Trusted counsel for complex times

Working alongside leaders and organisations to shape clear strategies, anticipate risk, and communicate with credibility in the moments that matter most.

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About us

With more than 30 years in global communications, including senior leadership roles at Microsoft, Grannom Consulting's founder James Tutt brings deep experience in guiding organisations through complexity, challenge and change. Grannom Consulting was founded to offer clear, strategic counsel to leaders, teams and agencies who aim to communicate with confidence and trust.

James' approach is calm, partnership-orientated, and focused on outcomes. Listening first, then working with his clients to chart the right course. They value his ability to see the bigger picture, anticipate opportunities as well as risks and deliver pragmatic advice.

Our Services

Strategic
Counsel

Independent, senior advice to improve your communications strategy and operations to support decision-making at the highest levels.

Corporate Positioning

Crafting narratives that define what you stand for, how you engage stakeholders with trust and credibility to build your future success.

Crisis & Issues Management Strategy

Getting ready to deal with the unexpected. Building the right orchestration to protect your hard-earned reputation and ensuring measured, confident responses.

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Change &
Culture

Helping leaders define, lead

and inspire successful transformations which create value and purpose.

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Public Affairs & Advocacy

Navigating regulatory, political, and industry landscapes to influence debate and advance your priorities.

Coaching and advisory services

Support for senior executives, comms and agency leaders as well as their teams. Achieving success through mutual understanding and aligned goals.

Why Grannom Consulting?

James has spent over 30 years advising leaders, leading communications teams and building agencies at the highest level.

His experience spans technology, cybersecurity, corporate reputation, regulation, consumer and geopolitical issues. This has been split equally between agency and in-house roles.

His career to date has included senior communications roles at Microsoft during a long period of major cultural and strategic change leading to an extraordinary corporate turnaround. He is trusted by executives and organisations to provide calm, independent counsel when it matters most.

"James is a world-class communications strategist with a rare ability to simplify complexity and deliver clarity. At Microsoft, I had the privilege of working alongside James and saw first-hand his talent for shaping narratives that resonate. He combines deep expertise with a calm, pragmatic approach that inspires trust and his counsel was trusted at the highest levels. If you need strategic counsel and clear thinking, Grannom Consulting is where you’ll find it."

Steve Clayton, Vice President Microsoft Communications Strategy