MCG Consulting helps law firms, financial institutions and other high-pressure organisations build recovery-informed cultures through talks, structured programmes and long-term partnerships that create measurable workplace improvements.
Welcome to MCG Consulting
Substance use, silence, and the workplaces brave enough to talk about both.
MCG Consulting is a specialist consultancy working at the intersection of substance use, workplace culture and recovery in professional services.
We work with law firms, financial institutions, regulators and professional bodies to help their people talk about pressure, coping and substance use before difficulties reach crisis point. That means moving beyond the one-off awareness session towards genuine, lasting culture change: through Corporate Mutual Aid Recovery (CMAR), our year-round confidential support programme; through structured talks and multi-session series, including the three-part Substance Use Awareness Series we designed and delivered for A&O Shearman; and through confidential one-to-one support for senior professionals navigating pressure, coping and recovery behind the scenes.
Our approach combines lived experience, professional expertise and organisational insight, shaped by an advisory board spanning law, mental health research, finance and social impact. We do not deliver generic wellbeing content. We help organisations address a sensitive and often overlooked area of workplace culture with the credibility, rigour and practical understanding that professional and regulated organisations need.
Partner with us to create inclusive, recovery-informed workplaces where everyone can thrive.
Substance use rarely exists in isolation. In high-pressure environments, it can intersect with performance, relationships, absence, conduct, retention and leadership. The earlier an organisation can create a safe route into conversation and support, the more opportunity there is to respond constructively before difficulties become more serious.
In 2026, that relationship moved from awareness into practical guidance. Working alongside the Society, we developed the Safe Conversations Toolkit, giving solicitors and managers practical guidance for recognising when a colleague may be struggling and approaching that conversation with confidence. The Toolkit launches at the Society's Annual Conference in Edinburgh this October.
Why MCG?
MCG brings together three forms of expertise that are rarely found in one place:
Professional expertise
An understanding of the pressures, expectations and culture of professional services.
Lived experience
Direct experience of substance use, recovery and the realities of asking for help.
Organisational insight
The ability to translate that understanding into practical programmes, early intervention and longer-term culture change.
The result is work that is personal enough to build trust, and rigorous enough for the organisations we work with.
Our
Purpose
Our work sits within a wider purpose: helping people from all backgrounds thrive in professional life, and helping organisations build cultures where progression is not limited by circumstance. Through the Firm-to-Firm Mentoring Programme and our ongoing mentoring work, we support social mobility and inclusion alongside our core work on substance use and recovery.
The MCG pillars
Model
We model honest, recovery-informed leadership, starting with our own openness about pressure, coping and recovery.
Challenge
We challenge the silence, stigma and outdated norms that stop people asking for help before a situation becomes a crisis.
Grow
We help organisations grow cultures where support is visible long before it is needed, not only after something goes wrong.
Our Clients
Our Partners
