On site before advice
Nobody gets a recommendation until we have followed the work for a week.
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.
Our Values
The rules we do not bend.
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We hand it over
An engagement that cannot end has not worked. Your team runs the change after we go.
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Measured, then measured again
Every change has a number attached before it starts, and the same number a year later.
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The floor hears it first
The people doing the work see the findings before their directors do.
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Plain language
If a recommendation needs a glossary, it needs a rewrite.
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Operators, all of us
Everyone here ran a function before they advised on one.
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Offices
11
Sectors
96%
Changes still in place a year on
Recognition
Where the work has been recognised.
Awards and memberships from the operations field.
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Operations Excellence Awards
Partner of the Year, 2024
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Institute of Operations Management
Corporate member since 2016
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Supply Chain Awards
Finalist, 2023 and 2025
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Client reviews
4.9 average across published engagements
Our Journey
How we got here.
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2014 - Founded
Three people in Leeds and one manufacturing client.
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2017 - First logistics client
The depot reporting work that became our standard model.
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2020 - Remote delivery
Built out of necessity and kept because it worked.
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2023 - Rotterdam
A second office, opened to serve clients across the North Sea.
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2026 - Today
Forty people, and still one week on site before any recommendation.
Trusted by operations teams across eleven sectors
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On site first
A week following real jobs before anyone writes a recommendation.
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Written plans
Every change agreed in writing with the people who run the work.
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Handover to your team
Documentation and shadowing, then we go.
Tell us where work is getting stuck
A first call runs thirty minutes and ends with a straight answer about whether we are the right people for it.