Senior counsel that survives contact with reality.
Senior counsel that survives contact with reality.
Hankin Associates provides strategic advisory and senior leadership counsel to CEOs and MDs of mid-market businesses. We bring two decades of tier-1 experience and a network of deep specialists to help you see clearly, decide confidently, and move at pace — on terms tied entirely to your outcomes.
£1.5bn
Savings delivered as part of the largest IT transformation in HSBC's history
HSBC — Digital Transformation Programme
£4.9m
Profit generated through award-winning digital product delivery across 1,100 retail stores
Dixon Carphone — Digital Products
20+ yrs
Leading transformation at tier-1 global institutions across financial services, retail and telecoms
HSBC · JP Morgan · UBS · EY · BSkyB
Four areas of senior counsel.
We operate at the strategy and advisory layer — helping leadership teams think more clearly, act more decisively, and build from a position of genuine competitive advantage. Where required, we draw on our network of senior specialists to deepen the advisory with domain expertise.
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AI & Technology Strategy
We help boards and leadership teams cut through the noise around AI and emerging technology — identifying where genuine value lies for your business, what the risks are, and what a credible adoption roadmap looks like. Advisory grounded in real institutional experience, not theoretical frameworks.
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Transformation Leadership
Senior advisory to CEOs navigating large-scale change. We've led transformation from the inside at HSBC, JP Morgan, UBS and EY — which means we understand the organisational dynamics, stakeholder complexity and decision-making pressures that determine whether a programme succeeds or stalls.
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Opportunity Analysis
We help mid-market businesses identify and size the opportunities that technology and digital change create for their specific context — new revenue streams, operational leverage, market positioning. Structured analysis that moves from insight to investable decisions, not just reports.
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Strategic Advisory & Board Counsel
An ongoing advisory relationship for CEOs, MDs and boards who want experienced, independent counsel on technology strategy, digital direction and organisational capability. Candid, commercially-grounded perspective from someone who has sat inside the most complex organisations in the world.
Four steps. No theatre.
Most advisors give you a report and leave. We work alongside leadership teams as a trusted, ongoing thinking partner — with skin in the game. Sebastian leads every engagement personally, drawing on our specialist network where depth is needed. Our fees reflect the outcomes we help you achieve, not the hours we log.
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Discover
A focused diagnostic conversation.
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Define
We scope the engagement in plain language — the problem, the outcome that would constitute success, and the contingency…
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Deliver
Senior-led from start to finish.
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Demonstrate
Outcomes are measured against the milestones agreed at Define.
Specialists drawn in as the engagement requires.
Our advisory is led by Sebastian and enriched by a curated network of senior practitioners — each with tier-1 credentials in their field. We bring in the right expertise for each engagement rather than carrying a fixed overhead, which means you always get depth where it matters most.
Meet the networkTwenty years at tier-1 institutions. One advisor.
Sebastian Wilson is a Senior Director, Change Executive and strategic advisor with over two decades of experience at the highest levels of global business — HSBC, JP Morgan, UBS, Ernst & Young, Dixon Carphone and BSkyB.
Ready to transform? Let's talk.
Tell us about your challenge. We'll be direct about whether we can help — and if we can, we'll show you exactly how. No obligation, no sales process. Just a straight conversation.
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