Counsel to +40 leadership teams
The quiet work behind bold decisions.
Palladio is a strategy and advisory practice for boards and founders - rigorous analysis, plain language, and counsel that still holds six months after the engagement ends.
About us
Why choose Palladio
We work in small senior teams on few engagements at a time—so the thinking stays sharp, and the partner you meet does the work.
Our clients
Mandates delivered across industrials, financial services and technology.
Years advising leadership teams through market entry, restructuring and succession.
9 senior partners
Fixed scope and fee
Boards and founders advised, from owner-led businesses to listed groups.
Trusted across six sectors
What we do
Five ways we help
Open a discipline to see the work behind it. Most projects draw on two or three disciplines-rarely all five, and never just because we can.
Rarely just one discipline - the mix is the judgement.
Where we work
The rooms we know
Six sectors where experience lets us contribute from the first meeting, with context that’s already familiar rather than newly learned.
Financial Services
Industrials
Technology
Healthcare
Energy & Utilities
Consumer & Retail
How we work
How an engagement actually runs
The plan is not the deliverable. The decision is - and every stage here exists to get you to one you can defend.
001
Discover & Define
Two weeks with your data and your people, to agree what the decision in front of you actually is. Most engagements change shape here, and it is cheaper to change shape now than later.
What this includes
Data room review
Stakeholder interviews
Problem framing
Baseline model
002
Strategise & Plan
003
Execute
004
Measure & Hand Over
Case studies
Selected work
Three engagements where the numbers were the easy part, the decision was not, and the answer still held once the room had moved on.
Forty more engagements sit behind these six.
The difference
The same problem, handled twice
Six things that go wrong on an advisory engagement, and what we do instead. One of these costs less by the end.
Without a partner like Palladio
Advice that stops at the deck
Juniors you never interviewed
Scope that quietly expands
Findings you cannot check
A plan nobody owns
Silence after the invoice
With Palladio
A decision you can act on
The partner does the work
Fixed scope and fixed fee
Workings shown in full
Names and dates against it
A written handover
Client stories
What the boards say
Seven chairs and chief executives on what changed, what it was worth once the invoice had cleared, and whether the decision still looked right a year on.
Four options went in, each one costed, and each with its own risk written plainly underneath it. The board chose in a single sitting. In fifteen years I have not seen a paper do that before.
Delia Rathbone
Partner, Vesper & Co.
They rebuilt the model in front of us, rather than behind a curtain, so when the board asked where a figure had come from I could answer it myself. That had not happened in twenty years.
Julian Frost
Group Finance Director
I expected a deck. What arrived was a decision, the case for it, and the two things that would have to go wrong for it to fail. We took it to the board unchanged and it passed that same week.
Priya Raman
Chief Executive, Meridian
4.9
/5
We have advised 200+ boards on decisions that were worth acting on. Nine in ten come back within two years.
Trusted by boards worldwide
Questions
Asked before you ask
The twelve things boards want to know before they call, answered the way we would answer them in the room.
Still not answered?
Ask it on the call. Thirty minutes, no commitment, and you get a straight answer either way.
Insights
Things worth writing down
What we keep finding in boardrooms, written plainly and without a gate in front of it - no email wall, no download form, just the argument itself.
Six years of notes, published as we go.
