Vantage
The GC Programme
Your GC is one of your most underleveraged assets. Vantage changes that.
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Most businesses hire a GC and then leave them to figure it out. Establish themselves. Work out where they fit. Decide what to prioritise. Do it all while handling whatever lands on their desk.
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It's the wrong way to deploy one of your most valuable senior hires.
And it costs you: in missed opportunities, in misaligned priorities, and in a legal function that reacts to problems rather than helping you avoid them.
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Vantage is the programme that changes that. Fast.
What you get out of it
A GC who operates at the level your business needs. Not a legal function that handles problems. A strategic driver who understands the plan, has the mandate to protect it, and has the confidence and credibility to tell — not ask — your business what it needs to hit its goals.
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By the end of Vantage, your GC will have:
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A deep understanding of what your business truly needs from its legal function to land the plan
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A clear, agreed mandate with your Exec team — everyone knows what the legal function is there to do and why
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A rigorous, prioritised legal business plan — what gets done, in what order, with what resources
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The confidence and authority to act as the CEO of your legal function
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The elevated perspective to scan ahead, spot what's coming, and keep the business on course
And you will have something just as valuable: the confidence that your legal function is aligned to your plan, not just managing your legal admin.
How it works
Vantage follows six carefully structured steps, each building on the last.
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It starts by getting completely under the skin of your business: its purpose, its plan, its ambition, its culture. Because a legal function that doesn't deeply understand what the business is trying to achieve can't possibly help it get there.
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From there, your GC works with your Exec team to establish a clear mandate on what the legal function is there to do, and just as importantly, what it isn't. That clarity alone transforms how your GC operates and how your business engages with them.
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The programme then moves into horizon scanning - bringing your senior team together to identify the threats your business isn't seeing, using the same fresh-thinking approach behind our Radar workshop. This gives your GC an immediate, visible win and establishes them as a strategic operator from the outset.
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The biggest step follows: your GC uses everything they've learned to diagnose and then tell your business exactly what it needs from a legal, compliance and risk perspective to hit the plan. Not ask. Tell. That shift in dynamic is transformative.
That diagnosis becomes a formal legal business plan: fully costed, fully prioritised, agreed with your Exec. It sets out what gets done, in what order, with what resources. And what doesn't get done, and what that means for the business.
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Finally, the programme establishes the infrastructure to run your legal function as a proper internal business, with the monitoring, reporting and support needed to deliver the plan and keep the business on course.
Throughout all of it, your GC has direct access to me whenever they need it — for advice, a sounding board, or a steer on whatever comes up day to day. So the foundational work never gets derailed by the immediate.
Who it's for
Vantage is for ambitious businesses that have a GC — or have just made that hire — and want them operating at their absolute best from the outset.
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It works particularly well when:
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A GC is new to the role or new to the business and needs to establish themselves quickly
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A GC is technically strong but hasn't yet made the transition to strategic business leader
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A business is scaling fast and needs its legal function to keep pace
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A CEO wants their GC thinking about the plan, not just the paperwork
If any of those sound familiar, this is the right conversation to have.
The details
4-6 month programme.
Worked through collaboratively with your GC.
Direct access to Andrew throughout.
Tailored to your business and your GC's specific starting point.
£40,000 + VAT
For a business with serious ambitions, the question isn't whether you can afford this. It's whether you can afford not to have your GC operating at this level.