Kick off the next strategic transformation for your business
For founders and solopreneurs who are shaping their next big move, or who have too many to choose from.
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Working with Cecile has had the biggest impact on my business this year.
Vicky Zhao Founder @ School of Human Intellect
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What happened? Two sessions. Pure magic. If you or your team need to make strategic decisions and exit with a detailed trail map, Cecile is an amazing map-making partner.
Michael Sklar Tech Entrepreneur & Start-Up Investor
Some of this will sound familiar…
Too many ideas and too little time? You’re juggling it all and it’s starting to show in the quality of your work and your energy. I help you cut through the noise, prioritise what truly matters, and shelve the rest (for now).
That bigger idea you’ve been sitting on for weeks, or months, while the day-to-day keeps you busy? Let’s formalise the vision and build a clear plan to make it real.
You’re scaling up and your team is moving fast, but not in the same direction. Let’s bring all of your thinking and progress back into one shared plan!
You’ve built a business that works, but can feel you’ve outgrown how it’s currently set up. What stays? What goes? Let’s map out your next strategic shift.
Commit to two sessions with me and watch your clarity, energy and executive function increase tenfold.
You’ll leave with a refreshed vision for your work and a roadmap to get it done. And because life happens and plans change, I can keep working alongside you to keep the momentum going.
Here’s how we can work together
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Strategic Acceleration
My flagship two-session sprint.
Within the same week, we map everything that’s competing for your attention, decide what truly matters, and turn it into a plan. You leave with a refreshed vision for your work and a 90-day roadmap you’ll actually want to follow.
The full process is below.
From £2,000
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Strategic Partnership
Ongoing strategic support, once your roadmap is built.
At its core: monthly or fortnightly strategic reviews, where we catch what’s changed, update the roadmap, and clarify immediate actions. Around that, we can set up async support, or ad hoc sessions when something strategic needs untangling.
Minimum 3-month commitment. Tailored to your needs.
From £500/month
I usually start new client work with a Strategic Acceleration sprint. Many clients then choose to keep me alongside them to maintain momentum, stay on track with their ambitions, resolve problems as they show up, or bring their team on board.
Prices are for 1:1 work. You can include your team, although that’s shaped and priced separately.
Introduction to the Strategic Acceleration sprint
Here’s what happens, from start to finish
Pre-work
Before we meet
You answer a short set of targeted questions about where your business is, what’s competing for your attention, and what you want the next stretch to deliver. By the time we meet, you’ve already started thinking strategically, and I’m ready to dive into your world.
Session 1
We build your vision board
Every commitment, project, hope and fear comes out of your head and onto the board. Together, we work through them to find your real priorities, depending on how important, urgent — and alive — each one feels. I structure, facilitate and poke where needed. What to keep and what to ditch becomes obvious as we go.
Pause
I review, we both reflect
After session one, I go back over the board to capture what was missed, flag the decisions that matter, and sit with anything that doesn’t feel quite right. Your only job is to rest and let the decisions settle: what’s landing well, and what’s quietly off, will surface. We both return to our work together with fresh insights.
Session 2
We build your roadmap
We open session two with a tidy board and both our reflections. Anything that feels off gets said now, and folded into the foundations. Then, we build. Your priorities become a 90-day plan that you actually want to deliver. You leave energised, and committed to a plan that you actually believe in.
Conclusion
You set off with clarity and momentum
Within a week of session 2, I send you the full board in its final form, plus a strategic, action-oriented Executive Summary. You pin it above your desk and use it to guide your work over the next 90 days.
Doing the work
I help you stay on track
I work with you to address problems when they show up along the way (they always do). We can keep the roadmap current and momentum going through monthly or fortnightly reviews, async support and/or ad hoc strategic sessions.
Note: the step above (“Doing the work”) is the Strategic Partnership offer — priced and booked separately from the Strategic Acceleration sprint.
Here’s what my clients say
I was already clear on the direction I wanted my business to go, and had multiple viable paths to reach the destination. But after 30 days of cranking, I wasn’t moving fast enough.
My gut instantly told me Cécile could help. She’d worked with execs to refine and communicate their transformation projects. Equally important, my ego trusted her to lead on this part of the trail.
What happened? Two sessions. Pure magic. If you or your team need to make strategic decisions and exit with a detailed trail map, Cecile is an amazing map-making partner.
Working with Cecile has had the biggest impact on my business this year.
She cleared up my mental clutter, mapped vague wants and hopes into a realistic plan, and built momentum towards my goals. The amount of care and focus Cecile provided was a luxury.
Just the amount of energy she helped generate and the time saved alone already paid for the sessions.
Cecile is that thought partner who is both strategic and practical - a rare combination in this world! If you have a goal and a lot to juggle to get to that goal, Cecile will help you see an exciting path that was hiding in plain sight.
After years of working on projects related to the vision I have for my career, I finally had the time and space to focus on building something big. The two days I spent with Cécile were invaluable. She helped me get the ideas out of my head and turn them into a plan I felt excited to deliver.
Cécile is an exceptional thought partner, with a gift for seeing the big picture, asking insightful questions, and honing in on the most impactful areas, drawing upon both years of experience and an intuitive sense of where the conversation needs to go. She helped bring strategy and structure back into my highly-intuitive process, effectively serving as the head to my heart.
