Ways to Engage
Matthew brings thirty years of entrepreneurial leadership, experience across manufacturing, global operations, sales, and marketing - sharpened by the cross-cultural fluency to know what works in one market can fall flat in another. Built in real organisations, across real markets, under real pressure.
Whether your business is navigating a strategic inflection point, needs sustained senior counsel through a period of growth, or requires an independent board voice with genuine operational depth, there is an engagement model designed to fit.
Three options are available. Each delivers the same thing: direct access to someone who has faced the problems you are dealing with, and solved them.
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Strategic Review and Advisory Day
A single intensive day - in-person or remote - working through one high-stakes strategic question. Pre-work completed in advance; a structured output document delivered within five working days. Matthew brings his full cross-market, cross-function experience to the problem and gives the leadership team a clear point of view, not a framework to work through themselves.
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Pre-engagement briefing and document review
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Full day working session with leadership team
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A comprehensive strategic assessment (written)
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One 60 minute follow-up call within 30 days
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Retained Strategic Advisor
Ongoing monthly engagement providing structured strategic support across the business cycle.
Matthew becomes a consistent presence the leadership team can think with - not someone who shows up quarterly and catches up from scratch.
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Two 90-minute strategic session a month (in-person/virtual)
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Priority access email for urgent issues
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Annual strategy review session (half-day,in-person)
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Introductions to relevant industry contacts when appropriate
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Input on board papers, investor presentations, hiring briefs
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Non-executive Director Appointment
A formal Non-Executive Director engagement, governed by a standard NED letter of appointment.
Matthew attends board meetings, chairs or contributes to appropriate sub-committees, and brings independent challenge and international market perspective to the full board cycle.
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Attendance at scheduled board meetings (usually 4-6 per year)
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Preparation and review of board papers before advance meetings
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Participation in relevant sub-committees upon agreement
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Availability for ad hoc senior calls between meetings
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Annual board effectiveness review contribution
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Support on investor relations and bank covenant reporting
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Support on M&A processes as required
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Interim executive support during leadership transition