Climb In Consulting

Today’s guest is Charles Vivian, Managing Director and Portfolio Group Lead at North Highland. Charles leads North Highland’s UK and north eastern US practices, a $100 million dollar consulting business. While you might be expecting the typical consulting career journey, Charles has had the complete opposite and has a hugely varied career that has spanned working for a global consultancy, founding...

Today’s episode is a huge milestone for the show. It’s the 40th episode of Climb in Consulting. It’s been a great adventure so far and I’m looking forward to creating the next 40 episodes for you. A big thank you to all of my guests who have appeared on the show so far and a big thank you to you for listening to it! Without you I would have packed this up long ago. To celebrate 40 episodes I wante...

Today’s guest is Adil Khan. Adil was one of the founding team of Boxwood, the business transformation consultancy that following years of successful growth was acquired by KPMG in 2015. Since leaving Boxwood Adil now spends his time advising Consulting entrepreneurs on how to successfully grow their businesses and focusing on his own start up, Lifefyle. The goal of Lifefyle is to provide people wi...

Today’s guest is Lyndsey Oliver, AKA the Chief MsChief Maker Lyndsey is the founder and director of M4 Coaching and creator of Back to Work without a Bump® and Making MsChief®, the groundbreaking programmes designed to help retain, support and unleash the true potential of all human beings regardless of their labels. Lyndsey is a champion of working Mums and an advocate of gender balance in the wo...

Today’s Guest is Harry Gaskell, Chief Innovation Officer for EY UK and Ireland. What is a Chief Innovation Officer? Well that’s something we discuss in today’s show but at it’s most basic, Harry is responsible for identifying emerging technologies to launch new platforms and products to help EY improve its clients’ businesses. Prior to taking this role Harry was the Managing Partner of EY’s UK & I...

Today’s episode is a little different and I’m really excited to be sharing it with you. Instead of my normal interviews where I’m the one asking the questions, today’s interview is taken from an event I attended last month, hosted by my good friend James Mitra at JBM Consulting. For those of you that don’t know, JBM are an executive search firm that place top talent into high growth tech firms, fi...

Through my new Agency, Create Engage, I’ve been speaking to a number of Consulting leaders about how to improve their Digital Marketing and wanted to share the answers to two of the most common questions I get to help you improve your own marketing activity. The two questions I discuss in today’s episode are: Where is the ROI from Digital Marketing? How can you develop effective content that deliv...

Today's guest is Michael Zipursky. Michael is the co-founder of ConsultingSuccess.com which provides training, guidance and mentoring to those looking to launch and scale their Consulting businesses. Through their support Consulting Success has helped 1,000s of Consulting entrepreneurs grow their businesses - some by 6 and 7 figures - and Michael shares a number of these secrets in today's episode...

Today’s guest is Seb Chamber Managing Partner of CIL Management Consultants. Seb was introduced to me by a previous guest of mine, Dom Moorhouse, as someone I must get on the show and Seb certainly didn’t disappoint. Seb’s route to Managing Partner is a really interesting story and one that while uncommon, gives an insight in to a lesser travelled route that I know many of you will be fascinated b...

Today’s guest is Gian Power. Gian is the Founder of TLC Lions and Unwind London. Having started out in Consulting, Gian’s life was turned upside down in 2015 when his father was murdered while on a business trip to India. Following the 3 month investigation to find out what happened to his father, a period that Gian says was ‘the most difficult time of his life’ he returned to Consulting but found...

Today’s guest is Nigel Walsh. Nigel is a Partner in Deloitte Digital and leads the firms proposition for InsurTech disruptors and how they engage across the insurance sector. Nigel is a respected industry commentator and influencer and is regularly featured in industry trade news sharing his take on the latest trends in innovation and InsurTech. He is the co-host of his own podcast, InsurTech Insi...

Today’s guests are Karina Brown and Jim Stichbury.s Co founders of GroHappy. GroHappy is a B2B software business that helps companies to give their employees the career development that they crave. GroHappy's tools and technologies help employees to get clear on their career aspirations, have better conversations about it and discover recommended steps (from podcasts, to courses, to events) to mov...

