Our Company
TEN is an international leadership consultancy that helps organisations align their operating model, structure, culture, leaders, teams and people capabilities to execute their business plans and transform strategies into results.
Our CEO
William Montgomery is a leadership consultant with first class credentials. The former navigating officer of HMS Ark Royal and Head of Strategic Change at Lloyds TSB now heads up TEN where he has earned an enviable reputation as a powerful catalyst for performance, helping release potential to maximise profit through the creation of a success culture for start-up entrepreneurs to FTSE 100 companies.
Company News
A Royal Navy with no warships
6 March 2026
When I joined the Royal Navy in 1978, Britain was still a maritime power in every meaningful sense of the phrase. The Cold War was at its height. The Soviet fleet roamed the oceans and the Royal Navy maintained a constant global presence. Ships deployed... read more
When fear becomes a strategy
12 September 2025
Labour swept to power in 2024 with 412 seats. Just a year later, poll-of-polls suggest they could slump to 119, while Reform rockets from 5 seats to a projected 368 - enough to form a government. The Conservatives? Reduced to just 36 MPs. If a week is a... read more
Power, performance and the price of peace
15 August 2025
I’ve been in enough negotiation rooms - at sea, in boardrooms, and now watching politics with a wary eye - to know one thing: the real work of leadership rarely looks dramatic. True breakthroughs usually happen behind closed doors, after the cameras... read more