retension is a management consultancy specialising in strategic communications and sustainability, and we operate as a social enterprise.

We pair senior advisors with emerging professionals to give you sharp thinking, hands-on delivery and a healthier way to do the work.

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retension

Lines only work when they’re held in tension.

Too slack, and nothing moves. Too tight, and something snaps.

retension is our attempt to hold the right kind of tension in consulting:

  • Between senior and junior consultants – pairing decades of experience with fresh perspective and energy.

  • Between thinking and doing – insisting on deep understanding and hands-on delivery, not strategic ideas that never leave the deck.

  • Between profit and purpose – building a sustainable consulting firm that can pay people fairly without squeezing every last drop out of them.

How we deliver work we’re proud of

  • The people you meet at the first conversation are the people thinking with you throughout the project and maintaining creative tension by bringing in valuable alternatives perspectives – not a pitch team that vanishes after you sign.

  • Our juniors sit in on client calls, help shape the brief and manage delivery – because that’s how you build good consultants, not just good order-takers.

  • You’ll see seniors, juniors and, where it helps, specialist partners in the same (virtual) room – solving problems together rather than throwing revisions and comments over the fence.

  • “Go make a coffee.” When tensions ran high after sleepless days managing crises, this simple rule of thumb helped us step back from the problem and come back with a different perspective.