About Ard Fìor
A senior advisory practice built on 60 years of experience inside the businesses most consultants only advise.
Ard Fìor is a senior advisory practice for asset-intensive businesses. We help leadership teams redesign their operating model, organisation, and commercial engine — with high performance and growth as the desired outcome.
The name is from the Gaelic. Ard means high or noble. Fìor means true. It is the standard we hold ourselves to and the standard we expect of the work.
How we work
Not principles. Commitments — things we can be held to.
Not what is comfortable, not what extends the engagement. If the answer is one you would rather not hear, we will still give it — clearly and privately.
Operating model, organisation, leadership behaviour, execution discipline — the things that move performance, not the things that are easy to bill.
Recommendations are designed to be implemented. We stay close enough to see them land — and accountable enough to care whether they do.
The principals
Co-founder
Thirty-plus years across human resources line management, restructuring, and large-scale operational excellence implementation. Industry experience spans oil & gas, heavy industry, food & beverage, ingredients, and industrial services.
Specialist in organisation design, high-performance culture implementations, and change management at scale. Half a career spent in Operations and end-to-end supply chain, implementing operational excellence operating systems across complex industrial environments.
Co-founder
A career in oil & gas — upstream and downstream — leading the commercial side of the operating model. Deep expertise in customer journey, customer service, and B2B marketing in industrial channels.
The reason Ard Fìor can credibly redesign the commercial engine, not just the operations. Most operational advisory practices cannot touch this side of the business. We can.
"John and Nicola founded ArdFior after 60 combined years inside the businesses most consultants only advise. They started it to do the work they are best at, with the clients who want the truth rather than the deck."
Where we work
ArdFior Sàrl is registered in the Canton of Vaud. Our work takes us across Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and North America.
We are selective about the work we take on. If you have a problem worth solving, we would like to hear about it.
office@ardfior.com