I work with a range of businesses, at different stages of their corporate life, to help them take the next step, whatever that might be. Through creative management consultancy, I help clients improve their quality of life and maintain/restore the passion they have for their business; providing concise, meaningful information, with the drive to make your business fitter, leaner and far more simple, day-to-day.

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The five business stages I work with:

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Sustain and improve

Your business is ticking over nicely but you don’t want to remain complacent. You recognise you need to invest in technology to keep your business moving forward. You want to be confident that you have the right commercial tools and the correct financial understanding to ensure that your success so far hasn’t just been luck and that your business has a clear strategy to keep it performing well.

Growth or change

When your business is experiencing rapid growth, through winning new large clients or extending existing business beyond your forecasts, that creates financial challenges of its own. Do you have the financial capability to invest in more people, kit or other resources? Should you put all your eggs in one basket, or should you resist the change and stay as you are?

Expansion

You’re in the process of acquiring a new site or perhaps considering purchasing another business. How do you look at your own business performance and make good decisions about what to do next? Which data is instructive and which numbers can you afford to ignore? How do you go to your bank to discuss the investment you need if you don’t have a full picture?

Distressed

Your business has a reached a point where you feel you’re stagnating and require fresh ideas – even a turnaround. By getting a grip on your true commercial strengths and weaknesses, you will have the right information to take the best decisions to optimise your business and inject new growth.

Exit and succession strategy

Whether you’re a family business or privately owned, you may be at the point where you wish to hand over to the next generation or sell your business entirely. How do you extricate yourself from a business you’ve been instrumental in creating? How do you separate equity from asset? What assumptions do you need to put aside to make appropriate choices at this exciting time?

Discovery Session

The first part of the service I provide is a discovery session with new clients. Here we discuss your business and look at the challenges you are facing in the round in order to see the big picture and understand what your objectives are. This session is  complimentary and after this I can provide you with a work schedule, detailing the scope and budget of the work I will do, the access I will need and the proposed timescales involved. I provide advice and implementation so that you can work with me and also step back. This allows me to carry out the more detailed number-crunching and business analysis to deliver independent and impartial management consultancy specific to your company’s performance and situation.