Corporate Travel & T&E Consultancy

Set the right
bearing for your

travel program.

With over 20 years inside the world's top TMCs, we know how the industry really works — and we use that knowledge to protect your interests. From strategy and procurement to payments, technology, and data, we help you reduce cost, eliminate risk, and build programs that perform.

N E S W
20+
Years TMC expertise
5
Core disciplines
100%
Independent advice

What we do

Five disciplines.
One direction.

01
Set the Right Direction
Travel & Meetings Program Strategy
Most travel programs have inefficiencies buried where you can't easily see them. We audit your program end to end, identify what's costing you money or creating risk, and build a strategy that reduces spend, improves compliance, and works for your travellers — not just on paper.
02
Get the Best Deal
TMC & M&E Procurement
In TMC and M&E procurement, what you see in a proposal is rarely what you get. Having spent over two decades on the supplier side, we know exactly how contracts are structured, where margin is hidden, and what levers matter most. We run the full process — RFP, evaluation, negotiation — and ensure you land the right partner at the right price.
03
Technology That Actually Works
Travel Technology Advisory
The travel tech landscape is crowded, fast-moving, and full of bold claims. We cut through it with real-world knowledge of what systems actually deliver — evaluating platforms objectively, guiding implementations, and ensuring your technology stack genuinely serves your program rather than creating new complexity.
04
Control Your T&E Spend
Travel Payments & Expense Process
Payment and expense processes are where significant value is lost — through poor controls, reconciliation gaps, policy leakage, and card programme inefficiencies. We design the controls, workflows, and governance frameworks that give you full visibility and confidence in your T&E spend from card transaction to final reconciliation.
05
Know Your Numbers
Data Infrastructure & Analytics
Good decisions require trustworthy data — and most organisations don't have it. We build the data infrastructure and reporting frameworks that give you genuine spend visibility, meaningful benchmarks, and the analytics your leadership team can act on. From data architecture to executive dashboards, we turn numbers into a strategic asset.

Our Story

Built from the
Inside Out

Bearing Advisory was founded by a practitioner who spent over two decades inside the world's leading TMCs — not advising from the outside, but building and running the programs, commercial structures, and technology systems that corporate clients rely on every day.

That experience gives us something most consultants simply don't have: an insider's understanding of how the industry actually works. We know where the value is hidden, where the risk is buried, and what controls you need to protect your organisation's interests. We now put that knowledge entirely in your corner.

20+ Years Inside the Industry
Senior roles at top-tier global TMCs — building programs, commercial structures, and technology systems from the ground up.
Founded Bearing Advisory
Took that insider knowledge independent — to work exclusively for corporate clients, with no supplier ties and no conflicting interests.
Today
A fully independent partner for organisations that want expert guidance they can trust — because we've seen it from both sides.

Why Bearing Advisory

What you see is not
always what you get.

In corporate travel and T&E, proposals look attractive, contracts seem straightforward, and dashboards appear complete. But having spent over two decades building these systems from the inside, we know exactly where value disappears — and how to make sure it doesn't. Our advice is always independent, always in your interest, and always grounded in real operational knowledge.

20+ years inside top-tier TMCs — we understand commercial structures, contracts, and systems the way your suppliers do.
Fully independent — no TMC, vendor, or supplier relationships that could compromise our recommendations.
Savings and risk reduction focus — we identify what's costing you money and what's leaving you exposed, then fix both.
End-to-end capability — strategy, procurement, payments, technology and analytics, all under one roof.
20+
Years of industry experience
100%
Independent advice, always
5
Core service disciplines
1st
Class industry partnerships

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Ready to see what's
really going on?

Whether you're running a TMC tender, trying to get control of your T&E spend, or simply not sure if your travel program is performing as it should — let's talk. A conversation costs nothing.