About Kindrix
A practice built around the art of careful enquiry
Kindrix was established to give Singapore's senior leaders a quiet counterpart — someone to think alongside, rather than another voice with a ready answer.
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Where Kindrix came from
Kindrix began as a response to a gap that its founders observed repeatedly in Singapore's senior leadership community: the absence of a private, unhurried space in which to examine a difficult question without the pressure of an immediate decision.
Advisory firms, management consultants, and executive coaches all serve important purposes. But their work tends to be structured around deliverables, frameworks, and timelines. Kindrix was conceived around a different conviction — that some of the most consequential thinking a leader does is best supported by a steady, reflective interlocutor rather than a project manager.
The name draws from the Latin kindredship and the idea of an annotated index: a practice that keeps careful record, reads closely, and returns its thinking in writing. We are based at 2 Shenton Way in the financial district, and we work exclusively with a small number of senior leaders at any one time.
Our work is not for organisations in the conventional consulting sense. It is for the individual sitting at the top of one — the person who carries the organisation's direction in their mind and who sometimes needs a quiet room in which to look at it properly.
Practice Details
Founded
2018, Singapore
Practice area
Senior leadership advisory
Engagements at one time
Deliberately limited
Offices
2 Shenton Way, #18-06
Singapore 068804
Typical clients
Managing directors, chief executives, senior partners
The Practice
Who you are working with
Kindrix keeps its team small by design. Each engagement is conducted by a principal, not passed to a junior associate.
Robert Hargreave
Principal & Founder
Robert spent twelve years in corporate strategy roles across London and Singapore before establishing Kindrix in 2018. He is a careful reader and a slow thinker, which he considers a professional asset.
Margaret Lim
Senior Adviser
Margaret brings twenty years of experience advising boards and executive committees across Southeast Asia. She joined Kindrix in 2021 for the chance to work at greater depth with fewer clients.
Jonathan Tan
Engagement Associate
Jonathan manages the written records and research that support Kindrix engagements. He holds a graduate degree in philosophy from NUS and is responsible for much of the firm's written correspondence.
How We Work
Standards we hold ourselves to
These are not policies on a wall. They reflect how the practice actually works, day to day.
Complete confidentiality
Nothing shared in an engagement is disclosed to any third party. We hold no obligation to any institutional client that could compromise this position.
Principal-led work
Every engagement is conducted by a named principal. Work is not subcontracted or delegated to associates without the client's knowledge and agreement.
Written deliverables
Our thinking is returned in writing — not only as conversation. Written reflections, annotations, and records form a lasting archive of the engagement.
Disciplined scope
We do not expand the scope of an engagement without a clear conversation about it. Each engagement is what it says it is — no more, no less.
No conflicts of interest
We do not take referral fees, represent third parties, or hold financial interests in organisations we discuss. Our only obligation is to the leader in the room.
Data protection
All personal and professional information shared with us is handled in accordance with Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act and our own internal protocols.
Our Approach
What the work actually looks like
Much consulting work is built around the assumption that the adviser arrives with answers. Kindrix is built around a different assumption: that the leader already has the essential material, and that what is needed is a careful interlocutor to help them read it clearly.
Our engagements are structured to give weight to what the leader is already thinking. In a Reading Room Hour, the preparation note we send beforehand is not a questionnaire — it is an invitation to arrive with something specific in mind, so that the ninety minutes are given to it properly. In an Annotated Review, we do not revise the document we are sent. We respond to it as a thoughtful reader, noting where the argument is strong, where it has a gap, and where the language may be obscuring rather than communicating the intention behind it.
The Archive Companion engagement is the longest and the most closely held. Over nine months, a written record is kept of the sessions and the leader's thinking across the period. This record belongs to the leader; it is not used for any other purpose. The intention is that by the end of the engagement, the leader has a document that traces how their thinking on a substantial matter developed — a resource that turns out to be more valuable than it might seem at the outset.
We are Singapore-based and work primarily with leaders in this city and across the region. Sessions are held at our offices at 2 Shenton Way, or at a quiet location of the leader's choosing. For leaders based elsewhere, sessions can be conducted with care to ensure the working relationship retains its quality.
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An initial conversation carries no obligation. It is simply a way to determine whether what we do matches what you need.
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