It starts with finding the real problem.
The first conversation is the start.
What you arrive with is always a symptom.
Cashflow that won’t settle, a team that leans on you for every call, a decision you can’t get clear.
Underneath it is the thing actually driving the pressure, and it’s rarely where you’d expect to look.
The work starts by finding it: listening, asking the questions others haven’t, and getting to what’s really going on before a single solution is put on the table. Fix the wrong problem and nothing changes. Find the right one and the way forward becomes much easier.
Strategy, finance, and the people at the centre.
The real problem always sits in a gap between three things: the strategy, the numbers, and the people at the centre.
Miss one and the other two stall.
A strategy the numbers can’t fund is a wish. Numbers with no strategy are just reporting. And the sharpest plan stalls when the people carrying it are stretched past what they can do.
The work we do runs across all three at once, because that’s the only way to reach a problem that lives between them.
Engagements take shape.
Every engagement starts the same way; with a conversation.
From there, together we scope what is known, what’s unclear and what problems really exist.
We present you with options to move forward, based on where you want to go, your capacity and pace.
Sometimes that leads to a defined piece of work with a clear beginning and end: a situation stabilised, a decision resolved, a restructure delivered.
Sometimes what’s needed is steadier, and it becomes an ongoing relationship: a regular rhythm of meetings, planning, and a sounding board through the decisions that matter.
Many start with the first and, over time, move to the second.
Many of our relationships have run for decades.
The key is, it’s your choice. You’re never locked in.
Pricing.
A straight answer, there is no price list.
The work takes one of two shapes, so the investment does too.
A scoped piece of work at a fixed, agreed price for a defined outcome, or an ongoing advisory relationship.
What shapes the figure is the situation itself, how much is involved in resolving it, and how far the work runs.
You won’t be guessing. Before any work begins, you’ll have a clear figure and an agreed scope, up front. No surprises, no meter running.
The first conversation is where you find out what your situation would take, and that first meeting costs you nothing.
“I have seen the way Dean works – in my 30 years of banking he’s the best I’ve seen.”
It starts with a conversation.
No pitch. No obligation.
A fresh-eyed look at what’s really going on, and a straight view on what to do about it.
This is a complimentary initial meeting for any new client.
If there’s a fit, together we’ll map a pragmatic 90-day plan.