Focused assignment
A specific strategic, commercial or governance question requiring targeted senior input over days or weeks.
Advisory
Senior support for strategy, growth and leadership.
The work is tailored to the issue. Some engagements are focused and short; others provide a continuing external perspective to a chief executive, board or leadership team.
Strategy
Strategic direction and business planning
Clarify strategic choices, challenge assumptions and translate direction into a coherent set of priorities and actions.
Growth
Commercial growth and key accounts
Improve market focus, propositions, senior client engagement and pursuit discipline in complex business-to-business environments.
Board
Board, NED and governance support
Independent challenge across strategy, performance, risk, leadership and governance, through retained advisory or formal non-executive roles where appropriate.
Leadership
CEO and executive sounding board
Confidential external counsel for difficult trade-offs, organisational change, leadership succession and stakeholder complexity.
UK Entry
UK market entry and establishment
Support international engineering, infrastructure and specialist businesses seeking to establish or accelerate a UK presence. This can include market understanding, proposition and positioning, routes to market, priority clients, senior introductions, local operating assumptions, initial organisational choices and translating the strengths of the parent business into a proposition that works in the UK.
This is strategic, commercial and operational advisory rather than legal, tax or corporate-formation advice. Jonathan draws on eight years of first-hand experience building and leading Burns & McDonnell's UK business.
Transition
Special situations and transition
Focused senior input during restructuring, leadership transition, rapid growth, turnaround or a material change in strategic direction.
International businesses
Entering the UK is rarely just a sales exercise.
A proposition that works in another market does not automatically translate into a credible UK business.
International organisations often need to make a series of connected choices about where to compete, how to position the business, which clients to prioritise, what capability needs to be local, how to build credibility and how quickly to invest ahead of revenue.
Envisioning Advisory can act as a senior UK-side adviser through that process, providing market context, challenge, introductions and practical guidance while the business establishes its own local capability.
Eight years building and leading a UK business inside a major international engineering group provides a practical perspective on both the opportunity and the friction involved in market entry.
UK market entry & establishment
Engagement models
Flexible by design.
The structure should match the requirement, not the other way around.
Retained advisory
Regular access to independent counsel, market perspective and senior support on an agreed monthly basis.
Board / NED
Formal governance involvement where sustained independent challenge and oversight are appropriate.
Interim senior support
A defined period of more intensive involvement during transition, change or a critical growth phase.
Not sure what form of support you need?
Start with the business issue. The right engagement model can follow from that.