Consultancy

On-demand expertise to help you define, design and deliver learning that leads to action.

Budgets are tight, internal teams are stretched and important people priorities can easily stall. You may have a capable L&D, HR or OD team with too much on its plate — or a piece of work that needs specialist experience you do not have in-house.


We provide flexible consultancy support to help you move forward with confidence. From a focused day of expert input to a longer partnership, we bring fresh perspective, practical experience and hands-on support to help you identify the needs, shape the approach and create resources and solutions that work.

How we support you

Learning Strategy
Leadership Development
Culture and Change
Practical L&D Support 

Link learning and development to what matters most

Learning has the greatest impact when it helps an organisation deliver its mission, vision, values and strategic priorities — rather than being driven only by immediate requests or what has been done before.

We help you identify where learning and development can make the greatest difference, understand the capability needed to achieve your goals and make informed decisions about where to focus your time, energy and investment.

Learning strategy and priorities

Clarifying the role learning needs to play, the capability you need to build and where to focus first.

Learning ecosystem reviews

Looking at how formal learning, manager support, digital resources, peer learning and everyday practice work together.

Learning transfer, evaluation, and impact

Creating realistic ways to understand whether learning is making a difference, how it can be embedded and monitored, and how to decide what to improve.

Define and design the leadership your organisation needs for the future

Effective leadership development starts with clarity. We help you explore how leadership is experienced now, how you want people to lead in the future and what needs to change to get there.

Working with your people, we identify what good leadership looks like in your organisation, the knowledge, skills and behaviours leaders need to develop, and the most practical way to support them. The result is a clear, purposeful plan for building leadership capability over time.

Leadership diagnosis and direction

Understanding the current leadership experience, organisational context and priorities for the future.

Leadership framework and capability

Defining the behaviours, knowledge and skills that matter most at different leadership levels.

Development strategy and roadmap

Creating a realistic plan for how leaders will be supported to develop, apply learning and grow over time.

Shape culture and help change stick

Culture is shaped by what people experience every day and change is more likely to succeed when those everyday conditions support, rather than undermine, the shift you are trying to make.

We help you explore the culture you have now, define the culture you want to build and create practical, people-centred approaches that help new priorities, systems and ways of working take root.

Review and Design

Understanding and exploring the culture and change context you have now, the experience you want people to have, and the practical shifts needed. 

Leading and Engaging

Helping leaders communicate with clarity, involve people meaningfully and create the confidence, understanding and commitment needed for change. 

Intentional Ways of Working

Creating practical agreements, routines, resources and development approaches that help people work well together as priorities, systems or structures change.

An experienced sounding board for your most important L&D work

Even experienced L&D, HR and OD teams cannot be expected to hold every specialist skill, stay on top of every evidence base or find capacity for every priority project. 

We work alongside your team to provide support, while developing confidence and capability they can retain. Whether you need an informed review, a trusted sounding board or hands-on design support, we help your people make confident decisions and create learning solutions that are evidence-informed, practical and fit for your organisation.

Review and recommendations

An informed review of your strategy, priorities, materials or approach, with clear, evidence-informed recommendations for improvement.

Expert advice support

Access to specialist L&D insight to test ideas, explore options, challenge assumptions and make confident decisions.

Design with you, or for you

We bring the learning expertise to turn your insight into practical, engaging solutions. We can co-design with your team, lead the design , or combine both. 

What you can expect from us

We bring experienced, evidence-informed L&D and organisational development expertise, alongside a genuine understanding of what it is like to work within an organisation: competing priorities, limited capacity, stakeholders to involve and a need to make progress.

A practical, honest partnership

We will listen carefully, ask useful questions and offer thoughtful challenge where it is needed. Our aim is not to impose a pre-set solution, but to help you find an approach that will work in your context.

Expertise that adds value

We bring current evidence, specialist knowledge and experience across leadership, learning, change and culture — helping you make informed decisions and avoid spending time or budget on activity that will not make a meaningful difference.

Support that fits your needs

Whether you need a one-day review, a sounding board for your team or support over a longer period, we work flexibly around the level of input that will be most useful. We are there to strengthen your capacity, not to create dependency.

Capability that stays with you

We will check your deliverables and grade your performance

A reliable, dynamic approach

Our SPEED approach to consultancy helps you move important work forward with pace and purpose — without rushing or cutting corners. It gives us a clear structure while remaining flexible enough to respond to your organisation, priorities and the level of support you need.
A initial stage to agree priorities, outcomes, and parameters with key stakeholders. 
We create and share a clear  delivery plan outlining focus, activities, and milestones.

