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Case Stories From Our Client Work

We treat every engagement with strict confidentiality, so the stories below are anonymised. The situations, methods and outcomes, however, are exactly as they happened. Read four short accounts of how targeted economic training changed the way teams decide.

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Bright retail environment with shoppers browsing shelves
Retail · 180 seats

A regional retail chain rebuilt its pricing conversation

A specialty retail group operating across four Southeast Asian markets asked us to help store managers stop treating price markdowns as a monthly ritual. Together we ran the Financial Storytelling programme, adapted so that every manager could open their weekly review with a two-minute margin narrative instead of a spreadsheet dump.

Within a single quarter the number of unplanned promotional markdowns dropped noticeably, and the head-office category team reported that store feedback had become far more specific and actionable. Regional directors now use the same three-slide template for their board updates, which shortened monthly reviews by roughly a third.

-31%Unplanned markdowns
+18%Manager NPS
4Markets covered
Fintech professionals reviewing dashboards on a laptop screen
Fintech · Series B startup

A Series B fintech aligned its product and finance teams

A licensed digital-payments provider was growing quickly but its product managers and finance controllers were arguing past each other in every planning meeting. We ran a bespoke four-week Corporate Strategy Lab that mixed both groups into two cohorts and gave them a shared vocabulary for unit economics, LTV modelling and scenario planning.

By the end of the engagement each cohort had produced a single-page plan for the next launch window, signed off jointly by product and finance leaders. The CFO told us later that quarterly forecasting cycles had gone from three tense meetings to one productive one, and that new hires were being onboarded using the same one-page format.

2Cohorts trained
-40%Forecast cycle time
1Shared playbook
Container port with cargo ships being loaded
Logistics · Enterprise

A logistics operator turned analysts into decision partners

The commercial team at a Singapore-headquartered logistics operator had strong analysts but their weekly outputs were being ignored by commercial directors. We ran the Market Analysis Bootcamp together with a short storytelling module, so analysts learned to lead with the recommendation rather than the data.

The change was visible within a fortnight. Reports moved from long PDFs to structured briefs with a headline recommendation, a confidence rating and a clear next step. Six months in, the commercial director now schedules the analyst team’s Monday brief before her own leadership meeting because, in her words, “their view now shapes mine.”

22Analysts trained
3xReports read to end
6 moFollow-on programme
Diverse team of colleagues collaborating in a bright office
Public sector · Statutory board

A statutory board built its own internal facilitator bench

A Singaporean statutory board wanted to reduce its dependency on external consultants for policy scenario workshops. We designed a twelve-month Leadership Coaching Cohort that also included a “train the facilitator” strand. By month nine, in-house staff were co-designing and co-leading scenario sessions with our senior coaches.

The engagement finished with a public playbook, a shared library of scenario templates, and a rotating pool of eight internal facilitators. External consulting spend on this activity is now used only for peer review, freeing budget for other capability work.

8Internal facilitators
-60%External spend
12 moCohort length

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