Independent strategy office · Est. 2011

Make the next move
the right one.

We bring commercial clarity to companies at a turning point — when the answer has to be sharper than another slide deck.

Three Meridian advisers mid-discussion around a table, printed charts pinned to the wall behind them.
Week two of an engagement. Still asking questions.
120+
Leadership teams advised
15 yrs
Of perspective in the room
98%
Return for the next decision
Advising leadership at

Three practices, and the problem each one is for

Most engagements begin in one and end up borrowing from another. They are staffed off the same bench, so that stays a conversation rather than a change order.

01

Strategy & Growth

For a company whose growth has quietly become harder to explain.

Where to compete, what to stop doing, and what the next three years have to prove. We argue the case from evidence you can check, not from a market you would like to be in.

  • Position, tested against the customer you actually have
  • Range and portfolio architecture
  • A three-year plan with named owners
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02

Financial Advisory

For a board that no longer trusts the number it is being shown.

Budgeting, forecasting and capital planning rebuilt so the figures hold up under questioning — including a working model your own finance team can run without us in the room.

  • Rebuilt forecast, with the assumptions named
  • Capital and investment sequencing
  • A model your team owns and maintains
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03

Operations Excellence

For a business that has outgrown the way it was run at half the size.

Process redesign that starts on the floor, in the depot or on the line — because the gap is almost never between the plan and the market, it is between the plan and Tuesday morning.

  • Process mapped where the work happens
  • Cost and cycle-time reduction, measured
  • An operating rhythm managers can run
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Selected work

Four engagements, and what actually changed

Every one of these began with a different question than the one we were hired to answer. Select a client to read what happened.

The engagement

Four stages, and a firm end date

We are not interested in becoming part of your cost base. Here is exactly how an engagement runs, and what you hold at the end of each stage.

    Perspectives

    What we are arguing about

    We publish when we have changed our mind about something. Roughly six times a year.

    Start here

    Tell us the decision you are stuck on.

    Thirty minutes, no deck, no obligation. If we are not the right people for it, we will usually know inside the half hour — and we will say so.

    Book a conversation
    • Ellery Voss takes the first call, every time
    • Engagements run 9–20 weeks, priced as a fixed fee
    • We take on fourteen a year