About Vicki

Commercial judgement built inside the businesses doing the work.

“I’ve spent more than twenty years turning technology into commercial opportunity: opening markets, building partnerships and leading the teams responsible for making growth happen. I bring that experience to each engagement, helping businesses make clearer choices, connect with the right partners and turn ambition into practical action.”

That matters because the difficult part of growth is rarely recognising an opportunity. It is choosing which opportunity to pursue, aligning the business behind it and doing the work required to make it real.

Vicki Wickens, founder of Taking Shape, smiling in a navy blazer and glasses

Commercial judgement. Built through experience.

Experience inside the businesses doing the work

Senior commercial leadership across global travel businesses, technology providers and scale-ups. Advice grounded in the realities of building propositions, negotiating partnerships and delivering growth.

Connections with commercial purpose

Established relationships across travel, loyalty and technology, combined with the judgement to identify where a partnership can create value and what both sides need to make it work.

Strategy with ownership

Clear priorities, practical commercial plans and senior support through execution. From focused advisory to fractional leadership, the work follows the outcome your business needs.

Understanding beyond the proposition

Experience across APIs, white label platforms, distribution and loyalty technology. Commercial decisions that account for how the product, partnership and customer experience will work in practice.

“Growth does not fail for lack of opportunity. It fails when a business cannot choose, align and execute.”

Taking Shape brings together operating experience, independent commercial judgement and original thinking about how modern businesses create value.