§ Services · Scoped at the start

Services.
One way of working.

Senior-led. Fixed-fee per milestone. Scoped before commitment.

For Business line leaders, founder-CEOs, heads of innovation, venture-programme leads, and fund partners.

§ Project work · Three pillarsScoped at the start
01 New Strategic Growth ForCEOs, business line leaders and strategy leaders.

WhenWhen the current playbook is no longer enough and the board needs evidence-backed options — new markets, new products, new business models, new geographies, or a strategic pivot. 02 Corporate Innovation & Venture-Building ForHeads of Innovation, corporate venture studio leaders, transformation and product leaders.

WhenWhen innovation activity needs to become a repeatable engine the business will actually back — function reset, venture engine design, governance, stage gates, capability. 03 Venture Operator Advisory ForVCs, accelerators, incubators, studios, fund platform teams.

WhenWhen portfolio companies, founder programmes or venture studios need stronger operator capability, sharper thesis and better support systems.
Plus · Ongoing engagement
04 Adviser in Residence ForFounder-CEOs, business line leaders, heads of innovation and fund partners.

WhenA senior thinking partner in the room, month by month — for leaders facing decisions back to back, not one discrete project.

New Strategic Growth

For CEOs, business line leaders and strategy leaders: new spaces for future growth and strategic pivoting — new markets, new product lines, new geographies, or business models powered by emerging technologies. Direction, opportunity validation, board-ready case.

What I do
  • Strategic Direction ShapingSense what's going on in the world, identify new spaces for value creation, pick the direction worth backing, and build evidence that holds under CFO scrutiny.
  • Opportunity ShapingTurn an early idea into a validated new product, service or business line — customer discovery, AI-powered rapid prototyping, business case, go-to-market and delivery roadmap.
What you get

A board-ready growth direction — or strategic pivot — with case, sizing, go-to-market and first 100-day plan. Where the brief calls for it: a validated opportunity proven with real customers, ready for the board to back.

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Corporate Innovation & Venture-Building

For corporate innovation, venture-studio and product leaders: the structures and the entrepreneurial engine — built inside the business — that produces ventures the company actually backs.

What I do
  • Innovation Structures and SystemsMake the function ship validated bets the business commercialises — structures, systems and team capability; discovery, validation and AI-powered prototyping; decision rights built for uncertainty; clean hand-over to the lines of business.
  • Corporate Venture-BuildingIncubators, venture builders, internal venture studios. Reset of existing engines (thesis, intake, methods, decision rights, embedded through one live cycle) or greenfield design and build (thesis, governance, methods, cohort design, first cycle run alongside the team).
What you get

Six to twelve months in: a pipeline the board can read, kill criteria that get used, the team running the methods. One cycle in: sharper intake, clearer kill criteria, more ventures the lines of business will commit capital to. Twelve months after I leave, the next direction gets found without me.

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Venture Operator Advisory

For venture funds, accelerator, incubator and studio leaders developing the operator capability that turns early ventures into ones that scale.

Three streams
  • Portfolio retainerSenior strategic advisory for portfolio companies — product strategy, GTM, internationalisation. 1:1 or cohort.
  • Fund strategyDevelopment of new strategic models and thesis — new asset classes, startup support model design, deployment — plus optimisation of existing ones.
  • Startup support optimisationSetting up or tuning the systems and methods inside an accelerator, incubator or studio so the engine produces founders who reach product-market fit, GTM and internationalisation.
What you get

Portfolio CEOs with senior operator guidance on the decisions that move revenue and trajectory. A sharper fund thesis and support model your LPs can stand behind. Startup support engines that produce founders who reach scale, not just programme completion.

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Adviser in Residence

For leaders facing months of high-stake decisions: a senior thinking partner in the room across six to twelve months — month by month, not one discrete project.

What I do
  • Join your leadership cadence — monthly review, on-call between sessions
  • Sharpen decisions as they land: back, test, stop, scale
  • Bring specialists from the network when needed
What you get

A senior thinking partner across six to twelve months. Each quarter scoped, fixed fee.

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Recognise one of these? Bring the live question — half an hour, no pitch.

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§ Process · How an engagement runsSix steps · One way of working

An engagement, end to end.

Six steps, scaled to the brief. I lead each one personally. Fixed-fee. No retainer, no day rate, no scope creep.

i
Discovery call

30 minutes. A working conversation. Bring the live question — leave with sharper framing and an honest read on whether I'm the right help.

ii
Honest fit

If I'm not the right help, I say so on the call — no follow-up, no charge, no obligation. Inside the work, the same rule holds: if a bet fails the tests, we stop it and bank what we've learned. I don't run on momentum once the evidence has turned.

iii
Scoping & brief

A written brief: outcomes, scope, who does what, timings — laid out as a sprint plan with a fixed-fee quote agreed upfront.

iv
Team set-up

The team comes together — yours and mine — with specialists pulled in from the network when the brief calls for them.

v
Orchestrate and lead

I embed with your team and lead the work alongside specialists when the brief calls for it. Answers get built with the team, not delivered to it.

vi
Handover

I hand over the methods, governance and ways of working. Capability transfer is the standard close — the team owns it from here.

If you're at a crossroads,
let's talk.

Half an hour. No pitch. Bring the live question — leave with a clearer framing of it, and an honest read on whether I'm the right help.

No follow-up, no charge, no obligation. If I'm not the right help, I say so on the call and point you elsewhere.

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