Tim Nightingale
Founding Director, Nisus Consulting
Tim was a founding director of Nisus Consulting in 1994, created specifically to assist the professional services sector. Its core services are market research and client insight studies to help professionals to be more client focused.
Nisus published its first research into what large corporates (FTSE-100 listed companies) thought of and wanted from the legal profession in 2002. The follow-up studies in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2012 were widely publicised in the legal press.
Nisus also provides its clients with post transaction review services, internal surveys, brand research and advice and competitive pitching consultancy, – writing effectively, presentation planning and preparation. Tim is currently writing a book on best pitching practice with Matthew Fuller.
The Nisus Performance & Value Index (PVI) offers benchmarked service performance research on line and has been used by Allen & Overy, Bird & Bird, Blake Morgan, BLP, DAC Beachcroft, DLA Piper, Gowlings WLG (previously Wragge Lawrence Graham), Macfarlanes, Mazars, Nabarro, Osborne Clarke, Smith & Williamson, Taylor Wessing and more besides.
Tim has an MBA from Cass Business School in the City, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a full Diploma member of the Market Research Society. He also contributed a chapter to the Kogan Page Professional Services Marketing Handbook and has just finished co-authoring a book on tendering in professional services, to be published spring 2017..
Outside of work Tim is a keen skier, a retired marathon runner and persistent cyclist. In 2009 he cycled from Lands End to John O’Groats (which was a pain in the backside).