Advisory & consulting.
The closest way to work with me: a season spent inside your organisation's real documentsand real meetings, rebuilding how its judgement is argued — on paper, on screen and on the record.
Board-paper & voice programme
The flagship engagement. A twelve-to-sixteen-week season with the group whose documents decide things —the executive committee, the partners' board, the investment committee. We begin by reading the record:every paper that crossed the table last quarter, every letter that went to a client who mattered, everydeck that needed two more versions than the calendar allowed.
The diagnostic finds the pattern. It always is a pattern: the hedge that appears in everyrecommendation, the burying of the ask behind twenty slides of context, the meeting where the realdecision happens before the paper is discussed. None of this is a writing problem. It is a decisionarchitecture problem wearing a writing problem's coat — which is why style guides have never fixed it.
From week three we rebuild. Live papers are re-argued in working sessions; the opening of the mostimportant document on your calendar is rewritten until it can be summarised in one defensible sentence;the meeting's front end is restructured so the ask arrives before the room has formed its factions. By theclose, the group has a written voice standard — not a PDF nobody reads, but a set of worked examples yourown documents have become.
Voice audit & written map
A shorter, sharper instrument for organisations that want the map before committing to the journey.Over three to four weeks I audit the written record — board papers, client communications, tendersubmissions, internal strategy notes — and interview a cross-section of the people who write and receivethem. Where does the voice strengthen as it moves through the organisation, and where does it fray?
You receive a written voice map: the specific, named patterns that cost you — with evidence from yourown documents, quoted respectfully and anonymised where it matters — alongside a prioritised programme ofwhat to change first and what it is worth. The map is written to be acted on by your own team; half ofthem do, and return for a season when the quick wins have run out.
Fee: from £9,500, fixed after a scoping call. The audit fee is credited in full against any advisoryseason booked within the following six months.
Meeting architecture
The redesign of the decision meeting itself: papers sized to be read, agendasthat argue, minutes that record reasoning rather than attendance.
Succession voice
For firms at a leadership handover: the incoming voice built deliberately —first addresses, first papers, the first ninety days argued in advance.
House standard on a page
The one-page voice standard your documents have earned — written, worked anddefended so that new joiners absorb it from their first draft.