We help organisations come together and move forward as one
We're a boutique organisational development consultancy, founded by James Freeman-Gray to support leaders taking their organisation somewhere new. We work alongside them as consultants, facilitators, trainers and thinking partners.
Twenty years helping organisations come together
I've spent twenty years in global brands and government departments, charities and housing associations, with teams of twelve and workforces of eighty thousand. Through all of it, one thing has held my attention more than any other: how organisations connect. The links between strategy, structure, culture and the service people deliver - and between the people themselves - are where an organisation pulls together or comes apart. It's the work I'm drawn to, and the work Mutomorro was built to do.
You'll find me in the room rather than at the side of it - facilitating, designing with your people, and bringing the kind of energy that makes serious work feel lighter. I lead every piece of work myself, from the first conversation to the handover, with senior associates alongside when the work needs more hands.
Mutomorro comes from the Latin mutare - to change - and morro, short for tomorrow. Change tomorrow: whatever today looks like, tomorrow is designable.
- James
“James has a unique combination of being a leading expert in his field, with vast knowledge of organisational change and development approaches whilst at the same time being deeply humble. Working with him feels like a true partnership, he is always interested, engaged, flexible and aspirational for his clients.”
See yourselves clearly, find your course, and bring everyone with you
Every organisation we work with starts in a different place - but the journey has the same shape. Seeing yourselves clearly. Working out where you're going. Planning how to get there. And doing it in a way that brings everyone along, so the plan belongs to the whole place - not just the top of it.
We work through the connections - between the structures, across the specialisms, in the spaces that don't belong to any single team. And we work collectively, because an organisation that understands itself can solve almost anything together.
“You helped us ask questions we didn't even know we should be asking.”
Why we focus on working as one
Every leader we work with wants the same thing underneath: an organisation that works as one - aligned around a common purpose, where people do meaningful work and feel part of that story. Most employees want it too. We exist to help join the dots and spark the conversations that make it real - bringing the clarity and direction that helps organisations understand themselves, solve things together, and pull closer in the doing.
It matters more now than it used to. Organisations are facing more uncertainty, more change and more disruption than ever, and it shows in how they function: energy gets wasted, tribes form, people disengage. Bringing people together - around a shared direction, with real agency in it - is the counterbalance. We've noticed the same pattern in every sector: when an organisation pulls together, everything gets easier.
Effort goes where it matters.
Less duplication, fewer meetings about meetings, less energy spent working around the way things work.
Decisions get easier.
When everyone understands what the organisation is trying to do, people can make good calls without escalating them.
Performance compounds.
Work builds on work instead of cutting across it.
Pressure gets shared.
A connected organisation absorbs shocks as a whole, rather than routing them through a handful of people. It also keeps working life sustainable for the people carrying the most.
People stay and grow.
Meaningful work, done with others, in a place that knows where it's going. It shows in recruitment and retention.
The outside feels it too.
How an organisation works together inside shapes what customers, service users and communities experience outside.
“It's been a game changer for us.”
Organisations of every size, across the public, private and charity sectors.
A few things you can hold us to
It'll feel like one team.
The person you meet at the start is the person in the room throughout - and we join your team rather than arriving with ours.
You'll get work built for you.
We start from what's really going on in your organisation - not a method waiting for a client. We'll bring models and frameworks when they help, leave them out when they don't, and never bend your situation to fit one.
You'll always know where things stand.
Straight talk about what we're seeing - including when it's not what anyone hoped to hear.
It'll feel lighter, not heavier.
Expect energy in the room, sessions people don't dread, and - fair warning - a genuinely beautiful Miro board.
We'll tell you if we're not the right fit.
For the work, or the timing. And where we can, we'll point you somewhere better.
You'll keep what we build.
The thinking, the tools, the confidence - they stay with your people. If it only works while we're in the building, it didn't work.
“People still talk about your training - I think it's been the most impactful we've had in a very long time. I use the model loads.”
Start with a conversation
No pitch, no pressure - just a chance to talk about your organisation and see whether we're a good fit. We're based in the UK, working with organisations across the country and beyond, in person and online.
If what you've read here sounds like the kind of company you'd want alongside you, we'd love to hear what you're working on.