisory
Monthly
Senior counsel on call for CEOs, chairs and boards. Ideal after a programme, or ahead of a big decision.
Two partner days per month
Board paper reviews
Unlimited calls and email
Cancel with one month’s notice
§ 03 — Questions
What clients ask before they sign.
Usually within two weeks of a signed scope. Diagnostics can often begin the following Monday.
Yes. Around a third of our engagements are elsewhere in Europe. We work on site at least two days a week, wherever you are.
Everything in the agreed scope: partner time, analysis, workshops, board materials and travel within Europe. If we under-estimate, that is our problem, not yours.
The partner who scopes the work leads it, every week. Teams are small — usually a partner, a principal and one or two consultants.
We agree three to five outcome metrics before we start, taken from reports you already produce, and track them for twelve months after we leave.