I highly recommend you work with her if you’ve got a big vision and need help bringing it to life!
I just left my 12-year corporate career to go fully self employed when I reached out to Cécile. I had so many business ideas I wanted to pursue and was really struggling to decide what to prioritise.
In our Strategic Acceleration workshops, Cécile helped me create a vision that ties everything together, as well as a solid plan to make it happen.
if you are someone with lots of big ideas and you need help to make them happen, I highly, highly recommend working with Cécile. Working with her gave me so much clarity and forward momentum.
I still feel the benefits months later and look at the roadmap we built together every single day.
Working with Cécile has made a tremendous difference for my business.
As someone working in the creative industry, focus and structure can often feel hard to find. I’d been thinking for months about launching a new platform for photographing changemakers, and in just two sessions Cécile helped me gather the clarity and momentum I needed to do just that.
First we identified the threads that mattered most for my business. Then we sketched out clear goals, a timeline, and actionable priorities that felt both achievable and exciting. Months later, everything we set out in those sessions has come to fruition — even better than planned.
Cécile has a rare ability to meet you where you are and guide you to where you need to be, all while making the journey feel both inspired and grounded. With warmth and sharp intelligence, she helped me find clarity without ever feeling boxed in. I cannot recommend her enough.
I’m Cécile, your strategy partner
I will help you stride towards your goals.
I’m a strategist, an organiser, a visualiser, a problem solver.
I have 15 years of experience in strategy, transformation and leadership roles, in both corporate and consulting — and spent 7 years as the go-to sparring partner for C-suite professionals as they were defining their business plans.
I am led by both reason and intuition. I’ll spot anything that makes you come alive so you can use that energy in a more conscious way. I’ll also know when to stress-test anything you feel uneasy about.
Working with me will feel like a mastermind to which I’m bringing specialised expertise. Like an MBA class that has immediate tangible effects on your business. Like a session with a strategy consultant who feels truly invested in your success.
I will drive our sessions, in a structured, friendly and non-judgmental way.
Your job?
To bring your best brain, your whole self, and an open mind.
By hiring me, you’re already saying out loud that you want to get things moving in your business. As we work together, you’ll feel crystal clear on the direction you want to go in, energised about the future you’ve designed, and committed to making it happen.
And remember — I’m on your team. If I take on your case, it’s because I know I can help you, and I want to see you succeed.
Let’s get this going, shall we?
Some of my thinking
Switch off the autopilot
You’ll be rewarded with calm, structure, clarity — and a strong sense of agency.
Building an irresistible business
Customers remember what’s different, not what’s best. How to take your business out of the market cluster and offer value nobody else does.
It’s not about you
Good communication with an Exec Team isn’t about impressing them with your work. It’s about making their jobs easier and giving them energy.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do we start working together?
It begins with a short discovery call.
It’s just a chance to talk through where you are and if/how I can help best, there’s zero pressure to do anything off the back of it. If it feels like we’re a good fit, I’ll suggest a useful starting point and send a little pre-work your way so our first session really counts.
For most people, that starting place is a Strategic Acceleration sprint.
I don’t need a full sprint. Do you run shorter sessions?
I do, they just need to be really well scoped beforehand.
We might focus a single session on figuring out your business priorities, for instance, without building the full delivery roadmap. Or if you’ve got one specific, well-defined question, an ad hoc clarity session could be enough, as long as you’re happy to do some prep so I come prepared to talk about the bits that matter.
Book a discovery call and we’ll find the right shape together.
Can you deliver some of my strategic projects for me?
The short answer to this is ‘no’.
I’ve worked on business transformations long enough to know that the transformation has to be ‘done’ by the company who owns it i.e. you and your team, because that’s what makes it stick.
But that doesn’t mean you’re on your own once the Strategic Acceleration sprint is done. I can help drive the transformation e.g. by running check-ins where we review your progress together, resolve any issues that have come up, and re-energise the work.
I keep you moving but I don’t move ‘for’ you.
I want to include my team in this process. Is that possible?
Yes, you can!
Some clients want to bring one or two trusted team members to the Strategic Acceleration sprint (or part of it) while others prefer to get their teams onboard once it is done.
Either way, it takes more time and a different kind of facilitation, so it’s priced separately. But it is possible, let’s chat about it.
Do you use AI and if so, how?
Only very deliberately.
I use AI to accelerate and augment specific parts of my work. I don’t ever let it replace my experience or gut feel, and never ask it to produce any client-facing documents.
In my work with you, that might look like me getting up to speed fast on an unfamiliar industry, brainstorming a way forward when we feel stuck, and checking after our sessions that we haven’t missed anything important — assuming I have your permission to record our conversations.
Behind the scenes, I use it to project-manage my own work. I’m also exploring how it could eventually help you stay on track between sessions too.
But I’m the human who thinks and cares about your business. AI isn’t.
Do you work with bigger companies too?
Yes. I spent 15 years in corporate strategy and transformation, 7 of them as the go-to sparring partner for the C-suite at National Grid ESO, and I still take on fractional or team work when it’s the right fit.
Right now my focus is founders and solopreneurs, which is what this page is about. If you’re in a larger organisation, have a look at my LinkedIn recommendations and book a call.
Still got a question? Book a call and ask me directly.