Make it run without you
Install the management, systems and commercial discipline that stop the business depending on its founder - and lift its value.
For engineering & design consultancies
I've built, bought and fixed consultancies like yours.
I've built consultancies from scratch and rebuilt the ones I bought. Senior input on growth, turnaround, new revenue, succession and making the business run without you.
40 yrsdesigning structures
Founder & CEOof JMS Group
25+ yrsbuilding engineering businesses
5businesses built, bought, fixed & launched
The need
Owning a consultancy is lonely at the top, and the hardest problems rarely sit on the technical side. Over 25 years I've started one from nothing, acquired and turned others around, installed new leadership without losing clients, and built new revenue where a single market had dried up. I bring that experience to your business a few days a month.
How I help consultancy owners
How I can help.
Turnaround and stabilisation
Restore profitability, rebuild the pipeline and steady a business that's lost momentum - without dismantling what made it good.
New revenue streams
Find and build the second and third strings so no single market can sink you, the way I did at MJC and Abacus.
Succession and exit
Leadership transition handled carefully enough to protect the clients, staff and reputation you spent years building.
How working together works
Senior input, without the full-time hire.
A conversation
We start with a no-obligation chat about your business or scheme, and where a senior, independent pair of hands would help most.
A focused remit
We agree where I add the most value and how often - typically a few days a month, shaped around what you actually need.
Hands-on, not hands-off
I bring the engineering judgement of a 40-year career and the commercial discipline of 25+ years building businesses, and stay close enough to make a difference.
Proof
Where I've done this before.
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