Strategy + Leadership = Success
Whether you’re in the UK or overseas, we can help your organisation develop the winning strategy, the innovative training solutions and the high-level leadership skills to achieve its most ambitious vision for the future.
‘Empowering your organisation to achieve its most ambitious vision for the future’
Craig Lawrence CBE left the British Army in 2016 as a Major General to lead the teaching of strategy and strategic leadership at The Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), the UK Government’s ‘strategy school’ in London. Whilst there, he transformed the College’s year-long postgraduate course in strategic studies into a ‘must do’ career enhancer for senior executives destined to reach the very highest levels of their international organisations. He also wrote ‘Getting Strategy Right (Enough)’, a UK Government guide to strategy making and strategic leadership.
A Fellow of both the Institute of Consulting and the Chartered Management Institute, Craig left the college in 2020 to set up his own consultancy. Since then, he has worked with a wide range of organisations across many sectors, helping them to develop the strategies and high-level leadership skills that have enabled them to achieve their most ambitious visions for the future. In 2023, he also wrote ‘The Quick Guide to Effective Strategy’, a ‘how to’ guide for anyone who needs to know how to develop an effective strategy, from company directors (executive and non-executive), charity trustees and school governors through to entrepreneurs, government officials and politicians. You can see some of the organisations Craig has worked with at the bottom of this page or find out more about his best-selling strategy book using the ‘resources’ tab at the top of the page.
Award winning strategy course recognised by the CMI
In September 2023 and again in August 2024 our three day ‘Developing and Implementing Effective Strategy’ course received national education and training awards for excellence in its design and delivery. In May 2025, the course was also approved as a recognised programme by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). This means that delegates who successfully complete the course can join the CMI as Foundation Chartered Managers, a professional status designed to help them stand out from the competition and continue their management career journeys with all the benefits of CMI membership to support them. In recognition of their professional status, delegates are eligible to put the postnominals ‘fCMgr’ after their names.
The course, which is based on Craig’s recent best-selling book ‘The Quick Guide to Effective Strategy’, is a great way of developing a new strategy for your organisation AND upskilling your team. To find out more about this award-winning and professionally rewarding course have a quick look at the Course Specification at the below link.
Our Services
Strategy Development. Our strategy advisors offer a complete and fully scalable strategy development service, ranging from an interactive presentation to help you think about how to approach your own strategy-making (which makes an excellent start to a management board ‘Away Day’), through to reviewing your current strategy, working with you to develop a completed strategy or delivering an award winning and CMI recognised course to upskill your own strategy making capability.
Leadership Development. We believe that high level leadership requires a different skill set to that at the lower levels. We therefore offer a series of presentations and workshops to help you explore these differences. We also design and deliver leadership development programmes and provide executive mentoring.
Training and Education. One of our training and education courses has won multiple national awards for excellence in its design and delivery. We apply the same expertise to helping our clients develop innovative solutions to their most complex training and education problems.
Other Services. The other services we offer include emergency response planning (ERP), executive mentoring, chairing panel discussions, conference and seminar facilitation, wargame and premortem facilitation, peer review of academic articles and expert advice to media projects.
Some of the organisations we’ve worked with
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