Helping people flourish and prosperity endure.
Businesses are places where people spend much of their lives. Where they develop their abilities, build relationships, earn a living and contribute something others need. The decisions businesses make reach into families, communities, supply chains and the natural world.
We founded Adaptiv because we believe businesses can create prosperity in ways that strengthen their capacity to keep creating it. Where earning today helps build the knowledge, relationships and capabilities that tomorrow will depend on.
Look after what makes success possible.
Behind every business’s results are people making decisions, working together and responding to what happens around them.
Over time, they build things that are difficult to replace: experience, trust, judgement, customer relationships and the ability to solve problems together. These qualities help a business perform, adapt and endure.
They need attention. Under pressure, it’s easy to make choices whose immediate benefits are visible while their longer-term consequences take time to appear. An experienced team becomes stretched, important conversations stop happening, knowledge leaves and most importantly - customers begin to notice and trust starts to weaken.
We want to help leaders see these connections earlier, so they can make choices that meet today’s demands while strengthening the business’s future.
Bring human understanding into economic decisions.
Owners and leaders carry real responsibilities. They have wages to pay, customers to serve, investments to make and difficult choices to face.
Our work brings an understanding of people and organisations into those decisions. We explore how the conditions inside a business shape the work people can do, the results they produce and the possibilities ahead.
We create space for different perspectives to be heard, including those that are uncomfortable or easily overlooked. We help people question familiar patterns, understand their consequences and decide what to change.
The ambition is practical: businesses where people can contribute fully, work happens more effectively and prosperity can continue beyond any one person or generation.
What we hope to leave stronger.
A business that endures can carry skills, livelihoods, relationships and opportunity into the future. How it earns, and what it chooses to replenish, matters to the people within it and the wider world around it.
That is why we do this work.
To help owners and leaders build businesses worth carrying forward, and give the people who follow a stronger foundation to build on.
Between us, we have spent decades running businesses, leading teams and helping owners and leaders through change. We have seen what helps a business thrive, and how problems can take hold before they show up in the financial results. We bring that experience to help you understand what is happening in your business and act while you have more options.
Amit Zala:
Founder & Senior Consultant
For most of my life I've been drawn to what lies beneath the surface of organisations, the hidden roots that shape everything we see above ground. Companies are living systems, and over two decades of diagnostics, coaching and systemic change work - advising owners and leadership teams through change in large multinationals and small owner-managed businesses around the world - it’s become clear to me that the entirety of company health is rarely a thing we measure. I built Meridian to face into this gap, and make organisational health something you can see, read and act on. My hope is simple: to help organisations see themselves clearly, and understand what they need to cultivate and what they need to confront, in order to improve growth quality and endurance.
Richard Tyler:
Senior Associate Coach & Consultant
After a decade playing lead roles in the West End, including The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables, I founded BTFI in 2004. For twenty years since, I've worked on leadership and culture with JP Morgan, HSBC, John Lewis Partnership, the Co-op and the NHS, blending psychology and the arts. I wrote Jolt (Wiley) on shaking up how organisations think. I'm also a practising psychotherapist, trained in psychosynthesis, and certified in Barrett Values and systemic constellation coaching. In all that time I've rarely met a leadership team that didn't already know where its problem was. What they lacked was a way to name it that the business would take seriously, which is what Adaptiv provides. I coach, consult and co-design, starting at the point where a diagnosis has to become a conversation.
Luke Gray:
Commercial Finance Advisor
I'm CIMA qualified and have spent over twenty years in corporate finance across pharmaceuticals, private-equity backed businesses and early-stage companies. I've built financial models from scratch, run due diligence, and reported to boards and investors through the awkward stretch where a business is proving itself but not yet earning. In all that time, the numbers have reliably told me what happened and almost never why. Closing that gap is what Adaptiv is attempting, which is why I'm involved. My role is to keep the commercial model honest and make sure the economics stand up to the people who will interrogate them.
Kelly Tyler:
Strategic Advisor
I've spent two decades helping thought-leaders sharpen their positioning and turn what they know into something other people can actually use. That work now sits alongside my role as Social Impact Director at The Psychosynthesis Trust and as co-founder of The Willow Tree Foundation, a Wiltshire community interest company offering nature-based support to people living with cancer, grief and mental health difficulties. I think what Adaptiv is doing matters because we are in uncertain, changing times: new systems are emerging, and the culture and mindsets of organisations have to match them in order to thrive. Adaptiv offers measurable tools and holistic consultancy that enables transparent and sustainable change. My role is to press on the strategic direction and make sure the right people are in the room.
Rav Sawhney:
Organisational Psychology Advisor
I've always been fascinated by people, what drives us, and the often unseen dynamics that shape how we work, lead, and connect with one another. My background is an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology and an MBA from INSEAD. I'm drawn to Adaptiv because I believe meaningful change begins with shared understanding and shared meaning. I hope to help individuals and organisations make sense of complexity, give language to what often goes unspoken, and create lasting change that feels authentic, human, and meaningful.
Alice May Slade:
Living Systems & Stewardship Advisor
I grew up on a smallholding in Wales, where my earliest memories are of nurturing animals and the land. I hold a BSc in Integrated Wildlife Conservation and an MSc in Global Wildlife Health and Conservation, and I've spent twenty years in research, education and management roles across wildlife and conservation projects in the UK, West and East Africa, South East Asia and Central America. My published research in the International Journal of Primatology measured what electrical infrastructure was actually doing to four monkey populations in coastal Kenya - the gap between what a system is assumed to cost the living world and what it actually costs. That gap is what I advise and work on at Adaptiv. I keep Meridian honest to how living systems really behave, and I build the evidence standards behind Environmental Stewardship, one of indicators of root health. We don't score a company on the size of its footprint. We score whether what it says, what it spends, and what is actually happening to the world around it are the same story.
What type of analysis
will help you right now?
Tell us which business you are looking at, the decision you face and when you need to make it. We’ll arrange a 30-minute call to discuss your question and agree the scope. Your introductory analysis is £900 + VAT, including a 90-minute fact-find, research and written analysis, and a 90-minute working session.