Consultancy time used flexibly across the agreed scope, which can include a range of activities
A summary report capturing key insights, actions, tools,  recommendations, and next steps
A post-consultancy review meeting to explore progress, troubleshooting and further action

Our consultancy packages 

Our consultancy packages give you a clear, upfront investment and a level of support that matches your priorities. Whether you need focused expert input, capacity for a defined project or a strategic partner over time, we will agree how to use the days in the way that creates the most value for your organisation.

Whichever package you choose, you can expect the same thoughtful partnership, high-quality expertise and attention to your organisation’s needs. The difference is simply the amount of time available for us to work together and the scale of what we can achieve.

Your scoping and debrief meetings are included at no extra cost, so your consultancy time is used entirely for the work that will make a difference.
Foundations
One day 
£1,245
A focused piece of expert input to help you get clear, make a decision or move a priority forward.

Ideal for a diagnostic conversation, review of an existing approach or resource, planning session, stakeholder input, or clear recommendations for next steps.
Momentum
Three days
£3,495
For a defined project that needs more than a quick review: time to understand the context, involve the right people and develop a practical way forward.

This could include a learning or leadership review, co-designing a new approach, creating a key resource, or supporting an internal team to turn ideas into action.
Transformation
Six days
£6,695
For more substantial work requiring deeper diagnosis, engagement and design.

This package gives us time to explore the issue properly, work alongside your people, develop high-quality outputs and support implementation — whether you are strengthening learning, leadership, culture or change.
Partnership
Ten days
£10,495
Flexible, trusted consultancy support over a longer period — typically six to twelve months.

Ideal when you need additional specialist capacity, a strategic sounding board or a partner to help lead and deliver several connected pieces of work. We can flex the time around your priorities as they develop.

Not sure with level of support you need? 

Let's start with a no obligation conversation.

We will help you consider if consultancy is right for you, and to decide whether a focused day, a package or a tailored arrangement is the best fit for your priorities, capacity and budget.

Frequently asked questions

When should we consider consultancy? 

Consultancy is most useful when you have an important people, learning, leadership, culture or change priority but need additional expertise, capacity or an external perspective to move it forward. You may have a clear brief already, or simply know that something needs to improve. We can help you clarify the issue and identify the most useful next steps.

Shouldn’t we just do this in-house?

Where you have the capacity and expertise, much of this work can and should be led in-house. But not every organisation has dedicated L&D, HR or OD specialists — and even established teams cannot be expected to hold every skill, insight and experience needed for every priority.

We can provide extra hands when several important pieces of work are competing for attention; guide people who are new to an L&D role or who have moved into it from a technical background; bring specialist expertise to an unfamiliar process; or offer a fresh, independent perspective on an existing approach.

Our role is to support where needed and to add to what you already have: helping your people move forward with greater clarity, confidence and capability.

How will you work with our internal team?

That depends on what will add the most value. We can work alongside your L&D, HR, OD or leadership team to develop their thinking and capability; lead a defined piece of work; or combine both approaches. Your people bring crucial organisational insight, while we bring specialist expertise and an external perspective.

If you do not have internal L&D, HR or OD capacity, we can act as an extension of your organisation: liaising with leaders and staff, gathering insight, making recommendations and leading the work needed to move it forward. 

How do we choose the right package?

We will discuss the outcome you are looking for, the scale of the work and how much involvement or support you need from us. We can then recommend the level of consultancy time most likely to give you the right balance of insight, engagement, design and implementation support. 

How much time will you need from our people?

We will keep demands on your team proportionate and agree this upfront. Some projects need only a small number of focused conversations and document reviews; others benefit from wider stakeholder input, workshops or co-design sessions. We will be clear about what is needed and why.

How will we know the work has made a difference?

We begin by agreeing what success would look like and use this to guide the work. This may include clearer priorities, stronger capability, better-quality resources, greater confidence within your team, improved engagement or progress against a specific organisational goal. We will review the work with you and identify practical next steps to sustain the impact.

What will we receive at the end of the consultancy?

We will agree the intended outputs at the start. Depending on the work, these might include a diagnostic summary, evidence-informed recommendations, a strategy or roadmap, practical resources, a framework, a designed approach or a plan for implementation. We focus on creating outputs that are useful, clear and ready to take forward.

What else we offer...

Coaching & Mentoring

Developing the strengths & potential of people and teams

Programmes & Qualifications

High quality learning that gets you recognised 

Workshops

High-quality, expert input from our engaging and skilled facilitators

Insights®

Understanding ourselves & others so we can leverage our strengths

Team Development

Support to help you to take your team from good to great

Consultancy

Empowering organisations to evolve, improve & grow

Design & Development

Resource Design

Online Learning

Our Learning Hub, e-Learning courses, and some free resources.

Learning Space

Hire our space for your next meeting, workshop, or networking event

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