Leadership · Strategy · Transformation · Growth
For more than 25 years, we have worked with organisations around the world to improve performance, develop leaders, grow businesses and turn strategy into action.
Clemorton brings together experience in leadership, strategy, commercial growth and organisational transformation to help businesses deal with the challenges that can get in the way of progress.
The problem
Most organisations have a reasonable idea of where they want to go. The difficulty is turning that ambition into something the organisation can consistently deliver.
As businesses grow and change, priorities compete, responsibilities become less clear, managers are asked to lead in different ways and processes that once worked well can become a constraint. The underlying issue might sit in leadership, commercial performance, strategy, structure, capability or culture, although in our experience several of these are often connected.
We work alongside owners, CEOs and senior leadership teams to understand what is really getting in the way of performance and what needs to change. The answer is rarely another initiative for its own sake. Our role is to help organisations work through the issues that matter and turn that thinking into practical action.
What we do
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Good leadership has a direct impact on how an organisation performs.
We work with leaders at every level, from business owners and executive teams through to managers taking on leadership responsibility for the first time.
Our work includes executive coaching, leadership development, management capability, team effectiveness and helping leaders create the clarity and accountability their people need to perform.
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A strategy only has value if people can turn it into action.
We help leadership teams clarify where they are going, make better choices about what matters most and connect strategic priorities with the way the organisation actually operates.
That can involve strategic planning, leadership alignment, organisational design, performance, decision-making and creating greater clarity around roles and accountability.
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Change becomes difficult when the organisation is expected to operate differently but its people, processes and leadership have not changed with it.
We help organisations navigate transformation by working on the practical issues that determine whether change becomes embedded or gradually disappears.
Our work brings together leadership, behaviour, organisational capability, communication and implementation so that change works in practice as well as on paper.
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Growth creates opportunity, but it also exposes weaknesses that were easier to manage when the business was smaller.
We have extensive experience working with SME owners, founders, CEOs, commercial teams and growing organisations to improve sales and commercial performance, strengthen leadership capability and build businesses that are better equipped to scale.
We help clients look at growth as a whole, including strategy, customers, sales, leadership, people, capability and execution.
Stuart & Andy
Clemorton is led by Stuart Maddocks and Andy Clemson, who have worked together for more than 25 years.
During that time, we have worked on projects across the UK and internationally, supporting businesses and organisations of very different sizes and in very different sectors.
Between us, our experience spans leadership, business growth, commercial performance, sales, strategy, organisational development, coaching, technology and transformation.
There is deliberately a lot of overlap.
We do not divide a client's challenge according to who does what. We look at the organisation as a whole, bring different perspectives to the problem and work out what will make the biggest difference.
Clients also know who they are working with. The people involved in the initial conversation are the people who remain involved in the work.
Stuart Maddocks
Andy Clemson
Sectors and organisations
Over the last 25 years we have worked across a wide range of industries and organisations. That experience matters because context matters.
A leadership challenge in aviation can look very different from one in a professional services firm. A founder trying to scale an SME faces different pressures from an executive leading transformation across a large organisation.
We bring broad experience, but take the time to understand the environment in which our clients actually operate.
Leadership, operational performance, competence and organisational capability in complex, safety-critical environments.
Leadership, strategic change, management capability and organisational performance.
Leadership and team development in demanding professional and clinical environments.
Helping expert-led organisations strengthen leadership, commercial performance and organisational capability.
Leadership, role clarity, capability, performance and change in operational and technical businesses.
Helping owners and leadership teams manage growth, strengthen commercial performance and build the capability needed for the next stage of the business.
Our commitment
Clemorton is proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, formalising our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces community. That commitment has also been recognised with a Bronze Award through the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
For us, this is about more than recognition. We want to support the Armed Forces community in practical ways and build stronger connections between military experience and the organisations, leaders and businesses we work with.
Case studies
We have spent more than 25 years helping organisations deal with real business challenges.
That has included developing leaders around the world, helping commercial teams improve performance, supporting business owners through periods of growth, working with senior teams on strategic change and helping organisations build stronger management and organisational capability.
UCL ConsultantsDeveloping the negotiation capability of UCL Consultants' team to handle complex discussions involving academics, external organisations and internal stakeholders, from scope and commercial terms through to competing interests and project challenges.
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UnilodeInternational work supporting leadership and commercial capability in an operational aviation environment, connecting development directly with customers, people and business performance.
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SwissportMore than two decades of experience working within aviation, including international leadership and supervisory development across complex operational environments.
Explore Our Aviation WorkOrganisational Performance Diagnostic
It is not always obvious where a performance problem begins. Our Organisational Performance Diagnostic is designed to help leadership teams look at five areas that have a significant influence on their ability to deliver.
Complete the diagnostic to get an initial view of where your organisation is strongest and where there may be barriers to better performance.
Insights
We have spent our careers working with leaders, businesses and organisations rather than simply writing about them.
Our Insights bring together what we are seeing in organisations today with lessons learned over more than 25 years of consulting, coaching, building businesses and helping organisations change.
Topics include leadership, growth, commercial performance, strategy, organisational capability, AI, transformation and the changing world of work.
Most leadership teams put a great deal of thought into strategy. The difficulty often starts after those decisions have been made.
Stuart Maddocks & Andy Clemson · 7 min read
GrowthMost of the business owners we have worked with want their organisations to grow. The interesting part is what happens to the organisation as that growth starts to arrive.
Stuart Maddocks · 7 min read
LeadershipMuch of the success of an organisation's investment in strategy, technology and change depends on a group of people who are sometimes expected to work everything out for themselves.
Andy Clemson · 7 min read
Our approach
Some organisational problems need more than a workshop, report or consulting intervention.
Our work with Calibrate Technology has allowed us to take many of the principles we have used with organisations for years and support them with technology.
Calibrate, The People Operating System, helps organisations define what good performance looks like, understand workforce capability, identify gaps and support continuous development and performance.
Where it adds value, we can bring that capability into our consulting work. Where it does not, we do not.
You do not need to know which Clemorton service you need. Tell us what is happening in your organisation, what you are trying to achieve and what seems to be getting in the way, and we can start there.