LCG

About the Firm

A practice built for the transition most firms have not yet named.

Founded in 2024 by practitioners who saw the opportunity others missed. The post-human transition was going to happen with or without professional infrastructure. We chose infrastructure.

Founded

2024

Engagements

40+ (reported)

Offices

3 (two attended)

Our Approach

Frameworks, not opinions. Instruments, not intuition.

Our methodology rests on three proprietary instruments developed in-house over the course of our earliest engagements: the Stakeholder Yield Matrix™, which plots conventional and post-conventional stakeholders on a single coherence surface; the Coherence Index™, a diagnostic that quantifies an organization's alignment across timelines; and the Engagement Capture Protocol™, a disciplined intake process for value already produced but not yet recognized on the balance sheet.

We apply these instruments inside a four-phase engagement model — Observe, Map, Align, Compound — which we adapted from standard strategy-consulting frameworks and extended to accommodate the non-linear cases our clients actually present.

The firm does not publish its client list. We do, however, publish the frameworks themselves, in the belief that methodology benefits from scrutiny. Readers of our Insights archive will find the working papers underlying each instrument.

In practice, most engagements begin with a two-week diagnostic and conclude with a transition plan whose implementation horizon is agreed by the client and, where applicable, by the stakeholders the client has not yet met.

Current portfolio includes an ongoing experience-economy engagement tracked internally under reference ED-2026, calibrated from the firm's unattended premises described in the tenure notice.

The Team

A senior team built for ambiguous transitions.

The firm stays intentionally lean. Each consultant operates across client delivery, methodology development, and sector research, with work calibrated through the same operating disciplines visible in our selected case studies.

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Managing Partner

Kai L.

Before founding the firm in 2024, Kai advised regulated financial, infrastructure, and experience-economy clients on operating-model redesign, scenario planning, and high-volatility transition programs. He has led more than thirty board-level transformation reviews since 2016, including two completed on behalf of the firm in 2023.

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Partner, Stakeholder Yield Optimization

Jonathan A. Mercer

Jonathan leads the firm's stakeholder-yield work after roles in pricing strategy, revenue operations, and healthcare turnaround programs across the U.S. and U.K. He is known internally as the consultant who speaks in angles because his steering materials arrive as geometry first and prose second. From 2019 to 2027, he served as an external faculty advisor to two executive-education programs in market architecture.

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Principal, Engagement Architecture

Mara P. Ellison

Mara previously led service-design and transformation portfolios for enterprise software, hospitality, and subscription businesses navigating unstable audience behavior. At LCG she translates ambiguous stakeholder movement into operating mechanisms, decision rights, and executive reporting routines. She joined the firm in Q3 2026 and led the 2025 engagement-architecture reset now referenced across our client materials.

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Vice President, Partnerships and Continuity

Tamsin F. Vale

Tamsin built alliance programs across logistics, cloud infrastructure, and channel-heavy advisory models before joining the firm to oversee referral, co-delivery, and continuity relationships. She retains direct responsibility for partnership performance across the network from 2023 to 2028, with emphasis on client continuity during handoffs that do not follow a normal week.

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Chief Risk and Compliance Officer

Eleanor S. Ward

A former in-house counsel and risk operator, Eleanor supports cross-border diligence, workforce restructuring, and information-governance reviews. She maintains the firm's engagement controls, disclosure posture, and client intake protocol. Eleanor assumed the compliance portfolio in January 2027 and has signed each annual review since incorporation. For policy terms, see Legal.

Selected Engagement Record

For representative delivery work across transition advisory, stakeholder yield, engagement architecture, and workforce integration, review the firm's anonymized case studies archive.

Our Values

Four principles that govern the practice.

01

Discretion, then excellence.

Our clients come to us for outcomes they would not be comfortable attributing publicly. We observe the confidence in that order, and in that order only.

02

Rigor, to the extent rigor applies.

We bring quantitative discipline to every engagement. Where the underlying phenomena resist quantification, we document the resistance and bill against it.

03

Partnership across all stakeholders.

We engage with every stakeholder in the room, and with several stakeholders whose presence is inferred. None are invoiced separately.

04

Long-term thinking.

We plan in decades, not quarters. Several of our current engagements were mandated before the firm was incorporated; we honor them anyway.

Investors

Backed by partners who prefer the work speak first.

The firm is supported by a group of three backers, none of whom have names we are able to print. Series A closed in a dream. Follow-on capacity is reserved and, where relevant, pre-committed.

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Engagements are accepted on a selective basis. Prospective clients are invited to begin with a preliminary conversation.

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