Strategic Insights for Leaders
We work directly with senior leaders, executive teams, and boards to provide clarity in moments of uncertainty and change. Our strategic insights feature deep subject-matter expertise, unconventional perspectives, and engagement with our trusted expert network.
We help decision-makers cut through noise, understand emerging risks and opportunities, and make better strategic choices. We deliver both standalone interventions and retainer-based support to provide continuity, responsiveness, and trusted advice.
We support leaders through board and executive briefings, senior advisory support, and expert network insights. Further detail and illustrative examples of each are set out below.
Board and Executive Briefings
Our board and executive briefings support effective decision-making at the highest level. These sessions help leadership teams understand complex external developments and their strategic implications, translating technical issues into clear, decision-relevant insights.
Briefings are highly tailored and often incorporate scenarios, simulations, and structured discussions to test assumptions, explore trade-offs, and surface blind spots. They are designed to be candid, practical, and focused on real choices facing leaders today.
Topics have included: Climate and transition risk; AI and emerging technologies; geopolitical and regulatory change; business model resilience; growth opportunities in the transition; and strategic risk management.
Recent example engagements:
- Executive regulatory briefings
Delivered a tailored briefing and scenario exercise for investment executives on the impacts of new regulatory developments on sustainable finance products. Provided advice on which activities were likely to benefit under the new classifications.
- Board-level sessions on tariffs
Conducted sessions for a corporate board on the implications of new tariffs on their industry and supply chain. Covered both Trump’s new tariff regime and the adoption of carbon tariffs in Europe (CBAM).
Senior Advisory Support
We provide senior advisory support to executives, founders, and leaders navigating growth, transition, and strategic change. This work draws on extensive experience advising governments, financial institutions, and fast-growing organizations across markets and sectors.
Advisory support is flexible and responsive, focused on helping leaders think through strategy, positioning, partnerships, and key decisions. David and our experts have worked with well over a dozen growing and mature companies as a strategic advisor.
Areas of support include: Strategic positioning; navigating regulation and policy change; product and market strategy; stakeholder and client engagement; and translating sustainability into business value.
Recent example projects:
- Support for a fast-growing climate-tech firm
Served as senior advisor to a carbon accounting firm looking to develop new products for the financial sector. Worked with technical teams and also provided insights into the market landscape.
- Non-executive director at an AI firm
Supported leadership in identifying a product-market fit. Reviewed the product functionality with development teams. Represented the company at client and public events.
Expert Network Insights
We have global network of leading experts who provide targeted, on-demand expertise by topic and geography. This enables our clients to access deep, contextual insights from leaders in the field.
We can tap into our expert network both for specific client questions and to provide additional expertise on projects and capacity-building sessions. The on-demand functionality benefits both our project teams and clients.
Our expertise spans: Climate and transition risk; sustainable finance; regulation and policy; AI and data; energy systems; nature and biodiversity; and regional market dynamics.
Recent example projects:
- Transition finance in Latin America
Mobilized subject-matter experts in the region to answer specific policy-related questions for a bank, synthesizing inputs into a clear, decision-ready briefing.
- Transition planning benefits
Provided an investor with specific insights on the best practices around transition planning and the potential financial products that firms would need to support their transition.
