Oracle Elm Meadow works with leadership teams to map, connect and deliver complex organisational change, so every workstream knows where it sits and nothing falls between the gaps.
We read the situation carefully before we say anything.
Every dependency is drawn before any workstream begins.
Each piece of work is connected to the next, nothing floats free.
We pull the plan taut and look for what might snap.
The work closes with a document and a call, not a fade-out.
Colin Dunmore set up Oracle Elm Meadow in the spring of 2017 after spending more than a decade inside large consultancies where the distance between the people doing the thinking and the people doing the work kept…
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Read more →"Colin Dunmore spent eleven years inside large professional services firms before deciding that the work he cared about most kept getting buried under layers of process. He had led programme governance reviews for a regional infrastructure authority and spent three years as a senior analyst at a mid-size management consultancy, where he developed a habit of mapping every dependency before touching a single deliverable. In 2017 he founded Oracle Elm Meadow to work directly with leadership teams who needed that same rigour without the overhead. Outside the office, he keeps a small vegetable plot and reads widely in systems theory. He believes the clearest sign of a well-run engagement is that the client can explain the logic themselves by the time it closes."