Punk in the process. Precise in the outcome.
Punk isn't a gimmick. It's a way of working. It means being honest when the honest answer is uncomfortable. It means not producing work that looks impressive but doesn't actually help. It means getting into the detail, asking the questions other people avoid, and saying clearly what needs to change.
It also means treating everyone involved, including the people inside those businesses who have to live with the changes we design, with genuine kindness and humanity. Change is hard. That deserves to be acknowledged, not just managed. Empathy and directness aren't in conflict. You can be straight with someone and still be decent about it.
It also means treating clients like adults. For project and set-piece work, we use fixed fees and defined outputs, because we know what good work looks like and we're prepared to be held to it. For fractional and ongoing advisory support, a retainer makes sense. Either way, the commercial terms are agreed before we start.
The name is a reminder to us as much as to anyone else: not to get comfortable with the way things are usually done when the way things are usually done isn't good enough.
Krystyna Walker
Founder of Punk Consulting. The person who does the work. Not someone who hands it off.
I'm Krystyna Walker, founder of Punk Consulting.
I set up the company because I kept seeing businesses face the same frustration: they knew something was not working, but they could not always see exactly what needed to change or how to make it happen.
Too often, the response was more analysis, another framework or a set of recommendations that looked sensible on paper but left the people inside the business wondering what to do next.
That is the part I wanted to do differently.
I love getting into a room with people who know they need to tackle something but are not yet sure where to begin. I listen, ask the right questions and get underneath the symptoms to understand what is really going on.
I have spent more than 15 years delivering operational change at group level. The work has spanned CRM and compliance builds, finance and payroll system migrations, robotic process automation, care and risk management systems, IT infrastructure transitions, acquisition integrations and new company setup. Not just advisory work. The actual implementation.
I have worked across recruitment, healthcare and professional services, often with businesses that have grown faster than their systems, processes or teams can keep up with.
I get into the detail, work closely with the people who understand the business and turn what we learn into a clear, realistic plan.
Then I help deliver it.
Because a recommendation is only useful if someone can act on it, and change only works if it lands properly in the real world.
Punk Consulting exists to help businesses understand what is really getting in their way, decide what needs to happen next and make the change stick.
No theatre. No unnecessary complexity. Just thoughtful challenge, practical action and support that does not disappear when the slide deck is finished.
The principles we work by.
Not a manifesto. Just an honest description of how we approach the work.
Sounds like a fit?
Let's have a conversation. Book a free discovery session, no preparation required, and we'll work out together whether there's something worth doing.