Whether you are creating strategy from a blank page or refining your current direction, David Manning Consulting will help you build a strategic foundation that delivers growth, resilience, and long-term success.
At David Manning Consulting, we bring strategic clarity, leadership insight, and adaptive thinking to help individuals and organisations thrive in complexity. Through a combination of coaching, mentoring, and advisory support, we empower your leaders to build strategy that is visionary, resilient, and executable.
Here’s how we can help you and your organisation succeed:
How Can David Manning Consulting Help?
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Strategic Leadership Coaching & Mentoring
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Work one-to-one or with your leadership team to develop strategic thinking and decision-making, tailored to the environment you're operating in - or about to enter.
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Provide an independent, experienced viewpoint to challenge assumptions and unlock deeper insight across your strategic context.
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Guide senior executives through complex leadership challenges, transitions, or transformation initiatives with clarity and confidence.
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Turning Strategy into Action
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Translate your strategic vision into a coherent and achievable plan, identifying the 'ways' to reach your goals and the 'means' required to deliver them.
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Support your team in designing annual milestones, leadership accountability, and success measures that align with long-term outcomes.
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Develop clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MoEs) to track progress and demonstrate real impact.
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Strategy Development & Vision Setting
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Coach your team through the development of a clear, inspiring, and future-focused vision that defines your organisation’s strategic end-state.
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Mentor your strategy creation process, using best practice frameworks and a lens on emerging risks, disruptions, and global opportunities.
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Help shape strategy as a living, adaptive process, rather than a static plan - empowering your organisation to remain relevant and competitive.
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Strategic Risk and Resilience Advisory
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Provide expert advice on identifying, assessing, and managing strategic risks across a wide range of operational and business domains.
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Enable your organisation to adapt and respond to uncertainty while remaining focused on your core vision.
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Build leadership capability to anticipate shocks, navigate complexity, and drive sustained performance.
Client Examples & Strategic Impact
Our work spans sectors and scale—from senior defence command to SME transformation. Examples include:
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UK MRO Provider: Mentoring and strategic advice to the senior leadership team on future trends, strategic positioning, and planning.
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UK Defence SME: Acting as strategic advisor and aviation consultant; advising on restructuring and long-term strategy to support rapid growth. The Company has grown rapidly from 25 personnel to over 100 in the last 2 years, increasing turnover fourfold.
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International Government Client: Providing expert aviation input for a complex defence procurement strategy.
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RAF Air Mobility Force Commander: Led a full strategic reset of a 7,000-person enterprise, realigned force posture, and drove A400M operational capability development - critical to the Kabul Airlift (2021).
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RAF Capability Programme Leader: Delivered multi-billion-pound programmes including A400M (£2.4Bn), Voyager (£2.5Bn), and C-17 and Augusta 109SP training and sustainment solutions.
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COO, Defence Academy UK: Delivered organisational restructuring and strategy realignment - achieving £70M in efficiency savings over 10 years.
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Group Operating Duty Holder (RAF): Directed aviation risk and regulatory reform across 28 aircraft types and 16 aerial delivery systems; modernised policy and safety governance for high-risk operations.