About

We are the people who ask why that step exists

Northbeam is a team of operators. Everyone here has run a function before they advised on one.

Our Story

Started in 2014, out of frustration

Our founders had spent a decade receiving consulting decks that described their own companies back to them and stopped short of changing anything. Northbeam was built to work the other way around: fewer slides, more time on the floor, and a plan the people doing the job helped write. Today we work across eleven sectors from two offices, and the first week of every engagement is still spent watching.

On site before advice

Nobody gets a recommendation until we have followed the work for a week.

We hand it over

An engagement that cannot end has not worked. Your team runs the change after we go.

Measured, then measured again

Every change has a number attached before it starts, and the same number a year later.

The floor hears it first

The people doing the work see the findings before their directors do.

Plain language

If a recommendation needs a glossary, it needs a rewrite.

Operators, all of us

Everyone here ran a function before they advised on one.

Operations Excellence Awards

Partner of the Year, 2024

Institute of Operations Management

Corporate member since 2016

Supply Chain Awards

Finalist, 2023 and 2025

Client references

Available on request in every sector we work in

2014 - Founded

Three people in Leeds and one manufacturing client.

2017 - First logistics client

The depot reporting work that became our standard model.

2020 - Remote delivery

Built out of necessity and kept because it worked.

2023 - Rotterdam

A second office, opened to serve clients across the North Sea.

2026 - Today

Forty people, and still one week on site before any recommendation.

On site first

A week following real jobs before anyone writes a recommendation.

Written plans

Every change agreed in writing with the people who run the work.

Handover to your team

Documentation and shadowing, then we go.