HomeCareer Consultancy

Move from Skilled Professional to Strategic Leader.

One-to-one career consultancy for mid–senior professionals navigating complex industries. We work on your positioning, not just your CV.

What We Work On Together
Your Entire Career Trajectory
  • 01
    Skill & Experience Audit
    Map what you've done against what the market values in your target sector.
  • 02
    Positioning & Narrative
    Build a career story that lands with hiring managers at decision-making level.
  • 03
    Interview & Scenario Mastery
    Structured preparation that turns experience into compelling competency answers.
  • 04
    Offer & Salary Navigation
    Negotiate your rate, evaluate contracts, and understand your market position.

Career Skill Mapping

Before we build a strategy, we need to understand exactly where you are — and precisely where you're trying to go. Most professionals underestimate their value. We surface it.

You
Experience Audit
Target Role
Skill Gaps
Transition Strategy
Strengths
Growth Path
Experience Audit
Understand Your Real Market Value

We systematically review your career history — not just what roles you've held, but how you operated within them. We translate tenure into transferable, commercially articulated achievement statements that resonate with senior hiring managers.

  • Role-by-role impact analysis
  • Achievement quantification
  • Transferable skill extraction
  • Sector-specific language alignment
Transition Strategy
A Clear Path, Not a Vague Plan

Whether you're switching sectors, stepping up to senior leadership, or re-entering after a break — we build a structured strategy. Target roles, timelines, positioning angles and the specific steps required to close the gap between where you are and where you need to be.

  • Target role identification
  • Sector pivot planning
  • Timeline & milestone setting
  • Positioning angle development
Strength Assessment
Know What You're Bringing to the Table

We identify and articulate your professional strengths in a way that maps to real hiring criteria — not generic competencies. This forms the foundation of every subsequent element of your consultancy work: your CV, your interview answers, your LinkedIn, your rate card.

  • Core competency mapping
  • Leadership style analysis
  • Delivery credibility framing
  • Differentiator identification

Tools & Methodology Mastery

We prepare you for the tooling, frameworks and working methods that employers in each sector actually expect — not just the theory behind them.

Agile & Hybrid Delivery

Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, DSDM and hybrid waterfall-agile frameworks as applied across enterprise environments.

Jira & DevOps

Backlog management, sprint boards, pipeline visibility and DevOps toolchain literacy that tech employers expect.

ServiceNow & ITSM

Service management, ITIL alignment and the operational workflows prevalent in enterprise IT and banking environments.

Governance Frameworks

PRINCE2, MSP, P3O and portfolio governance structures across regulated and public sector delivery environments.

Using AI in Delivery

We coach professionals on how to confidently position AI literacy — prompt engineering, AI-assisted reporting, requirements analysis and delivery planning — as a genuine differentiator. Not a buzzword. A practical skill employers are actively looking for.

Learn More

Industry-Specific Preparation

Each sector has different expectations, hiring signals, delivery cultures and interview styles. Generic preparation doesn't cut it. Select your target industry below.

Banking & Financial Services

Financial services demands rigour, regulatory awareness and commercial fluency. We prepare you for the governance-heavy, risk-conscious culture of tier-one banks, investment firms and insurance organisations — and how to present delivery experience in language that resonates at MD and Director level.

Expectations
What the Industry Demands

Regulatory literacy, audit-ready documentation, risk governance and structured governance reporting to programme boards.

Interview Positioning
How to Present Yourself

Banking interviews value precision. We coach you to lead with governance, controls and commercial outcomes — not just delivery activity.

CV Alignment
Language That Lands

Reframe your experience using financial services terminology: change governance, regulatory programmes, BAU transition, model risk.

Delivery Model
How Banking Projects Work

Waterfall-heavy with agile pockets. Matrix structures, SME engagement, business readiness gates and change authority processes.

IT Consultancy

Technology consultancies hire for pace, adaptability and client-facing credibility. We prepare you for the billable-rate culture, the client engagement model, and the expectation that you can independently manage delivery and relationships with minimal hand-holding.

Expectations
What the Industry Demands

Client delivery experience, agile fluency, commercial awareness of day rates, SoWs, vendor relationships and escalation paths.

Interview Positioning
How to Present Yourself

Lead with client impact, speed-to-value and credible examples of managing scope under pressure. Show commercial maturity.

CV Alignment
Language That Lands

Emphasise client names, technology stacks, delivery velocity, and quantified business outcomes — not internal bureaucracy.

Delivery Model
How IT Projects Work

Sprint-based, product-centric, often multi-workstream. Expect PI planning, OKRs and tooling across Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps.

NGOs & Multilaterals

Development sector roles require a unique combination of programme governance, donor management, results frameworks and cross-cultural stakeholder navigation. We help you position experience from corporate or public sector roles to successfully translate into this environment — and vice versa.

Expectations
What the Industry Demands

Logframe literacy, donor reporting, M&E frameworks, cross-cultural sensitivity and results-based management experience.

Interview Positioning
How to Present Yourself

Frame delivery using impact vocabulary — beneficiaries reached, outcomes achieved, resource stewardship — not just completion metrics.

CV Alignment
Language That Lands

Translate commercial delivery into development language: theory of change, adaptive management, portfolio reporting to FCDO/EU/UN.

Delivery Model
How NGO Projects Work

Results frameworks, log frames, quarterly donor reviews, consortium management and multi-country portfolio oversight.

