Consultancy for leaders in complex organisations.
Omnicomplexity works with senior leaders in complex organisations, across the public and private sectors. We work inside the situation, alongside the people who can see the work, and leave it running without us.
Two decades inside high-stakes delivery
Work in the public and private sectors, from national government programmes to financial services, pharmaceuticals and fast-growing companies. Different worlds, the same lesson: order is bought with your capacity to respond, and the best decisions are made where the facts are.
Smooth delivery has a running cost most boards never see.
The programme that never slips. The report that always lands on time. From the doorway it looks calm and ordered, the way a spinning plate looks still, and just out of your eyeline a few people have their whole hands under it. It holds until one of them leaves. We find where your delivery is running on invisible effort, put a figure on it, and help you take the load off before it breaks.
Six months after we leave
Faster decisions, fewer escalations
The people who can see the work get the authority to act on it. In our experience that does more for delivery speed and morale than any restructure.
Change that spreads without a programme
People change how they work when someone like them has changed first and it visibly worked. We build that spread on purpose.
See the true cost of control
More reporting, more sign-offs and more standardisation all have a price in speed and in your people’s time. We help you see that bill before you commit to it.
Practices your teams keep after we leave
What we leave behind runs without us. If it needs us in the room forever, it did not work, and we say so first.
We build change from the inside
We work alongside your people, inside the situation, until the change runs on its own.
You have probably lived it: the transformation programme, the imported operating model, the restructure that looked right on the diagram. They underdeliver the same way, because they are applied to your organisation from outside, not built inside it, and they stop the moment the pushing stops.
We work the other way round. We start on one stuck decision or one slipping programme, move the decision closer to the people who can see the work, and set things up so the improvement keeps running when we are not in the room. Nothing to roll out, and nothing that collapses when we leave.
One test tells you if a change is real: does it survive the first time somebody with the power to reverse it disagrees? You can call it in advance, not read it off the outcome.
See how we workWays to work with us
Consultancy
Senior, hands-on help when a programme is slipping, a restructure is fighting the work, or a decision will not move. We work inside the situation, alongside your people, one real problem at a time.
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Leadership Training
Development for people who run real organisations, including senior leaders in UK central government. Nothing to memorise: working judgement your leaders use the following Monday.
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Coaching
One-to-one coaching for leaders in hard situations, and peer coaching formats your teams keep running on their own, at no ongoing cost.
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Workshops
Rooms that end with one real change the room chose and has the authority to make. Designed so the change survives the week after.
Learn moreSomething real in weeks, not quarters. No pitch and no obligation: if we can help, we say how, and you decide.
Founded by Chris Preece
Omnicomplexity is a leadership and change consultancy founded by Chris Preece, author of the book. The approach draws on two decades of leading change across the public and private sectors, and on the research into how complex organisations actually behave.
About Chris and Omnicomplexity
Why change fails, and what to do instead
Omnicomplexity: Leadership in Complex Organisations. Coming 2026.
A practical book for leaders in complex organisations, drawn from two decades of real change across the public and private sectors, and from the research into how complex systems actually behave. The first chapter is free to read.
Read the First Chapter