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.
Our clients
9 senior partners
Fixed scope and fee
Trusted across six sectors
001A steady hand in the room.
Standing counsel to chairs, chief executives and founders — the outside read on the decision in front of you, given plainly.
- What we offer
- Board and committee counsel
- Succession planning
- Investment cases
- Governance reviews
002Where to play, and where not to.
Market entry, portfolio choices and the hard subtractions. We frame the real options, size them honestly, and leave a recommendation.
- What we offer
- Market entry
- Portfolio strategy
- Pricing and positioning
- Scenario planning
003The part where it actually gets done.
Sequencing, ownership and cadence. We turn the decision into a plan with names and dates against it, then stay close enough to see it land.
- What we offer
- Delivery planning
- Operating cadence
- Cost programmes
- Process redesign
004Where the next pound comes from.
Proposition, pricing and route to market — the commercial work that turns a good position into revenue you can repeat.
- What we offer
- Proposition design
- Pricing power
- Route to market
- Sales effectiveness
005Structure that holds once you step back.
Operating model, spans and reporting lines. We design the structure around the decisions it has to carry, rather than the chart you inherited.
- What we offer
- Operating model design
- Roles and spans of control
- Leadership assessment
- Incentives and culture
Rarely just one discipline - the mix is the judgement.
Financial Services
Industrials
Technology
Healthcare
Energy & Utilities
Consumer & Retail
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
Forty more engagements sit behind these three.
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
Six years of notes, published as we go.