Laurie is asked to undertake a wide variety of consultancy projects for leading public companies and for professional partnerships. Here is what some of his most recent clients have had to say about the issues they faced and how Laurie helped them achieve their objectives.

“Allen & Overy LLP is one of the world's leading law firms offering a wide range of legal services to clients in 19 different countries. The departure of our global marketing leader gave us the opportunity to reassess our global BD and marketing function in the light of our changing strategic ambitions and the appetite of our 460 partners. With an impressive efficiency and good humour, Laurie interviewed a wide range of partners, specialists and clients, in order to create a clear, practical route map. This enabled me to create a consensus around the characteristics of the new global leader we needed and the direction we should take with the entire function.”
David Morley - Managing Partner, Allen & Overy LLP
“Laurie must be one of a very few people who has been a client, a candidate and a supplier with our firm. In the latter role he has been involved in several high level projects over a ten year period which focused on the way our partnership approached its market. We still use, for example, the format for our proposals that he suggested, concentrating on our understanding of the clients need.
“The most notable project, though, was at time when we wanted to change from a regional to a sector emphasis. Laurie interviewed a range of clients and partners, synthesising a perspective of their views. He then used a marketing process, the GE matrix, to help the leadership create a consensus on market priorities which was used to shape our investments.”
Rae Sedel, Global MD Telecoms, Russell Reynolds Associates
“Following a period of rapid evolution in our international markets, caused in particular by unprecedented changes in client expectations and the regulatory environment, our global organisation initiated a review of our approach to growing our business. We engaged Laurie to analyse the competencies of our international marketing and business development network and to report on the structure, processes, and competencies we needed to meet changing conditions. Laurie was a pleasure to work with and produced a valuable and practical report, much of which we have implemented.”
Jerry Leamon - Global Managing Partner, Merger & Acquisition Services, Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
“Mergers Alliance is a fast growing network of independent mid-market M&A houses. We operate in 17 countries and in 2006 completed 80+ transactions with a value of $4bn, making the Alliance the best performing network. Having grown our network by adding members in dynamic markets such as India and China, we wanted to take a more structured approach to our growth strategies. We engaged Laurie to run a conference of the leaders and managing partners. We found the day to be an enlightening and practical experience for partners, taking them through a logical thought process to build the business in a cost effective way. We had positive feedback from all who attended.”