Tau Ceti

Tau Ceti; a new world of possibilities

Effective leadership. Healthy culture. Engaged and productive teams.

Tau Ceti is a people-centric consulting company working with organisations globally to develop their people, leadership capabilities and impact, design and curate empowering cultures, achieve outcomes and work holistically and effectively together.

We partner with leaders and teams to turn intention into behaviour; combining culture consulting, leadership development, and practical tools that embed learning into the day to day delivery of value.

Clients say we:

• work in real contexts, to maximise learning and effectiveness
• empower, develop and support, rather than land and expand
• partner and nurture to create lasting capabilities
• treat people like humans, not resources

The problems we solve

Most organisations don’t lack ambition. They struggle with sustained traction.

We’re often brought in when:

• Culture initiatives feel abstract, nebulous, or disconnected from day-to-day work
• Leadership development is functional, but doesn't create meaningful behavioural changes
• Teams are capable, but misaligned, fragmented, or quietly burned out
• Managers are promoted for technical competence, but unsupported in leading people
• Everyone is focusing on the doing, but trust, clarity, and ownership aren’t there to support it

Our work sits at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational realities; developing good intentions into continual improvements, lived practice, and successful outcomes.

Developing leadership, impact and culture

We draw from a range of leadership and cultural interventions, models, tools, frameworks and programmes to create tailored and cohesive experiences. Tailored to your needs these work well in themselves, and create even more impact when combined. We regularly combine and deploy:

Leadership Development

Tailored leadership development in your context that shifts how leaders think, decide, and behave day to day while delivering direct return on investment.

Culture Change

Culture change rooted in real work rather than abstract values statements. We roll our sleeves up and drive cultural change while accelerating tangible outcomes.

Team Coaching

Continual and progressive team coaching and development, developing long-term performance, effectiveness and cohesion.

Executive Coaching

Executive and senior leadership support during moments that matter.

Our interventions create high value impact with very reasonable costs, enabling the capabilties of your teams and leaders while achieving direct outcomes.

We work as partners, grounded in your context

We take a collaborative and supportive approach to develop the capabilities of your people while directly achieving outcomes, so they can continue to drive achievements without reliance on us.

We take a partner approach to our work with you, working together to define the outcomes, approach and success criteria and prioritising the client need over the contractuals.

Our approach blends consulting, coaching, and leadership development, all grounded in real world contexts, and with learning embedded directly into the realities leaders and teams are facing.

What this means in practice:

• We start with the real needs, work and constraints, not off-the-shelf programmes
• We drive real value as part of what we do, as well as developing the capabilities of your teams
• We design in short, meaningful cycles and learn, reflect, and adjust
• We expect and support active sponsorship and follow-through from leaders
• We work with values-led leaders and organisations, where people are valued and respected

This way of working creates engagement, real progress and momentum; change sticks and people .

Team coaching and development at scale

Co-Valence is our flagship platform for team and people development at scale.

It supports people and teams to:

• Understand themselves and each other
• Build shared understanding and trust
• Continually develop and evolve team performance and cohesion

Co-Valence is used both as part of our consulting and leadership development engagements and as a standalone product to increase the effectiveness of entire organisations.

What our clients say

Our clients all have an authentic and clear commitment to developing their people and culture, and span public and private sectors and organisational sizes.

Client testimonials

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Our people

We are a small core team supported by a trusted network of expert associates, allowing us to scale thoughtfully while staying close to the work.

What matters to us:

• Respect for people in the realities of organisational life
• Working with clients who engage authentically with change
• Clear thinking, honest dialogue, and practical action

If you'd like to meet the people behind the work, we can set up an intro.

Our Insights

We share thinking and practical insights including reflections on leadership, culture, systems, and learning — grounded in what we see working, and not working, in real organisations.

You can access all our weekly and monthly blog articles using the links below, and subscribe to them so you are alerted when a new article is published.

Monthly longer articles: Leadership, Learning and Life newsletter

Shorter weekly articles: Leadership Layers newsletter

Contact us

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