The Consulting Growth Podcast

Have you ever wondered how an aspiring clinical psychologist ended up co-founding a successful tech consulting firm? That's exactly the intriguing journey of Meg Newhouse, our guest for this episode. We get a fascinating peek into Meg's career pivots, starting with her initial discovery of the field of instructional design and her subsequent roles in a tech company and a large consulting...

Pritul is now a Director at PWC after selling his firm, People Force to the company in April 2023.  People Force was a Consultancy specialising in people technology services, payroll & immigration. Since 2013, the company grew organically & through acquisition. Pritul led the company through year-on-year growth, which included an astonishing 237% growth during the pandemic.  Pritul success...

Geoff Smart is the chairman & founder of ghSMART, a global leadership advisory, education, and analytics firm. Geoff founded the firm whilst doing his PhD in 1995 and it now employs over 200 people helping Fortune 500 CEOs & boards, entrepreneurs, and heads of state to achieve their goals through hiring, developing, and leading talented teams. ghSMART is remarkable for it's strong pos...

Mike co-founded and grew Rangeline Solutions , an ERP solutions provider based  which was sold to Nexer  in part of their expansion across North America.  In this episode, both Todd, the CEO of Nexer, and Mike talk about the sell and buy side of the story and how the deal was done. Mike focuses on the growth and sale of Rangeline whilst Todd tells us about the challenge and opportunity of running...

Among being a best-selling author, an adjunct professor and an advisory board member, Jason found the time to start Knowledge Infusion, which he eventually sold to Appirio. Three years later, he started LeapGen, a digital transformation company, which was then sold to Mercer.  Here, he tells us about getting into people technology 'before it became trendy' and his challenges with growing...

Steve is the Executive Chair of Mason Advisory a leading specialist focusing on digital and tech advisory to Private & Public Sector Clients.  Steve has founded two successful firms and sold one, and has had a 30 year career in the IT and Management Consulting space.  The first firm Steve founded, Xantus, a specialist digital and tech consultancy, was sold to KPMG in October 2011. https://www....

Nick is founder and CEO of Create Engage, a marketing agency that helps Professional Service Firms define their unique point of difference and shapes their marketing strategy to generate ROI.  Having been a consultant himself he understands the challenges that consultancies face when it comes to reaching the decision makers and buyers in the organisations that they want to work with.  When he&apos...

Will is a Director at Arrowpoint Advisory, the dedicated mid-market team of Rothschild and Co. Arrowpoint Advisory is a leading M&A advisor to UK mid-market companies, entrepreneurs and investors.  Will shares his insights from the 'sell-side' and 'buy-side' perspectives, as well as providing useful tips for founders considering a variety of different exit options. Send us...

I've noticed many successful founders are driven by an earlier disappointment in their lives which is often related to their 'non-traditional' backgrounds when it comes to consulting. After a rejection from Oxford stuck in his craw and enjoying an early experience of consulting, Denzil built specialist expertise that would allow him to take advantage of an emerging market: commercia...

Matteo is one of those good looking, athletic, over-achievers that it would be wonderful to dislike, but it's simply impossible because he has a charming personality too....After getting his PhD, investigating gene variations, Matteo spent seven years working as a research scientist before jumping into consulting for healthcare, pharma and biotech. After taking a couple of years out to row th...

Adrian joined Barringa as a FS Partner in 2007 when it had 45 employees. His successes in that role prompted him to be voted as Managing Partner in 2014. As of 2022, Barringa has over 1500 employees, has expanded into many new industries and services. One of the many interesting things about Baringa has been its ability to maintain a 'people first' culture despite its meteoric growth. Am...

Richard Harris has had a remarkable career: from theoretical physics and business development, to founding and selling a software company and advising on M&A. In this episode Richard gives us the broader picture on M&A and provides incredible insights into the M&A process, the growing trend for consultancies to offer software products alongside their offerings, and the traps for founde...

