Typically 3–12 months
Interim
A senior leader in the seat.
Executive leadership for growth, marketing, customer and loyalty. Owning the agenda from the first week.
Kithe & Co is a collective of senior growth and transformation consultants for customer-facing businesses: growth strategy, propositions, customer lifecycle, marketing and CX transformation, and commercial leadership.
Experience
Experience built delivering growth inside large, complex organisations, brought to you without the size, process or politics that usually come with it.
In-house
Customer and commercial leadership inside the business, with P&L accountability.
Global networks
Senior leadership inside the world's largest agency groups, across Europe.
Independent
Interim, advisory and consultancy work for global consumer brands.
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Next →Point of view
Growth is rarely hiding in the obvious place. More often, it's sitting in one of these.
01
Retention is often the cheapest growth there is, and the real reasons people go are rarely the ones on the dashboard.
02
A good product or service the market doesn't yet understand, value or choose.
03
The strategy is right, but the operating model, governance or capability can't deliver it.
04
Needs, segments and value pools your competitors haven't noticed yet.
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Next →What we do
We help find the opportunities worth pursuing, test what matters and deliver the change.
01 · Diagnosis and strategy
Get to the real opportunity: where value is being lost, where it could be created and which move matters most.
Growth strategy
Customer and commercial diagnosis
Opportunity sizing
02 · Validation and proposition
Test the move before you commit to it, with customers, prototypes and a business case that stands up.
Proposition and experience
Customer research and testing
Business case
03 · Change and delivery
Turn the decision into delivery, with the people, operating model and capability to make it stick.
Lifecycle and loyalty
Marketing transformation
Interim and exec leadership
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Next →Proof
Challenge, move, evidence and impact. Three examples, chosen for you.
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Vanarama
·Commercial growth
+35%
customer retention
+41%
customer lifetime value
−43%
acquisition cost
51→63
net promoter score
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Ford
·Proposition and membership
5
European markets
75%
member activation within six months
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EE / BT
·Customer experience
150+
pieces of content
2 in 3
users more confident
5.7m
social reach
2.2m
video views
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Next →Why Kithe
The people you meet are the people doing the work.
Straight answers, backed by evidence, delivered with care.
Built with the people who have to deliver it, so it survives contact with reality.
Outside
Behaviour
Needs
Value
Inside
People
Governance
Operating model
Capability
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Next →Who you'll work with
Every engagement is led by a senior consultant. When the work calls for specialist skills, we bring in trusted partners from our bench. One plan, one team, one person accountable.
An extraordinarily astute strategist, with a valuable ability to cut through complexity, identify clear business issues and build creative but pragmatic plans to address them.
Jamie Thorpe
·CXO, Kantar
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Your engagement lead
Founder & Managing Partner
Senior, hands-on and accountable from the first conversation to the last. The person in the room is the person doing the work.
Growth Strategy
Customer & Loyalty
Transformation
Specialist bench · brought in as the work needs it
Fieldwork, interviews and customer evidence
Service design, concepts and testing
Data engineering, modelling and measurement
Platforms, CRM and implementation partners
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Next →Our principles · IV³
Three principles we hold ourselves to, and ask of every client. They're how we move with pace without mistaking confidence for evidence.
See the full methodology ↗V¹ / Align
The right people are involved, assumptions are explicit and an idea stays an idea until it has earned the right to be more.
V² / Prove
No confirmation bias and no ego-led decisions. We test the riskiest assumption with the lightest credible test.
V³ / Move
Clear decision gates to move, iterate, pivot or stop. Visibility and Validation are what create Velocity.
Every engagement gets all three, held by us and by the client team alike.
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Next →Every engagement has a fixed scope, a clear fee and senior, hands-on delivery from day one.
How engagements are scoped ↗Typically 3–12 months
Executive leadership for growth, marketing, customer and loyalty. Owning the agenda from the first week.
2–4 weeks · fixed fee
A focused piece of work on a single decision, with a clear recommendation at the end.
6–16 weeks · fixed fee
A loyalty launch, a CRM operating model, a new CX function. Staged, scoped and led through to launch.
Monthly · rolling
Ongoing senior counsel for leadership teams navigating growth, change and important decisions.
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NEXT →Good work doesn't always start with a brief. It starts in one of three places, and each carries a different investment case.
I·1 / Evidence-first
The signal is real, but its meaning isn't certain yet. We test it before anyone builds on it.
I·2 / Conviction-first
There's energy and a sponsor. Customer appeal, feasibility and economics still need proving.
I·3 / Market-first
A shift in culture, a competitor or technology. Urgency isn't the same as direction.
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NEXT →Twenty minutes to talk it through. You'll leave with a clear view of how we'd approach it, what it would take and the investment required.
Kithe & Co · Growth & Transformation Consultancy