"You built a successful business. Now it needs a board, a strategy and someone who'll tell you the truth."
Many owner-managed businesses reach a point where what got them here stops working. I work as a Chair and board adviser to owners of established businesses, typically £1M to £100M, in manufacturing, engineering and specialist services, helping them build the board, business strategy and governance their business needs.
How I work
It usually starts with a defined piece of work: a growth strategy, a commercial restructure, a governance review. Where it goes well, it becomes a board-level role, as Chair, Non-Executive Director or Board Advisor. That is not a report and a handshake. I sit alongside you, challenge your thinking, help you build the governance and strategy your business needs, and stay until the work is done. Board roles run for two to four years. Some people now call this fractional. In practice it means a day or two a month, at board level, for as long as it is useful and no longer. The measure of success is not the quality of the advice. It is whether the business is in a materially better position when we are done.