James the straight talking CEO of Project One, a medium-sized boutique focused on change management and business transformation.  Project One only employs highly experienced consultants, aligns incentives with quality project delivery rather than sales, and is focused on growth in terms of capacity and skills rather than just revenue. James gives us a refreshing insight into leading a consultancy...

Neal Gandhi is the Co-founder and CEO at TPXimpact which focuses on digital transformation in the public sector.  Neal helped grow the firm from three people in 2017 to over 500 in 2022. The company floated in 2019 and their share-price trebled in two years. Neal talks us through  how public sector consulting has changed over the years, how he approached acquisitions and the challenges of leading...

Daniel Litvin is the Founder of Critical Resource. He is a recognised thought leader on sustainability and political challenges facing global energy and resource investments, as well as societal issues facing business as a whole. Since founding Critical Resource in 2006, he has grown the company to be the leading provider of strategic advice to mining and energy firms and their investors on such ‘...

Matt Cheung is CEO and Co-Founder of Clarasys.  Since founding Clarasys in 2010 it has grown from an idea to a team of over 180 Consultants working across a range of industries including financial services, events, healthcare, utilities and information services. Matt is an expert in Agile programme delivery having spent the majority of his career delivering large, complex system programs using Agi...

Tom is one of the nicest guys you could meet, but also an incredibly successful entrepreneur and CEO.  Tom currently leads and founded Profitable Ideas Exchange (PIE). PIE builds communities around the globe, helping senior executives at client firms understand, connect, and collaborate. This helps provide consulting partners with great insights and connections with client leaders around the world...

When it comes to consulting, Bill has been there and done that. He made partner at Deloitte over twenty years ago, and the co-founded and sold Kalypso - a global management consulting firm focused on innovation across five industry sectors. After being board member on several great firms, Bill founded and led The Launch Box: a platform for starting and growing professional service firms that enabl...

Jeff is co-founder and CEO at LanciaConsult -  a privately owned and fast growing employee led global Management and Technology Consultancy, with offices throughout Asia and Europe.  Founded in Singapore in 2012, LanciaConsult built its reputation delivering complex technology enabled transformation programmes and senior business advisory services through their entrepreneurial, genuine, practical,...

Caroline is founder and CEO at New Minds - supporting the growth agenda of consulting firms, through the successful recruitment and retention of key talent. Caroline has over 20 years of experience as a Recruitment, Resourcing and Talent Leader with deep expertise in the management consultancy sector and was awarded "Best individual recruitment consultant 2017" by TopConsultant.com, for...

Ed Beals co-founded and co-led the award-winning management consulting firm Loft9. Driven by a desire to embrace change and new challenges with a passion for management consulting, he works across multiple industries to solve complex business challenges while simultaneously running and scaling companies.  Ed is currently a Partner at Sia Partners, a unique management consulting firm composed of pa...

After founding and being CEO at Time2Market (a software practice and business consultancy) Behram co-founded Avaza, a professional service automation company used by many consultancies across the globe. As both a founder of a consultancy, and a provider of PSA, Behram has unique insights into how automation can help professional services companies scale. Follow Joe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedi...

Bill Bierce is the founder and managing attorney of the law firm Bierce & Kenerson . This is an interesting story in its own right, but for our purposes, Bill is also an expert on what happens when professional service firms experience trauma: when partners fall out, when M&As go wrong, and when governance is found wanting. He is the author of the book Smarter Business Exits which incorpor...

David Blois is a founder and Managing Partner of M&A Advisory, a niche boutique that initiates and executes M&A transactions with a sound cultural and business fit in order to maximise value. The firm focuses on the global marketing communications, digital and Martech sectors. With a strong research ethos, it works from a central London base for all sizes of client. M&A Advisory is the...

Rob is a strategic advisor, non-executive director, and investor within the professional and technology service sector. He specialises in supporting organisations at inflexion points in their development, growth and/or ownership. He is currently a Partner in a professional services advisory business (Garwood), a Chairman/Investor of a health tech business and Chairman/Investor of a workplace refor...