Built to be owned
by your own team.
Advisory work built to answer that question and to be owned by your own team once we step back.
Fixed or subscription fee, with no linkage to placement outcomes.
Five areas
of work.
Leadership Assessment
& Competency Mapping
Direct, leader-level interviews across commercial, enterprise and governance functions to establish decision authorities, sign-off limits and the proficiencies each role needs, from novice to expert. An objective standard of excellence in place of desktop job descriptions and generic psychometrics. Tool-agnostic: we work inside the frameworks a client already trusts.
Succession & Leadership
Development
Risk-based succession audits that identify genuine high potentials on capability data, map emergency and long-term cover for mission-critical seats, and build development runways for national leadership talent. Executive coaching delivered by former business leaders, anchored in the commercial priorities of the plan.
Career Architecture
& Workforce Planning
Dual-track career pathways that reward and retain critical commercial and technical experts without forcing them into management, with progression tied to business milestones. Workforce modelling for growth, restructure or localisation targets.
Compensation & Benefits
Benchmarking
Subscription-based reward reporting, issued monthly or annually and cut by market, sector and job level, built on live offer data. Used to support reward decisions internally, price new roles accurately, and identify where pay has drifted out of line with the market.
Regulatory Reward
& Remuneration
Article-level assessment against central bank and regulator requirements, identification methods for material risk takers, proportionality positions, and remediation plans with named owners and dated actions. Reviewed by practitioners with supervisory experience before anything is filed.
Supported by Telos, the firm’s leadership intelligence platform, which synthesises interview, performance and diagnostic data into board-level reporting.
James Parsons,
Managing Director.
Thirty years across banking and human capital: JP Morgan, BNP Paribas and HSBC, then sixteen years advising boards on assessment, organisation design and succession. Leads benchmarking, regulatory reward and succession work.