A consultancy built to help change work in practice
TTAG is a transformation advisory consultancy that brings structure to complex change and stays with the work from strategy into delivery. Everything we do aims to be clear, useful, and grounded in real operating conditions.
TTAG exists to help organisations make meaningful progress on change that matters. We work with clients who need more than broad recommendations. They need someone who understands the detail, tells them the truth about what it will take, and stays close enough to help it land.
Our role is to help bring structure to complexity, direction to uncertainty, and momentum to work that needs to move from intention into action. That may involve advisory support at the front end, delivery support further into the work, or a combination of both.
That combination of direct delivery experience and independent judgement is what shapes every TTAG engagement, from the first conversation through to the work that follows it.
Leadership
Robert Smartt
Founder and Principal Consultant
LinkedInRobert founded TTAG after more than a decade working inside the organisations that others advise from the outside, including GlaxoSmithKline, the Cabinet Office, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Imperial College London, Fujitsu, the Metropolitan Police and Riders for Health.
Boutique by design
TTAG is a boutique transformation advisory consultancy. That matters because our value does not come from scale for its own sake. It comes from focus, judgement, and the ability to work closely with clients on change that needs to be thought through properly and carried forward in a practical way.
We are interested in work that has substance. That includes transformation challenges shaped by business priorities, digital ambition, delivery pressure, technology change, and the growing role of data and AI. In each case, the aim is the same: help the client make progress that is credible, useful, and worth the effort.
Clarity, honesty, practical focus
We believe good transformation work depends on clarity, honesty, and practical focus. That means understanding the problem properly, being realistic about constraints, asking the right questions, and avoiding the kind of consultancy theatre that creates activity without producing enough value.
We also believe that advisory work should not become detached from delivery reality. Strategy matters, but execution matters too. The strongest transformation work connects the two, which is why TTAG is set up to support clients in shaping change and in helping it move forward effectively.
Collaborative and considered
TTAG works in a collaborative and considered way. We bring independent thinking, but we also respect the knowledge, context, and pressures our clients are already working within. The aim is not to impose a standard answer. It is to help clients make better decisions, move important work forward, and build confidence in the path ahead.
We work best in relationships where there is openness, seriousness of purpose, and a shared commitment to making the work useful in practice.
Built for serious change work
We work best with clients who bring openness and seriousness of purpose, and who want an adviser who will say what they actually think. If that sounds like your organisation, we would like to hear about the change in front of you.