Boutique Strategy Consulting
MK partners with businesses to close the gap between strategy and commercial results. In as little as 90 days, with the delivery discipline to stay accountable and the integrity to leave when the job is done.
Track Record
About MK
Most consultants are excellent at two things: the diagnosis and the deck. What they consistently fail to deliver is the middle. The hard, unglamorous work of making the strategy actually happen. That's where transformations die.
MK is built for the middle. We hold the accountability clients ask for.
"We don't study transformations. We've led them."
— Eoin Keating, Founder
Services
Every engagement begins with a defined mandate, a measurable exit milestone, and a commitment that the founder delivers the work.
01
"Our strategy exists but nothing is moving."
Mandate definition, Operating Rhythm deployment, weekly delivery governance, milestone tracking, and capability handover, all the way through to live results, not just the deck.
90-day fixed scope02
"We have a product and it's not generating enough revenue."
GTM strategy, sales process design, CRM and KPI framework, and a commercial operating model. MK stays to execute, not just advise. Revenue is the metric.
60–90 day fixed scope03
"Our program is behind and governance is broken."
PMO design and leadership. Workstream architecture. Escalation paths that function. Executive reporting that tells the truth. Built on the MK Operating Rhythm.
90–180 day scope04
"We need senior execution talent, possibly permanently."
The only consulting model where clients can convert MK consultants to full-time employees at a standard recruitment fee. Derisk talent acquisition with no friction and no guesswork.
Day-rate + recruitment fee on conversionWhy MK
Any firm can say they focus on execution. Only MK has a named, structured process — the MK Operating Rhythm — with a time commitment, weekly accountability checkpoints, and a defined exit milestone agreed before work begins.
The founder has held the accountability clients ask MK to advise on, with real P&L consequences, at the executive level. This is not a career consulting background reframed as operational experience. It's the reverse.
Project-based, outcome-tied pricing means MK's commercial incentive is identical to the client's: deliver the result, then leave. No financial incentive to extend, complicate, or create dependency.
The only consulting model where clients can convert MK consultants into permanent employees at a standard recruitment fee. Derisk talent acquisition, no friction, no fee shock, no damaged relationship.
MK will tell a prospective client when their situation is not the right fit — and what would be better. Buyers who have been burned reward honesty with trust. Institutional firms cannot say this. MK can.
Every engagement is founder-delivered. The person with the track record does the work. Always.
The MK Operating Rhythm
A 90-day delivery architecture with defined phases, weekly accountability checkpoints, and a named exit milestone agreed before work begins. Not a methodology document — a live operating structure that runs for the duration of every engagement.
Week 1–2
Align on the real problem. Define success in measurable terms. Agree on the exit milestone before a single billable hour is spent.
Mandate document — one page, no ambiguityWeek 2–4
Build the execution infrastructure: governance, KPIs, workstream design, and accountability model. The invisible infrastructure that makes delivery possible.
Operating rhythm · Reporting framework · Decision rightsWeek 4–10
Execute against the plan. Weekly checkpoints. Escalation paths live from day one. If something isn't working, that conversation starts in week four — not week twenty-two.
Weekly status · Fortnightly exec update · Issues logWeek 10–13
Document what was built. Train the team that will own it. Define what success looks like after MK leaves. MK's test: can you still point to results six months later?
Capability handover pack · Post-engagement success criteriaThe MK Talent Bridge
MK is the only consulting firm that actively enables its consultants to become part of your team, with no friction, no fee shock, and a commercial model that makes it a win for everyone. Every conversion is a proof point. MK treats it as a success, not a loss.
Learn MoreEvaluate senior talent in your real environment, over a live engagement, before committing to a hire. Zero agency guesswork. Zero onboarding risk.
A genuine career development pathway. Not a back-channel, rather an explicit, transparent opportunity built into the engagement model from day one.
A recruitment fee at standard rates. A reference. A future client relationship. And a proof point that the model works exactly as designed.
Big 4 and PE-backed consultancies structurally cannot do this, losing billable headcount reduces revenue or valuation. MK's outcome model makes it the rational choice.
Hard Questions, Direct Answers
"You're one person. What happens if you're ill?"
MK deliberately doesn't scale. You get Eoin Keating on every engagement — not handed to a junior team. Every engagement includes a named deputy from MK's contractor network and a documented operating model current within the week. The work is never in one person's head. It's in the system.
"Every firm says they focus on execution."
The difference is structural, not rhetorical. MK's fees are tied to defined outcomes, not time spent. The exit milestone is agreed before we start. If we're not delivering, that conversation happens in week four, not week twenty-two.
"Where are your references at our scale?"
MK is a new firm. The founder is not. The experience is at your scale: $1.5B integrations, enterprise-wide transformation programs, business unit P&Ls. The commercial model is outcome-based because we have skin in the game from day one.
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