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MainStreet Consulting was set up in 2013 by David Welsh and Mark McLintock. It now consists of a team of highly experienced management consultants and partners with strong track records of successfully leading and delivering sustainable change across public and private sectors.

We are an accredited Living Wage employer, a signatory to the Scottish Business Pledge, a professional services supplier to Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and NEPRO (the UK-wide public sector procurement supply chain), and a member of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). We are also IASME accredited for Cyber Essentials.

Leadership Team

David Welsh is an experienced management consultant. After many years working as a senior manager and Director in big advisory firms like Deloitte, Turner & Townsend and iMPOWER, he set up MainStreet Consulting in 2013. With colleagues there, he has now supported 50+ organisations in Scotland and the UK to make important decisions about their priorities, services, people and budgets – across IT & business support, Public Realm & Place, and in social care.

In 2010, he helped establish a charity providing feeding programmes and other health and counselling services for school children living in poverty in Kenya (kipawa.org.uk) and continues to contribute as a trustee. He is also a voluntary board member of Harbour Homes.

He is a Glaswegian-in-exile, living now in Leith with his wife and daughter. Any spare time he has is wasted watching hapless football or buying obscure and often unlistenable records from the 1960s and 70s.

Mark McLintock has been a management consultant for over 20 years working with Turner & Townsend, ARC and Ernst & Young.  Since joining MainStreet in 2014, he has supported the Scottish Government, nearly 20 RSLs, seven local authorities, and five NDPBs as well as several universities, health & social care partnerships and charities.

This support has focussed on helping these organisations make effective decisions.  This has included helping clients develop business cases, review their strategy, improve services, increase efficiency, consider options, enhance performance, manage change, understand their business environment and mitigate risk.

From 2010 until 2023, he was a voluntary Non-Executive Director at Ore Valley Housing Association, chairing their renewable energy subsidiary from 2011.

Married with two daughters, he lives in West Fife. When not struggling with knee injuries, he is Vice Captain of the Scotland over 50 hockey team, a Sunday morning cyclist and the fifth board for Dunfermline Chess Club’s second team!

A team of highly experienced management consultants and partners with strong track records of successfully leading and delivering sustainable change across public and private sectors.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Here at MainStreet, we support causes that mean something to us. Every year at Christmas we give several thousand pounds from our Community Fund to a number of local and national charities at Christmas.

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