About Us

the principia project™ is a senior advisory group that believes no-one knows more about a business than the people who run it.

“You don’t need an army of junior consultants running all over your company… but there is value in a senior “business thinking” partner providing honest input, challenging your ideas, bringing new tools and approaches, assessing your team, working with you to build a better business.” - John R. Childress, Chairman, Principia Associates Ltd.

We are a global team of senior business executives with expertise in:
    strategy deployment
    organisation design
    leadership development
    senior team alignment
    merger integration
    culture change
    executive coaching
    performance improvement.

We work closely with your senior team to build and implement business results, without an army of consultants. We like to think of ourselves as the consultants who arrive without consultants.

The strength of the principia project™ is built on a commitment to rethinking the traditional, costly and invasive style of consulting so common today. Instead of armies of junior consultants descending on your company with the inevitable disenfranchisement of staff, we bring just two or three senior advisors with robust problem-solving methodologies who work alongside a selected group of your key people in building and implementing approaches that deliver measurable business outcomes. Because we transfer our skills, tools and methodologies to your own people during our assignments your company becomes stronger and more agile – which in the end, is the only good reason for hiring consultants.

Our international team is drawn from former senior executives and business leaders with P&L experience, former partners of major consulting firms, business thought leaders, and entrepreneurs. We take pride in the fact that we have built a “one firm” culture based on common methodologies, shared values and a commitment to delivering experienced and real-world advice, methodologies and solutions.

And we build long lasting relationships as well…

“John Childress has been my consultant, leadership coach, advisor and friend for over 20 years and I have found his teaching, feedback and business Insights invaluable in my development as a leader.” - Richard Millman CEO, Bell Helicopter