Independent guidance on your most consequential advisor relationships.
We help HR, Finance, and Procurement leaders choose, reset, and get more from their consultants and brokers.
No commissions. No placements. No stake in who wins.
How we help
Strategic Fit
Choose the right advisor, judged on how they will actually work with you, not on how well they answer an RFP.
Relationship Reset
Fix a relationship that has drifted (service, quality, scope, and fees) without defaulting to a costly search.
Stewardship
Keep a good relationship performing between renewals, with clear governance and regular check-ins.
Training
Equip your team to manage advisors, renewals, and contracts with confidence on its own.
What you walk away with
Scope, reliance, and cost written down in one place
Criteria for a good outcome that you own, not your advisor
Governance that survives a change of advisor — or the decision not to
Visibility into fees, commissions, and compensation
A defensible answer on whether the relationship is delivering
A team better equipped to run this next time
Where are you?
We’re going to market
You’ve decided to run a search, or you’ve been told to. Here’s how we’d run it.
Something feels off
Free and anonymous: eight minutes, plus five questions to ask your advisor.
Get full value from your advisor
Advisor relationships rarely fail. They drift: scope, service, and fees stop lining up, and nobody notices until renewal. We make sure you:
Know what you buy
A scope that fits what your team needs
Get what you rely on
Service delivered, not assumed
Pay for what you get
Fees that track the actual work
We find where these have drifted apart and fix it, usually without changing firms. When a change is the right answer, we will tell you.
Why Docent
We’ve been the advisor. Senior leadership roles at global consulting and brokerage firms, including Willis Towers Watson, Aon, and KPMG.
We’ve been the buyer. We have hired and managed advisors inside large employers and complex organizations.
We have no stake in who wins. No commissions, no placements, no overrides.
A docent guides. Points out what matters, shapes how you think about it, and leaves the decision where it belongs.
