SERVICES
Hands-on strategic partnership for founders of scaling businesses who are ready to change how they lead, too.
Ways to work together
Most founders I speak to can tell something isn't working. Decisions still come back to them. The leadership team is capable, but not quite pulling in the same direction. Their diary is full of people issues that someone else should be owning.
None of that means anyone is doing a bad job. It usually means the business has grown faster than the way it's led.
Every business is different, so the work is shaped around yours. There are four ways to start.
At a glance
| PROGRAMME | LENGTH | BEST FOR |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Coaching | Shaped around the leader | Founders and leaders, on its own or within a programme |
| Leadership Accelerator | One day, or two half days | Leadership teams being asked to lead in a new way |
| Leadership Transformation | Six months | Building the leadership structure your business needs to grow |
| Leadership for Scale | 8 to 12 months minimum | Changing how the whole business behaves, so the strategy can work |
Executive Coaching
For founders and leaders who need space to think.
Coaching runs through most of my work. It can stand on its own, or sit inside a programme, so the change in your team is matched by the change in you.
Founders often have no one to talk to inside their own business. Some of what you carry can't be shared with your team, and the bigger the business gets, the lonelier that can feel. Coaching gives you a private space to think it through out loud.
For leaders in your team, it helps them grow into a bigger role. As the business grows, technical skill is no longer the only skill they need.
“Jess’s first insight was the one that stuck with me most: I was thinking like a future senior leader, but not yet communicating like one… a few months later I was promoted into a department head role.”
Natasha Piedra, Head of Business Development, Cookson Adventures
For your leadership team
Three programmes, each shaped around your business.
Leadership Accelerator
For leadership teams being asked to lead in a new way.
A one day intensive (or two half days) that helps your leaders make that shift early, before it starts to pinch. It works just as well as a reset if things have already drifted.
See what's included
Using tools like DiSC, MBTI and Hogan, your leaders explore:
- Themselves, and how they lead
- How they lead others
- How they build a team around them
- How they work together as a leadership team
“…after our team sessions with her, our team’s morale and performance were increased.”
Vicky Douglas, General Manager Private & Loyalty, Scott Dunn
Leadership Transformation
For when you're ready to build the leadership structure your business needs to grow.
A six month programme for you and your leadership team, built around what your business needs. Before I propose anything, I get to know your business.
See what's included
That means stakeholder interviews, a leadership and engagement survey, and time with you and your senior team to understand how things really work day to day.
Depending on what we find, it can include:
- Leadership team sessions on vision, values and behaviours
- Coaching and group work to build your leaders' skills and confidence
- Monthly 1:1 coaching for you, as the founder
- Ways of making decisions, running meetings and holding people to account that don't need you in the room
- Leadership sessions every two weeks, with support in between
“I’m calmer with my team, clearer in my direction, and I trust myself again.”
Nicole Vassallo, Senior Vice President, Perowne International
Leadership for Scale
For founders who have set the direction, and need the whole business to move with it.
You set the strategy. I make sure it can work. This cultural transformation programme works on how people behave every day, across the whole business.
See what's included
It starts with a deeper look across the whole business: stakeholder interviews, surveys and time with teams at different levels. Then we design the programme together.
It builds on Leadership Transformation, and can also include:
- Defining your values and the behaviours that bring them to life
- Building those behaviours into everyday habits, meetings and decisions
- Career pathways and leadership frameworks, so your people can grow with you
- Regular time on site, and joining your leadership meetings
- Direct access to me between sessions
- Support in the moment on hiring, leadership challenges and people you're worried about losing
- Deeper 1:1 support for you as the founder, as your own role changes
“…allowed me to be more strategic with my time AND become a better leader to my team at the same time.”
Nick Wilson, Director of Sales, Perowne International