Thursday 15 October 2026
9.30am – 6pm. In-person
Location: Events @No. 6
In-person
Now in its 5th year, our flagship Annual Summit brings together founders, leaders and experts from across the UK&I consulting industry to chart the next phase of sustainable growth. Under this year’s theme, Pioneer Progress, we will explore the ideas, practices and partnerships that move firms forward with confidence, even in unpredictable markets. Expect candid insights from consultancy founders who have been there, fresh evidence on what is working and plenty of space to connect with peers and partners. Come to sharpen your plan, stress-test your assumptions and leave with renewed momentum for 2027 and beyond.
The scale-up playbook, with Daniel Priestley
Daniel Priestley is a serial entrepreneur who has built and sold multiple successful businesses and authored five books on starting and scaling companies. He is the founder of Dent Global, an accelerator and venture studio with offices in the UK, Australia and Canada, supporting entrepreneurs and consultancy leaders to scale more strategically and sustainably. He is also the co-founder of ScoreApp, an AI-powered marketing platform used by clients in more than 150 countries.
In this session he will show consultancy leaders how to move beyond relying on reputation, referrals and founder-led sales, and build a business that creates demand more deliberately: sharpening your positioning, building authority, generating better leads and creating the conditions for sustainable scale.
Reading the market and leading through volatility, with Charles Vivian
Charles Vivian has spent 30 years in professional services, progressing from graduate trainee to CEO, founder, investor, NED and Chair. He has built, run, bought and sold consulting businesses worldwide, and has lectured on how to build and run professional services firms at London Business School and Saïd Business School, Oxford.
In this session he will cut through the noise on where the consulting market is heading: which signals to watch, where to place your bets, and how to protect your margin in choppy conditions. He’ll also share how to lead focused teams through the volatility, drawing on research around motivation and productivity.
Making the impossible possible, with Baroness Sue Campbell
Baroness Sue Campbell began her career as a PE teacher, became chair of UK sport, during which time she oversaw Team GB’s rise from 10th to 3rd in the Olympic medal table between 2004 and 2012. She then went on to become Director of Women’s Football at The FA, helping to transform the women’s game by doubling participation, growing audiences and professionalising elite competitions.
Drawing on the turnaround of Team GB and women’s football, she will show how to build belief in a bold vision, unite people behind change and create a culture where your team feels part of something bigger than their billable work. She’ll also share her thinking on leading with conviction when the right call isn’t the popular one, drawing on the mantra that helped double participation in women’s football and quadruple its fan base: “there is no barrier that cannot be overcome.”
The decisions we’d make differently and the hard lessons won, Growth Expert panel
TCGN’s Growth Expert panel brings together three experienced advisers: Sarah Matthew, Susan Lohr and Chris Parry, who have built, led and supported consulting businesses through different stages of growth. In this session, they will tackle one of the most valuable questions any consultancy leader can ask: “What would you do differently with the benefit of hindsight?”
The discussion will follow the journey from getting traction to £1m, building from £1m to £5m and scaling towards £10m, £20m and beyond. Expect candid lessons on proposition, pricing, go-to-market strategy, management teams, process, culture and the decisions that become harder to unwind as a firm grows. This session is designed to help consultancy leaders spot the traps before they hit them, challenge the assumptions that may be holding them back and make better decisions about their next stage of growth.
Highlights and feedback from last year’s Summit
Watch the video below for highlights from last year’s Annual Summit.
What previous attendees have said about the Summit
Our speakers
Daniel Priestley
Daniel Priestley is a serial entrepreneur, author and founder of Dent Global, an accelerator and venture studio supporting entrepreneurs and consultancy leaders to scale. He is also co-founder of ScoreApp, an AI-powered marketing platform used in more than 150 countries. He speaks on positioning, lead generation, authority building and scaling service-based businesses.
Charles Vivian
Charles Vivian is an experienced professional services leader, adviser, Chair, NED, founder and investor. He has led and supported consulting firms through growth, transformation, international expansion, fundraising, leadership transition and sale planning. He is also a visiting speaker and tutor at Saïd Business School and London Business School.
Baroness Sue Campbell
Baroness Sue Campbell DBE is one of the UK’s most influential leaders in sport. Her career spans education, governance, elite performance and major organisational transformation, including senior roles with the Youth Sport Trust, UK Sport and The FA. Her work offers consultancy leaders a powerful perspective on building belief, developing talent and leading lasting change.
Marc Jantzen
Marc is the founder of The Consultancy Growth Network. He previously built and sold his multi-award winning sales, service and cultural transformation consultancy, Blue Sky, to Capita in 2016. He now advises, coaches and mentors consulting leaders across all aspects of their growth journey, with a particular specialism in sales.
Sarah Matthew
Multi-award-winning entrepreneur and mentor who has scaled and sold two consulting firms. Now a NED, angel investor, accredited transformational coach and leader at The Vibrant Company, providing consulting, coaching and mentorship.
Susan Lohr
Susan Lohr is one of TCGN’s Growth Experts. She has built and sold two pharma consultancies, both with sector-leading profit margins, and co-founded a US-based SaaS pharma data business. Her experience spans consultancy growth, commercial strategy, capability development and successful sale processes.
Chris Parry
Chris Parry has seen consultancy growth from every angle - as founder, buyer, seller, board adviser, coach and Growth Expert. She built a £10m consultancy, sold it, then helped double its size before its acquisition by IBM. More than 30 years later, she's still fascinated by one question: how do you build a business that's commercially exceptional and deeply human? That's the question she now helps ambitious leaders answer.
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