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Strategic clarity
We identify where value sits, what needs to change, and which decisions will make the greatest difference to performance.
Strategy · Leadership · Performance
Helping TV & digital content businesses get fit for the future
We work with TV and digital content business leaders to build clear strategies, aligned leadership teams and a model that works.
Clarity and momentum when it matters most
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57% of leaders in media and entertainment believe their business model won't be viable within a decade.
With accelerating market and technological change, the pressure on leaders to transform their businesses while simultaneously sustaining short-term results is greater than ever.
But often uncertainty, lack of alignment or immediate pressures are holding leaders back from enabling their businesses to meet the challenge.
Silbury works with CEOs and senior leaders in TV and digital content businesses to help them get fit for the future. We work with them to develop clear strategies, build aligned leadership teams and deliver demonstrable results. Our work is behind major transformations and turnarounds across the industry.
01 — Context
When we're brought in
Our work typically starts at a point where business leaders know that something needs to change, but the path forward is not yet clear.
- Performance has stalled or declined
- The business model no longer feels fit for purpose
- Leaders are uncertain how to respond to market change
- Boards are asking difficult questions
- New leadership needs to establish direction and credibility quickly
- Leadership teams are stretched, misaligned, or under strain
02 — Diagnosis
What's actually happening
Underlying issues can be hard for business leaders to see up close, but common challenges we find include:
- Strategic priorities are not clearly defined or agreed
- The business lacks clarity about its market position and opportunity
- Leadership attention is pulled into short-term delivery
- Teams are not aligned around a shared direction
- Structural or operational weaknesses are allowing value to leak
- There is uncertainty about where to focus to achieve meaningful results
These can lead to significant effort and severely stretched teams, but without the results to show for it.
03 — Practice
What we do
Silbury focuses on the point where strategy, execution, and leadership performance meet. Our work is designed to create clarity quickly and translate it into action that delivers tangible results and builds businesses that are fit for the future.
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Business performance and execution
We work with leadership teams to turn strategic priorities into practical actions with a commercial focus.
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Leadership alignment and effectiveness
We support leaders and teams to operate effectively under pressure; aligning around priorities, collaborating effectively, improving decision-making, and strengthening delivery.
04 — Engagements
Our core programmes
Alongside our bespoke consulting work we offer three programmes designed to meet common challenges for senior leaders and businesses in the TV and digital content industries.
Programme 01
Fit for the Future Assessment
A 6–8 week tailored assessment and action plan that helps TV and digital content businesses understand how well positioned they are to meet their future goals, and what they can do to strengthen performance. We assess the core components of future success, including Market Positioning, Strategic Clarity, Operating Effectiveness and AI Readiness.
Programme 02
Strategy and Leadership Programme
Coming Soon: a structured programme to define strategic priorities, align the leadership team, and build the conditions required to deliver quickly and effectively.
Programme 03
One-to-One Coaching
One-to-one coaching for senior leaders of TV and digital content businesses, supporting them to develop the confidence, capability and credibility to lead well through pivotal moments — such as the first 100 days of a new role, or leading an organisation through major change.
Diagnostic
Where are you right now?
A short, candid self-assessment across the six dimensions that shape whether a business — and its leaders — are fit for the future. Twelve statements. Three minutes.
Your answers stay in your browser. Only an anonymous completion ping and the programme suggested are recorded — no answers, no personal data.
Question 1 of 12
Strategic clarity
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Strongly disagree
Strongly agree
Your reading
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Each area is based on just two questions, so treat these as prompts for reflection rather than precise scores.
Strategic clarity
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Market positioning
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Operating effectiveness
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AI readiness
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Leadership alignment
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Personal effectiveness
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Where you're strongest
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Where to focus
05 — Experience
A small sample of our experience
Silbury has worked with organisations including BBC, Channel 4, Motive Pictures, Mindhouse, Curtis Brown, Milk VFX and Pact.
Recent work includes
Record Revenue Growth
A production facilities business with declining revenues required a full review following new ownership. Silbury assessed strategy, operations, and organisational structure, identifying strengths alongside critical weaknesses. This enabled a focused transformation programme, leading to significant growth and record revenues within two years.
8 Figure Turnaround
A production company facing financial pressure needed to reset both its balance sheet and strategic direction. Silbury identified higher-value opportunities and supported a revised approach. Within 18 months, the business received investment offers reflecting an eight-figure valuation.
Creating New Revenues
An established production company sought to expand into digital and podcasting. Silbury worked with the team to define positioning, commercial models, and near-term opportunities. This led to new funding opportunities within weeks.
Positioning A Leadership Team For A Sale
A founding team navigating a period of transition required clarity on priorities and direction. Through structured coaching and facilitated sessions, Silbury helped establish a shared plan. This underpinned a successful sale and transition into a larger group.
06 — Testimonials
What clients say
Silbury's guidance has been a key element in enabling me to run an independent production company through complex and high-pressure situations.
A rare ability to expand to the bigger picture while also focusing on immediate issues. We left much clearer about what our path should be.
Oliver's coaching has not just been pivotal in refining my thinking but has also shaped the core of my professional ethos.
07 — Method
How we work
- We focus on the few decisions that will make the greatest difference
- We combine strategic perspective with hands-on delivery
- We work directly with senior leaders and teams
- We stay close to implementation, not just recommendation
The work is practical, commercially grounded, and designed to move at pace.
08 — Outcomes
What you can expect to change
The work is designed to produce practical, visible shifts:
- Clear and agreed strategic priorities
- Stronger alignment within the leadership team
- Faster, more confident decision-making
- Early delivery of tangible results
- Improved confidence from boards and stakeholders
- Greater clarity and control for the individual leader
09 — Why Silbury
Working with us
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Deep experience as senior leaders, advisors, and coaches within the sector
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A track record of delivering measurable business outcomes
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A distinctive focus on the link between strategy and leadership performance
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The ability to operate effectively in complex, high-pressure environments
We understand both the business challenges and the leadership realities behind them.
Founder
Oliver Lang
Silbury's founder, Oliver Lang, has over twenty-five years' experience as a senior leader, advisor, executive coach and consultant in the screen sector.
Before founding Silbury, Oliver held senior roles in BBC Worldwide/Studios, BBC Television and in the independent production sector. At BBC Worldwide he oversaw content strategy and investment including the first investment in global phenomenon Bluey. He also made BBC Worldwide one of the leading investors in UK production companies.
He is currently a non-executive director of S4C's commercial businesses and has previously chaired Baby Cow Productions and served on the board of UKTV.
10 — Contact
Get in touch
Silbury works with a small number of clients at any one time. If you are dealing with a situation where direction, pace and alignment matter, we can help.
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