Visibility gap
Information is Everywhere! Sitting across dozens of systems and reports, and no single view joins it together. Each leader sees their own part, and the connections between them stay hidden until something breaks.
Imagine walking into one room and seeing your whole organisation.Everything you need to know, clearly structured and set out in one place.
We build the space where your leadership team sees everything in flight, together. Alignment becomes something you can see on the wall, and decisions are made at pace.
Who it's for
For senior leaders with multiple initiatives in play, managing multiple sources of information to contain it all.
Product development, technology migrations, regulatory work and transformation. All running at once, and often reported in different formats.
A new leader inheriting work already in flight.
A strategic priority the board is watching closely.
Major initiatives currently at risk.
A regulatory programme that requires clear alignment across the organisation.
A merger or integration bringing two ways of working together.
Sounds familiar?
Book a callThe problem
Somewhere in your organisation, the answer to your biggest problem is already known. It just isn't visible.
There are typically five patterns related to programme delay, even failure, each one of them linked to how programmes have traditionally been run, with information spread across teams and tools and the governance built around reporting and information flow.
Alignment pursuit
Every function plans in its own way and speaks its own language. Keeping them aligned becomes constant work, carried by calls and email threads. It never quite finishes.
Constant information chase
When the picture is unclear, organisations compensate with meetings and reports. Diaries fill with status updates. Senior time is spent finding out what is happening, leaving little for deciding what happens next.
Many versions of the truth
Every new tool promised to make things simpler. Each one added greater complexity. Figures disagree between systems, so people spend hours reconciling them, and trust in the information quietly falls away.
Normalised chaos
Firefighting unintentionally becomes the operating model. Urgent work crowds out important work, and holding it all together wears good people down. This can have a detrimental impact on costs, operational health, most importantly people health.
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Of those reporting overruns, 56% said delays were typically three to six months. One in ten said delays often stretched to a year. Spending rose at 85% of the organisations surveyed.
Source: CFOtech. Survey of digital transformation leaders at UK organisations with revenue above £30m.
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Organisations lose an average of 27% of transformation value during mobilisation and execution. 41% of leaders point to process bureaucracy and governance cadence as the biggest barrier.
Source: Sullivan & Stanley, survey of 200 UK C-suite leaders.
Put your own programme budget in the picture.
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On average, £270,000 of forecasted value could potentially be lost due to delay.
Illustrative. Based on the 27% average from the research above.
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Only 32% of UK leaders can give their board a complete, real-time view. The rest need days or weeks to assemble it. UK firms run an average of 6.4 initiatives at once. One in four leaders say status reports paint a rosier picture than the facts support. Information thins as it travels up through layers of reporting.
Large UK businesses lose an estimated £67bn a year on transformation and AI work that fails to deliver, around 2.5% of annual revenue.
Source: Emergn, 2026 research.
This is what most boards see.
9 hours a week
The average knowledge worker spends around nine hours a week chasing information.
Source: Atlassian
Out of every 40 hours.
Is your programme as healthy as you think it is? Find out what delay is costing it, and where that delay is coming from.
The room
What changes when the full picture is in one room. One place.
Obeya means big room. It is a visual management system first used at Toyota to run complex programmes. One Room builds it for UK organisations where delivery really matters.
Decisions become simple and collaborative
Leaders decide in the room, with the evidence in front of them and the owners beside them.
Cost of delay clearly visible
Blockers and dependencies surface while there is still time to act on them.
One version of the truth
Every function works from the same picture. Alignment is visible on the wall.
Meetings get shorter and much more effective
Status is already on the wall. Time goes on the calls that need leadership.
How we work
A clear path from first call to a working room.
Every engagement starts with the programme as it runs today. The room is built around your governance, your people and your delivery rhythm.
Conversation
Thirty minutes on where the programme stands. A short pre-briefing beforehand shapes the discussion.
Evaluation
A focused assessment of how information and decisions move through the programme. You receive a current-state map and a recommendation.
Implementation
We build the room with your leadership team and coach it into daily use.
Handover
Your people run the room. We step back once it runs without us.
About us
One Room Consulting is a coaching and consulting firm. We help organisations bring all of their work into one place, so leaders see the whole picture together and decide on the same facts at the same time. Our method is Obeya, the visual leadership practice that began at Toyota. Our coaches work alongside your leadership team, in the room. Together we build a visual system in your own space, using the tools you already have, and we coach your leaders until it runs without us. What remains is a way of working your organisation owns.
Steve Martin; Lead Obeya Coach
Obeya coach and consultant. Fifteen years of enterprise transformation. Author of Change Starts at the Very Top.
Book a call
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes with Steve. A practical discussion about your programme and whether a room would help.
Obeya Discovery Call
A 30-minute call to explore how Obeya could work in your organisation. If this is our first conversation, we’ll talk through your current challenges, how your leadership team makes decisions today, and where a visual management space could help. If we’ve already spoken, we’ll pick up from where we left off and agree the next steps together.