We've appointed Nicole Faubel as our new Head of Strategy,as we deepen our consulting offer and sharpen how we show up for clients navigating complex change.

Nicole joins from Deloitte, where she spent five years working directly with senior leaders across the public and private sectors. Before that, she held a consulting role at KPMG focused on people and change. Across both, her work was the same: helping organisations navigate transformation that goes beyond the org chart. Systemic, cultural, and built to last.

She's an anthropologist by training and a qualified coach. Her career has been spent identifying why organisations get stuck and working with leaders to help them move forward with clarity, influence and intent. Her experience spans major global institutions and the public sector, including designing and delivering leadership development for executive teams across half of all UK police forces.

At Two Degrees Below, Nicole will lead the strategy function, shaping how we approach client engagements and ensuring consulting rigour runs through every part of the work.

Matt Ede, Consulting Director, said:

"The most complex problems organisations face sit at the intersection of people, culture and commercial reality. That has always been our space. Nicole's appointment is a deliberate signal of where we are heading. Bringing together the strategic rigour of Big Four consulting with the human and creative intelligence that makes change land."

Nicole said:

"Transformations succeed or fail in the same place. In the gap between what people say and what they actually do. That's the gap Two Degrees Below was built around. I'm energised to be stepping into a leadership role where I can shape a function from the start, alongside a team that truly understands where real transformation gets decided."