of procurement professionals don't feel they're being developed by their manager.
Jigsaw Employment Report 2025There is no average procurement professional.Stop training for one.
They went around you. Become the first call they make.
An accelerator for procurement professionals and teams: results on your actual problem, and the capability to repeat it.
- 1Wait for it to change.
- 2Back yourself and take it into your own hands.
Built on a track record of execution
Years in the seat
Projects executed
In benefits
Category spend addressed
What changed for them, in their words.
Practitioners and leaders Ashokk has coached, on what moved.
It is hard to find the time to speak to my manager or reach out to mentors internally when you are deep in delivery. It is a safe space to talk about the struggles and the approach.
Angela Estevez MegiasHead of Procurement · Ebury
You could spend 3 to 5 years learning by yourself in an organisation. Or, you could learn from the people in the community and shorten your learning curve to 1 to 2 years.
Raymond ChenProcurement Manager, Packaging · Lactalis
I've learned to analyse different perspectives and categories of spend, and use that to develop the overarching strategy and drive results for the organisation. What I learned about structured thinking and solving complex problems continues to help me in my career today.
Adil FaroukHead of Procurement, Strategy & Operations · Crown Resorts
Ashokk genuinely cares about the development of the people he coaches, a rare quality in most mentors. He has great subject matter expertise, and he always believed my success was his success.
DJ BajajPartner · Kearney
The training worked.Nothing changed.
Built for an average professional, delivered to a room, measured by a feedback form. Meanwhile Google gives you frameworks in seconds and AI drafts a category plan before your coffee goes cold. Access to content was never the problem. Transfer was.
You did the course. Every Monday since looked the same. For teams who've done the training and still can't see it in the numbers.
01You did the course. You got the certificate. Monday morning looked exactly the same.
02Your team ticked the training box last year. The capability uplift never showed up in the numbers.
03A supplier pushes back today. A stakeholder blocks the work today. The framework doesn't say what to do next.
The number's assigned. Landing it runs on mindset, capability, capacity and navigating politics. For leaders carrying a target, a retention risk, or both, with the headcount they already have.
04You've been handed a savings number your team hasn't delivered before, with the headcount you already have.
05Half your team isn't asking for development. That doesn't mean they don't need it.
06Your best person is one recruiter call from leaving, and there's nobody behind them.
07Decisions stall between meetings. Projects lose momentum. Nobody's holding the line week to week.
You're doing the work. Nobody's shown you the next move. For people who know where they want to get to and can't find the route from here.
08You know where you want to get to. 2IC, CPO, the commercial seat. But your CV says purchase orders and process, and nobody around you is showing you the next move.
09You're doing the work but not getting the credit. Everyone remembers who delivered. Almost no one gets trusted to lead next.
10You can't get clear answers internally. The person who's seen this before doesn't work at your company.
If you read one of these and thought "that's me" or "that's my team," that is enough. Start here
We don't teach the average version of your problem. We work on your actual one.
Every hot seat, every coaching session, every sprint starts the same way: bring the thing you're stuck on. The stalled stakeholder. The category strategy your CFO keeps sending back. The negotiation you're dreading next week. That's the material.
When you bring a problem to Procurement Superheroes, the person across from you has almost certainly seen it before, and knows where it actually breaks: not the framework, but the stakeholder who goes quiet, the sponsor who wasn't briefed, the person whose buy-in you needed and didn't have.
Two programs. One method. Running now.
Corporate programs run now, by conversation. Headline numbers are here. Full inclusions and investment are set out on the call. Individuals: see The Practice.
Million Dollar Week
Five days over five weeks to a board-ready, fundable pipeline for next FY: a savings program your team runs, keeping the method once it's done.
- 1Teach
- 2Execute
- 3Review
- 4Refine
- 5Decision ready
Execution Programs
Project delivery, weekly decision coaching, and applied skill-building. Built around what your team actually needs right now.
- Project Accelerator
- Weekly decision coaching
- Applied skill-building
Assembled per engagement, with structure, cadence and investment set out on the call.
The Game of Procurement
A different view of what is really going on around your team's work, and how to play it, using a real problem you bring. 90 minutes, no cost, no pitch deck.
Built by someone who's carried the pipeline.
25+ years on all three sides of the table, 130+ projects executed and $20B+ of category spend addressed.
Most teams don't need another framework. They need someone who has run the play until the decision gets made, and who knows how it looks from the other side of the negotiation.
- BuyerClient side, running procurement and supply chain
- SupplierSelling into the brands he used to buy for
- AdvisorIn the room with boards and CFOs, plus work through top-tier strategy firms
