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Management Consultancy: We Create Solutions

Monkey Business offers tailored consulting services, development programmes, and coaching to empower boards, senior leaders, and teams. Our approach transforms capabilities, ensuring you compete, succeed, and grow effectively.

Monkey Business provides business critical development, consulting and coaching – through a leadership lens.  Our expertise is in strategy, leadership, innovation and change.

  • We focus on getting quicker, better, faster results quicker.
  • We stimulate insight, (do you know what to do?)
  • We are a catalyst to action, (can you do it?)
  • We inspire performance, (how do you excel?).
  • We use action-based accountability pods and collaborative learning.

We Create Solutions…

Monkey Business has a proven and consistent track record of identifying opportunities and delivering improvements to achieve agreed outcomes.

Our clients, who include TUI, Survitec, NATO, Capital One, RBS, NDS, Virgin Media, AON, Centrica, and Oxfam, all believe that our approach and our inclusion has made a substantial difference to their business.

International Success

We work internationally and have a track record of success working in Russia with RANEPA both on Executive MBA modules and prestigious programmes with City Mayors and Senior Leadership programmes across Russia.

  • Travel business of £4bn turnover, 10,000 employees. Developed a disjointed Board into an efficient leadership team through a tailored values programme.
  • A Terrestrial TV Company was not expected to achieve estimated sales of £180 million. We pin-point effective solutions and re-energised the team to achieve £205 million.
  • Cultural change programme to regional directors of a major Bank following an M&A resulted in record sales within 3 months.
  • A UK Retail Travel business was acquired by a Middle East concern. We develop a leadership and strategic development programme to achieved profits for the first time.
  • After a major safety incident at a Utilities company we implement a safety culture change programme along with values and leadership development.  The result? a ½ billion investment.
  • National CEOs of a leading Pan-AME Bank experiened our highest-rated programme on ‘Trust as a Strategic Imperative’ as part of Leadership at the Cutting Edge initiatives with GIBS, University of Pretoria.

Key Features

Our approach is distinctively innovative and bold, yet practical — providing you with immediate, applicable tools for workplace transformation…

  • We will challenge your people to courageous conversations
  • Success breeds success. Our talented leaders all are proven, experienced high‑performers
  • We use experiential learning – to take the fast-track outside their comfort zones
  • We use work-based Learning to marry development with reality

Our development programme is designed to be aspirational and have a ‘wow’ factor to connect with the participants at a personal, seminal level.

examples of our work

Virgin Media

Management and Leadership Development Programme. 5 modules: The Inspiring Leader; The Commercial Leader; Leading for Results; Strategic Thinking and The Emotionally Intelligent Leader. Board Programme.

Aston Business School

2010-2012. Designed innovative new Executive MBA programme This original holistic design (body; mind and spirit) is encapsulated within an ethos of performance.

TUI

Board Development and Values Programme. 2002 – 2008. Facilitated and introduced acceptance and definition of new values imposed by TUI AG into behavioural and processes within organisation. Adopted as trusted advisors to the Board during CEO tenure.

Channel 5

Board Team Development

Cabinet Office

Sir Richard Wilson and Top 50 Civil Servants. Change Programme

Capital One UK

Leadership Team: Team development. IT Board: Strategy.

Barclays ABSA

South Africa: CEO Programme. Pan-African CEOs: Trust as a Strategic Imperative.

Mayors of Moscow

Leadership Development programme to create smart cities.

Malta

Change Leadership Programme

Far East

Innovation Programme Leading to Cultural Change

read some case studies