Health & Care Sector

NHS and wider health system roles require deep understanding of clinical governance, commissioner-provider dynamics and ICS structures. We prepare professionals to navigate the unique politics, processes and pressures of health system delivery — and present experience in a way that clinical and operational leaders respond to.

Expectations
What the Industry Demands

Clinical governance awareness, NHSE/I accountability frameworks, ICS structure literacy and patient pathway experience.

Interview Positioning
How to Present Yourself

Blend operational delivery with service improvement evidence. NHS panels value values-alignment alongside technical delivery skill.

CV Alignment
Language That Lands

Align with NHS improvement vocabulary: elective recovery, digital transformation, workforce redesign, integrated care systems.

Delivery Model
How Health Projects Work

Committee-heavy governance, clinical sign-off requirements, long procurement cycles and system-wide change with multiple stakeholders.

Public Sector

Central and local government delivery requires a specific understanding of accountability, political sensitivity, procurement constraints and public value reporting. We help professionals articulate their delivery experience using the frameworks and vocabulary that resonate with government hiring panels.

Expectations
What the Industry Demands

GDS framework knowledge, accountability to ministers and PAC, procurement governance, and cross-departmental stakeholder management.

Interview Positioning
How to Present Yourself

Civil service success profiles, STAR format, and demonstrating value-for-money discipline alongside delivery credibility.

CV Alignment
Language That Lands

Frame experience around public value, democratic accountability and cross-departmental collaboration — not purely commercial output.

Delivery Model
How Government Projects Work

GPA procurement, GMPP oversight, HMT business cases, Treasury approvals and CDEL/RDEL budget structures in major programmes.

Test & Interview Preparation

The final mile between preparation and offer. We work on the specific mechanics of performing under pressure — turning good experience into compelling, confident delivery.

Book a Session
CV Review & Rewrite

Full review, restructure and rewrite of your CV to align with your target sector — language, achievements, positioning and format all optimised for senior hiring decision-makers.

from £195
FormatWritten Review + Call
Turnaround5 Business Days
Revisions2 Included
Book This Service
Competency Interview Coaching

Structured preparation using the STAR and CAR frameworks, mapped to the specific competencies your target role will test. We run mock sessions and give honest, developmental feedback.

from £250
Format1:1 Live Sessions
Duration90 Minutes
Sessions1–3 Available
Book This Service
Scenario Simulations

Live scenario-based exercises simulating the presentation, stakeholder challenge and case study formats used in senior assessment centres and panel interviews across Banking, IT and Public Sector.

from £295
FormatLive + Written Brief
Duration2 Hours
FeedbackWritten Report
Book This Service
Salary Negotiation Coaching

Understand your market value, benchmark your rate and learn the language and mechanics of negotiating a salary or day rate uplift with confidence — at both offer stage and contract renewal.

from £150
Format1:1 Session
Duration60 Minutes
IncludesMarket Rate Report
Book This Service
Contract Negotiation

For contractors and senior professionals reviewing or negotiating terms of engagement. We work through contract structure, scope boundaries, IR35 positioning, break clauses and rate setting.

from £175
Format1:1 Session
Duration75 Minutes
IncludesWritten Summary
Book This Service
Need Something Specific?

Not every situation fits a standard service. Book a discovery call and we'll scope a bespoke advisory session around your exact circumstances.

Book Discovery Call

Advisory Packages

Bundled packages for professionals who want comprehensive support — from audit to offer.

Starter
Foundation

For professionals who need a targeted CV and initial positioning clarity.

£395
One-time  ·  VAT not included
  • Experience audit session (60 min)
  • Full CV review and rewrite
  • LinkedIn profile optimisation
  • Target role identification
  • 2 revision rounds included
  • Email support for 2 weeks
Get Started
Premium
Executive

End-to-end advisory for senior professionals pursuing director-level or complex sector moves.

£1,650
One-time  ·  Payment plans available
  • Everything in Strategic
  • Multi-sector positioning strategy
  • Executive CV & board biography
  • 3 × interview coaching sessions
  • 2 × scenario simulations
  • Contract review & negotiation session
  • Priority support for 8 weeks
  • Post-offer onboarding strategy session
Enquire Now

How It Works

A structured, straightforward process from first conversation to final outcome. No ambiguity, no filler — just focused advisory work.

1
Discovery Call (Free)

A 30-minute call to understand your situation, goals and where you're currently stuck. No sales pitch — just an honest assessment of what you need and whether we can deliver it.

2
Scope & Package Selection

Based on the discovery call, we agree a scope — whether a single service, a package, or a bespoke arrangement. You'll receive a clear outline of what's included before committing.

3
Experience & Audit Session

We begin with a structured deep-dive into your career history, strengths, and target goals. This session forms the foundation for everything that follows.

4
Advisory & Coaching Sessions

Structured sessions delivered over 2–8 weeks depending on your package. Each session has a clear focus, pre-reading, and post-session action items.

5
CV, Collateral & Interview Prep

Your CV, LinkedIn, and interview answers are refined and reviewed against the specific role type and sector you're targeting. Rehearsed until they're second nature.

6
Live Support Through Applications

Active advisory support as you apply and interview — questions answered, offers evaluated, and negotiations supported in real time.

"Most professionals don't fail because they lack experience. They fail because they can't articulate it in a way that the right people understand."

— Founder, KLX Consulting
93%
Career Outcome Rate
6wk
Avg. Time to Offer
5
Sectors Covered
4.9★
Client Satisfaction
Your next senior role starts with a single conversation.

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. No obligation, no sales pitch — just an honest conversation about where you are and what it will take to get where you're going.