For individual leaders
For leaders deciding what comes next. We help you get clear on the contribution you want to make, then build the position, presence and opportunities to carry it.
After a long career, the most valuable parts of your experience are often the hardest to see from inside it. Your title captures one role. Your CV records what happened. Neither necessarily explains the judgement people rely on you for, the problems you repeatedly solve, or where that could take you next.
That’s where we start.
Each stage builds on the one before: understanding what you bring, being recognised for it, putting it in front of the right people and building a practice that lasts. Choose a stage and the folio opens to it, with what happens, what you leave with and an example of the result. You can mark the stage where you would like to begin.
A strategy conversation with Scarlet to clarify what you bring and where you want to go.
You leave with
What happens
Scarlet goes through your career with you in detail and maps where your authority already sits.
We talk through your career, the turning points and what you keep coming back to. Scarlet listens for the pattern underneath and writes it up as your leadership narrative.
Where you want your work to go next, clear enough to act on and open enough to keep exploring, with a pitch people can repeat.
We test the directions you could take against what you bring and what you want next, settle what is clear now and leave room for what you are still exploring. Then we find the sentence you would say at a dinner, on a panel or in a lift.
What drives you, in words you can come back to when it gets hard.
We name what is driving you in words that still hold on a hard day, and keep them where you will see them.
Three ways your brand could look and sound, for you to choose from.
Each direction has its own colours, type, imagery and tone of voice, laid side by side so you can choose the one to build in stage 02.
How we work
Your career read closely in conversation, then written up as your leadership narrative.
Three directions designed from what the session found, for you to choose between.
Later onThe career mapping can become the foundation of your , one of the Studio extras.
You choose how much we carry: full consulting support, a mix of guidance and tools, or managed PR alongside either. At the end of any agreed work, you can also take it from here yourself.
This stage can stand on its own.
Prepared for Your Name
Twenty years in regional water and infrastructure, moving from engineering into the rooms where projects are funded and explained. The titles changed every few years; the work underneath them rarely did.
Every turning point has the same shape: a complex project, a sceptical audience, and you translating one for the other until both could say yes.
The uncommon ability to make large technical decisions understandable to the people who pay for them and the communities who live with them.
“I make big regional water projects understandable, to the people who fund them and the communities who live with them.”
Good projects fail when nobody can explain them, and you would rather they didn't.
The clients, stages and partnerships where your experience can make a real difference, each with the reasoning behind it and a credible way in. Open it to see how a finished package reads.
Every piece of work is scoped with you before it starts, and you take on only the stages you need. At the end of the agreed work you can carry it forward yourself, or continue with the tools and support that help.
Studio extras
Two Studio apps for anyone who cares about the long view: what a career adds up to, and what the work goes on to change. They sit outside the stages, so you can add either one whenever it becomes useful, on a subscription.
Your career as a map: each chapter of your work as its own world, joined by the people, patterns and evidence that connect them. The career mapping from your strategy session can become its foundation.
Records what your work is changing once you are out in the world doing it, from the first idea to the evidence that it mattered, so you can see the effect and show it to others.
You don’t need a finished brief. Bring the question you’re working through, and we’ll work out together whether we’re the right help.
A strategy conversation with Scarlet to clarify what you bring and where you want to go.
You leave with
What happens
Scarlet goes through your career with you in detail and maps where your authority already sits.
We talk through your career, the turning points and what you keep coming back to. Scarlet listens for the pattern underneath and writes it up as your leadership narrative.
Where you want your work to go next, clear enough to act on and open enough to keep exploring, with a pitch people can repeat.
We test the directions you could take against what you bring and what you want next, settle what is clear now and leave room for what you are still exploring. Then we find the sentence you would say at a dinner, on a panel or in a lift.
What drives you, in words you can come back to when it gets hard.
We name what is driving you in words that still hold on a hard day, and keep them where you will see them.
Three ways your brand could look and sound, for you to choose from.
Each direction has its own colours, type, imagery and tone of voice, laid side by side so you can choose the one to build in stage 02.
How we work
Your career read closely in conversation, then written up as your leadership narrative.
Three directions designed from what the session found, for you to choose between.
Later onThe career mapping can become the foundation of your , one of the Studio extras.
You choose how much we carry: full consulting support, a mix of guidance and tools, or managed PR alongside either. At the end of any agreed work, you can also take it from here yourself.
This stage can stand on its own.
Your brand, CV, LinkedIn profile and website, built around your direction.
You leave with
What happens
Your identity, language and look, built from the direction you chose.
Your name, words and look, developed from the direction you chose. A rebrand isn't compulsory: sometimes a refresh is enough.
Reviewed, then rewritten to match your direction and pitch.
We read what is there against your direction, list what to keep, change and add, then rewrite it with you.
One place that says what you do, who it's for and how to reach you.
A site built from your brand and your pitch, so anyone who looks you up finds the story you would tell them yourself.
How we work
Your brand, CV, profile and website, written and designed with you.
How you keep your brand
Your colours, type and voice, with how to use them, in a document you keep.
The same brand kept current in an app that works with the other Studio apps, on a monthly subscription.
