Strategic growth, governance, and commercial clarity for construction and facade businesses.
Foster Consultancy Limited helps leadership teams, founders, and specialist contractors grow with purpose, strengthen governance, improve commercial performance, and navigate change with confidence.
Founded by John Foster, an East Midlands-based board adviser and executive leader with more than 30 years in construction and over 20 years in the facade sector.
About
Built on experience. Focused on outcomes.
Foster Consultancy Limited was founded by John Foster to provide senior-level strategic insight and commercial advice to businesses operating across construction, facades, specialist contracting, and related supply chains. The consultancy draws on board, executive, and hands-on operational experience across founder-led businesses, private equity-backed groups, listed organisations, and employee-owned structures.
John brings a practical boardroom perspective shaped by leadership roles in growth strategy, governance, restructuring, dispute resolution, risk oversight, stakeholder management, commercial negotiation, and business transformation.
SERVICES
What we help with
Strategic growth and business planning
Clear growth strategy, market positioning, business planning, and leadership support for companies looking to scale sensibly and profitably.
Board advisory and governance
Independent challenge, stronger decision-making, commercial oversight, founder support, and governance improvement at board and senior leadership level.
Business transition and founder succession
Support through ownership transition, succession planning, restructuring, divestment pathways, and long-term value creation.
Commercial improvement
Margin enhancement, cash discipline, smarter project selection, negotiation support, commercial control, and operational improvement. John's track record includes helping improve gross margin from 20% to 32.5% and repositioning businesses towards larger, more strategic contracts.
Dispute resolution and risk management
Calm, experienced support on disputes, legacy issues, commercial exposure, and stakeholder risk.
Business development and market strategy
Client development, key account strategy, pipeline quality, and commercial positioning to win better work, not just more work.
Supply chain and material optimisation
Smarter buying, supply chain strategy, material efficiency, and procurement thinking grounded in real sector experience.
WHY FOSTER CONSULTANCY
Board level thinking
Real world delivery
John Foster has worked across specialist contracting, glazing, facade systems, manufacturing, and commercial construction environments, with experience spanning executive leadership, founder-led businesses, private equity ownership, listed plc governance, and employee ownership transition.
Selected highlights include:
- More than 30 years in construction, including over 20 years in facades.
- Improved average gross margin from 20% to 32.5% through stronger commercial discipline and project selection.
- Increased average project value from GBP500k to GBP7.5m.
- Supported founder exit options and transition to an Employee Ownership Trust at Alliance Facade Services.
This is not consultancy from the sidelines. It is advice forged in boardrooms, on live projects, in tough negotiations, and under commercial pressure.
SECTORS
Sector focus
01
Specialist Contracting
Facade contractors and envelope specialists
02
Construction
Construction businesses and specialist subcontractors
03
Supply Chain
Manufacturing and supply chain businesses linked to the built environment
04
Strategy
- Founder-led companies preparing for growth, change, or transition
