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Whether you have a specific programme in mind or are exploring options, we'd welcome the opportunity to understand your situation and share our perspective — with no obligation and complete candour.
— How to Reach Us
We respond to every serious enquiry personally and promptly. There is no sales team, no qualification process, and no junior point of contact. If you reach out, you will hear back from a senior member of the team within 24 hours.
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Use this form to tell us about your organisation and what you're looking to achieve. We'll review your submission and respond personally within one business day.
— Private Equity
Private Equity operates on a different timescale and with different commercial expectations than traditional transformation advisory. We understand this — and we have structured a dedicated practice to serve PE sponsors, portfolio company leadership teams, and M&A transaction teams with the speed and precision the investment context demands.
Dan Collins is a frequent adviser to Private Equity sponsors evaluating transformation readiness in portfolio companies — prior to investment, post-acquisition, and through value-creation phases. Our PE practice provides rapid, confidential response to time-sensitive mandates.
For pre-deal transformation diligence, we can typically mobilise within 72 hours of engagement.
Rapid assessment of transformation opportunity, risk, and value creation potential — structured to inform investment decision and post-close planning.
@ →Detailed mobilisation roadmap and hands-on programme leadership aligned to the investment thesis and early value capture priorities.
@ →Portfolio-wide transformation delivery against defined value creation milestones — with senior accountability throughout the hold period.
@ →Transformation story, operational proof points, and management narrative — ensuring the value creation case is compelling and substantiated.
@ →— Common Questions
A few of the questions we hear most often from organisations considering engaging with us. If your question isn't answered here, ask us directly.
For urgent mandates — particularly turnarounds and PE transactions — we can typically mobilise within 72 hours of engagement. For standard transformation programmes, we allow 2–3 weeks to ensure the engagement is properly scoped and the right senior team is in place from day one.
Our primary focus is Fortune 500 corporations and Private Equity-backed organisations of significant scale. That said, we do work with ambitious mid-market companies — particularly those that are PE-backed, internationally ambitious, or undergoing complex structural change. We assess each situation on its merits.
For most engagements, yes — Dan is personally involved at a senior level throughout. We do not use a model where a senior figure wins the work and hands it to a junior team. The senior-led commitment is non-negotiable on our side. For very large or complex programmes, Dan leads alongside a carefully selected senior partner.
We work across three primary models: retained advisory (fixed monthly fee for a sustained advisory relationship), project-based engagement (fixed or time-and-materials for defined programmes), and outcome-linked arrangements (particularly for PE and turnaround contexts where we can align our commercial model to value delivered). We discuss the right structure at the outset of every engagement.
Yes — genuinely. Dan Collins has personally led delivery across 65+ markets on six continents, including 55+ country Microsoft campaigns, a 23-office EMEA network at Leo Burnett, and transformation mandates across Asia-Pacific (VW Group), Middle East (CNBC Arabia commentary), and Latin America. Global delivery is not an aspiration for us — it is our track record.
An initial conversation is exactly that — a conversation, not a sales call. We will ask about your organisation, your situation, and what you are trying to achieve. We will share a candid perspective on how we might approach it and what outcomes are realistic. If there is a fit, we will propose a diagnostic or scoping conversation. If not, we will tell you that too. We do not waste your time or ours.
All discussions with us are treated with complete confidentiality from the first conversation. We routinely sign mutual NDAs prior to any substantive engagement discussion — this is standard practice for us and we are happy to do so before any detailed briefing. Our entire practice is built on trust and discretion.