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What we do

Where Imhotep makes the difference

Clarity when it matters most

When your organisation is stuck, the answer is rarely more effort — it's clearer thinking. Most root causes become obvious when you consider everything at once: detail and direction, people and processes, the stated strategy and the actual behaviour. We find what's actually holding you back and get you moving again.

Clarity when it matters most

When your organisation is stuck, the answer is rarely more effort — it's clearer thinking. Most root causes become obvious when you consider everything at once: detail and direction, people and processes, the stated strategy and the actual behaviour. We find what's actually holding you back and get you moving again.

The trust to go further

Good advice only lands if people believe it. Matthew has a track record of gaining the confidence of whole teams quickly — which means honest findings don’t just get heard, they get acted on.

The trust to go further

Good advice only lands if people believe it. Matthew has a track record of gaining the confidence of whole teams quickly — which means honest findings don’t just get heard, they get acted on.

Connections others miss

Most people solve problems from within the problem. We don't. The ability to hold a wide range of information at once, combined with unending interests and a background that spans engineering, education and startups, makes the difference between a diagnosis that sounds right and one that actually is.

Connections others miss

Most people solve problems from within the problem. We don't. The ability to hold a wide range of information at once, combined with unending interests and a background that spans engineering, education and startups, makes the difference between a diagnosis that sounds right and one that actually is.

Built to last

We don’t hand over a report and disappear. We design and deliver the processes, systems and structures that make change stick — long after the engagement ends.

Built to last

We don’t hand over a report and disappear. We design and deliver the processes, systems and structures that make change stick — long after the engagement ends.

Our work

Featured projects

Diagnostic review

Culture & systems

Getting unstuck: an organisational review for a growing church

Advising the leadership of a fast-growing organisation on what was really holding them back — and the path forward

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Diagnostic review

Culture & systems

Finding talent traditional hiring misses

Redesigning a graduate recruitment process from the ground up — fairer, more insightful, and more efficient at scale

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About Imhotep

We’ve never believed problems come in neat boxes.

Before Imhotep, our founder Matthew spent over a decade designing infrastructure for some of the most demanding environments on earth — coastal civil engineering, where the margin for error is zero and the consequences of poor thinking are permanent. That discipline shapes everything we do today.

From the classroom to the boardroom, from early-stage startups to established organisations, Imhotep brings an engineer’s rigour and a consultant’s clarity to the problems most firms find hardest to solve.

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What clients say

In their own words

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I have seen many, many different recruitment systems and processes in my career and what you built is truly unique and truly exceptional. You should be proud.

Senior leader — Recruitment business

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I have seen many, many different recruitment systems and processes in my career and what you built is truly unique and truly exceptional. You should be proud.

Senior leader — Recruitment business

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Matthew is clearly incredibly experienced, capturing the brief perfectly and gaining the trust of the whole team. He brought more to the brief than I could have expected — helping us identify areas of behaviour and performance that were holding us back, and setting out a process to address these in a sustainable way.

Andy Coombe — organisational culture and systems review

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Matthew is clearly incredibly experienced, capturing the brief perfectly and gaining the trust of the whole team. He brought more to the brief than I could have expected — helping us identify areas of behaviour and performance that were holding us back, and setting out a process to address these in a sustainable way.

Andy Coombe — organisational culture and systems review

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Whether you’re stuck, scaling, or somewhere in between — let’s talk about what’s possible.

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