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The Principals

The people who do the work.

Senior enough for the room
1
They deliver the work themselves.

A room outside the business only works if the person in it has sat where you sit.

2
They hold every relationship personally.

Someone junior can listen. It takes someone who has held a chief executive’s seat, and someone who has carried the number, to challenge both the decision and you.

Nicolette Wolf

Founding Practitioner

A chief executive herself, in the City, before founding the practice. She knows from the inside what the seat costs. Twenty-four years developing how leaders lead, and how they land: chief executives, partners and global heads, prepared for the boards, investor meetings and company addresses on which their tenures turn. She came to this from performance, not consulting. Mountview, then opera, then Head of Voice at the Birmingham Academy of Music. Opera taught the conviction the method rests on: the leader a room believes is the one most completely themselves, with the greatest skill. Also an ordained priest, which forms two habits the room asks for: confidence kept, and the steadiness to sit with someone at their worst. Chicago Booth, Cambridge Judge, Duke Corporate Education and Saïd Business School: teaching on their master's programmes, and developing their own senior leaders. EMCC Global Senior Practitioner.

Philip Wolf

Commercial Principal

Co-founder, and the firm's commercial discipline: every engagement pointed at the result the client owns, and measured there. Twenty years carrying the number in healthcare and technology, at Cook Medical and Omnicell, including a £3M teaching-hospital partnership. He knows the leaders the firm serves because he sold to them, and sat across the table from their boards. Postgraduate Diploma in Health Care Evaluation, LSE with NICE. EMCC Global Practitioner. Usually the first conversation.

“You are so easy to talk to and have such a comprehensive understanding of not only the issue, but how I work.”

Justine Hawkins

Managing Director, Ebbon Automotive

“It transformed not only my presentation and delivery but also how I view myself and my role. I have been promoted twice … she ensured that when I was interviewed I was the clear contender.”

Jenny Yoe

then Head of UK and Irish Institutional, State Street Global Advisors

“Marcus-Wolf understands how to make an impact, and how to develop the hidden strengths in senior leaders, with real results and real confidence.”

Peter Healey

then Global Head, UBS Investment Bank

Speak to the people who do the work.

There is no intermediary. The first conversation is with Philip or Nicolette, and everything that follows is with Nicolette in the room. If we’re not right for you, you’ll hear it from us, not from a proposal.

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