Seven engagements, every one led personally by Max Fontana-Reval — portfolio chair, professionally qualified NED and former £10m+ CEO — and sized for SMEs: real governance, no PLC theatre. Unsure where to start? The diagnostic will tell you, reasoning shown.
View engagement →Independent chairmanship — agenda, cadence, accountability. Practised at MW Equipment & Unsigned Research.
View engagement →A qualified NED seat: constructive challenge with an operator's instinct, 1–2 days a month.
View engagement →Senior counsel without statutory weight — designed, recruited and chaired for you.
View engagement →8–12 weeks to make numbers, governance and story hold under diligence.
View engagement →Where AI changes your economics, how to govern it — and shipped delivery.
View engagement →A 4–6 week independent examination of how decisions really get made.
View engagement →Hands-on leadership for a defined problem — scoped, delivered, reviewed.
Run it free →Five questions. All seven engagements scored, reasoning shown — like a board paper.
If the hard part is how the board itself works, you need a chair or a review. If it's one missing voice, a NED. If it's a defined problem with an end-state, consultancy. If it's counsel without commitment, an advisory board.
Chairs, NEDs and clean governance are cheapest and most valuable installed twelve months before the capital event, the succession or the crisis — and most expensive retrofitted during one.
Most engagements begin with one seat or one scoped programme, with written success criteria and six-month reviews. Governance should earn its keep — and be seen to.
Five questions if you want structure. One email if you'd rather talk. Either way, a straight answer about what your board needs.