Practice

Independent Strategy Advisor

The structural and emotional physics of the decisions that actually move a company. Works with CXOs, founders, and boards on strategy, organisational emotional dynamics, and complex problem solving. Does not take full-time roles.

What It Covers

Business transformation and scale-up: designing and navigating growth inflection points. M&A strategy and integration: the structural and organisational dynamics that determine whether an integration succeeds. Leadership emotional coherence and negotiation dynamics, using the UNITE framework. Organisational emotional-state analysis, diagnosing and shifting the emotional state of teams and functions.

A background spanning finance, transformation, and leadership. Chartered Accountant. MBA, Indian School of Business. Advanced Development Programme, Wharton. CFO and CEO across multinational corporations.

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Articles (23)

A Diagnostic Scorecard for "Are We Overpaying"

Branding: Know If You Will Succeed Before You Start

Hidden Business Complexity. Manage It to Make It Big.

How to Become a Business Leader that Employees and the Public Love

How to Change How Someone Feels About You at Work

How to Excel in a Negotiation Without Poisoning the Next One

How to Get a Job Using the Same Rule that Builds Brand Love

Independent Directors Are Reading the Wrong Numbers

Strategy Reviews Are Theatre — Here's What Actually Changes Company Trajectory

Stress at Work Is Not a Mystery

The Engagement Killer You Aim at Yourself

The Founder-to-Professional-Management Transition, Mapped as Stages

The Gap Between "They Love Us" and What They Would Actually Say

The One Board Question That Predicts Trouble 18 Months Out

The Turnaround Decision That Happens Before the Turnaround Plan

The Valuation Nobody Wants to Do: Pricing the Founder's Exit Anxiety

Turning Around a Loss-Making Business

What Due Diligence Reports Don't Say Out Loud

When People Love a Harsh House

Why Board Dashboards Hide the Problem They're Meant to Catch

Why Post-Merger Synergy Targets Are Almost Never Audited

Why a Perfectly Even Sale Creates No Loyalty

Why the Deepest Hate Lives Where the Deepest Love Lived