Thinking Partner

1:1 for legal leaders and founders at a crossroads.

The further you get, the fewer people you can be honest with. I’m the person you can be uncertain with.

Let’s talk it through

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”

Alice

What we talk about

You’re making decisions that matter — without anyone to think them through with.

Your team need you certain. Your board need you confident. Your family need you fine.

I’ve built, scaled and sold a legal services business, and been through the version where it falls apart — the personal guarantees, the sleepless nights, the ground going from under me. I’ve changed profession more than once.

The business

Strategy, hiring, pricing, positioning, operations, technology — the practical work leaders wrestle with daily. I’ve built it and scaled it, so this isn’t theoretical.

The decisions you can’t take back

Raise or sell. Stay or go. Push on or stop. The conversations you can’t have with your team, your board, or the person you’re deciding about.

The career, and who you’re becoming

AI is redrawing your profession, or you’ve outgrown the role that used to fit, or you’re staring at a change you didn’t choose. This is the territory I research — and the conversation almost nobody offers.

How you actually work

A lot of high performers are wired differently — it’s often why they built something of their own rather than fitting into someone else’s structure. I bring lived understanding and research on how neurodivergent professionals experience work and change.

Alice has a way of cutting through noise and getting straight to what matters. She helped me put the right systems and structures in place and create a clear roadmap for growth. And that’s only part of it — she is genuinely someone you can call on for the everyday challenges of running a business, whether that’s working through a decision, sense-checking an idea, or just having someone in your corner who gets it.

She is sharp, strategic, and has a clear track record of building businesses herself, but beyond that she brings a level of empathy and personal investment I wasn’t expecting. She doesn’t just tell you what to do. She understands where you are, meets you there, and guides you forward.

Saimah Malik — Director, Herrera Law

We’re building our UK legal and compliance function from the ground up, and I needed a clear way to think about how to resource it as the business grows. Alice was the sounding board I needed: she got to grips with our situation quickly, helped me work out what to build in-house, what to bring in and in what order, and turned it into a plan I could act on. Practical, direct and on our side.

Sharon Evans — Chief Legal Officer, WTS UK

Running a business can be lonely. Alice is the person I didn’t know I needed — someone who’s been there, who gets it, and who I can think out loud with about the stuff you can’t talk to anyone else about.

Managing Partner — law firm

How I work

Two ways to work together.

This is for General Counsel, partners, legal leaders and law firm founders who want independent, confidential space to think. We start with a 30-minute conversation to see whether there’s a fit, and which way of working suits you. If there isn’t a fit, I’ll tell you.

Retained

A standing session at a cadence we set together — fortnightly suits most people — with contact between sessions agreed as part of the arrangement. This is how most people work with me, whether that’s a founder thinking through the business, a leader navigating a change, or a professional building towards something new. The value is in the continuity: I already know the situation when you call.

By the session

A single conversation, or a short run of them, when there’s one specific thing to work through. A decision you can’t take back, a crossroads you’ve been circling, or a way to find out whether this is useful before committing to anything ongoing.

We agree the format and the fee after that first conversation, so there is nothing to commit to before we’ve spoken.

If your organisation is paying: this is straightforward to run through a learning or leadership budget, and I can invoice the company directly. Several clients’ employers fund it as senior-level development — because that’s what it is.

What advisory support means here

Independent, confidential conversations about your actual situation.

Someone in your corner who has built businesses, made the hard calls and studied what change does to people.

No pretence that I have all the answers.

Not therapy, and not a substitute for regulated legal, financial or medical advice. If that’s what you need, I’ll say so.

What you will get

I’ll challenge you, I’ll tell you what I see, and I’ll bring perspectives you hadn’t considered.

The thinking is ours and the decisions are yours.

Who in the world am I?

Let’s think it through, together.

Let’s talk it through Prefer email? alice@thewonderland.studio