Barbara Nicholls
For Business · Track A

For organisations,
large or small.

Fractional leadership first, then six ways in. Pick the one that fits where you're stuck on data, systems or transformation.

I · The Engagements

Advisory, fractional
and fixed-scope.

Each one links to its own page with scope, outcomes and how to start.

I

The Leadership

Fractional and embedded. Someone to own the function.

Three to six months in the seat. I run the function, make the calls and leave a team that can keep it running.

II

The Kickstart

A fixed-scope reset for stalled or pre-launch programmes.

Five to ten days. Open questions settled, the plan reset, the team reading the same brief and signed up to it.

III

The Partnership

Principal-in-residence for work that keeps moving.

Ongoing advisory at your pace, on the calls you can't park. A senior operator beside you, not another deck.

IV

The Briefing

Get a team agreeing on what they're actually arguing about.

Focused sessions on one data, systems or operations question. Common ground and clear next steps.

V

The Delivery Diagnosis

Independent review of your systems and how they're run.

Fixed-price look at systems, data and delivery. Plain-language report in five business days. No vendor agenda.

VI

The Data Audit

Independent audit of the data your business runs on.

What you hold, where it lives, who owns it, whether it stands up. A report and a plan for what to fix first.

VII

Office Hours

90 minutes · £150 · For Founders, business & Leaders with a specific data, systems or transformation decision.

Bring one decision: a system choice, a migration call, a reporting question, a board question on data. Pre-read, recorded session, written follow-up.

Building a company?

There's a dedicated
founder track.

Fractional AI & data leadership, 1-2-1 mentorship, a strategy sprint or implementation support. Senior thinking at the right stage, without a full-time hire.

VI · What People Say

Words from the room.

A handful of notes from leaders, founders and chairs I've worked alongside.

Barbs walked into a programme that had been stuck for nine months and had us all reading off the same page inside a fortnight. The plan we left with was the one we actually ran.
Helena Marsh
COOFolio & Field
She tells you what she thinks. No fluff, no vendor agenda. Our board got a read on our data we could finally act on, and a short list of fixes we could start on Monday.
James Okafor
ChairNorthstone Group
Having Barbs in the room changed how we made the call. She knew the context from month two and saved us from at least one expensive mistake on the systems side.
Priya Shah
Founder & CEOLoomwork