Wealth & Finance International - 2021 FinTech Awards 13 APR2w2 Socratic Consultancy’s clients range from sole proprietorships to start-ups to SMEs. Founder and CEO, Ian Staley has created an ecosystem of trust, and he offers clients the resources and tools to grow. Some of these products and services include crypto-based escrow services for peer-to-peer transfers of value, plugins for SME WordPress websites to accept crypto as payments for products/services, smart-contract automation of inefficient/repetitive workflows, quantum-proof Blockchain-as-a-Service offerings, automated audit trails, a low-cost high quality outsourced marketing and communications marketplace, industry leading AI-based learning management systems for training and development of clients/ staff, Meaning-as-a-Service holistic consulting, a network of investors to tap into for more capital injection to supercharge growth, custom software development, and much more. A smaller consultancy, it provides a more personalised/relationship-based partnership with its clients. This business model generates a more trust-based, holistic, long-term style of consulting. Ian works glove-in-glove with his partners, and his contracts are designed around the premise that he only succeeds when they succeed. Ian focuses on the core roots of what makes his partners’ firms tick – so that he can help analyse and remedy systemic problems that they may have. In leveraging the power of the Socratic Method of questioning and analysing core issues within a firm, he provides long-term solutions that allow his partners to gain long-term psychological benefits for betterment of their company culture. His offerings allow firms to free up time and gain agility in their respective markets. This freedom allows them to move forward and focus on growth; of which he has a robust ecosystem of products/ services that can be tapped into to drive capital, operational, sales, marketing, and many other areas of development. He is proud that Socratic Consultancy is not only able to persevere but thrive during unpredictable global market conditions such as that experienced over the last year with the pandemic. As Socratic Consultancy is a management/emerging tech consulting firm, Ian has been able to work at home and on the road seamlessly with exceptionally low overhead cost in leveraging more agile Socratic Consultancy offers Meaning-as-a-Service™ (MaaS) Consulting to its partners. To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom™ – the same philosophy can be applied to knowing thy business. Socratic Consultancy exists to assist business leaders, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders with finding their “why”, all while harnessing the power of business intelligence and leveraging digital offerings designed to help businesses scale. Most Trusted FinTech Consultancy - Washington and resilient business modus. Ian says, “I am truly blessed to be in a position of guiding and supporting my clients in their journey through this market climate by leveraging emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence to supercharge their business and their offerings. In the adoption of these emerging technologies, my clients stand to gain further benefits beyond increased agility in uncertain global market climates, like cutting operational costs over time, streamlining workflows, driving more streams of revenue, gaining more attention via targeted marketing campaigns, more defined and refined identities and purpose, and creating more holistic efficiencies in their firm. “Also, the solutions Socratic Consultancy provides the global market landscape are truly futureproofed. My Meaning-as-a-Service™ (MaaS) Consulting framework account for predictive global trends revolving around the fourth industrial revolution and sustainable development goals – thus ensuring my clients grow within the emerging world narratives today and secure longevity in their respective marketplaces in the future.” Socratic Consultancy Jun21118 Ian tries to live by one of his favourite quotes: “The best way to predict the future is to create it”, which was once stated by the legendary management consultant, Peter F. Drucker. The vision of Socratic Consultancy is to be the most trusted independent consulting agency in the marketplace. Fortunately, now seven months into 2021, the consultancy has been blessed enough to be recognised by Wealth and Finance International as the most trusted fintech consultancy in Washington. The next step is to expand reach, recognition and respect beyond Washington and to more of a world stage. Currently, Ian is extremely excited to be working with multiple domestic and international crypto start-ups with a range of missions including, but not limited to modernising real estate transactions, enhancing the security and incentives of exchange of individual private data with businesses, and creating the world’s best crypto HEX. The remainder of 2021 certainly will involve actualising further success with these start-ups with the launching of mobile apps, centralised and decentralised crypto exchanges, ICOs, and many more exciting developments. As Ian continues to follow the road less travelled, he sees the next few years involving more successful partnerships, further successful developments with his current partnerships, further innovation on the fintech front, the completion of his Doctor of Business Administration programme, and perhaps engagement in projects involving smart city infrastructure development and block-chain-based transactions outside the real estate industry. 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