Stillness Partners helps boards and senior leadership teams preserve execution coherence in the age of acceleration.
We work at the intersection of strategy, governance, and organisational design:the point where how an organisation thinks determines whether what it builds will hold.
Our work reframes organisational stress as economic friction and positions stillness not as a wellness intervention, but as a strategic operating advantage. Through proprietary frameworks including the Execution Coherence Index and the Stillness Diagnostic Architecture, we help leaders measure how cleanly their organisations think and execute under pressure, and fix what's generating friction.
Our Team
Rob Anderson
FounderRob is a strategist and founder working at the intersection of judgement, performance, and organisational design.
He brings a rare dual perspective as both an operator and an advisor. He has held senior commercial and managing director roles, including Global Sales Director at Business Monitor International and Managing Director at Meltwater News, alongside consulting experience with firms such as RogenSi and IBM.
This blend of front-line accountability and advisory insight enables him to work credibly with CEOs, CFOs, and private equity operating partners on the practical realities of execution, capital protection, and value creation.
Across professional services, technology, security, financial services, and the public sector, Rob's work focuses on reducing friction at senior levels, strengthening collective leadership, and increasing decision adherence.
His approach is direct: acceleration is structural, but judgement degradation is optional.
Alice is a brand strategist, storyteller, and creative leader working at the intersection of communications, culture, and organisational coherence.
She brings 25+ years of experience across in-house leadership and as founder and director of Neatline Creative, a strategic brand and communications consultancy. She has led brand, culture, and communications programmes for more than 40 global businesses, working where external brand aspiration meets the internal conditions that make it credible.
Alice is a qualified facilitator and coach with a particular interest in how teams communicate, collaborate, and stay engaged under pressure, a perspective that informs both the diagnostic frameworks in The Stillness Dividend and the leadership practice it describes.
Her view is direct: culture is not the soft side of strategy. It is the operating system that strategy runs on, and like any operating system, it can be measured, maintained, and deliberately improved.
She is co-host of the podcast Work is Weird Now.
FounderAlice Phillips
Why Both of UsThe most expensive failures in organisations rarely appear first in the numbers. They appear first in the quality of conversation.
Rob works the commercial and governance axis: CEOs, CFOs, boards, PE operating partners. Alice works the human architecture axis: communications, culture, leadership capability, team dynamics.
Together, we close both the "hard" and "soft" objections that typically stall organisational interventions. And we can sell into both sides of any organisation, doubling the entry points and halving the time to engagement.
This isn't a coincidence. It's the design of the practice. Execution coherence lives at the junction of commercial reality and human capacity. You need both perspectives to see it clearly, and both skill sets to fix it.
Speaking & Events
Rob and Alice are available for keynotes, leadership offsites, and conference sessions on execution coherence, the hidden cost of organisational stress, and leading in the age of acceleration.
Speaking engagements are the fastest way to experience the Stillness Partners perspective. A 40-minute keynote delivers the book's core argument in a room of people who recognise the problem and opens the door to deeper work.
Recent events:
Finance Forum Speaker: Alice Phillips, October 2025
Under Pressure: Reducing Tension Within the Finance Function
Tight deadlines, leaner teams, and rising expectations have made finance one of the most stretched functions in many organisations. This session explores the most common tension points affecting teams today, from workload and communication challenges to shifting working patterns. It also looks at the broader economic and workplace trends adding to the strain.
WorkTech London: Alice Phillips & Rob Anderson, November 2025
What’s the biggest AI challenge facing your workplace right now?
This highly interactive session brings together leading voices in AI and the future of work in a unique live format. Instead of set presentations, our experts will be given real-world workplace challenges and tasked with solving them, live on stage, in front of the audience. Bringing perspectives from entrepreneurship, consulting, investment, and applied AI, the panel will debate, collaborate, and propose practical solutions in real time.