Rewa Bouji, Director & Managing Consultant

Rewa works closely with Board and Executive leadership teams as a consultant, adviser and Non-Executive Director, across a diversity of sectors, and with organisations ranging from start-ups and SMEs to multinationals and public sector bodies.

With over twenty years of consulting and industry experience, Rewa has worked with organisations to shape compelling and ambitious visions for change, and to deliver real outcomes to colleagues, customers, and stakeholders by leveraging investments in people, technology, partner relationships and new ways of working.

Combining strong commercial acumen with an ability to work across functional silos, join the dots, and identify new opportunities, Rewa has supported a range of clients to define strategic goals, deliver transformation and organisational change, and drive benefits in customer experience, operating and cost efficiencies, and new product development. She has successfully advised on and supported winning £multi-million bids through a range of procurement frameworks and processes, bringing a fresh perspective to commercial models and partner ecosystems.

Rewa has worked across a range of sectors and with organisations, including:

• Consulting & Professional Services: EY, North Highland, OC&C Strategy Consultants, Collingwood Advisory, Impact Advisory
• Telecommunications & Media: BT Plc, Telefonica UK (now Virgin Media O2), Reed Exhibitions 
• Digital, Tech & Startup: Level39, HackPartners, GatherHub
• Financial Services: Arrow Global Plc, Barclays Bank Plc, NEST Corporation, CMC Markets
• Transport & Infrastructure: Virgin Trains, SNCF, Stagecoach, Network Rail, High Speed 2 Ltd, National Grid
• Government & Public Sector: NHS

and has advised on and led major technology programmes across digital, cloud, ERP, workforce productivity, mobile enablement, CRM, and SaaS.

Rewa founded Pepperscape Consulting to support and advise clients to achieve great outcomes in a collaborative and purposeful way, and to lead change that inspires and engages their people. Rewa regularly provides pro bono consulting and advice to organisations in the non-profit and charity sector.

Chris Staerck, Associate

Director & Consulting Lead at Weight Lifted

Chris is a Director of WEIGHT LIFTED. He is a specialist in strategy, planning and managing the delivery of outcomes for clients: he leads strategy and business consulting for WEIGHT LIFTED.

He is an insight-led strategic thinker, with strongly developed commercial acumen, implementation skills and a can-do attitude, and he has a passion for efficiently solving problems – especially through using and interpreting data to drive informed decision making.

An experienced consultant with Big-4 pedigree, he has worked in financial services, professional services, media, public sector and not-for-profit, with a focus on international trade since 2009.