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Client partnerships
The core engagement. We embed with your team, own a share of the outcome, and stay until the new model carries load on its own.
The word is in our name because it is how the work is structured. We take on the same numbers our clients carry, and we hold the same standard with the networks we align ourselves to.
Most consulting is structured so the risk sits entirely with the client. A senior name wins the work, a junior team delivers it, a document lands, and whether any of it survives contact with the business is somebody else’s problem.
We built IBG the other way around because we have run businesses ourselves. We have hired and fired, raised capital and carried payroll, and we know the value is not in the recommendation. It is in whether the thing holds once the consultant has left the room.
So we work as partners. Senior practitioners do the work rather than sell it. We are accountable to the same numbers our clients are. And nothing leaves the building without an independent second pair of eyes on it, which is the discipline we call Vera checked™.
The core engagement. We embed with your team, own a share of the outcome, and stay until the new model carries load on its own.
Accountants, brokers, agencies and lawyers who see the problem before we do. You keep the relationship; we take the work you cannot staff.
Specialists we bring onto engagements when a client needs depth we do not hold in-house. The same review standard applies to their work as ours.
Organisations running their own certified standard for the people inside them. Henosis is the first, covering wellness practitioners.
Henosis is a global certification network and directory for wellness practitioners, spaces and retreats. It is a separate organisation with its own standard, and we partner with it because that standard is earned rather than purchased.
The two organisations solve the same problem at opposite ends of the market. IBG exists because a business cannot tell a capable consultant from a confident one until the invoice has been paid. Henosis exists because a person looking for a practitioner cannot tell, from a category tag or a star rating, what they are actually walking into.
Both answers turned out to be the same answer: a mark that means something because somebody independent assessed the work and put their name to it. Ours is Vera checked™. Theirs is certification against a published standard, and it is never sold.
The partnership runs in both directions. A certified Henosis practitioner building a business gets the commercial side handled by people who have run one. An IBG client operating in wellness, hospitality or retreat gets reach into a network of practitioners whose work has already been assessed.
A senior practitioner works out what you actually need and whether we are the right people for it. Sometimes we are not, and we say so.
We look at how you work and how we work. Where a partner carries their own mark or standard, we check it holds before we put our name beside it.
What each side brings, who owns which relationship, how referrals and revenue are handled. Written down before anything starts.
Partnerships get reviewed the way engagements do. If it is not producing for both sides, we change it or we end it cleanly.
Whether you are a business looking for a partner rather than an advisor, or an organisation whose people need the commercial side handled, the first conversation costs nothing.