Growth Advisory with a People Lens

Connect the Dots, Unleash Potential

METOCHI CONSULTING is your strategic partner and advisor during significant growth events.

Whether you’ve just raised a round, are scaling your team, entering new markets, or navigating a major business change we help you get the team ready for the next phase.

Who we are

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DR MELVINA METOCHI
Founder

I set up Metochi Consulting to help SMEs navigate growth transitions successfully and achieve sustainable growth. Through numerous conversations with business leaders and owners over many years, I recognised the need for a trusted, strategic partner to help provide targeted, pragmatic, impactful people solutions to what may seem like intractable problems. Making sure the team is ready for the next phase is critical for success.

My background in industry, the corporate, and pubic sectors includes senior HR and change roles for FTSE 100 organisation, with both global and regional responsibilities across regulated entities in UK, Europe, North America and Middle East. These experiences coupled with my first hand experience in a family business, have provided me with a deep understanding of the challenges faced by business leaders and owners.

Today, I work closely with founders and leadership teams at scaling businesses — particularly those going through significant growth events like funding rounds, market expansion, or rapid team growth. I bring the strategic depth from 25+ years helping teams going through significant change in regulated sectors, to help earlier-stage businesses get their teams investor and growth ready.

It is particularly rewarding to see the tangible impact of the support and advice in helping businesses successfully navigate growth transitions.

Find out more about Dr Melvina Metochi

For Founders and Scale-ups

Get your Team ready for the next stage of growth

Focused support tailored to your growth stage — tells you where the gaps are and what to do first.

  • Know whether your team can deliver your post-funding plan

  • Get your first hires right — roles, structure, and timing

  • Build a comp and equity approach that attracts and retains

  • Move from firefighting to a people plan you can take to investors

  • Tailored implementation support to ensure that you are investor and growth ready

Start with a Team Impact Review

For Established SMEs

Evolve your team for what’s ahead

Clarity on structure, roles, and leadership — so your next growth phase is built on solid foundations.

  • Develop a people strategy that reflects where your business is heading, not just where it’s been

  • Identify and address the talent and leadership gaps that could slow your plans

  • Manage change and mitigate people risks during a transition — whether that’s an acquisition, restructure, or new market

  • Build the people foundations your business needs for its next phase of growth

Book a discovery call

Our Unique Approach

Our approach starts with your context and and is built on evidence — because no two businesses are the same.

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Context Driven

Effective people strategies reflect the uniqueness of the context you are operating in. With expertise at different growth stages, and across public, private and corporate sectors, we understand the success drivers in different settings and ensure they are integral to strategy development and solution design.

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Evidence Based

We ensure that solutions are backed by good quality and relevant evidence from multiple sources, including the latest research insights.

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Human Centered

With expertise in human-centered work and organisational design, we focus on preserving human potential during transitions. 

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What Sets Us Apart

Multi-Sector Expertise

Expertise from corporate, private and public sectors to support your plans at critical transitions

Expert Collaboration

Access to a broad network of experts to support specific specialist requirements in learning, reward, and talent acquisition.

Research Insights

We have access to the latest research insights to support the development of cutting-edge strategic people solutions.

  • Melvina has brought great expertise in talent and people strategy in advising on our growth phase. Her strategic mindset helped us to plan ahead with remarkable foresight.

    CEO, leading specialist consultancy

  • Melvina is a strong listener and communicator. Offers thoughtful questions, practice advice, and demonstrates a good understanding of the business.

    Advisory Board, HR Tech start up

  • Melvina’s contribution has been insightful in challenging with just the right questions to enable growth business leaders to reflect and gain new perspectives on what is really going to make a difference with their people needs.

    Paul Davies, Director Fraxinus Solutions Ltd

    Global IT Leader, Board Advisor

  • Melvina is one of the strongest HR leaders I have worked with, she has a wonderful balance of commercial reality and empathy that ensures fairness and equitable outcomes. In addition an uncanny knack of finding solutions sets her apart. Melvina looks at issues from many angles and adds value in any debate. During my time working with Melvina she was a true trusted partner, deep knowledge of whatever she did and a style that really engaged people.

    Andy Clark, CEO Eden Tree Asset Management

  • Melvina has an open and collaborative style. She is always willing to help and find pragmatic solutions to complex and challenging situations. I enjoyed working together and appreciated her support throughout our transformation journey.

    Senior Transformation Leader, leading Wealth Manager

How we can work together?

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We are keen to ensure that the approach that we adopt works for you and your organisation. There are different ways that we can work together as outlined below:

  • A project-based approach where we agree a fixed fee (Consulting assignment)

  • An agreement to join your business on a part-time basis and help you with delivery (Fractional)

  • Work with (or as part of) your Board/Advisory Board and CEO/Executive team to support your growth plans. We would agree the extent of the commitment required/expected (Advisory)

Contact us today

Your questions answered

Feel free to contact me if you have additional questions.

FAQs

  • Book a free discovery call. We’ll explore your context and outline tailored next steps. I will aim to get as much information on the context of your organisation to help me propose tailored next steps.

  • We work with founders, business owners, and leadership teams at businesses going through significant growth events —funding rounds, scaling phases, market expansion, M&A, and more. Whether you’re a 15-person startup that just raised or a 200-person business navigating change, we can help.

  • We understand that founder-led and small businesses face different challenges than medium-sized or larger businesses. Our approach is always customised to your growth stage and goals.

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