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Broadstairs Consulting Ltd

Strategic Board Advisors to Leaders in Sports, Media,
and Politics.

Strategic Board Advisors to Leaders in Sports, Media, and Politics.

Are you stuck at an impasse that is disrupting progress?

We’ll help you live out your organisation's vision with consensus and move forward with clarity, focus, and momentum.

Make an enquiry

Strategic Board Advisors to Leaders in Sports, Media,
and Politics.

Are you stuck at an impasse that is disrupting progress?

We’ll help you live out your organisation's vision with consensus and move forward with clarity, focus, and momentum.

Make an enquiry

Why us?

Broadstairs Consulting Ltd offers a range of consulting services designed to help organisations and leaders thrive and flourish.

Our founder and CEO, Leah Brown FRSA is an experienced corporate M&A lawyer and accredited mediator with hundreds of hours of boardroom experience. She has a keen eye for detail and is quickly able to understand complex problems. Broadstairs Consulting brings together a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to form a team that is able to ask the right questions and work with clients to achieve the best solutions.

A fresh perspective

Our team is here to serve your complex organisational needs. Our candid approach will help you weather a crisis with integrity and grace.

Our team is here to help, bringing new ideas and approaches to situations that threaten to distract, destabilise or derail.

Relationship first

We rely on data insights and human intelligence to deliver results-driven solutions.

People lie at the heart of business. That's why we use mediation and facilitated conversation to foster healthy team cultures, supported by healthy governance structures.

Track record

We have excellent in-house experience advising in crisis situations and facilitating better governance.

Our experienced team has a track record of finding solutions that work.

Our services

Find out what we do

Find out what we do

Crisis advisory

We offer expert support and guidance during times of crisis, developing tailored plans to mitigate risk and manage crises effectively.

Governance advisory

Our team is experienced in identifying and developing solutions to governance problems. We work with leaders to understand what is working well whilst identifying areas for improvement.

Mediation

Our mediation services provide a neutral and safe environment for participants to resolve disputes and reach mutually beneficial agreements.

Speaking engagements

Broadstairs Consulting Ltd is a team of people who love to talk.

We want to work with you to do whatever it takes to get your organisation back on track.

We exist to help organisations thrive and flourish.

Our team of strategic advisors investigate, manage, and resolve complex organisational problems that hamper business as usual.

Our approach is fundamentally relational. We are all about people. By seeking to strengthen leadership teams we assess and resolve problems together with you. Our track record shows that we know what to do when things go wrong. There is very little that surprises us.

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Broadstairs Consulting plans to register as a B Corp. We re-invest a proportion of our profits back into values-led charitable organisations. We want to buck the consultancy trend by being sustainable and relationship-driven.

Our team will sit within your existing teams to ensure that your business is equipped to address immediate and future challenges.

Meet the team

Leah Brown

Founder and CEO

Nadia Burrell

Head of Project Delivery

Tom Brewster

Project Consultant

Saphy

The Dog

Want to be a part of the dream team? Send us a message!

Testimonials

“We would recommend Broadstairs Consulting to any organisation, whatever size, whatever industry, whether at the start of their journey, or wanting to improve on what is already in place. They will inevitably up your game in ways you didn’t even imagine”.

Co-Chairs, Local Community Organisation

“Other advisers failed to get to the heart of the issue, but Broadstairs Consulting’s clear approach found a transformative solution that aligned long-term business and partner interests in a way that enabled the matter to reach settlement.”

Director, Recruitment Partnership

“Leah’s in-depth analysis of documentation allowed her to demonstrate that the gaps were even more extensive than even I had initially realised. It is rare to find someone who understands structural issues with such sophistication yet has the heart and people skills to be so very kind with it all. Leah helped turn a train wreck into a regenerative process for me and the organisation” 

Director, Psychology Charity

“Leah was very professional and transparent with her capabilities, giving clear and constructive advice as a consultant with a strategic eye for finding solutions to a complex organisationally threatening situation. We would highly recommend Leah and Broadstairs Consulting if you need advice or support in assessing and creating realistic workable plans and implementing change in complex situations. 

Manager, Sporting Charity

“Leah possesses an extraordinary range of skill-sets that reflect a unique balance of emotional and intellectual intelligence that delivers world class professionalism and problem solving for any organisation, institution or entity.”

Chair, UN NGO and UK Charity

“There is very little that surprises Leah.”

Senior Manager, Mortgage Brokers

“Leah ably led our team through a game-changing strategy facilitation session: we are confident she will exceed your expectations”

Faith Based Organisation

“Leah produces a staggering amount of work in a tiny span of time with an incredibly high quality of output”

Fintech Client

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It’s natural to try and weather a small storm of disagreement.

After all, great leadership requires healthy conflict from time to time.

It’s a sign that you’re around those who will challenge you, hold themselves and others accountable, and demand transparency.

It’s a sign you have the right people sitting around the table.

A table of free-thinkers and changemakers.

The truth is… as leaders in a polarised society, you don’t need to agree on everything.

However, this becomes a problem when an ongoing disagreement keeps you stuck in a deadlock situation that inhibits progress.

In moments like these, you can feel like you’re going around in circles, having the same conversations over and over again, and getting nowhere.

