Strategy that actually works.

Every leadership team wants the same things: better results, stronger performance, and people who are genuinely engaged. We help you find the real opportunities and barriers, and build the path forward together.

Professional haircare
The insight behind our approach

Strategy doesn't work because people aren't trying.

Professional haircare companies today face a compounding challenge: growth is harder to achieve in a high-cost, consumer-uncertain and competitively crowded environment; strategies that exist on paper are stalling in execution; and in many cases, the organisation doesn't even know what the strategy is. The result is an industry where ambition consistently outpaces momentum.

01

Growth Under Pressure

Rising costs and market headwinds are forcing a choice: cut to survive, or build to stay resilient. The real issue isn't rising costs, but the absence of a clear growth architecture built for tougher economics. We help you grow smarter, not just leaner.

02

Strategy Stalls on Execution

Having a strategy isn't the same as being able to execute it. The gap between ambition and momentum is almost always organisational: capability gaps, decision bottlenecks, misaligned functions, disengaged people. All of it is diagnosable and solvable.

03

The Illusion of Clarity

Leadership believes the strategy is clear; the organisation hasn't heard it. When people don't feel the direction, the strategy stays on paper. Closing that gap takes more than communication. It takes genuine, inside-out alignment.

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Our approach

Practical, hands-on and people-centric: from strategy to delivery.

Inside out, not outside in

We work within your organisation, building trust, reading culture and shaping tools your teams genuinely own, with our hands-on support.

Clarity that creates momentum

We translate strategy into goals specific enough to activate focus, so people know their next step.

A roadmap, not a report

Mission, vision, proposition, capability, goals and 1/3/6/12-month actions: the whole organisation on the same page.

People-first, always

Relationships and emotional intelligence aren't soft skills. They're how you make change stick.

Our methodology

Five integrated phases, from diagnosis to execution.

Our approach is built for flexibility and impact: we start by understanding your current situation, then move directly toward what will unlock growth. Because every business has different priorities, our model is fully modular: you can activate exactly the phase you need, when you need it, ensuring fast engagement and immediate value.

1
Assess

Reality, unfiltered. A 360° evidence-based diagnostic across brand, market, channel and operations.

4–8 weeks
2
Create

Choices, not wishlists. A 3-year strategic roadmap with explicit trade-offs.

4–6 weeks
3
Activate

Plans with owners. Every choice turned into actions, timelines and KPIs.

3–4 weeks
4
Enable

Capability that sticks. Programmes built around your organisation's own goals.

3 months & ongoing
5
Execute

Hands where it matters. Fractional leadership through the critical execution phase.

3–12 months
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Engagement models

Work with us the way you need to.

Modular by design: span all five phases, or focus on the single area of greatest need.

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5

Strategy Transformation

Complete engagement from diagnosis to ongoing performance management. For functions and brands in strategic transition.

12–18 months
1 + 2

Strategy Sprint

Diagnostic and strategy development. Fixed fee. For brands needing strategic clarity before execution.

8–12 weeks
5

Execution Partner

Fractional or interim leadership in a defined function. For brands in a hiring transition or scaling fast.

6–12 months
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Who we are

Two operators who have led the businesses you're trying to build.

Isana Kontsevaya

Isana Kontsevaya

30+ yrs · P&G · Wella · Kao

Senior commercial executive with 30+ years in FMCG and 15 in professional haircare. Most recently EMEA VP for Kao Professional, leading 580 people across 14 markets.

Lara Zunica

Lara Zunica

25+ yrs · Wella · P&G · Coty

Passionate beauty executive with 25+ years across multinationals. Specialised in professional haircare, marketing, and education across global, regional and national roles.

About Us

We've led teams, built brands and driven growth across the world's most demanding beauty businesses. Now we bring that experience, and a proven method for making strategy real, directly to leadership teams.

Practical · Hands-on · People-centric

Done with plans that don't land?

Every engagement begins with a 360° assessment: we deep-dive with you and your lead team before any recommendation.

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