Who we are - Ravenswood Strategy

Finding new paths, faster routes and decoding maps have always been at the heart of our founder Nicola’s life.

Her private passion, a love of maps, has brought her award-winning success in her professional life because she has consistently demonstrated how leaders can make better decisions by understanding the whole route.

Finding new paths, faster routes and decoding maps have always been at the heart of Nicola’s life. Her private passion, a love of maps, has brought her award-winning success in her professional life because she has consistently demonstrated how leaders can make better decisions by understanding the whole route.

When Nicola made the move from leading a corporate insight team in a FTSE 250 company to set up her own insight and strategy company she came back to maps and navigation for inspiration. Because that’s what insight is all about. Working out where you want to go, assessing the different routes, and planning how to get there.

Nicola Stevens, Founder and Director

Nicola is an award-winning insight professional, skilled at developing customer-centric, commercially successful strategies underpinned by valuable insights from research and data.

Having held senior positions at Close Brothers and Capital One, she has extensive experience at influencing investment decisions, working closely with Directors and Boards in regulated environments. Her work has increased sales, strengthened customer retention, and driven customer service improvements whilst cutting out wasteful costs.

Nicola Stevens, Founder and Director

Nicola is an award-winning insight professional, skilled at developing customer-centric, commercially successful strategies underpinned by valuable insights from research and data.

Having held senior positions at Close Brothers and Capital One, she has extensive experience at influencing investment decisions, working closely with Directors and Boards in regulated environments. Her work has increased sales, improved customer retention, and driven customer service improvements whilst cutting out wasteful costs.

Nicola has a fantastic ability to translate huge and complex, multi-faceted data into practical and simple conclusions which tell me exactly what my customers want (and what they don’t!). She presents insight in such an easy to grasp way which propels instant reactions and actions. I have never worked with someone as skilled in this area and the value to my business has been profound.

Sales Director

Motor Finance

We commissioned Ravenswood Strategy to plan and facilitate a workshop aimed at improving our brand building / client engagement strategy in 2026. Nicola was a pleasure to work with; she listened and probed at the briefing stage and challenged and encouraged at the delivery stage.
As a consequence of the session, we now have a clear and aligned action plan for 2026. Thank you Nicola!

Managing Director

Research Agency