Mandates

Match the authority to the actual problem.

Choose the condition closest to the present territory. Each route explains the authority, intervention and evidence relevant to that decision.

Four routes to appointment

Select the condition that most closely resembles the institutional need. Each route begins with the improved condition the appointment should create, then supplies named testimony and controlled evidence.

Enterprise authorityInterim CEO, COO or Operating Partner

Recover control, restore performance and reopen the route to value.

100-day regulated recovery · separate 90-day owner-led intervention · embedded post-MBO assurance.Explore enterprise intervention →Delivery authorityProgramme & transformation leadership

Turn institutional complexity into controlled delivery.

£18.6bn · 81 organisations · 23,000 people · 54 sites.Explore delivery recovery →Governance authorityChair & non-executive

Strengthen judgement before consequence becomes history.

Public-company, principal, audit, risk and thirteen-year judicial formation.Explore board judgement →Independent judgementSpecial Adviser — Special Situations

Establish reality where competing professional narratives have produced paralysis.

Judicial discipline applied across capital, authority, risk and recoverability.Explore special-situations advice →
Decision boundary

Owning the enterprise and taking control of delivery are different mandates.

An Interim CEO or COO requires sufficient operational authority to change priorities, resources, structure and leadership. A programme mandate can remain bounded around delivery, provided the sponsor supplies genuine decision rights over dependencies, governance and escalation. A board role preserves executive separation. A special adviser establishes the territory and executable options without manufacturing authority the client has not granted.