Moorhouse is a specialist transformation consultancy that helps universities optimise their operations whilst improving the experience of staff and students and ensure their long-term financial sustainability.

We support universities deliver impactful and lasting change, drawing on our expertise across five core service lines:
Strategy and Customer: Putting students and stakeholders at the heart of your institution by aligning on strategic direction, shaping your operating model, and ensuring outstanding staff and student experience.
Digital, Data and AI: Maximising the potential of technology, data and AI by assessing your maturity, setting the strategic direction, and delivering the roadmap to harness data-driven insights and cutting-edge technologies to deliver value at pace.
People and Change: Unlocking the potential of your people by supporting you to deliver sustainable change; design the organisation; and develop the culture and high-performing teams needed to deliver your strategic ambitions efficiently.
Delivery Excellence: Ensuring successful transformation by optimising your portfolio, and providing the expertise to shape, deliver, and assure programmes and projects.
Performance Improvement: Helping you to operate cheaper and more productively through optimising processes; identifying and implementing cost reduction; and establishing leaner ways of working.
Financial Sustainability
We are supporting universities to proactively address the challenging financial situation in the sector currently. Our strategic cost efficiencies and operating model experience is enabling universities to become increasingly financially sustainable. We work in blended teams with you to deliver data-led cost-saving initiatives, taking staff on the journey of change. We draw on our experience delivering multi- million in-year savings for NHS Trusts and our deep knowledge of higher education.
Partner, Government, Public Services and Health
Experience of leading transformations, including in the higher education sector.
Principal, HE Lead
Has led change and complex programmes across the higher education sector
Manager, HE Team
Extensive experience across HE sector and in people and change
Other links:
Moorhouse report into regulatory burden in HE sector (commissioned by Universities UK)
A service design-led approach to student experience
How can the higher education sector meet its Net Zero targets
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