The old business playbook is dead. What you’re missing is costing more than you think.
Tectonic Works is where bold leaders go when they know the next move matters most. We work side by side with CEOs and leadership teams to reframe critical decisions, unlock strategic movement, and navigate ambiguity at pace.
We offer a radically different and creative approach. We don’t look where everyone else looks, we don’t think what everyone else thinks, and we don’t play how everyone else plays.
Our unique proposition leverages the compounded strength of world class cross-domain specialists because the most valuable answers rarely come from where the problem began.
Tectonic wasn’t built in theory. It was built through the delivery of £600M of complex, high-stakes real estate developments over 35 years, with skin in the game and consequences in full view.
We bring independence and the insatiable curiosity that means everything gets questioned.
No pre-conceived ideas, no templates, no bloated teams of analysts. We operate as partners speaking hard truths to power.
Sometimes that’s through very short-term targeted interventions, sometimes over a longer period of strategic or creative development. But we never work on retainer. All our work is project based. We aim to make ourselves redundant as soon as possible.
We operate at the fault lines where pressure is high, and clarity is hard to find. This is usually where something fundamental needs to shift, whether it’s direction, culture, mindset or business model.
Tectonic helps companies re-discover their bravery, imagination and edge, and make it sharp, practical and financially valuable straight off the bat.
We uncover and help solve hidden problems, expose blind spots, and reveal untapped opportunities that conventional approaches miss.
There’s no death by alignment session or death by PowerPoint. We’re not selling capacity.
We built what we couldn’t find — a practice that blends discipline and commercial acumen.
We do it with a rigorous 5 lens approach we call Applied Curiosity…
Imagination. To see beyond the obvious and under-appreciated;
Creativity. To explore and design original alternatives;
Discernment. To cut through the noise and recognise what truly matters;
Coherence. To bring disparate parts into holistic alignment;
Judgement. To move from insight to meaningful action, especially under pressure.
This is science, art and craftsmanship combined. We’ll go as deep and as wide as you need, but we’ll keep you rooted and focused.
And Tectonic project teams are entirely bespoke.
We might pair a psychologist with a real estate developer, an elite former special forces leader with an architect or urban planner, or a film-maker with a lawyer.
There’s no fixed formula — it might be an entrepreneur from an adjacent field, a poet, a UX designer, a financier.
We bring in whatever perspectives unlock the strongest outcomes.
We’re not for everyone. And that’s the point.
Tectonic is a close contact partner.
We’ll never claim to have all the answers or guarantee outcomes.
But what we deliver is bullshit-free, honest and immediately valuable.
Behind every breakthrough is a better, more searching question — and the right question becomes a fulcrum for maximum leverage when it matters most.
That’s what we bring.
If you’re facing something immediate that matters deeply, a decision, a shift, a moment where the usual approach won’t cut it, we’d welcome a conversation.
Contact Carlo Navato
The Chapel
29 Chaucer Gardens
Coulsdon
CR5 3FQ
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Company no. 15820043