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Strategic Clarity Engagement
A six-week process that begins with structured stakeholder interviews and a thorough review of your existing strategy documents. …
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How We Work
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Unhurried by Design
We do not rush a diagnosis. Every engagement begins with a listening period, usually two to three weeks, before we write a single recommendation. The best thinking happens when there is room to breathe.
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One Problem at a Time
We take on a small number of clients at any given time. That is not a marketing line. It means your problem gets our full attention, not a slice of it shared across a dozen accounts.
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Written, Not Presented
Our deliverables are documents you can read at your own pace, share with your board, and return to in six months. We do not hide conclusions inside a slide deck that requires us in the room to decode.
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No Retainer Traps
We work on defined engagements with a clear scope and a clear end date. If you need us again, we are glad to hear it. But we will not design the work to make you dependent on us.
News & Announcements
News & Announcements
2026-06-28
Why Most Strategy Documents Fail Before They Are Read
A strategy document that nobody reads is not a strategy. It is a record of time spent. Most organisations produce at least one of these per year, and most of the people who commissioned them know, somewhere, that the document will not change much. Here is why that happens, and what the alternative looks like.
Read more →2026-05-15
How to Prepare a Leadership Team for a Strategy Offsite
The quality of a strategy offsite is largely determined before anyone arrives at the venue. Most of the things that go wrong on the day, the circular conversations, the decisions that are not quite decisions, the energy that dissipates after lunch, are the product of preparation that was either skipped or done in the wrong order. Here is what the preparation should actually look like.
Read more →2026-04-18
What an Organisational Diagnostic Actually Tells You
The most common response we hear after delivering an organisational diagnostic is some version of: 'We knew this, but we had not said it out loud.' That is not a failure of the diagnostic. It is the point of it. The value is not in discovering something nobody knew. It is in producing a written account of what everyone knew privately but had not yet made official.
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Who runs the shop
Founder, Established since 2019
Nathaniel Forsythe
Nathaniel Forsythe spent seven years as a senior strategy adviser at Meridian Infrastructure Partners in Bristol before founding MindWave CoreVault in autumn 2019. He trained originally as an organisational psychologist at the University of Exeter, then spent three years at a management consultancy in Edinburgh before moving in-house. The decision to go independent came after one too many strategy days that produced a great deal of energy and very little clarity. He works from a small office in Bristol, starts every morning with a walk along the Avon before the city wakes up, and keeps a running notebook of questions he has not yet answered. He reads slowly and on purpose.
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