PRIVATE COUNSEL
Kellaways is a strategic management consulting firm, focusing on Board and c-suite issues of reputation and trust.
As private counsel to leaders, Kellaways offers undelegated, unconflicted advice that helps businesses navigate the complexity of the world.
WORKING TOGETHER
Kellaways offers direct counsel to business leaders on the critical issues they are facing, working in depth and as a trusted insider to ensure best advice.
International in mindset and experience, we bring unrivalled judgement and experienced counsel, together with the knowledge of how best to access global networks and the resources of leading advisors from around the world.
Governance
Geopolitics
Supporting leaders as they evolve governance, face corporate challenge, consider board effectiveness and resilience to outside attack, assess ESG footprint and ambitions
Helping assess the impact of political and geopolitical complexity on evolving business strategy
Leadership
Crisis
Transactions
Reputation
Assessing whether a company has the reputation and trust to pursue or defend against M&A; advise on strategies for success; the experience to lead through contested and agreed transactions
Formulating long-term strategies to engage stakeholders and networks, and position leaders and organisations for success
Advising on situation response, with consideration of how long-term reputation should drive near term response strategy; building crisis resilience and leading recovery
Building the right approach to deepen credibility, grow senior networks, platforms and intelligence for next-generation leaders
Governance
Supporting leaders as they evolve governance, face corporate challenge, consider board effectiveness and resilience to outside attack, assess ESG footprint and ambitions
Geopolitics
Helping assess the impact of political and geopolitical complexity on evolving business strategy
Leadership
Building the right approach to deepen credibility, grow senior networks, platforms and intelligence for next-generation leaders
Crisis
Advising on situation response, with consideration of how long-term reputation should drive near term response strategy; building crisis resilience and leading recovery
Transactions
Assessing whether a company has the reputation and trust to pursue or defend against M&A; advise on strategies for success; the experience to lead through contested and agreed transactions
Reputation
Formulating long-term strategies to engage stakeholders and networks, and position leaders and organisations for success
TIM PAYNE
Principal, Kellaways
Asia Chair and Senior Advisor,
Chair Mentors International (CMi)
A strategic advisor with over 30 years of experience, focusing on issues of critical reputation, risk, geopolitical complexity, M&A, crisis, and governance.
Tim had a background in politics and a career spanning the UK and US. He then founded and built, over 20 years, a market leading consulting practice in Asia.
He is now Principal at Kellaways, his own management consulting firm focused on areas of reputation and trust.
He is also the Asia Chair, and Senior Advisor to CMi, world’s leading mentoring partner for Chairs, CEOs, CEO succession candidates, CFOs and Senior Executives, accelerating their performance and impact.
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Tim was formerly Head of Asia and part of the global leadership team at Brunswick Group, the leading critical issues advisory firm.
Tim has worked on transactions and crises for many of Asia’s most significant companies, and on their highest profile issues around the world, as well as supporting leading global MNCs as they engage Asian markets. His appreciation for geopolitical, corporate, cultural, and personal complexities enables him to formulate strategies framed by context. His roots as a political campaigner, and his deep understanding of the micro and macro challenges facing the business world of Asia, strengthen his role as a transformative advisor.As a director of The Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong and as Vice Chair and former Chair of the 30% Club, Tim is a committed advocate for inclusion, diversity, and gender parity. He is a founding director of XBMA, the International Institute for the Study of Cross-Border Investment and M&A. He previously sat on the International Advisory Board of the Renmin University of China, School of Business in Beijing.
KELLAWAYS:
IN A NAME
“Kellaways is an Asia focused and global advisory firm. But its name comes from the West Country in the UK. In my family’s old village in Wiltshire, the Avon river frequently floods. For generations, farmers were blocked from taking their produce into town to sell.
“Over 500 years ago, a legacy was given by a local lady, Maud Heath, which was used to construct a raised causeway over the river at Kellaways’ bridge. 68 arches kept commerce flowing and people safe as the river flowed below.”
CONTACT US
TIM PAYNE
PRINCIPAL
tim@kellaways.com