CONSULTING

FOR ORGANISATIONS THAT HAVE OUTGROWN THEIR WAYS OF WORKING

When one team becomes many, the things that made you outstanding, such as easy communication, visible ownership or fast feedback seem to stop happening by themselves. Most organisations respond with more process. I help you respond with better organisational system design.

Here’s how:

  • Roles which have accountability and ownership on paper, not in practice? Governance structures that balloon faster than teams can absorb them? Together with you, I design the structures, accountabilities, cadences and decision flows that work in your organisational reality. Including team structures, communities of practice, and the question every scaling organisation inevitably faces: how much coordination is enough.

  • When delivery feels unpredictable, the answer is rarely another status report. I help make the work visible: dependencies, decision latency, quality ownership, and the blockers everyone has learned to step around, and build metrics that inform decisions rather than surveil people.

  • Backlogs full, but direction unclear? Product Owners administering tickets instead of owning value? Stakeholders competing for priority without a shared decision frame? I empower teams and leaders to build genuine product ownership: clear goals, honest prioritisation, and roadmaps treated as learning tools rather than promises.

SIGNALS IT’S TIME TO TALK

  • Delivery confidence is low, and the reporting keeps growing anyway

  • Your transformation produced more meetings than momentum

  • Decisions wait on people who are too far from the work

  • Growth is adding coordination faster than it adds ownership

  • “Agile” has become mechanical, but nobody wants to say so out loud

  • You’re about to scale, and you’d rather avoid all of the above

LET’S FIX THE PROBLEM

Every engagement is different, but the shape is usually the same: understand, align, design, enable, embed.

I spend time with the business and the front line first, not just the org chart. We agree what problem we’re actually solving and who owns it. We design the smallest set of changes likely to matter. I coach the people who’ll carry them. And then, this is the part that usually gets skipped, we embed, measure and adjust until the organisation owns and sustains the changes we made together after I have left.

Consultants who make themselves permanent necessitates to sustain the changes they introduce have missed the mark.

If your current operating model no longer serves your organisational needs, let’s change that. Together.

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EVIDENCE
& EXPERIENCE

I’ve spent over a decade transforming the ways of working of the teams, organisations and enterprises I work with, across global banking, automotive, FMCG and academia. From single product teams to programmes spanning more than 20 teams and over 250 people.

  • Global FMCG | 7 teams | 4 years
    Consolidated a fragmented product innovation process into an end-to-end innovation management platform. Grew a single six-person team into seven teams of up to 85 people. The platform was later acquired by the implementation partner as a commercial SaaS product.

  • European Banking | 15+ teams | 3 years
    Scaled a single product team into a six-team platform that digitised corporate account opening, reducing a process that once required multiple branch visits and extensive paperwork to an online journey completed in under 30 minutes.

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“Martin has transformed our ways of working, helping us break up complex challenges into bite size pieces. What’s more, his energy and enthusiasm made the journey hugely enjoyable!”

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