Experts You Can Trust
Welcome to Talkin Consultancy, where expertise meets trust. We're dedicated to providing top-tier consulting services across various industries. Learn more about our values, our areas of expertise, and how we can help your business thrive.
Our Core Values
At Talkin Consultancy, our core values drive everything we do. These values ensure transparency, empower difficult decisions, and facilitate behaviour change, ultimately benefiting our clients:
- Professionalism: We maintain the highest standards of conduct and expertise in every interaction.
- Taking Ownership: We take responsibility for our actions and outcomes, ensuring accountability and commitment.
- Saying it Like It Is: We provide honest and direct feedback, even when it's challenging.
- Working Together: We believe in the power of collaboration, both internally and with our clients.
Areas of Expertise
Talkin Consultancy excels in the following areas:
- Speech and Language Services: We help you deliver your speech and language service in the specialist schools you are engaged with.
- Business Operations: We work best with start-up and small businesses that are looking to be governed properly, transform, or remove highly inefficient ways of working.
We love working with clients who are passionate about growth, innovation, and making a positive impact.
"Talkin Consultancy provided invaluable insights and support, helping us streamline our operations and achieve significant growth. Their professionalism and expertise are unmatched."
Who are we?
Our story
We are dedicated and committed to crafting exceptional experiences for your business. Our focus lies in providing reliable and innovative solutions, driven by a deep respect for quality and a genuine desire to exceed expectations.
Why choose us
With over 40 years of combined experience working with private clients, small organisations, the NHS, and organisations across multiple industries, we believe we can add value to your business by providing hands on consultancy support to manage your services, grow, streamline operations, meet the successful outcomes for your clients communication needs, transform, and adhere to the regulatory requirements of your operations.
Dr Tara Mayhew
Co-Founder
Darius Mayhew (MCMI, SIRM)
Co-founder
Dr Tara Mayhew
Tara has 20 years of dedicated experience in speech and language therapy. She is highly qualified specialist holding a PhD in Speech Science. Her career has focused on advancing communication outcomes for children across diverse needs and abilities, with a strong foundation in evidence-based practice and inclusive educational support.
Tara has successfully led the Sure Start programme within a Primary Care Trust, driving early-intervention initiatives and ensuring coordinated, family-centred services for young children as well as providing speech and language services for the NHS Primary Care Trust across the borough. Her professional journey has included extensive clinical work with children with a wide range of special educational needs, including communication disorders, developmental delays, autism spectrum conditions, and learning difficulties.
Tara has a vast amount of experience and specialist skills and she brings a passionate view about empowering others to support communication development.
She has delivered specialist training programmes across schools, early-years settings, and educational institutions. Her training covers key areas of communication development, therapeutic strategies, and activity-based approaches to supporting speech and language, enabling teachers, parents, and support staff to build children’s communication confidence and skills.
With Tara’s dedication, research-driven, and commitment to inclusive practice, she can provide support to your organisation to help you achieve your early intervention goals, help various teams work more collaboratively and ensure that there are clear strategic goals centred around quality outcomes for your clients.
Darius Mayhew (MCMI, SIRM)
Darius is an accomplished business leader with more than 25 years of experience across operations, risk management, transformation, governance, and operational finance. His career spans multiple sectors including financial services, health, education, sport, retail, insurance, and emerging technology start-ups, where he has consistently delivered strategic value and operational excellence.
With deep expertise in operational financial management, international offshoring oversight, and technical risk management, Darius has supported large-scale transformation programmes, driving sustainable change and organisational resilience. His strong track record in building effective control frameworks and embedding best-practice governance makes him a trusted advisor to Boards, CEOs, and senior leadership teams.
Darius is also a recognised authority in the field of risk management. He serves as a Technical Specialist at the Institute of Risk Management and is the Principal Examiner for the organisation’s Operational Risk Management qualification, shaping professional standards and capability development across the industry.
With extensive Board-level exposure and a proven ability to strengthen governance, optimise operations, and guide strategic decision-making, Darius brings a rare combination of technical expertise, commercial insight, and leadership capability. He is dedicated to enabling strong organisational performance, supporting executive teams, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
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