Strategy

I provide strategic guidance and expert facilitation tailored to senior leadership teams. With over 30 years of experience—spanning senior roles in top-tier strategy consultancies and advising executives across sectors—I support businesses in developing clear, actionable strategies and fostering alignment at the highest levels of leadership:

• Facilitation of Senior Leadership Meetings: I specialize in facilitating high-impact leadership meetings that are structured, purposeful, and outcomes-driven. I create an environment that ensures focus, clarity, and effective collaboration, enabling your leadership team to align around shared priorities and make confident decisions.
• Strategy Days: I design and facilitate strategy days that engage and guide your senior leadership team toward a shared vision. These sessions are structured to focus on both big-picture thinking and actionable next steps.
• Strategy Project Shaping: Drawing on my extensive background in strategy consulting, I provide clear advice to help your business navigate complex challenges, identify growth opportunities, and achieve long-term success.
• Strategy Sounding board: I serve as an independent adviser to senior leaders and boards—offering objective, experienced insight to challenge assumptions, refine thinking, and stress-test decisions in a confidential, trusted environment.

Why Choose Me?

• Proven Experience: With years of experience in top-tier strategy consultancies, leading and delivering complex strategy engagements, I bring a deep understanding of strategic processes, frameworks and tools.
• Tailored Approach: I adapt each engagement to the organisation’s specific needs, challenges, and strategic context—ensuring relevance and impact.
• Outcome-Focused: I focus on delivering practical, measurable results that drive business growth and enhance leadership alignment.

Testimonials

“Colette is a much-trusted advisor and has provided strategic insights and advice as we have grown our consultancy business. She provided excellent facilitation of a recent strategic away day, challenging and supporting us in equal measure. She brings deep knowledge and experience and a high level of empathy and support to all of her work.” 

– Katherine Rake, CEO, Lucent Consulting

“Colette has supported Royal London on a regular basis over many years. Colette is a trusted adviser to me personally and Royal London – with a deep understanding of customers and the markets in which we compete as well as a structured approach to the development and communication of strategy. Colette has worked both with individuals and teams, to develop strategic thinking and influencing skills. Colette is good to work with – having a good balance of authenticity, drive, sensitivity and collaboration.”

– Ewan Smith, CEO Office Director, Royal London

“Colette has been an invaluable strategic advisor for Team Repair, offering ongoing advice and acting as a brilliant sounding board for many of our key decisions. She facilitated an incredibly impactful strategy away day, helping us identify gaps and align as a team around our mission, vision, and brand values. Her ability to bring clarity to how our various strategies connect into a cohesive direction for the whole business was transformative. Thanks to her, we’ve built greater structure within the business and are now growing with much more confidence.”

– Megan Hale, CEO, Team Repair

“I have worked with Colette in three different capacities over the last 20 years or so. First on the strategy for a start-up insurance proposition, then as a non-executive colleague on a life insurance company board where she was influential in the design of the strategy review process. Most recently, she and I have been pro bono advisers to the young founders of an award-winning social enterprise for which she also ran their strategy planning day and has advised on strategy more generally. She has broad and deep knowledge of financial services, with strategy, customer insight and marketing being core strengths, but she has demonstrable ability to deploy her expertise in other sectors. She is passionate about DEI and fairness across multiple dimensions and was for example the DEI champion on the insurance company board I chaired. She has a calm, thoughtful, modest style and is a pleasure to work with.”

– David Robinson, Portfolio Chair and Non-Executive Director

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