Strategy & Leadership
Strategy that your own exec team can run once we leave. A direction the CEO can defend, numbers and owners on the roadmap, and the governance that made it work stays behind when we go.
What you get
- A strategic narrative the CEO can brief in 10 minutes — to the board, to investors, to the top 30 people in the company.
- An outcome tree: the four to six things that actually have to move, each with a named client-side owner and a number to hit.
- A decision cadence the exec team runs without us by the end of the mandate — agenda template, metrics pack, RACI.
- A stakeholder map for the first 90 days of execution, with the specific conversations that unblock the programme.
How we work
- We don't start with a deck. Week one is listening — exec interviews, shadowing the real operating cadence, reading the last six months of board packs.
- We make you name what you won't do. The hardest question on every strategy engagement is "what won't we do" — and we'll push until the answer is on paper.
- Every deliverable has a client-side owner. Consultants can co-author; they can't own. We name the owner before we write the document.
- We leave the governance behind. By the last week, the exec team is running their own review with our artefacts, not ours.
Ideal for
- CEOs taking the reins and wanting 100 days of cover, not 100 slides.
- Boards questioning whether the existing strategy still holds after a shock — market, new entrant, regulatory.
- Public sector leaders coordinating multi-agency change where real accountability matters more than a glossy report.
Typical engagement shape
- Duration
- 8–14 weeks
- Team
- 1 senior principal, embedded 2–3 days/week
- Cadence
- Weekly exec working session + bi-weekly deep dive
- Starts with
- 2-week diagnostic before full commitment — no big contract upfront
- Ends with
- A standing exec review the client team runs without us
Where we've run this before
Inside AB InBev's global analytics and digital transformation programme, and across Primotly's scale-up from founder team to 50 FTE. Due-diligence and operational redesign mandates on the Abris Capital CEE portfolio. See four engagements with real numbers →