Rooms with something
to decide.
Voice work earns its keep wherever judgement is the product and the record is written. Inpractice that means four kinds of client, described honestly below — including the ones I decline.
Law firms
Partnerships live and die by argued positions: client letters that hold a line, pitch documents thatopen with the advice rather than the credentials, board papers that respect a partner's evening. I workwith litigation and transactional teams alike on the documents their clients actually keep — and on theinternal papers where promotion is really decided. The work is confidential by nature; most firmsdescribe it, accurately, as 'editorial partner development'.
Accountancy & advisory practices
The discipline that built the profession — evidence before opinion — is also what buries its advice.I help practices flip the order: recommendation first, workings attached. Engagement letters, auditcommittee papers and the annual client letter all improve measurably; the deeper change is cultural, asseniors learn to state positions they can defend without a spreadsheet open.
Consultancies & B2B firms
Where the product is thinking, the proposal is the product. I work with consultancy leadership on thedocuments that win and deliver work — proposals that argue, findings reports that land, the finalpresentation that turns a project into a relationship. The unglamorous secret from a decade of thiswork: the firms that win are rarely the cleverest; they are the clearest.
Leaders & boards directly
Chairs, managing partners, founders and the occasional chief executive — engaged individually, oftenthrough the adviser-on-call rhythm. The work ranges from a single career-defining paper to the quietstanding arrangement that keeps a red pen nearby. Some of these relationships are the oldest in thepractice; they run on trust, candour and absolute discretion.
Who I decline.
Saying no is half the practice. Three declinations, stated plainly so you canself-select out and we both save a call.
Distance without stakes. If no document on your calendar will decideanything that matters this year, the work has nothing to grip. Come back when there is a decision witha date attached.
Voice as costume. If the goal is to sound like a different company —borrowed gravitas, borrowed austerity — I am the wrong craftsman. Voice work reveals; it does notdisguise.
Volume without authorship. Content calendars of thirty posts a monthare a production problem, not a voice problem. I refer production work out warmly and often.
UK-based, Europe-wide.
The practice is run from the United Kingdom and serves clients across Europe.Advisory seasons blend on-site and remote deliberately: the diagnostic and working sessions benefit frombeing in the room, while document-level work travels happily by post and video call. Keynotes andmasterclasses are planned around your event calendar with travel kept to the minimum that honestyallows.
Working languages: English throughout. For European clients, materials can beprepared with your in-house translators in view — the architecture of an argument survives translationfar better than its poetry, and I mark the load-bearing sentences so your translator knows which onescarry the roof.