- 10 Core practitioners
- 300+ Global network specialists* Presence Practice draws on an extended global network of specialist practitioners across its four practice areas.
- 4 Integrated practices
- 4 Offices - London · Dubai · Sydney · Delhi
* Presence Practice draws on an extended global network of specialist practitioners across its four practice areas.
Our Practice
Most advisors have studied transformation. We have led it - across more than 100 countries, in businesses worth billions, in markets that do not forgive mistakes. We have sat in the chair where the decision, and its consequences, were ours alone.
That is not a credential. It is a different kind of conversation.
Strategy without execution is just intention. Turning one into the other, consistently and at scale, is the hardest thing a business does. It is also where we do our best work.
We don't arrive with a framework and a slide deck.
There is a fundamental difference between advising on a transformation and having lived one.
The founders of Presence Practice have managed commercial operations across more than 100 countries, led organisations through restructuring, turnaround and rapid scaling, and sat in the chair where the decisions - and their consequences - were theirs alone to own. We have revived non-performing assets, executed complex transactions, built governance frameworks from scratch, and delivered sustained growth in some of the world's most demanding markets.
That experience is what we bring to every engagement - practical judgement, commercial discipline, and a global operating perspective that has been tested at the highest level.
By the numbers.
Four principles that shape every engagement.
Clarity drives performance.
Most businesses do not suffer from a lack of information. They suffer from a lack of clarity about what the information means and what to do about it. Our job is to cut through the noise - to identify the real constraints, the real opportunities, and the decisions that actually move the dial.
Discipline turns insight into results.
A good strategy without the discipline to execute it is just intention. The work is not done when the deck is finished. It is done when the business performs differently. We stay in the room until the numbers move.
Leadership is earned in practice, not in theory.
There is no substitute for having sat in the chair. For having owned the decision and its consequences. For having led teams through uncertainty when there was no playbook. That is the experience every member of our team brings to every engagement.
Excellence is developed over time.
The half-life of competitive advantage is shorter than a budget cycle. The leaders and organisations that endure are the ones that reinvent continuously - not in bursts, but as a discipline. We help build that capability into the organisation so it does not depend on us.
Diagnose. Scope. Deliver. Measure.
Every engagement begins the same way - with a confidential conversation about what is really going on. Not what is on the strategy deck. What is keeping the CEO up at night.
From there, we work in a consistent sequence: diagnose, scope, deliver, measure. We do not hand over a report and leave. We stay until the work is done - and the work is only done when the outcomes we agreed at the start are visible in the business.
The engagement model is flexible. We work on retainer, on project, and on a results basis depending on the nature of the work. We are not a staffing firm and we are not a software vendor. We are practitioners who work alongside leadership.
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The conversation
Confidential. We listen for the pressure beneath the presenting problem.
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The diagnostic
We assess where the real constraints on performance and value creation lie.
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The scope
Defined around a business outcome - specific, costed, and measurable.
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The work
Alongside your leadership - practitioners who have owned the same decisions.
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The measurement
Every engagement tracked against visible results.
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The outcome
Stronger leadership, cleaner capital, better technology, strategy that executes.
Four locations. One firm.
Working with clients across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
Dubai
Delhi
Discretion is not a tagline. It is a working method.
The clients who come to us are dealing with real situations - businesses under pressure, decisions with consequences, transitions that cannot be undone. They do not need a firm that will broadcast their challenges or use their situation as a case study for self-promotion.
Everything we do is governed by three principles that appear on every document we produce and every conversation we have:
Discretion
Client situations, names and details are never shared without explicit permission. We do not use client work for marketing without consent.
Integrity
We tell clients what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. If we are not the right firm for a situation, we say so.
Impact
We measure our work by the outcomes it produces in the business - not by the activities we completed or the reports we delivered.
Ready to have a different kind of conversation?
We work with leaders who are ready to move - from pressure to performance, from ambition to execution, from complexity to clarity. The conversation is confidential. There is no obligation.