About Consultancy
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We help leadership teams make a small number of clear choices — and then stay close enough to see them through. Small senior teams, plans tested with the people who run them, and an exit date agreed on day one.
Consultancy was founded in 2012 by two consultants who had spent a decade watching good strategies stall. The analysis was rarely wrong. What went wrong came later — in the budget round, the first difficult hire, the quarter when the old priorities quietly came back.
We set out to build a firm around that second half of strategy: small, senior teams who help leadership make clear choices and then stay close enough to see those choices through. We still work that way. The partner who scopes an engagement leads it day to day, and every long engagement has an agreed exit date.
“We would rather be useful for a year than impressive for a fortnight.”
Today we are a team of thirty-four across London and Rotterdam, working mainly with mid-sized and family-owned businesses, specialist financial institutions and public-interest organisations. We go deep in a handful of sectors where operations, regulation and people all have to move together.
Every engagement is led day to day by the partner who scoped it. No hand-off to a team you met for the first time on day one.
We would rather send three experienced people to your site than twelve to a project room. It costs less and we learn more.
A strategy is as much about the options you close as the ones you open. We make both explicit, so they survive the next budget round.
We take draft designs to the managers who will run them before they reach the board. It is slower for a week and faster for a year.
We agree an exit date at the start and build the internal capability to make it real. Success is when you no longer need us.
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Every engagement is led by one of the people below, from the first conversation to the handover.
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Managing Partner Strategy & Growth
Thomas co-founded Consultancy after fourteen years advising industrial and consumer businesses. He works with chief executives and boards on strategy, portfolio choices and the first year of a new leadership team.
Partner Operations & Performance
Elena leads our operations practice. She started her career as a plant engineer and still prefers a site visit to a steering committee. Her work spans network design, cost-to-serve and performance routines.
Partner Transformation Delivery
Daniel runs transformation offices for clients in energy, logistics and financial services. He is known for agreeing the handover date in the first week and holding everyone to it, including himself.
Principal Organisation & Change
Hannah designs operating models and decision rights for groups going through mergers and founder transitions. Before Consultancy she led organisation design inside a listed industrial group.
Principal Financial Services
Marcus works with specialist insurers and lenders on front-to-back operating models and governance. He has a habit of timing every approval step, which clients find either alarming or very useful.
Senior Manager Analytics & Fact Bases
Samuel builds the fact bases behind our work — cost-to-serve models, capacity analyses and decision maps — and makes sure client teams can maintain them after we leave.
Every first conversation is with a partner. Tell us a little about the challenge and we will introduce the right person.