Here are some of our assignments and clients...

Seeking a sale of a long held asset, a prominent London based private equity firm retained Michael Cook to oversee immediate improvements in the relationships, revenue and sales margin across the asset's international business, and in preparation for the due diligence process by interested buyers. A successful sale was achieved.    

An important Arab financial institution sought help in refining their strategy and improving the  internal communication processes between key departments to ensure the strategy could be smoothly executed. They retained Michael Cook to facilitate these sensitive discussions to wide acclaim at the end of the process. 

As Japan moves towards hitting its greenhouse gas reduction goals by 2030, a Canadian biomass energy producer has retained Michael Cook to establish, and then build, the crucial relationship that will allow the transaction of offtake agreements valued at US$ 3 billion, thereby securing long term business for their Canadian biomass production plants. 

A major US financial institution sought help in renewing a raft of important product licenses. The highly technical nature of the licenses, and the complex nature of the stakeholders involved, meant a detailed plan of engagement and influencing was required on a license by license basis. This successful assignment took place over several months and took place in London as well as the US. 

A leading flexible office space broker in London wanted help in understanding the changes in the UK office market post Covid, and the growing drive towards hybrid working. Our assignment helped them to refine their approach in what is a highly competitive and challenging market.  

Governments as well as industry leading companies across 4 different continents have asked us to delivery skills training programs ranging from leadership and strategy, management and change and sales and business development. The quality of our work and the participant feedback has led us to be called back time and again.  

A leading distributor of food brands in the GCC looked to add to their mix of products for the region's supermarkets and sought our help and access to the European business network for opening new business opportunities. Our experience in the FMCG and retail space ensured we were quickly able to introduce a range of new products suitable for the climate and market tests of the region. 

We have been the business coach for the middle and senior management team of a leading UK engineering contractor for 5 years and during one of the most challenging and competitive eras this sector has faced in recent times.

We were chosen to run the sales and business development program for one of the UK's leading commercial insurance brokers. Insurance actuarial services are a highly technical area of business, not easily given over to 'classic' sales approaches and a nuanced business to business approach was uniquely designed for their diversely experienced team.