Advisory & coaching for consulting firms

Built to
grow.

Your ambition is bigger than your current organisation. Let's build the firm that can carry it.

Talk about your next chapter
From a few dozen consultants to 500 and beyond.
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A stronger business. A stronger leadership team.Discover the Follis approach
01 / The next chapter

Growing a team is one thing.
Growing a company
takes something more.

At a certain point, the way you got here starts to hold you back. Decisions stay with the founders. Managers need to become leaders. Growth brings complexity as well as opportunity.

Follis works alongside consulting leaders to connect strategy, organisation and leadership, so the next stage of growth has a solid foundation.

01
Strategic advisory

Choose your direction.
Build the business.

Turn ambition into choices about where to compete, how to organise and what to focus on next.

  • Growth strategy and implementation
  • Organisation design and operating rhythm
  • Commercial focus, performance and KPIs
02
Leadership & business coaching

Help your leaders
grow with the firm.

Give founders, business managers and leadership teams a practical sounding board for the decisions they face.

  • Leadership development and communication
  • Business-manager ownership and accountability
  • Talent development and management practices
03
Independent board support

A wider perspective.
A sharper conversation.

Bring independent challenge to the choices shaping your company's future, with attention to both ambition and execution.

  • Strategic challenge and decision support
  • Governance and leadership alignment
  • Continuity across growth and change
02 / Growth changes the job

Different scale.
Different questions.

Headcount is only part of the story. Choose a stage to explore the shifts your leadership team may be facing.

From founder-led to team-led

Create room
for others to lead.

When every important question comes back to the founders, growth consumes the very people driving it. The next step is clearer ownership and a management team that can take responsibility.

  • Clarify roles and decision-making
  • Build a focused commercial and talent plan
  • Establish a useful management rhythm
Discuss your growth stage

Illustrative stages, not a fixed formula. Your starting point depends on your business.

03 / How we work

Close to your business.
Focused on the work.

Advice earns its place when it helps you make a better decision, have a better conversation or change how the business runs.

01 / Understand

Start with
your reality.

Explore the business, the numbers and the people. Make the underlying growth challenges visible before jumping to solutions.

02 / Focus

Make the
important choices.

Agree on the priorities, the responsibilities and what progress should look like. Connect the company ambition to the leadership agenda.

03 / Follow through

Turn insight
into practice.

Work on real decisions through advisory and coaching. Review what is changing, challenge what is stuck and adjust as the firm evolves.

The format follows the need: a focused strategic question, a leadership coaching journey or an ongoing advisory relationship.

Nick Allaert, founder of Follis
Nick AllaertFounder / Follis
04 / Your sparring partner

A business is built
by its people.

Follis is Nick Allaert's advisory and coaching practice for leaders building consulting companies.

Nick brings hands-on experience in technology consulting leadership, business development, P&L responsibility and organisational change. His work connects company strategy with the people and management practices needed to make it happen.

The conversation can move from company direction to a business manager's day-to-day decisions, always with the wider business in view.

Nick Allaert
Follis · Advisory & coaching
05 / Starting the conversation

A few good
questions.

Is Follis a fit for our firm?

Follis focuses on consulting companies that want to grow and professionalise, from a few dozen consultants to 500 and beyond. The common thread is a leadership team ready to work on the business as well as in it.

Do we start with advisory or coaching?

Start with the question you are trying to solve. Company strategy, organisation and performance may call for advisory. Leadership, ownership and management practices may call for coaching. Many situations connect the two.

Who is involved in an engagement?

That depends on the challenge. It can involve founders and partners, the executive team, business-unit leaders or individual business managers. The right participants and scope are agreed together.

What happens in a first conversation?

We explore your company, your ambition and what is getting in the way. From there, we can discuss whether Follis is a fit and what a useful engagement could look like. Scope, timing and fees are agreed before work begins.

The next chapter starts with a conversation.

What are you
building towards?

Tell Nick where your firm is today
and where you want to take it.

Let's talk
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