Helping develop your
unique winning messages
to exceed compliance

so you secure more business

Winning proposals

Producing and editing your proposals and other essential documents.

Presentation training

Creating effective presentations, and training your team to present with impact.

Team coaching

Coaching your team to excel in their roles and to overcome challenges.

My services

I help you win more work and become a top influencer in your profession. Mercury Communication & Strategy is a bid consultancy helping you make a strong positive impact and develop your work-winning and people strategy.

Mercury enables businesses to secure more work by developing unique winning messages. You have the expertise and I help you present it for greatest impact. Your customers need to understand what makes your expertise and experience important for them and how it will solve their problems.

My services include:

  • Proposal management
  • Proposal writing, editing and reviewing
  • Bid training
  • Presentation training
  • Individual and team coaching

Strategy and coaching

Achieve your goals. I believe everyone can achieve their business and personal goals with the right strategies. I work with you to develop your strategy, identify effective action plans, and define your next steps on the path to success.

Bids and proposals

Take your proposals to the next level. I'll help you prepare powerful proposals and easy-to-read documents. For proposals, I focus on exceeding your customers’ requirements and showing why your offer is the one to choose for benefits stronger than your competitors'.

Presentations

Create winning presentations. You must engage your audience, inspiring prospective customers and stakeholders through spoken and non-verbal communication to convey important messages clearly, confidently and convincingly.

Experience

I'm an experienced proposal and bid consultant and life coach. I help small businesses, medium companies and large enterprises develop strategies, people and proposals to win work. I coach individuals and teams to achieve goals in and beyond the workplace.

My experience includes construction, civil infrastructure, engineering, academia, research projects, and  project management consultancy.

I combine being a chartered civil engineer with a passion for plain English, clear messages that score highly in bid assessments, and communicating from my audiences' perspectives.

I'll support you to inspire internal and external stakeholders who you need to bring with you on the path to winning work and achieving your teams' and individuals' goals.

Examples of my work

Leading development of tender responses in the electricity transmission sector

Working with engineering specialists, I planned and wrote technical methodologies for electricity conductor replacement as part of the tender to National Grid for the RIIO-2 price control period (2021–2026). Other response development I led was in the subjects of compliance, value engineering, ECI, supply chain, quality and sustainability.

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Team away day to facilitate collaborative business planning

I facilitated a business planning away day for Pod-Trak, a rail engineering contractor specialising in railway electrification, civil engineering, permanent way, communications, and airports and stations. I followed up the event with a detailed report including team actions to prioritise activities for gaining competitive advantage.

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Writing engineering methodologies for London’s new super sewer

The Tideway project created a super sewer under the River Thames to tackle London’s problem of sewage outfall into the river. London’s sewers were designed for a population a quarter of today’s size. My client was bidding against other joint ventures to be the principal contractor for the longest section of the scheme, valued at £750m. I supported by writing engineering methodologies for tunnelling, river works and associated activities, as well as preparing responses about risk control, logistics, architecture, and management of design, supply chain, cost and programme. My client’s bid was successful.

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Are you ready to win more work and coach your people?