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Established practice · Regulated industries

When the regulator is watching, the program cannot drift.

Lionhawk is a senior-led advisory practice for regulatory change, program recovery, and enterprise PMO. You work directly with the principal who has run these programs inside banks and insurers — not a team assembled around your engagement.

Where we are usually called in

01

A consent order, MRA, or exam finding with a committed remediation date.

02

A transformation programme that has quietly stopped moving.

03

A PMO producing status reports the executive committee no longer believes.

04

A leadership gap that needs filling now, credibly, in front of a board.

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15+
Years leading change
8
Bank subsidiaries governed
0
Material findings
Risk exposure reduced
The problem

Most programs do not fail on strategy. They fail in the gap between the commitment and the evidence.

The intent is agreed in the room. Then the interpretation is contested, ownership blurs across the three lines, dependencies surface late, and the artefacts that were supposed to prove the work happened were never designed to be examined.

By the time that becomes visible, the date is close and the options are expensive. We are usually brought in at exactly that point — and our first job is to make the true position legible to the people accountable for it.

"Show me what you have committed to, who owns it, and what would satisfy an examiner. Everything else follows from those three answers."

Practice pillars

Four disciplines, one accountable owner

All services
01

Regulatory Change

From interpretation to implemented, examiner-ready change — with the evidence chain built in from day one.

02

Program Management

The execution backbone: sequenced roadmaps, real dependency management, decisions that actually get made.

03

Change Management

The human side: readiness, communications, and adoption that survives after the program team leaves.

04

Enterprise PMO

Governance your executives trust and your auditors can verify — reporting that holds up under challenge.

How we engage

Three steps, and you can stop after the first

Step one · No fee

A working conversation

Forty-five minutes with the principal. You describe the commitment and the pressure; we tell you plainly what we would look at first and whether we are the right people at all.

Step two · 2–3 weeks

An honest baseline

A short, fixed-scope diagnostic: what is committed, who owns it, where the evidence is thin, and what the realistic path to the date is. Written so it can go straight to a board pack.

Step three · Scoped to need

Execution alongside you

Advisory, hands-on program leadership, or interim ownership of the function — with an explicit handover plan from the first week so your team keeps the capability.

Engagement record

A multi-entity bank holding company, eight subsidiaries, one examination cycle.

Regulatory obligations were tracked in eight different places, and no one could state the enterprise position with confidence. We consolidated the obligation inventory, assigned single-threaded ownership across the three lines, and rebuilt the evidence chain so that every control assertion pointed at something an examiner could open.

The examination closed with no material findings, and the governance model stayed in place after we left.

8
Subsidiaries under one governance model
0
Material findings at close
Reduction in assessed risk exposure
1
Accountable principal, start to finish

From the practice

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Why the sequencing of your earliest commitments matters more than the total plan, and how to choose the first one deliberately.

Program recovery · 7 min read

Six early signals that a program is already in trouble

None of them appear on a RAG status report. All of them are visible in how decisions move through the organization.

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Building an examiner-ready regulatory change operating model

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Tell us what you have committed to.

The first conversation is with the principal, costs nothing, and ends with a straight answer about what we would do first — whether or not you engage us.

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