Describe the room.
I'll bring the honest answer.
Enquiries reach me directly — no gatekeepers, no nurture sequences. Tell me what needs toland and roughly when; you will get a personal reply, usually within two working days, and a candid viewon whether I am the right help.
Direct lines
max@maxwitting.co.uk
For enquiries, drafts and speaking invitations. The inbox ismine and so are the replies.
Practice desk
+44 (0)20 7946 0821
Weekdays 9–5 UK time. If I am staging a keynote, leave amessage and the callback is same-day.
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Max Witting Ltd
4th Floor, 14 Little Dorset Street
London W1U 4BB
United Kingdom
For speaking secretariats
Programme teams: include your event dates, audience and format in the firstmessage — availability can usually be answered in one reply. Fee guides are on thespeaking page.
Three things that speed everything up.
The decision and its date
"A funding case going to the board in June" tells me more thanthree pages of context. Dates create urgency; urgency creates scope.
Who is in the room
A paper for five partners and a keynote for four hundreddelegates are different crafts. Names optional; audience shape essential.
What honest would sound like
If the work proceeds, the diagnostic will tell you somethingyou may not enjoy. Knowing you want that is half the fit.
What happens after you press send.
First, a reply from me — usually within two working days, never from anassistant, never a template. It will contain three things: an honest first reaction to the room youdescribed, the two or three questions a diagnostic call would need to answer, and — where the fit looksreal — a proposed time for those forty minutes. If the fit looks wrong, the reply says so instead, andpoints you at the kind of help that would actually move your problem. The point of this page is not tofill a pipeline; it is to start conversations that deserve to exist.
Second, if we book the diagnostic call: forty minutes, no charge, no deck. You talk; I ask; by the endwe both know whether the work has grip. Roughly a third of diagnostic calls end with me saying theproblem is not voice — sometimes it is strategy, sometimes structure, occasionally a decision everyoneis avoiding — and in every one of those cases the call was still the cheapest forty minutes the clientspent that quarter. When the fit is right, you receive a written scope within a week: what the workwould be, what it costs, when it could start, and what it asks of you. No follow-up sequence, no"checking in" emails. The scope is the follow-up.
Answers to the twenty most common questions — engagement shape,fees, NDA processes, recording rights, donated work — are already on theFAQ page. What cannot be answered in advance is whether your room is ready to beworked on; that is what the call is for.