Prior to founding Michael and Partners, Stephen held senior and board level commercial positions at ITV, Liverpool Football Club, Setanta Sports, the Royal Opera House and Ascot Racecourse, across a 20-year career.
Stephen established Michael and Partners in 2012 in order to deliver best-in-class strategy, innovation and commercial expertise to organisations of various types, but in particular to arts, cultural and sporting organisations and to local authorities affected by ongoing reductions in funding, or facing other major challenges, and for whom a more overtly commercial approach is therefore needed.
We construct consultancy teams not just from within our organisation, but also by drawing on a bank of specialist partners. They might be architects or designers, highly specialised marketeers, academics or niche technologists. We leverage our network to ensure that the teams we build for each project are precisely matched to the challenge that we are working with our clients to meet.
Michael and Partners is a specialist consulting firm working across culture, media, sport and hospitality.
Our work spans commercial strategy, new business development, business turnaround, tender management, audience research and development, digital engagement, catering strategy and visitor experience.
We are a leading consultancy specialising in culture, media and the experiential economy. We work with clients to enable them to plan, test and launch new ventures, deliver challenging projects or navigate through periods of development or high growth.
Michael and Partners are based in London and Norwich, but we spend much of our time at client sites around the UK and beyond.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch, whether you have a specific project that you think we may be able to help with, or just to find out more about what we do.
