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Most consultants will tell you what you want to hear.

Most consultants will tell
you what you want to hear.

What we do

Solving challenges, new and old

Every engagement starts with a diagnostic review, so we find the real problem before anyone spends time and money fixing the wrong one. Hiring, leadership and processes are where we are most often asked to help, but the same approach works on culture, training and standards: understand what is actually happening, then decide what to do about it.

Rapid diagnostic review and recommendations

In one to two weeks, we identify the root cause of what is holding you back and set out a clear way forward.

  • We listen. We talk to the people closest to the problem to understand their experience and their ideas for solving it.

  • We look. We examine how work really gets done: the inputs, the outputs and the steps in between.

  • We tell you what we found. You receive a clear account of the issues at the heart of the problem and a practical recommendation. That might be a deeper investigation, specialist expertise brought in, or facilitated conversations that need to happen.

No more fixing the wrong thing. You finish the review knowing what the problem is and what to do next.

Talk to us about your challenge

Hiring & Selection

Recruitment that delivers

Find, attract, assess and onboard people who raise your organisation's performance.

Process & Systems

Systems aligned with goals

Work out what to measure, then design the processes and systems that deliver your goals.

Leadership Development

Clarity at all levels

Help your people own their responsibilities and lead others with purpose.

Why Imhotep

Where Imhotep makes the difference

Clarity when it matters most

When an organisation is stuck, the answer is rarely more effort. It's clearer thinking. We look at the whole picture, from detail to direction, people to processes, and stated strategy to actual behaviour, to find what's holding you back and get you moving again.

Clarity when it matters most

When an organisation is stuck, the answer is rarely more effort. It's clearer thinking. We look at the whole picture, from detail to direction, people to processes, and stated strategy to actual behaviour, to find what's holding you back and get you moving again.

The trust to go further

Good advice only lands if people believe it. After a review at St Peter's Brockley, the team acted on the recommendations, because they could see their own experience in what we found.

The trust to go further

Good advice only lands if people believe it. After a review at St Peter's Brockley, the team acted on the recommendations, because they could see their own experience in what we found.

Connections others miss

Most people solve problems from inside the problem. We step back. A background spanning engineering, education and startups, and a habit of following curiosity wherever it leads, is what separates a diagnosis that sounds right from one that is.

Connections others miss

Most people solve problems from inside the problem. We step back. A background spanning engineering, education and startups, and a habit of following curiosity wherever it leads, is what separates a diagnosis that sounds right from one that is.

Built to last

We don't hand over a report and disappear. We design and deliver the processes, systems and structures that turn recommendations into results, long after the engagement ends.

Built to last

We don't hand over a report and disappear. We design and deliver the processes, systems and structures that turn recommendations into results, long after the engagement ends.

Our work

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About Imhotep

We’ve never believed problems come in neat boxes.

Before Imhotep, our founder Matthew spent over a decade designing infrastructure for some of the most demanding environments on earth — coastal civil engineering, where the margin for error is zero and the consequences of poor thinking are permanent. That discipline shapes everything we do today.

From the classroom to the boardroom, from early-stage startups to established organisations, Imhotep brings an engineer’s rigour and a consultant’s clarity to the problems most firms find hardest to solve.

Matthew Gaston portrait

What clients say

In their own words

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I have seen many, many different recruitment systems and processes in my career and what you built is truly unique and truly exceptional. You should be proud.

Senior leader — Recruitment business

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I have seen many, many different recruitment systems and processes in my career and what you built is truly unique and truly exceptional. You should be proud.

Senior leader — Recruitment business

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Matthew is clearly incredibly experienced, capturing the brief perfectly and gaining the trust of the whole team. He brought more to the brief than I could have expected — helping us identify areas of behaviour and performance that were holding us back, and setting out a process to address these in a sustainable way.

Andy Coombe — organisational culture and systems review

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Matthew is clearly incredibly experienced, capturing the brief perfectly and gaining the trust of the whole team. He brought more to the brief than I could have expected — helping us identify areas of behaviour and performance that were holding us back, and setting out a process to address these in a sustainable way.

Andy Coombe — organisational culture and systems review

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Whether you’re stuck, scaling, or somewhere in between — let’s talk about what’s possible.

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