Here’s what I kept seeing — and why I couldn’t ignore it anymore.

I spent years working inside large organizations as a project and programme manager. Financial services, utilities, government — complex environments with real stakes. And in almost every one of them, I saw the same thing: leadership making critical decisions with almost no real visibility into what was actually happening.

Not because people weren’t working hard. Not because the data didn’t exist. But because nobody had connected it properly. Reports were assembled manually every Friday afternoon, already out of date before they were read. Dashboards existed but nobody used them because they didn’t show what actually mattered. And executives were left guessing — reacting to problems that had been brewing for weeks, that the right information could have flagged much earlier.

I also watched what happened when organizations brought in consultants to fix it. Frameworks got presented. Recommendations got made. The consultant moved on. And six months later, the PowerPoint deck was in a folder and the problem was exactly where it started — except now there was less budget to fix it properly.

I kept being the person called in after that. The one brought in to untangle what the previous engagement had left behind, to actually build what had only been recommended, to make something work instead of just describing how it should.

After enough of those engagements, I stopped waiting for someone else to do it differently. StrategyPeeps is what I built instead — a consulting practice designed from the ground up to stay until the solution is running, not just until the report is delivered.

That means better reporting so leaders can actually see what’s happening. It means AI and automation that fits real workflows instead of impressive demos. It means platforms built on tools you already own. And it means someone who stays accountable until the job is actually done.