SShahira Kassam
Consult Elevate works with regulated businesses, scale-ups, and founder-led organisations on the two things that decide whether a strategy actually holds: governance and risk infrastructure, and the leadership culture underneath it. Most of the organisations I work with have one of three problems. Risk sits unowned and audit findings keep recurring. Culture is straining because the business has outgrown the founder's personal bandwidth. Or a DEI commitment exists on paper with nothing structural behind it, and neurodiversity tribunal claims are rising fast. I built this practice after 20+ years at Visa Europe and GSK, where I learned that the governance problem and the culture problem are almost always the same problem showing up in different rooms. Consult Elevate fixes both. Engagements take three shapes: a fixed-fee diagnostic that names where risk or culture is unowned, a framework build that closes the gap, or a fractional director retainer for organisations that want this expertise in the room permanently.