Barbara Nicholls
For Business · Track A

For organisations,
large or small.

Six engagements plus Office Hours. Advisory, fractional and fixed-scope work for businesses sitting with a real call on data, systems, operations or transformation. Pick the one that fits where you're stuck.

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 actually own the function.

Three to six months embedded with you. I run the function and leave a team behind that can keep it running. A working team and a working system.

II

The Kickstart

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

Five to ten days to get the team reading the same brief, settle the open questions and reset a programme that's stopped moving. You leave with a plan the team has actually signed up to.

III

The Partnership

Principal-in-residence for organisations whose work keeps evolving.

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

IV

The Briefing

Briefings that get a team agreeing on what they're actually arguing about.

Focused sessions on a single data, systems or operations question. The team leaves with common ground and a better set of next steps.

V

The Delivery Diagnosis

Fixed-scope, independent review of your systems and how they're run.

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

VI

The Data Audit

Fixed-scope, independent audit of the data your business runs on.

What you hold, where it lives, who owns it, whether you can trust it. A plain-language report and a clear 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 a single decision: a stalled programme, a system choice, a migration call, a reporting or data question, an operating model question, or a board question on systems and 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