Founding ECD Consulting in 2016 was a very deliberate decision. The business carries my initials because I never wanted to build a consultancy where success meant stepping away from the work I enjoy most. I like asking the questions, making sense of complexity, building the story and sitting around the table when the important conversations are happening. When you engage ECD Consulting, you're working directly with me.

The projects I enjoy most sit somewhere between strategy, research, organisational dynamics and execution. They usually involve lots of moving parts, competing opinions and a fair amount of ambiguity. My approach is to get close enough to a business that I understand not just the problem we're solving, but everything happening around it. I'll read well beyond the brief, spend time with different parts of the organisation, ask questions that weren't on the agenda and keep pulling on threads until the picture comes into focus.

I'm grateful that many of my clients have trusted me for close to a decade, and some for even longer. That continuity is one of the most rewarding parts of my work. Over time, I come to understand not just the strategy, but the culture, the personalities, the history and the context behind every decision. Over that time, the sectors and challenges have varied, but the objective has stayed the same - helping clients make better decisions.