Your strategic advisor, trusted counsel and business confidant.
For startup/scale-up founders, SME/Mittelstand business owners and senior executives at large corporates in the Cologne region, Germany.
What I do.
Leadership is demanding.
When the pressure is high even the most experienced leaders can lose perspective, momentum, or clarity. I have seen highly capable founders and executives become overloaded, isolated, or stuck with issues that could have been addressed earlier with the right sparring partner and counsel.
This is where I operate.
My independent strategic advisory practice is your own, highly personalised resource that provides you with ongoing, professional, intelligent support throughout the highs and lows of running your business.
We work together to bring out what matters: to clarify priorities, examine challenges and opportunities, stress-test options, and shape robust decisions. My role is not to deliver tactical projects, but rather to strengthen your judgement, sharpen your thinking, and increase the quality of your decisions over the medium to long term.
During our engagement, you benefit from:
A trusted counsel and confidential sounding board/confidant
Strategic advisory grounded in real-world operational experience
A challenging sparring partner
Troubleshooting and crisis support
Mentoring and personal development
All of this without the rigidity, cost, or politics of adding another senior full-time role.
Engagements are on a retained basis and typically longer term in nature. Mandates start with up to 10 hours access per month, flexibly adapted to your needs.
Meaningful relationships of integrity, trust and respect are at the core of my being. Enjoyment, satisfaction and reward come from the results of working well together, bringing out our best and building a legacy of value, with humanity and character.
Originally from Britain, I have lived, worked and operated extensively internationally as well as in Germany, where I have had a home in Cologne since 2003.