Tessiant was founded in February 2020 by Anna Barsby (Retail CIO), Matt Neale (Headhunter) and Alex Ball (Consultant) specialising in offering strategic advice and transformation delivery for retail and consumer businesses. Inspired by our own challenging experiences of leading and resourcing transformation, we combined our expertise into one offering ‘consulting reimagined’. With the mission to build the consultancy that we wish we could have had access to. We have since evolved our offering considerably adding a Unique Senior Advisory Service in 2021, meaning we can utilise the UK’s most Senior Professionals in our projects. 2021 also saw Stuart Smith (ex.COO Morrisons, Tesco) join our leadership team, expanding our capability into supply chain and operations. This year (2024) has seen us appoint a 5th Managing Partner, Anthony Ratcliff who will play a pivotal role in driving Tessiant's international growth and expansion of our service offerings, as we continue to scale up both in the UK and internationally. Tessiant is not your traditional consultancy. We are practitioners, because we have the perfect blend of experience and expertise. We understand our clients, because we are a unique mix of practitioners and high-grade consultants. We have been in your shoes; we have seen the world from your perspective and we know what it really takes to deliver change. Combining those together, we know what it takes to create a pragmatic and actionable strategy, and how to keep the focus and drive momentum to create the value. We help retail and consumer leaders succeed through advice, strategy and execution. Providing the right blend of expertise at the right time: expert advice because we have been there, and high-impact delivery because we have done that. We flex our support between three specialisms: strategy and change, technology and operations, alongside our unique senior advisory service (senior industry practitioners with first-hand experience).