About us

We are the consultant collective. We exist to support and connect experienced professionals with interesting businesses in flexible and mutually beneficial ways. Our mission is to connect these experts with companies who need senior support and fresh thinking to solve an array of interesting challenges, just not on a full time cost basis. It's win-win.

Zoo.London

We are the Consultant Collective. 

The Industry’s first Consultant Collective with a mission to support and connect experienced professionals in the media, marketing and advertising space with dynamic businesses in flexible and mutually beneficial ways. Our mission is to connect these experts with companies who need senior support and fresh thinking to solve an array of interesting challenges, just not on a full-time cost basis. It’s win-win.

We support independent consultants by building a thriving community who bring their unique strengths and fresh perspectives to help each other, and their clients, grapple with the biggest challenges. Through TheZoo.London, businesses can access in just one brief and marketplace all manner of experts from saving the planet, to harnessing AI, whilst simultaneously helping businesses to manage all kinds of operating and organisational challenges.

Our values are to Be Smart, Be Kind and Have Integrity, and this is what you will feel in every interaction you have with TheZoo.London. We are committed to having a positive impact on our society and environment from Day 1.

Co-founded by Marco Bertozzi, an expert in the digital and programmatic agency space and ex sales leader at Spotify and Whalar, and Rachel Forde, who was previously CEO at IPG media agency UM London and Publicis’ Spark Foundry, TheZoo.london brings together two industry veterans with over 50 years’ combined leadership experience and a vision to reimagine the way businesses and professionals connect.

Latest Posts

let’s try harder, end the ghosting

👻 Have you ever been ghosted? Marco Bertozzi and I speak to consultants every day and sadly we hear our fair bit of ‘horror stories’. A big part of what we try to offer, is that we keep communication flowing, especially when we have a live project, so that no one ever has to feel […]

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Delivering thezoo.london promise

We started TheZoo.London with some hypotheses When we set out to create TheZoo.London, our mission was clear: to transform how businesses connect with independent consultants. We saw a gap in the market—finding expert consultants was often more about relying on personal networks than securing the right specialist for the job. Too many companies were stuck […]

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Want to succeed in consulting? Don’t sit on the fence.

A phrase we often hear in conversations is ‘I would like to make a go of consulting’. It’s a position many people find themselves in, thinking there’s a chance to change their approach to work, perhaps moving to a more fractional or portfolio career. However, they’re uncertain if it will provide for them, if it […]

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