Today’s episode was prompted by my recent interview with Andrew Denton from Alfa Systems where we discuss the importance of Mentoring. Mentorship, advice and guidance from senior colleagues and other successful people has been a huge part of my career development and this podcast wouldn’t exist without it. I’m a big believer in the power of mentorship and as Tony Robbins says “If you want to be su...

Today’s guest is Andrew Denton. Andrew is Chief Executive Officer of Alfa Systems, the leading international asset finance and leasing software company. Having joined the company in 1995 he successfully worked his way up, becoming a member of the Board in 2003 as Sales and Marketing Director. He was made Chief Operating Officer in 2010 and became CEO in September 2016. In addition to his role at A...

Today’s guest is Tony Restell. Tony is co-founder of Top-Consultant, the industry’s leading career website, and founder of Social-Hire, a social media marketing agency that counts many consulting firms amongst its client base and helps Partners in those firms to generate client leads for their practices. If you work in the UK Consulting industry then you will know Top-Consultant. It is a site that...

Today’s guest is Jo Miles. Jo is an Executive Coach and the founder of Master Your Transition, her Coaching and Consulting business. Drawing upon two decades of Management Consulting and Coaching expertise, Jo empowers and supports individuals, teams and organisations to explore challenges, gain insight and take practical steps to achieve and sustain change. Jo is a Coach and trusted advisor to se...

Today’s Guest is Matt Rogan, Matt is chairman and co-founder of Two Circles. Exclusively working with sports rights-holders, Two Circles is part strategy consultancy, part digital agency, and part data and analytics house. Since co-founding the business in 2011, Two Circles has grown rapidly to a team of 150 people across the UK, North America and Europe. Following the sale of the majority stake i...

This episode was the result of a number of conversations I've had recently with people considering leaving their Consulting firm or the industry in general. While everyone's situation and reasons for wanting a change is unique I believe that there are some common threads that could help anyone considering a career change, be it within Consulting or outside of it. In this episode I share the advice...

Of all of the skills that my guests have said are critical to success in Consulting sales, and being able to sell, is one that comes up time and time again. Both Stephen Newton and Tim Smeaton highlighted it as one of the key skills you should learn early in your career to help accelerate your success. David Lancefield highlighted it as one of the key skills you need to make Partner in his firm an...

Today’s guest is David Lancefield. David is a Partner in Strategy&, PwC. David is a TEDx speaker and has been featured In the Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Financial Times and numerous other publications. He is also the host of his own podcast ‘transformation talks’ which I’d highly recommend checking it out David’s approach and outlook are hugely refreshing and something that anyone w...

Today’s guest is Jeff Wellstead. Jeff is CEO of Big Bear Partners and Chief Strategy Officer at GtmHub. Jeff is an expert in helping rapidly growing or hyper growth start ups manage their people challenges effectively. Before moving in to Consulting Jeff was the VP of Global HR at Message Labs and Global Director of HR at SpinVox.  In both roles Jeff was responsible for helping these rapidly growi...

Today’s episode is episode 20 of the podcast and to celebrate reaching 20 episodes I wanted to share my 7 biggest career and life lessons from running the podcast! The 7 Lessons that I discuss in today’s episode: The power of Linked In for Business Development The importance of Personal Brand in today’s business world Why you should focus on delivering value first The importance on focusing on the...

Today’s guest is Dr Natalia Wiechowski. Natalia is an award-winning Personal Branding Strategist and international Keynote Speaker who radically changed her life and career after a self-imposed sabbatical to follow her passion: Helping people to shine.  Since taking her sabbatical and moving in to the world of Personal Branding Natalia has grown her online community to over 146,000 followers, work...

Since starting the podcast I've interviewed a whole host of phenomenal leaders from the Consulting industry who've shared some of their best advice across a range of areas critical to climbing in Consulting. One question I ask almost all of my guests is their advice for those people looking to build a career in the industry. A number of you have told me how useful you've found the answers to this...

Bronek Masojada is Chief Executive of Hiscox. Hiscox is a leading global insurance firm with over 2,700 people across 32 offices in 14 different countries. Following 4 years working for McKinsey & Co Bronek was offered the opportunity to become Managing Director of Hiscox at just 31 (something we go in to detail on in today’s show) and under his leadership the firm has grown from one office of 200...