Strategic Advisory and Executive Consultancy
For organisations and leaders who need someone who has actually been in the rooms where decisions shape outcomes.
WHAT I BRING
Most consultants arrive with frameworks. They assess your organisation through methods developed elsewhere, apply them to your context, and deliver recommendations that are technically correct but practically limited, because the frameworks have never been in the rooms you occupy, experienced your culture, or navigated your leadership dynamics.
what I bring begins with genuine understanding of what organisations look like from the inside because I have held senior roles, navigated the power dynamics, made decisions, and lived with the consequences.
I have been in the rooms you are navigating, not as an observer but as the person responsible for what happened in them.
With over 15 years of executive leadership across finance, media, and international development, including 14 years as President of Her Story Matters where I led partnerships with the UN, the UK government, and global financial institutions reaching over 15 million people, I understand the complexity, the politics, and the human dynamics that determine whether strategy succeeds or quietly fails.
I combine that executive experience with expertise in organisational psychology, shadow dynamics, somatic leadership, and nervous system regulation. The result is advisory work that addresses what needs to change and what is preventing it.
WHAT I OFFER
Advisory and Consultancy Engagements
Every engagement is shaped around what the organisation or leader actually needs. I bring precision, beginning with a clear understanding of your situation and designing the intervention that will create meaningful impact.
Strategic Advisory — Retained
For CEOs, founders, and senior leaders who need a trusted thinking partner at the highest level. Someone who can hold the full complexity of what you are navigating and provide an unvarnished perspective that is rarely available from people inside the organisation or invested in the outcome. This is a sustained relationship built on genuine understanding of your context. Monthly or bi-monthly retained engagements, with access between sessions for the moments that cannot wait.
Board Advisory and External Perspective
For boards seeking an independent perspective on leadership dynamics, organisational culture, or the human factors shaping strategic outcomes. I identify the patterns and dynamics that data alone cannot reveal Engagements are structured around your board’s specific needs from a single deep-dive session to ongoing external perspective during significant change or transition.
Interim and Contract Executive Roles
For organisations needing senior leadership capacity for a defined periods, I take on interim and contract executive roles where my experience is directly relevant and can deliver meaningful impact. Contracts typically run three to twelve months, with every engagement beginning with an assessment of fit for both the organisation and myself.
Organisational Leadership Consulting
For organisations navigating major leadership challenges , cultural transformation, leadership pipeline development, or the human side of strategic change. I work where organisational strategy intersects with psychological and identity-level dynamics, ensuring change actually lands. This is at the core work of what is preventing the organisation from moving as strategy requires.
who this is for
Organisations and leaders ready for a different kind of partnership
- This work is for leaders and organisations where the presenting challenge has a deeper root. It is for those who recognise that conventional approaches have not been working because they address the symptom rather than the source.
- CEOs navigating complexity at scale who need a thinking partner who will not be impressed, intimidated, or misled by the performance of certainty. Someone who can see clearly and speak directly.
- Boards that need an external perspective beyond governance and metrics, into the human and organisational dynamics that are shaping outcomes in ways the data does not fully capture.
- Organisations in transition, whether restructuring, growing rapidly, navigating cultural change, or working through the aftermath of leadership failure. These organisations need someone who has been through it and understands what it actually takes to lead well in complexity.
I do not take on engagements where I do not believe I can deliver a meaningful result. Every conversation begins with an assessment of whether the fit is right.
WHY WORK WITH ME
WHY WORK WITH RHODA
The combination I bring is unusual. Most consultants offer either deep sector expertise or strong methodological frameworks. I bring the lived experience of senior executive leadership paired with advanced psychological and somatic expertise, enabling me to see and work with what is running beneath the organisational surface.
I have held the roles, navigated the politics, managed the power dynamics, and made high-stakes decisions under the pressure of leading organisations through complexity and change. I understand what it looks like both from inside the room and from the outside looking in.
I also see the patterns and unspoken dynamics that shape how leaders lead, how teams function, and why strategy succeeds or fails in implementation, and I work with those dynamics at the level where they actually live.
My background spans finance, media, international development, and government partnerships across four continents, giving me a rare depth of understanding of cross-cultural leadership complexity.
NEXT STEP
Let’s Have a Conversation
Every consultancy engagement begins with a conversation about your organisation, your challenge, and whether the fit is right. I review every enquiry personally and respond within two to three business days.
When there is alignment, we schedule a focused discovery conversation to explore the scope, structure, and nature of the engagement.
The most important conversations in an organisation are often the ones that are not happening. This is where they begin.