Marcus Whitfield
Partner · Chartered Management Consultant (IMC)
Nineteen years in manufacturing operations, including plant director at two sites (450 and 720 staff), before founding Stratagem in 2017.
The firm · Sheffield · est. 2017
The people you meet are the people who turn up.
No leverage model, no rotating juniors. Three partners, thirty-four
engagements since 2017, and a rule that nobody sells work they
won’t personally deliver.
Dr Elena Vasquez
Partner
Process engineer; twelve years in automotive manufacturing systems, PhD in production scheduling. Joined 2018.
Priya Banerjee
Partner
Former finance director of a £60m fabrication group. Owns baselines, measurement and the success-linked fee workings on every engagement. Joined 2020.
How the firm runs
- Two engagements at a time, firm-wide
- Capacity is the product. We run at most two concurrent engagements so partners are on your floor weekly, not reviewing a junior’s notes monthly.
- Chartered, insured, audited
- CMC accreditation through the Institute of Management Consultants; professional indemnity to £5m; baselines signed by your FD before our first invoice.
- Fees part-linked to the number
- The embed phase carries a success-linked element against the signed baseline. When we say we stay until it moves, the invoice agrees.
- We decline more than we take
- Wrong sector, wrong size, or a problem that’s really a people decision dressed as an ops one — we say so at the first call and suggest where to go instead.