Where Lived Experience Becomes Strategic Advantage

We translate lived experience into strategic advantage — one that strengthens trust, drives better decisions, and improves performance.

We partner with organisations and leaders across sectors — from public services and social impact, to business, innovation and investment — who understand that lived experience is not a narrative, it’s intelligence.

Through our proprietary REAL Framework™, we diagnose truth, build capability, design strategy and prove impact — so change lands with legitimacy — and results stand up to scrutiny.

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REFLECT

Surface the truth others can’t see. We identify where lived experience reveals blind spots in systems, strategies, cultures and narratives — and where advantage is being left unrealised.

EMPOWER

Convert insight into capability. We build the confidence, language and skill to turn lived experience into usable leadership intelligence and decision-making power.

ACT

Operationalise lived experience in the real world. We embed lived experience into programmes, products, services, pitches and policies — so action becomes genuinely insight-led, not performative.

LEAD

Become the example that shifts the field. We help people and institutions model a new standard of legitimacy — the kind others reference, follow, invest in and benchmark against.

Our Services

Organisations and Corporate Partners

Embedding lived experience into strategy, culture and decision-making systems — turning insight into an intelligence advantage that strengthens trust, performance and outcomes.

Services include

  • Trust Architecture Diagnostics™

  • Capability & Leadership Development

  • Insight-Led Programme & Strategy Design

  • Measurement, Learning and Impact Intelligence

Outcome

 You gain the capability to embed lived experience as strategic value — improving trust, strengthening decisions and increasing legitimacy across your system.

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Individuals and Leaders of Influence

Turning lived experience into leadership intelligence — so individuals can lead with authenticity, legitimacy and strategic influence, creating lasting legacy.

Services include

  • Trust Architecture Diagnostics™

  • Capability & Leadership Development

  • Insight-Led Programme & Strategy Design

  • Measurement, Learning and Impact Intelligence

Outcome
You turn lived experience into leadership intelligence — increasing authority, clarity and influence, and building legacy beyond role or title.
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Speaking & Keynotes

Vim Popat, the Founder & Principal Consultant at LEC, delivers keynotes and talks that challenge assumptions, sharpen thinking and shift how leaders understand power, legitimacy, behaviour and impact.

Across banking, criminal justice, public services, innovation and social impact — Vim has operated inside some of the most high-stakes systems in the country. He understands power, pressure, failure and the real forces that shape behaviour and decision-making.

Popular themes include:

  • Turning lived experience into strategic advantage

  • Leadership legitimacy in high-risk systems

  • Trust Architecture™ & decision-making at scale

  • Moving organisations beyond narrative to real, defensible value

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  • Speaking is by invitation and availability.
  • Fees are quoted based on brief and outcomes required.

REAL Results Begin With Strategic Reflection

We don’t measure success by activity — we measure success by whether lived experience becomes strategic advantage.

Our proprietary REAL Framework™ helps leaders move beyond statements and intent — into systems, decisions and outcomes that are trusted, defensible and commercially or socially meaningful.

Together, we convert lived experience into lasting value — for organisations, for leaders, and for the people they serve.

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