Strategy & Business Development
Clarifying direction, identifying opportunities and turning ambition into practical priorities.
↗ Independent strategic & business advisory
Experience
when you need it.
For entrepreneurs, owners, executives and investors facing an important decision, opportunity or challenge.
Four decades of international experience — and the relationships built along the way.
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Where experience can help
Focused, independent advice shaped around the question at hand—not a standard consulting package.
Capital & Financial Strategy
Thinking through funding, financial structure and the role capital should play in the business.
↗Transactions & Partnerships
Independent perspective before, during or around consequential deals and relationships.
↗Entrepreneurship & New Ventures
Pressure-testing ideas, shaping propositions and helping new ventures move from concept to reality.
↗Special Situations
Experienced judgment when the problem, opportunity or decision does not fit a conventional category.
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Perspective, experience & network
“Sometimes the answer is knowing what to do. Sometimes it is knowing who might help make it happen.”
Over four decades across finance, business, international development, academia and entrepreneurship, Sebastian Lethansen has built relationships across countries, industries and professions.
Where appropriate, that network can help identify specialist knowledge, perspectives, people and opportunities relevant to an assignment. Introductions are selective and never guaranteed.
About Sebastian →03
Experience from many sides of business
Investment banker. Adviser. Executive. Entrepreneur. Teacher. Founder. Author.
40+years of
international experience
international experience
Selected organisations
Morgan Stanley
Merrill Lynch
BNY Mellon
Edward Jones
From global financial institutions to privately held businesses, international trade, university teaching and new ventures.
View professional CV →A useful place to beginBring the question.
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