The Five Consulting Superpowers: Synthesis Playbook

This Playbook is part of our SCALE framework series - you can read more about it here!

If your deck has 40 slides and no decision, you don’t have a data problem - you have a synthesis problem.

We created a Synthesis Playbook you can deploy on your current projects immediately. We built this because we wish someone had handed it to us 10 years ago.

This Playbook includes the practical pieces of advice you really need - no fluff, just the tools to deliver clarity under pressure:

• Consulting-tuned AI prompt to turn workshop notes and transcripts into usable themes and implications.
• Prioritisation frameworks we use daily to cut a 20-item wish list down to the 3 moves that change outcomes.
• Narrative devices you can lift straight into your slides to make the story travel.
• Factsheets + Upskilling Journeys for Pattern Recognition, Prioritisation and Storytelling, so you know what “good” looks like and how to climb.

The Playbook includes a BONUS Storyboard template that forces the one-sentence answer before you open PowerPoint.

Time to value: 30–60 minutes. Just read the sections that are most relevant to you, start playing with the resources and save the upskilling journeys for later reflection or your next performance review.

Who Can Benefit From Our Playbook

Our tips, though derived from consulting, can be applied by anyone who is expected to operate in high-stakes, ambiguous situations.

You might be a strategist, a product lead, an internal advisor or a chief of staff. You might be mid-career and looking to sharpen your edge, or just getting started and wondering why everyone else seems to “get it” already.

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