About
Founded in 2009 by three partners who wanted to stay in the room.
They had left a large strategy firm because it had stopped sending partners to the work. North & Vale Consulting is what they built instead: an independent partnership with no pyramid under it, no audit arm beside it and nothing being sold on the side.
Bedford Square, London. The firm has three offices and opens one only when the work is already there.
How we work
Four commitments, and we will put them in the contract.
They are unremarkable individually. Together they are most of the reason a client picks an eleven-partner firm over a name everybody on the board already knows.
Small teams, senior ones
A partner on every engagement, in the room, doing the work rather than appearing at the steering committee. Median team size is four. We have never staffed a pyramid and we do not intend to start.
A fixed fee, agreed before it starts
Every phase is quoted as a fixed fee against a written scope. No day-rate drift, no change note for the third revision of the same exhibit. If the scope changes, we requote it and you decide.
Independent, and structurally so
No audit arm, no technology reselling, no implementation partnerships and no referral fees. There is no second revenue line that our advice could be steering you towards, which is the only durable reason to believe it is not.
We hand it over
Every engagement ends with the client's own people running what we built, on their own systems, with a handover date we are measured against. Extending an engagement requires a reason that is not our convenience.
The partners
Every one of them fee-earning.
There is no management layer above them to be promoted into, which is why the person who sells the work is the person who does it.
Offices
London, Amsterdam, Munich.
Bedford Square,
London WC1,
United Kingdom
+44 20 7946 0114
Strategy, commercial and the transformation delivery bench. 41 people.
Keizersgracht,
1015 Amsterdam,
Netherlands
+31 20 496 0148
Operating model and cost work across the Benelux and the Nordics. 19 people.
Brienner Strasse,
80333 Munich,
Germany
+49 89 496 0173
Industrial manufacturing, and the data and decision systems practice. 14 people.