What I Offer

Leadership Development for Founders & Scale-Ups

Helping founders grow into confident, capable leaders — and build the culture, strategy and teams needed to scale.

Many founders start with a powerful idea, a strong vision and the drive to turn it into reality. But scaling a business requires a completely different set of skills, especially around leadership, people, and strategy. Most founders have never been taught these things, yet they’re critical to sustainable growth.

How I Help Founders Lead and Think at a Higher Level

I work alongside founders to strengthen leadership capability, organisational culture, and strategic thinking. My approach blends:

Executive Coaching: to shift mindset, explore blind spots and build confidence
Mentoring: drawing on 35 years of senior leadership and Defence strategy experience
Strategic Facilitation: helping founders clarify goals, priorities and decision pathways
Practical Leadership Training: people management, communication, delegation
Team Workshops: values, culture, alignment and role clarity
outdoor stretch experiences – providing perspective, insight and resilience

This is not generic leadership development, it’s tailored, strategic and rooted in the realities of your business.

Typical Areas We Work On

Strengths, values, triggers, imposter syndrome, confidence, emotional intelligence.
Helping founders move from reacting to planning:
- clarifying purpose and long-term direction
- setting realistic strategic priorities
- simplifying decision-making
- translating vision into actionable plans
- avoiding “strategic drift”
- building an operating rhythm that supports sustainable execution
These are all skills founders often wish they’d learned earlier, and they’re areas I bring deep experience from my work shaping strategy and leading operations across Defence.
Intentional culture design, behaviours, values, feedback, team alignment.
Recruitment, onboarding, delegation, difficult conversations, performance, motivation.
Clear messaging, expectation-setting, conflict navigation, building trust.
Letting go, avoiding bottlenecks, structuring your week, protecting energy and wellbeing.

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Who is This For?

Founders leading businesses from early traction to scale-up
Entrepreneurs navigating chaos, culture challenges or rapid growth
Leaders building their first management team
Business owners looking to strengthen their strategy, people and leadership capability
Founders who want to grow into the leader their business needs next

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How We Work Together

Sessions can take place:
• online
• at your office
• in my home office in Bristol
• or outdoors in places like Clifton Downs, Mendip Hills or the Brecon Beacons

Outdoor sessions are particularly powerful for strategic thinking and leadership reflection. People access different perspectives when the environment changes.

Programmes blend coaching, mentoring, strategy facilitation and leadership skills development, shaped around your specific stage of growth.