Project delivery teams – led by people who’ve actually delivered
Fixed-scope project teams, delivered by independent experts blending consulting rigour with real-world execution experience
Outsized Teams deliver complete project outcomes through agile, hand-picked teams of proven consultants and experts. Each team is built to your brief and mobilised fast – with lower overheads, transparent pricing, and hands-on management from your Outsized Capability Lead.
Trusted by leading organisations worldwide:
Project execution across seven capability areas – turning ambition into real outcomes
From enterprise transformation to digital enablement, Outsized Teams deliver measurable results across every capability area – from strategy and risk to people, growth, and operations. Each project is led by an Outsized Capability Lead to ensure structure, quality, and speed.
Operational Excellence
Process improvement, change management, business enablement, benchmarking.
Risk, Compliance & Remediation
Compliance projects, governance initiatives, risk reviews, remediation programs.
People & Organisational Transformation
Leadership development, culture transformation, organisational design, workforce strategy.
Customer, Brand & Innovation
Customer experience strategy, brand positioning, service design, customer insights, and loyalty programs.
Strategy & Enterprise Transformation
Strategic planning, operating model design, transformation programs, strategic performance management, business model innovation.
Digital & Technology Enablement
Digital product development, technology modernisation, platform design, cloud transformation, digital operating models.
Learn how other clients are using Outsized Teams to solve critical problems and executing with confidence
Read about how other leading organisations use Outsized Teams for faster, accountable project delivery – from margin enhancement and payments scale-up to digital roadmaps that deliver measurable impact.
Rapid validation of automation and margin enhancement
A professional services firm needed to validate automation and AI opportunities and develop a board-ready business case for margin enhancement over 2-3 years.
Challenge:
Leadership identified optimisation opportunities but needed credible implementation plans with quantified financial impact. They needed rapid validation, rigorous business case, and board-ready plan within 4.5 weeks.
Solution:
Outsized curated a three-person team using DMAIC methodology to validate the quantified target number and identify specific opportunity initiatives. Undertook financial modelling, dependency mapping, and developed a phased roadmap with success metrics. Packaged findings into board materials, including a refined business case and Q&A preparation.
Impact:
Comprehensive board-ready business case with realistic financial projections. Validated opportunity assessment for measurable margin enhancement. Phased roadmap balancing quick wins with longer-term initiatives. Governance structure for effective execution.
This is what we were missing. The Six Sigma approach, and then the plan,
– Head of Operations, Global Professional Services Firm
helped us go back to the board in a credible way.
Experience that executes: Our Capability Leads combine consulting expertise with in-house delivery experience
Outsized Teams gives clients a complete project delivery squad. Each project team is led by an Outsized Capability Lead and is made up by an expert team precisely curated to your needs from our network of independent consultants and industry experts. The Capability Leads typically combine extensive consulting backgrounds, with execution experience from industry roles.
David Pragasam
David is a Lean Six Sigma–certified consultant with 15+ years’ experience in management consulting and transformation across professional services and telecom, specialising in process improvement, cost optimisation, and automation-led business enablement.
Elie Elias
Elie is a transformation and risk leader with 15+ years’ experience across banking and telecommunications, specialising in complex divestments, Line 1 risk, and remediation programmes that strengthen governance and control environments.
Rebecca Reti
Rebecca is a strategy and transformation consultant with 20+ years’ experience across financial services, government, and consulting, specialising in strategy design, operating model transformation, and enterprise-wide change with measurable commercial and engagement outcomes.
James Rendel
James is a senior marketing and customer experience strategist with 20+ years’ experience across leading corporates and scale-ups, specialising in customer-led growth, brand strategy, and data-driven CX and marketing technology programmes that deliver measurable commercial outcomes.
Lara Husselbee
Lara is a CX and service design leader with 15+ years’ experience across financial services, government, and health, known for embedding human-centred design, building large-scale learning ecosystems, and delivering measurable improvements in customer and employee experience.
Dora Dasgupta
Dora is a healthcare and insurance transformation specialist with 16+ years’ experience across APAC and the US, leading EMR/HIS modernisation, data-driven claims and network optimisation, and AI-enabled digital operating models.
Accelerating payments product delivery with an acquiring squad
A major Australian bank needed to rapidly scale their acquiring and ecommerce capability to deliver product enhancements and resolve customer issues.
Challenge:
Capacity constraints in acquiring business with growing eCommerce and merchant payment demand. Needed experienced product managers for agile delivery, complex stakeholder management, customer advocacy.
Solution:
Outsized built a three-person Acquiring Squad which managed online payments, merchant payments, mobile payment apps, payment gateways. Drove enhancements through agile delivery, maintained roadmaps, engaged stakeholders/vendors, resolved customer issues, ensured compliance. Two-round interview process before deployment.
Impact:
Fully operational squad deployed within 6 weeks. Accelerated product delivery across acquiring portfolio. Product enhancements from concept to market. Stakeholder alignment across complex relationships. Flexible capability and continuous development without permanent hire overhead.