You just don’t have time for it. There are one thousand other responsibilities that require your attention.

And the longer this impasse lingers, the more potential it has to distract, destabilise, and derail the implementation of your vision.

Effective communication is often all it takes to find common ground and get back on track.

Broadstairs Consulting has that covered.

We’re a boutique board advisory firm with a heart for reconciliation.

Using facilitative mediation, we help unify leaders grappling with conflict or impasse through solution-focused conversations that move them in the direction they want to go.

We can help you to rapidly turn things around.

And the reason this is so important is because the consequences of letting these issues fester can pose acute challenges…

It’s natural to try and weather a small storm of disagreement.

After all, great leadership requires healthy conflict from time to time.

It’s a sign that you’re around those who will challenge you, hold themselves and others accountable, and demand transparency.

It’s a sign you have the right people sitting around the table.

A table of free-thinkers and changemakers.

The truth is… as leaders in a polarised society, you don’t need to agree on everything.

However, this becomes a problem when an ongoing disagreement keeps you stuck in a deadlock situation that inhibits progress.

In moments like these, you can feel like you’re going around in circles, having the same conversations over and over again, and getting nowhere.

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A fresh perspective

Our team is here to serve your complex organisational needs. Our candid approach will help you weather a crisis with integrity and grace.

Our team is here to help, bringing new ideas and approaches to situations that threaten to distract, destabilise or derail.

Relationship first

We rely on data insights and human intelligence to deliver results-driven solutions.

People lie at the heart of business. That's why we use mediation and facilitated conversation to foster healthy team cultures, supported by healthy governance structures.

Track record

We have excellent in-house experience advising in crisis situations and facilitating better governance.

Our experienced team has a track record of finding solutions that work.

Faith Amurao

Copywriter / Events

Christine holds various Diplomas and Certificates and has a wealth of experience in both large and small companies. Her key skills and expertise are office management/administration, project management, organising events/conferences and teaching/training. She lives in Westgate-on-Sea and enjoys gardening, travelling, card/jewellery making, and volunteering. Her values in life are kindness and integrity and her motto is “inspiration is found in the development of others”.

Nadia Burrell

Nadia is an accredited mediator with the Society of Mediators and established Thanet Mediation Centre. In her work with Broadstairs Consulting, she works closely with organisations to get to the root of their problems and identify the road to resolution. With experience working in the charity, government, and corporate sectors, Nadia has mediated problems from every angle.

Leah Brown FRSA

Leah is an accredited mediator with the Society of Mediators, and the Founder and CEO of Broadstairs Consulting. During her career as a corporate M&A lawyer, Leah found her voice through creative expression. Having written a book on transformation and becoming a self-employed consultant, Leah felt compelled to establish a problem-solving business that helped leaders get to the bottom of business-critical issues.

Saphy

The Dog

Sapphira (“Saphy”) is our sassy micro dog. She keeps us all in check and her Cavapoo charm wins over everyone who meets her. Her favourite place is on a sandy beach chasing a ball. She’s partial to a coffee shop with a comfy sofa but prefers a wine bar or a five star hotel. Her adventures can be found on Instagram @saphythesplendiferous.

Nadia Burrell

Project Lead

Nadia is the Project Lead based in London. She works closely with organisations to get to the root of their problems and identify the road to resolution. She is also an accredited mediator. With experience working in the charity, government, and corporate sectors, Nadia has solved problems from every angle. Her favourite place in the world is Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakech, enjoying the sunset and eating street food.

Tom Brewster

Head of Operations

Prior to this role, Tom worked with teenagers for ten years in church settings. That work cultivated a passion for helping people grow, develop and explore. He loves to see people working well together, and enabling teams to thrive and achieve their full potential. He is also studying for an MA, and is the director of Joyful Noise, a song-writing and publishing business. His favourite place in the world is the Lake District.

Owen Rees-Jones

Head of Marketing

After initially training as an architect, Owen made the move into digital advertising. With nearly a decade of experience in content production, programmatic advertising and creative strategy, Owen is passionate about the power of creativity and seeing how it can transform businesses. He is also always up for a beer and a board game and his favourite place in the world is probably somewhere in Africa.

Leah Brown

Founder and CEO

After a career as a corporate M&A lawyer, Leah found her voice through creative expression. Having written a memoir on transformation and becoming a self-employed consultant, Leah felt compelled to establish a problem-solving business that helped leaders get to the bottom of business-critical issues. She has a heart for reconciliation and is a team-player. With a long and distinguished track-record of managing crises, and as an accredited mediator, she is a regular speaker on leadership, governance, transformation and authenticity. In her free time, she enjoys engaging with the community in Thanet, walking Saphy on the beach, and hosting dinners. Her favourite place in the world is where she grew up in the Yorkshire Dales.

Viola Kanu

Operations Coordinator

Viola is passionate about social justice and has 10 years of experience in social policy, community engagement and grassroots organisation. In her spare time, she enjoys investing in the futures of young people and spending time with her loved ones. She is an avid lover of tech and enjoys the finer things of life. Her favourite place to go to is the White Cliffs of Dover where she reflects, meditates and takes in the scenery.