Let's Take the First Step Together

Yes — keynote speaking is one of our ways to engage, with no larger commitment required. It's often how a longer relationship starts.

Look at the record: 34 years in public service, leadership of the Federal Civil Service, two published memoirs documenting the work directly. And every engagement, whether the enquiry comes from a ministry or a foundation, passes through the same formal Client Acceptance and Conflict Review.

No, deliberately. We protect the practice's independence by never acting as a vehicle for commercial lobbying or influence-peddling — a line we don't cross, and part of why institutions trust us with sensitive work.

Both. Alongside advisory engagements, we run five signature leadership programmes, including The First 100 Days as a Permanent Secretary — original frameworks, not licensed or templated content.

It depends entirely on the scope — a short institutional diagnostic and a multi-year transformation programme aren't priced the same way. Tell us what you're facing, and we'll tell you plainly what it would take.

Yes — but we advise on the leadership and institutional readiness questions, not technical implementation. If you need a vendor to build a system, we're not that. If you need your institution ready to govern one, we are.

Mostly — Heads of Service, Permanent Secretaries, Cabinet Secretaries, Directors-General — but our leadership development and mentoring also reach senior officials stepping into institutional leadership for the first time. If you're carrying that weight, this is for you.