Execution Radar chart showing where a plan strains the organisation

We show where the organisation will struggle to deliver the plan, and help put it right.

We work with private equity investors and management teams, combining Execution Radar, our execution intelligence system, with experienced practitioners who help leaders act on what it finds.

Investors we work with
Portfolio and growth companies

A sound value creation plan can still fall short when the organisation asked to deliver it cannot carry the load, and that usually shows late.

We work in two ways. Execution Radar sets what the plan demands against what the organisation can carry, and our advisers support investment partners, operating partners, CEOs, Chairs and executive teams who want help acting on what it shows.

Three stages: scattered points, points aligned on a circle, and the Scalewell mark
See where execution is at risk
Execution Radar shows where the plan asks more of the organisation than it can give, and in which quarter.
Act with experienced practitioners
Our advisers work with leaders to close the gaps most likely to put the plan at risk.
Measure the improvement
Quarterly re-measurement shows whether the changes are taking hold.
Execution Radar

Find out whether the organisation can carry the plan while there is still time to act.

Execution Radar is designed for private equity. It reads the work from the plan itself, adds up what every initiative asks of the same function and the same leaders, and shows the quarter in which those demands collide. It sets that against what the organisation can carry, explains why the pressure is building, and tracks whether the fix works.

A diagnostic in four to six weeks, then re-measurement each quarter.

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Illustrative Execution Radar comparing current capability with what the plan requires
What the plan requires
Current capability

It separates a shortage of time from a shortage of experience, so the fix matches the problem.

Expert advisory, on its own or alongside the Radar

Our advisory work stands on its own. Execution Radar’s findings are written to be acted on by the company’s own team or any adviser, and we support that work when clients ask us to.

Leader due diligence
Founder and executive assessment, delivered in ten days, on its own or alongside Execution Radar.
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Organisation design and operating model
Structures, roles and ways of working designed for the plan ahead.
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Executive leadership coaching and development
Helping individual leaders grow into the roles the business now needs.
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Executive and board team effectiveness
Helping leadership teams and boards make decisions well together and hold each other to the plan.
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Organisational capability, change and performance
Developing the skills and ways of working the business needs as it grows and changes.
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What changed for our clients

Organisational review

Quantexa

A multi-year review through rapid growth: consistently 5-star Glassdoor ratings, lower recruitment-agency spend, support for further funding rounds, and the company’s culture carried into its new US offices.

Company milestone: unicorn status, 2023
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Leadership due diligence

Smedvig Ventures

Founder assessments using interviews, references and Hogan, an executive team review and development plans. Roles evolved in line with our recommendations.

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Portfolio analysis

AlbionVC

Fitness to Scale across nine Series A+ companies growing at 17–300% CAGR found a link between organisational fitness and commercial performance. It is now part of Albion’s growth programme.

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The insights into our workforce the Scalewell team uncovered have proved invaluable in continuing to develop a positive employee culture in our rapidly expanding business…

Richard Mortimer · Head of People, Egress

Execution Radar is fully built and tested, and now taking its first clients. It rests on years of work: its predecessor, Fitness to Scale, has been used with more than 40 PE-backed and growth businesses.

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The people you will work with

Nick Watling

Nick Watling

Co-Founder and CEO

Nick read Law at Oxford and qualified as a solicitor before moving into leadership and organisation consulting. He worked for Oliver Wyman Delta and Heidrick & Struggles, and since 2012 has advised dozens of leaders and scaling businesses across Europe and the US.

Nick likes to think he can surf.

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Phil Makinson

Phil Makinson

Co-Founder and COO

After Cambridge, Phil built digital products for global leaders and challenger brands, working on five continents. Since 2011 he has focused on scale-ups: co-founding Kabbee, launching Facebook’s first incubator, and serving as CCO and Board Member at hiyacar.

Phil aims to develop a fraction of Jürgen Klopp’s genius in strategy and people leadership.

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Whether you are backing a plan or delivering one, we should talk.

The first conversation is about your situation and whether we can help. We work with private equity investors and operating partners, management teams, and VC-backed businesses preparing to scale.

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