Independent consultancy for energy, engineering and project-based businesses
I am Mwata Belgrave. I help leaders of mid-sized companies work through growth, a change of direction or pressure to reduce costs. Together, we turn the decisions ahead into clear priorities, workable responsibilities and changes your team can put into practice.
Planning an ERP implementation? Explore the ERP guide.
Selected experience
Offshore energy engineering company
A changing market, new management and a recovery agenda called for a clear plan for the next phase of the business.
Working with management and the group board, my contribution covered strategy, the organisation, budgets and capacity, alongside project control and commercial decisions. I also supported newly appointed managers as they took on their responsibilities.
Where I can help
You may already know what needs to change. The difficulty is finding the time, making the choices and getting the organisation to work differently.
Decisions wait, experienced staff are constantly interrupted, and new managers are unsure what they can decide. I help clarify responsibilities and set up management routines, so the organisation can support its new size.
The structure was built for a different order book, owner or market. You need to adapt without losing skills the business will need again. I help compare workload, capacity and costs, work through the options and plan the changes with your management team.
Priorities compete, budgets still follow the old plan, and people are unsure what the new direction means for their work. I help turn strategic choices into a plan, with clear responsibilities, resources and follow-up.
Scope changes go unpriced, forecasts arrive late, and completed work can wait too long to be billed. I help strengthen project control and management reporting, so you can see where performance is changing and decide what to do about it.
Teams rely on separate spreadsheets and disagree about what a new system should do. The people needed for implementation are already busy. I help prepare the business, agree requirements and lead the business side of selection and implementation.
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Your specialists spend time searching for information and repeating work. You want to understand where AI could help, what it would take and how to judge the result. I help identify useful applications and plan a manageable first test with your team.
Working together
Tell me what has changed, where the business is getting stuck and what you need to decide. We can start with a conversation to understand the situation and whether my experience is relevant.
If there is a useful next step, I will propose a scope, the people involved and what the work should produce. We agree the approach and fees before starting.
A sounding board for managing directors and management teams: challenge assumptions, work through difficult choices and prepare for important discussions.
Focused work on a specific need, such as an organisation review, a business plan, better project reporting, an ERP selection or an AI opportunity assessment.
Additional management capacity to help lead and carry through change. We agree responsibilities and the mix of remote and on-site work around the assignment.
I work across Europe in English and Dutch.
The ERP implementation guide
A new system brings important decisions long before go-live. This guide helps you and your team prepare the business, agree requirements, choose a vendor and plan the implementation.
PDF · About 95 pages · 13 chapters · 8 appendix tools
€99 including VAT
I am developing an AI tool to support bid and proposal work. If this is part of your role, I would like to understand which tasks take the most time and where useful support is missing.
You do not need a finished brief. A few lines about the situation and the decision ahead are enough to start.
