THE FOUNDER
The UK business advisory market is changing rapidly. Clients are turning away from big name consulting houses, tired of high fees and expansive teams that take weeks to get up to speed, and handed off to a delivery team once the ink is dry.
What they want is a rapid solution by someone who genuinely understands the problem from day one: who's lived it, breathed it, and can deliver based on proven experience.
That’s exactly what clients get with James and the Forbury network he’s built. With decades in financial services transformation, leading the integration of acquired businesses, global transformations, digitalisation, cost optimisation and the operating model redesign that underpins each, James has sat on both sides of the consulting table. He knows what it actually takes to land change inside a regulated, highly complex and scrutinised business, because he’s been the client as well as the advisor. That’s the difference between someone who’s read about the problem and someone who’s lived it.
What clients are looking for now is simple but rarer to find: proven experts who’ve actually done the work, with the scars and the traceable track record to prove it, and that’s true not just of James, but of everyone in his network. What Forbury Consulting does is not the same as plugging a resourcing gap. At Forbury, James takes on strategic problems and delivers genuinely complicated programmes, and can leverage when needed a ready made and professionally vetted expert network, spanning a vast capability set. People with their own proven track records, not names on a database. People you can rely on.
That’s not a brand. That’s a reputation, and our clients know the difference.
It’s why I founded Forbury Consulting. Add to that my own track record in business advisory, and the plain fact that I love this type of work, and I think we’ve got something worth talking about.
Forbury Consulting has been a long time coming and I couldn’t be more excited to be its Founder.
“I don’t know how you do this, but no one can do it like you.”
— Hugh Hessing, COO, AVIVACLIENTS I’VE WORKED WITH