Two ways to work with Outsized Teams
Whether you want hands-on oversight with a team of independent experts or prefer specialist boutiques to take full ownership, Outsized ensures quality delivery with the flexibility you need.
Curated Teams: Built-for-you project teams of independent experts
Boutique Partners: Specialist consultancies delivering end-to-end solutions
Our Curated Teams model gives you a hand-picked team of independent consultants and subject-matter experts. Your Outsized Capability Lead builds and guides the team, ensuring you get specialist talent precisely matched to your project – with the flexibility to scale as needs evolve. You retain full project oversight while we handle coordination through a dedicated Delivery Manager.
Our Boutique Partners model connects you with deeply vetted specialist consulting firms that bring proven methodologies and deep domain expertise. The boutique firm takes full accountability for delivery, while Outsized facilitates the partnership and ensures quality. Ideal for complex projects where you want specialist capability and end-to-end execution from a trusted partner.
How to work with Outsized for your project needs
- Scoping the project: Our senior Capability Lead co-designs your project with your project sponsor or co-lead.
- Assembling your team: We build your project team from our vetted network of independent consultants and industry experts, or shortlist boutique firms based on your preferred delivery model.
- Delivering the project: The project team delivers the agreed scope, with built-in handover and knowledge sharing to your organisation.
With Outsized Teams you can finally have all three: Quality, value, and speed
Real world expertise from consulting AND industry
Project delivery teams with independents that combine consulting and industry expertise, with previous execution experience from relevant areas.
Teams curated for what you actually need
Project teams curated for what you need, not what happens to be available on the bench, often with consultants who've worked together before.
Tier 1 outcomes, without Tier 1 overheads
Pay for expertise, not for big brand overheads, unnecessary generalists, or juniors charged out at high margins.
Independent teams, with Outsized governance
Projects are led by an Outsized Capability Lead and governed by our delivery framework. Flexibility paired with consulting-grade assurance.
Translating digital strategy into an actionable roadmap
A global consumer goods brand needed to translate their digital strategy into an actionable implementation roadmap without disrupting existing channel relationships.
Challenge:
The brand had strategic alignment but faced a critical gap: how to move from strategy to execution. They needed a prioritised roadmap, technology platform evaluation, and transformation structure to deliver at scale.
Solution:
A curated team across four workstreams delivered a roadmap and business case, extensive validated consumer research, technology evaluation, and stakeholder workshops and governance in 12 weeks. The team delivered pragmatic, commercially viable recommendations grounded in technical feasibility.
Impact:
Board-ready implementation roadmap bridging strategy and execution. Prioritised opportunities with clear dependencies, timelines, and resources. Quantified business case across multi-year horizon. Validated future scenarios and governance structure for successful execution. Consulting-grade quality at a fraction of traditional costs.
The team helped us move from strategic alignment to actionable execution with remarkable speed.
– Digital Transformation Lead, Global Consumer Goods Firm
About Outsized: Built by ex-consultants and industry leaders, for clients who expect more
Founded in 2016 by former big brand consultants and industry leaders, Outsized understands what quality delivery looks like. With 50+ employees across APAC and EMEA, and a platform of over 60k independents, we have depth and coverage. We complement your big brand consulting relationships, delivering fixed-scope implementation work, specialist projects, and urgent initiatives with transparency and accountability that do not fit the model of large consulting firms due to capabilities or cost.
Sara Kahlau
ANZ Lead
15 years of experience from Consulting, Digital Transformation, and Innovation.
Experience from:
Anurag Bhalla
CEO & SEA Lead
18 years of experience in innovation and consulting.
Experience from:
Niclas Thelander
Founder & CMO
25 years of experience in Consulting, Financial Services, and Scale-Ups.
Experience from:
Johann van Niekerk
EMEA Lead
18 years in Insurance & Insurtech. Led RGAX and RGA Ventures in Africa.
Experience from:
Frequently asked questions
How is Outsized Teams different from traditional consulting firms?
We offer the same consulting-grade expertise but with significantly faster deployment (weeks vs. months) and often up to 40% cost savings. You get fixed-scope pricing with transparent deliverables, flexible engagement models, and the ability to scale teams dynamically.
How do you ensure quality and team chemistry?
All professionals come from our curated network of 60,000+ vetted independent consultants with proven track records from MBB, Big 4, and leading boutique firms. Our Capability Leads personally select and interview each team member, ensuring complementary skill sets and cultural fit.
What types of projects are ideal for Outsized Teams?
We excel at digital transformation initiatives, operational improvement programmes, technology implementations, organisational restructuring, risk and compliance projects, and strategic planning execution. Project budgets typically range from AUD 100,000 to AUD 2,000,000.
What is your pricing model and what's included?
We use fixed pricing to deliver the scope agreed. Our pricing includes the full project team, including the Outsized Capability Lead as well as project management support through a dedicated Delivery Manager.