Livework Studio
Commercial Lead
Placed a Commercial Lead.
Livework Studio — Global service-design consultancy helping organisations improve customer and service experiences (London · Rotterdam · São Paulo).
Challenge. Appoint commercial leadership to drive growth for a global service-design consultancy.
The market for this leadership
Live MitchelLake intelligence across Professional Services and EMEA.
Adjacent signals across Professional Services
Geographic Expansion · EMEA
Deloitte Asia-Pacific →Deloitte analysts highlight Asia-Pacific as expected to drive global retail sales over next five years despite Middle East conflict headwinds affecting consumer confidence
Partnership · Americas
Andersen Consulting →Andersen Consulting signed Collaboration Agreement with Nuvolar, a Spanish technology consultancy specializing in cloud-based software development and Salesforce implementations
Restructuring · EMEA
Savannah Group →Savannah Group, a UK-based executive recruitment firm, has entered insolvency and been listed for sale after a failed pivot to AI-driven talent acquisition. Revenue fell 20% YoY (£15.6m to £12.4m), debt costs spiked 5.5x, and net profit halved. The company invested heavily in MapX, an AI recruitment platform launched publicly in February 2023 after internal development since 2019.
Restructuring · EMEA
Sasol →Sasol and Denmark's Topsoe announced strategic review of their Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) partnership, deciding to prepare for orderly operational wind-down of joint venture Zaffra while continuing technology-led licensing collaboration through Single Point Licensor (SPL) framework.
Ma Activity · EMEA
Gymshark →Gymshark founder Ben Francis is in talks to buy back a portion of the 21% stake he sold to General Atlantic in 2020, signaling intent to increase founder control and reduce private equity ownership.
Partnership · EMEA
eDreams ODIGEO →eDreams ODIGEO (eDO) partners with Visa to enable AI agents to initiate and complete travel purchase transactions across its eDreams, Opodo, GO Voyages, and Travellink platforms using Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Agentic Directory, and Payment Passkey infrastructure.