// Global Specialist Engineering — Industrial Markets
Gone from stagnant to double-digit year-on-year growth. The work spanned new product development, venture building, ecosystem partnership and operational change.
// Growth consulting
Growth doesn't stall because markets are tough.It stalls because businesses settle.
I build the capabilities so yours doesn't.
[ 01 ] — Sounds familiar?
The strategy meetings happen.
The consultants come and go.
The decks pile up. Not much changes.
Most businesses know something needs to change. The strategy meetings happen, the consultants come and go, and the decks pile up. Not much changes.
Not because the ideas were wrong. Because the capabilities to execute them were never built.
// That's the gap I close.
[ 02 ] — How I work
Does any of this sound familiar?
Growth that's stalled
We know there's more growth here. We just can't seem to unlock it. Or: We've hit a ceiling. The old playbook isn't working anymore. Or: Growth used to feel inevitable. Now it feels hard.
Growth that's stalled
We know there's more growth here. We just can't seem to unlock it. Or: We've hit a ceiling. The old playbook isn't working anymore. Or: Growth used to feel inevitable. Now it feels hard.
Embedded. Hands-on.
Built to outlast my involvement.
Every engagement starts the same way: I listen. Not to confirm what I already think. To understand what's actually going on.
Clients often arrive with a diagnosis already formed. Sometimes they are right. Often the real problem lives somewhere else entirely: a different team, a different assumption, a different conversation nobody has had yet.
Once the picture is clear, we agree on the right path forward together. The work is hands-on. Embedded in your business. Built to outlast my involvement.
// Start
Listen first
Clients often arrive with a diagnosis already formed. Sometimes they're right. Often the real problem lives somewhere else entirely.
// Agree
Align on the path
Once the picture is clear, we agree on the right path forward together. No imposed frameworks. No generic playbooks.
// Execute
Get to work
The work is hands-on. Embedded in your business. Close enough to the work to know when something is actually changing.
// Done
Growth as a reflex
Growth isn't a project anymore. It's a reflex. Every team owns it, not just the ones tasked with it. At that point, I'm no longer in the picture. Job done.
The people I work with range from C-suite to the teams doing the actual work. Scale-ups to FTSE 100. The challenge is the same either way.
[ 03 ] — Not settling looks like this
Real outcomes. No decks.
// FTSE 100 Safety Business
Twelve viable new business concepts in 18 months. Half are now in active pilot or scaling.
What I consistently see
These are the patterns I see most consistently. Not symptoms. Root causes. The businesses that grow are the ones that recognise them.
When the organisation has forgotten how to try things
Every idea arrives with the same ask: a full business case, a dedicated budget, a three-to-five year roadmap. Not because anyone decided this was the right approach — but because it's the only approach anyone knows. The ability to start small has quietly disappeared. To release something unfinished to a trusted customer. To learn something real from a rough prototype before investing in the polished version. To treat early failure as information rather than embarrassment. What gets lost isn't just speed. It's the confidence to try. And without that, the gap between where the business is and where it needs to be keeps growing — quietly, invisibly, until it isn't invisible anymore.
When the organisation has forgotten how to try things
Every idea arrives with the same ask: a full business case, a dedicated budget, a three-to-five year roadmap. Not because anyone decided this was the right approach — but because it's the only approach anyone knows. The ability to start small has quietly disappeared. To release something unfinished to a trusted customer. To learn something real from a rough prototype before investing in the polished version. To treat early failure as information rather than embarrassment. What gets lost isn't just speed. It's the confidence to try. And without that, the gap between where the business is and where it needs to be keeps growing — quietly, invisibly, until it isn't invisible anymore.
[ 04 ] — Who I am
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Petra Jung-Love
I work with companies that are tired of growth strategies that don't survive contact with reality, and are ready to own their growth themselves. My approach is different by design. Embedded, hands-on, close enough to the work to know when something is actually changing. Not doing growth for you. Building your ability to own it.
That's what Quaerendo is built around. Latin for always questioning, always looking, which is as good a description of how I work as any.
Twenty-five years at the intersection of technology and business has taught me one thing above all: strategy without execution is just a document. I've spent my career close to both. Palm, Vodafone, Visa, PayPal, eBay — each one at the frontier of something before it became mainstream. Mobile before it was obvious. Payments before contactless was a word. Commerce before anyone called it e-commerce. I wasn't there by accident. I was drawn to where things were moving.
Since founding Quaerendo in 2014, I've worked with FTSE 100 companies in manufacturing, energy innovators, VC-backed scale-ups across fintech, property and consumer tech, and Innovate UK Catapult centres. Different sectors, same challenge: building the capacity to own their own growth.
Between 2023 and 2026 I stepped back to have two children. A deliberate choice that turned out to be one of the better courses in first-principles thinking I've ever taken.
Coming back, what's changed isn't what good growth strategy looks like. It's the tools. AI has shifted how fast you can test an idea, how cheaply you can build it, how much less you need to outsource. I'm getting good at these tools myself, because the advice I give needs to come from practice, not observation. The focus: helping teams weave AI into how they actually work. Not as a separate initiative. As part of how they move.
After twenty years in London, I'm now based in Barcelona. A high-energy city with a fast-growing tech and startup ecosystem. I work pan-European, across markets and time zones, in English and German. French and Spanish are coming.
// Based in Barcelona · Working across Europe
// English · German · French · Spanish
[ 05 ] — Let's Talk
The best conversations start with an honest question. If you've got one, I'm listening.
No pitch. No templated discovery call. Just a conversation.
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