About us
Beaton Consulting is a leading firm of management consultants. We strive to inspire and support professional service organisations around the world towards improved performance.
When Beaton Consulting was founded in the 1980s, George Beaton was teaching strategy at the Melbourne Business School. As the firm grew, Margaret Beaton began developing a name in organisational psychology, conducting original research including for her PhD thesis. The pair's passionate pursuit of knowledge to inform progress formed the basis of Beaton Consulting's distinct offering.
And it's a culture that we foster in the firm to this day.
One benefit of this approach is that as well as expert facilitation and advice, our consulting assignments typically draw on our proprietary research – an area where we have built significant in-house expertise and an unrivalled databank in professional service markets over the last decade.
With offices in Melbourne and Auckland, Beaton Consulting is a team of specialists, with a deep understanding of professional service firms, professional associations and business-to-business organisations.
Our expertise is applied in three interrelated practice areas:
- Market-led Strategy – Helping clients get clarity and consensus on where they're going and how they're going to get there
- Leadership and Change – Assisting organisations to compete through their people
- Research and Benchmarks – Providing empirical evidence, to guide decision-making on firm development and growth.
The style of our consultancy emphasises:
- co-production of outcomes – working with our clients in formulating solutions and recommendations
- conceptual rigour – fact-based analysis and validated concepts to derive fresh insights and conclusions
- creativity – seeking original approaches and solutions to our clients' needs
- customised solutions – avoiding prescriptive and 'recipe' approaches and conclusions
- capability development – a strong focus on the sharing and transfer of skills, knowledge and intellectual capital.