Thanks for your points, hoping you or someone else can answer a few questions.

How did you find the jump from inhouse to doing your own consulting? Is it just a case of getting experience in delivering? i.e. more likely to have success after some junior manager experience inhouse?

I had a really good GM in my last job who taught me a fair bit about how the business works - after moving on I've felt that void in other roles where senior managers are much less transparent. I want to streamline into business function ownership - have you got any advice on how to get to this stage or does this just come with general experience and following management track up?