The smallest event can trigger the most monumental sea change. This is not a new idea, but it’s one we set great store by at blackswan. Not least because that’s how we came to exist. blackswan is the result of a merger between Promech and GFI Consulting. When the heads of these two very different firms met on the suggestion of two of their employees, something remarkable happened: they decided to merge their hugely diverse experiences, skills and outlooks to create a single super-consultancy – blackswan.

Promech has 20 years’ experience helping large organisations and blue-chip companies achieve their financial potential with maximum efficiency. You could call Promech the numbers and targets experts. Conversely, you could call GFI Consulting the people and workforce specialists. GFI’s experience centred around services such as talent-seeking, change management and executive coaching. Yet what both firms had in common was an approach based on flexible, measurable objectives, and a deep understanding of their clients’ strategy inside the bigger picture.

At blackswan, we believe that knowledge without room for flexibility has no place in business today. Our philosophy is: respect the past, understand the present, be open to the future, because being wise and agile enough to accept we can’t know the future creates bigger, better opportunities for both people and business.