I take things that aren't working and make them work. Fifteen years inside the UK's biggest institutions. Now building my own.
I run The Thirty Co., a strategy and execution consultancy, and I build alongside it: projects in housebuilding, automation and digital education, each at a different stage. Based in Scotland. The work goes wherever it's needed.
FIFTEEN YEARS INSIDE BARCLAYS · STANDARD LIFE · TESCO · ABERDEEN · PHOENIX
A strategy and execution consultancy. We install the Modern Operator System: the structure and rhythm that gets strategy delivered. SME and enterprise clients.
A 3D project for the housebuilding industry. At specification stage.
An automation and orchestration platform that takes the day-to-day running of the business off the owner's desk. In build.
Learning products, from primary school literacy to self-led courses for business owners.
HOVER OR TAP AN ENTRY FOR THE DETAIL.
Britain doesn't have an AI adoption problem. It has an implementation gap.
Writing is how I test what I think. If an idea survives being written down plainly, it goes out. The thread through all of it is focus: businesses trying to do too much at once, and what happens when they do less, and do it well.
The short version. Every line has a longer story behind it.
Pick the door that fits. No forms, no chasing.
OPTION 01
£500 . ONE HOUR
Sixty minutes on whatever is stuck. Bring the problem, leave with a plan you can run on Monday morning. No deck, no follow-up pitch.
FOROwners, MDs and leaders who need a straight answer, not a programme.
BOOK AN HOUROPTION 02
£195 . SELF-LED COURSE
The 90-day method The Thirty Co. runs with clients, written down so you can run it yourself. Nine modules, every tool, and a week-by-week plan. Add video walkthroughs if you want me talking you through each step.
FOROwners and MDs who would rather run it themselves.
SEE THE COURSEOPTION 03
Talks and sessions on execution, focus and getting strategy off the page. Fifteen years of worked examples, told plainly.
FORConferences, boards and leadership teams.
ASK ABOUT SPEAKINGOPTION 04
We turn firefighting into a business that works: an honest reality check, ruthless prioritisation, and a 90-day reset that gets strategy delivered. Do less. Deliver more.
FORBusinesses where the strategy isn't landing.
VISIT THE THIRTY CO.I've been working since I was twelve. A paper round, a chip shop, an Edinburgh cocktail bar, then fifteen years inside the UK's biggest financial institutions. Different rooms, same pattern: I walk in, I see the mess, I build the structure, and I make it run.
The corporate years were integrations, migrations and turnarounds, in rooms where getting it wrong makes the news. They taught me what actually gets things delivered. Imposed change gets reverted; consulted change sticks. Focus beats effort. And every result is mine to own, especially the ones that don't land. That is where the learning is.
Alongside the big programmes I advised smaller firms, where enterprise-grade structure lands with immediate, outsized impact. That is the work I enjoy most, and it is why I went out on my own. This year I turned down another comfortable contract and bet on my own portfolio instead. Almost every piece of work I've ever won came through someone who trusted me with the last one. Relationships are everything. Every business I'm building is built on them.
RYAN . PORTRAIT
No forms, no funnels. Email me and tell me what you're working on and where it's stuck. If I can help, I'll tell you how. If I can't, I'll point you at someone who can. Either way, it's worth a coffee.