Senior investors are often relied upon to generate performance, raise assets and manage large (and complex) teams of people. This is not an easy task. We work with leaders to help them balance their responsibilities and to provide critical support on people management, which may not be their natural area of expertise.

Even the best teams will face challenges to performance. It can be difficult to maintain morale, energy and creativity in the face of declining returns and client redemptions. We help teams to work through tough periods and to analyse whether practical changes to ways of working could boost productivity and enhance performance.

A new leader faces a daunting task: retaining assets and people, and communicating a vision for the future. We work with people who have been newly hired or promoted to help them make the right impact on their teams and broader businesses.

With mergers and acquisitions a common feature of today's industry landscape, cultural collisions are inevitable. We work with firms to improve the dynamics of new teams, provide stability to clients and support key staff through stressful periods of change.

An exodus of staff can be problematic, not least in the need to replace them - fast! Running a good recruitment process takes more than just hiring a great head hunter. Understanding how to attract and evaluate the best candidates is time consuming and complex. Senior investors are time poor but will feel the impact of a hasty hire... We help teams to develop and manage bespoke, targeted and efficient hiring processes, interviewing candidates personally and training others in the art of sophisticated recruitment.

Many companies which began life as lean, dynamic start-ups experience growing pains as the business begins to mature. Growing assets and staff can lead to cultural drift, or a lack of clarity about how a business needs to work. We work with management teams to manage that transition, advising on team structure, dynamics, and ways of instilling the desired values and behaviours in staff.

Clients trust that there is a coherent strategy for the future leadership of investment teams and businesses, but determining succession and transitioning responsibilities to a new generation can be hard. We help existing leaders to get clear on their plans for the future and how they will equip their successors to follow them.