Services
Regulators, courts, communities, workforces and civil society decide as much of the outcome as demand and price do. The programmes below are for boards and leadership teams. Advice comes after we have established what has changed.
Retained or project counsel for chief executives and boards on international expansion, host-market investment, and renewal, including when growth has stalled, host politics have hardened, or an acquisition has not delivered what was promised.
Two days with your leadership team, on-site, hybrid, or remote, running a full iteration of the Lawton Loop on your own business. Day One establishes where you actually are. In the morning, we test the strategy against what has changed around it, in your markets and in the politics and institutions surrounding them. In the afternoon, we turn inward and ask whether the organisation can still deliver what the strategy demands: who really decides, and where actions are blocked or delayed. Day Two is rebuild, moving from business model innovation to the ninety-day moves each leader owns.
Two exercises will focus minds. Finbarr’s Threshold is a silent lunch: no phones, no talking, each leader alone with one question. Why do we keep doing what no longer makes sense? The lunch is reflection, the pause that lets Reassess begin. The Columbanus Challenge then asks what the team would do if it were adventurous and fearless.
For scale-ups approaching an inflection point: three four-hour labs across a market quarter with the cross-functional leadership group. The labs war-game the regulatory and competitive shifts ahead and settle who decides what as the firm grows. The aim is a leadership group that can stress-test its own strategy every quarter, without consultants in the room.
Custom programmes for senior leadership cohorts in companies and family enterprises. With business schools and executive education providers, co-designed modules on nonmarket strategy, geopolitics, and strategic renewal, online or blended. Original research. Live rehearsal rather than slide theatre.
