Consulting beyond the deck

We design the work, build it with your team and stay to run it until it holds. We are based in Athens and work across Europe.

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Most consulting stops where the real work begins.

Writing the strategy is the easy half. The hard half is running the change and staying until it sticks, and by then most firms have sent their last invoice.

The strategy lands, then nothing happens

Consultants present the deck and leave. Your team inherits a plan it did not build and cannot run.

The partner you bought is not the team you get

The pitch is senior, the delivery junior, and the work shows it.

The fees get paid whether it works or not

Advice without accountability is just a recommendation wearing a tie.

How we work

We are a partner-led boutique that designs, implements and runs the work under one roof. We work on what matters now and transfer capability in every engagement, so the organisation is stronger when we leave. We are entrepreneurial and willing to share risk and reward through performance-based fees.

Think
Design the answer. A strategy and an operating model that your own team can carry out without us in the room.
Build
Stand it up. The partner who designed it leads the delivery, from the first plan to the day the system goes live.
Run
Stay until it lasts. If you need us to, we run it for a while through fractional executives or a managed service, and hand it back when your people are ready.

What we do

There are four practices: Transformation, HR, Deal-to-Value and Sales. Each works the same way, with one team answerable for the work from the first workshop to the handover.

Transformation

For the CEO, COO, CIO, Chief Transformation and Chief Data and AI Officer.

Think
  • AI and digital strategy
  • PMO design
  • Project management operating model design
Build
  • AI and digital implementation
  • Change management
  • PMO implementation
  • Project and programme management
  • Project management training
  • Project recovery
Run
  • AI and digital operations
  • PMO as a service

HR

For the CHRO, Heads of Total Rewards, Talent and Learning and Development.

Think
  • HR operating model design
  • Job architecture design
  • Organisational design
  • Rewards and performance strategy
Build
  • Executive training
  • New manager training
  • Pay transparency directive (PTD) preparation
Run
  • Fractional executives
  • PTD reporting
  • Talent sourcing
  • Workforce analytics

Deal-to-Value

For PE Deal Partners, Operating Partners and PortCo CEOs.

Think
  • Deal sourcing
  • Operational due diligence
  • Value creation strategy
Build
  • Board member sourcing
  • Post-merger integration
Run
  • Fractional PortCo executives
  • PortCo advisory

Sales

For the CRO, VP Sales and Heads of Sales and Revenue Operations.

Think
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Sales operating model design
  • Sales strategy
Build
  • CRM implementation
  • Negotiation training
  • Sales enablement
Run
  • Pipeline management
  • Sales analytics

Senior in the room and senior on the work.

No bait-and-switch: the people you meet in the pitch design, build and run the work with you.

Akis Tsekouras, managing director

Akis Tsekouras

Managing director

Akis holds a PhD in theoretical physics and has spent two decades in consulting and executive leadership. He started at McKinsey and Accenture, then built Mastercard’s advisory practice in Athens from 3 to 85 consultants and ran a 120-person team across 15 CEE markets, owning delivery of a multi-million-dollar project portfolio. He has also founded and run his own consultancy, and most recently was Senior Director of Rewards and Organisational Effectiveness at Metlen Energy & Metals.

Our SME network

Behind us is an international network of 30+ independent specialists who have worked in consulting, banking, tourism and pharmaceuticals. We pick the people for each engagement, and since there is no bench to feed, the price stays reasonable.

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Let’s design something we can both stand behind.

Tell us the problem. We’ll come back with a sharp opening hypothesis and a way to share the risk if we’re right.