You choose how much we carry: full consulting support, a mix of guidance and tools, or managed PR alongside either. At the end of any agreed work, you can also take it from here yourself.
This stage can stand on its own.
We find the opportunities that fit you, then help you act on them a little every day.
You leave with
What happens
How you reach the people your work is for, and the plan put into action.
Who you want to reach, where they are, what you will say and when. Then we start, together or with TLIS carrying it.
OpenField finds the opportunities that fit. Authority Studio shows where your effort will count.
We research where you sit in your industry against the competition, then bring back the opportunities that fit your direction, including the ones beyond the obvious (the Option Three way).
Building your authority a little every day, guided by Authority Studio.
A short list each day: a post to write, a person to reply to, a call for speakers to answer.
How we work
Maps the roles, boards, clients and wider possibilities that fit your direction.
Holds your positioning and shows where your effort will count each week.
Strategy, writing and agreed outreach, carried by a person.
You choose how much we carry: full consulting support, a mix of guidance and tools, or managed PR alongside either. At the end of any agreed work, you can also take it from here yourself.
This stage can stand on its own.
Consulting OS runs your consultancy in one place, from the first conversation to the invoice.
You leave with
What happens
Prospects, proposals, contracts, projects and invoices, connected so nothing falls between them.
We set Consulting OS up around the way you work, from landing the client to invoicing them, and keep a record of what each engagement changed.
How we work
We shape Consulting OS around the way you already work and show you how to run it.
The practice loop
You choose how much we carry: full consulting support, a mix of guidance and tools, or managed PR alongside either. At the end of any agreed work, you can also take it from here yourself.
Consulting OS is a subscription, set up with you.
Where your approved positioning lives, with the signals worth your attention and where to put your effort this week.
Built by TLIS · set up within your scope, ongoing access being definedYour brand kept in one place: in the Brand Hub app, or set out in a branded specification sheet you keep as a file.
Built by TLIS · the app or the specification sheetSubscription, set up with youYour consultancy in one place: prospects, proposals, contracts, projects, invoices and core finances, with a record of each engagement.
Your CV, rebuilt to tell the same story as your pitch: an audit first, then the rewrite, on a page someone will actually read.
Written and designed by TLISThree ways your brand could look and sound, for you to choose the one to build.
Designed by TLISThe opportunities that fit your path, including the ones beyond the obvious, each with why it fits and a way in.
Built by TLIS · set up within your scope, ongoing access being definedYour LinkedIn profile, rewritten from your direction: a headline people can repeat, an About in your own voice, and featured work that proves it.
Written and designed by TLIS, on your own profileWritten up after the session: the pattern in your career, what you bring and where it points.
Written by ScarletPrepared for Your Name
Twenty years in regional water and infrastructure, moving from engineering into the rooms where projects are funded and explained. The titles changed every few years; the work underneath them rarely did.
Every turning point has the same shape: a complex project, a sceptical audience, and you translating one for the other until both could say yes.
The uncommon ability to make large technical decisions understandable to the people who pay for them and the communities who live with them.
“I make big regional water projects understandable, to the people who fund them and the communities who live with them.”
Good projects fail when nobody can explain them, and you would rather they didn't.
Prepared for Your Name
Measured, civic, assured
Considered decisions, explained with care.
Clear, exact, practical
Clear numbers, clear choices, clear outcomes.
Warm, regional, rooted
Built for the places and people it serves.
Your Name
Regions · Water · Trust
Where the brand has been applied, with current and reference work distinguished.
5 recorded applicationsEnter →The existing creation entry points and what is genuinely available today.
Enter →Marks, colours, the paper and the files you may take.
2 core marks · 11 files availableEnter →Colour, typography, voice and the components already proven in use.
5 approved colour rolesEnter →Interface standards, material rules, the specification and its exports.
Specification and four exportsEnter →White leads. Graphite carries the text. Gold marks emphasis.
Clarity, with character.
Sans for clarity. Serif for emphasis.
Plain. Considered. Precise.
Lead with the contribution.
Support the claim with evidence.
Use language people can repeat.
People at work. Places in use. Natural light.
Keep the hierarchy. Leave room. Use approved files.
Prepared for Your Name
Twenty years in regional water and infrastructure, moving from engineering into the rooms where projects are funded and explained. The titles changed every few years; the work underneath them rarely did.
Every turning point has the same shape: a complex project, a sceptical audience, and you translating one for the other until both could say yes.
The uncommon ability to make large technical decisions understandable to the people who pay for them and the communities who live with them.
“I make big regional water projects understandable, to the people who fund them and the communities who live with them.”
Good projects fail when nobody can explain them, and you would rather they didn't.
Prepared for Your Name
Measured, civic, assured
Considered decisions, explained with care.
Clear, exact, practical
Clear numbers, clear choices, clear outcomes.
Warm, regional, rooted
Built for the places and people it serves.
White leads. Graphite carries the text. Gold marks emphasis.
Clarity, with character.
Sans for clarity. Serif for emphasis.
Plain. Considered. Precise.
Lead with the contribution.
Support the claim with evidence.
Use language people can repeat.
People at work. Places in use. Natural light.
Keep the hierarchy. Leave room. Use approved files.