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Strategic Growth & Leadership Support for Scaling Businesses & Franchisors

Strategic Growth & Leadership Support for Scaling Businesses & FranchisorsStrategic Growth & Leadership Support for Scaling Businesses & FranchisorsStrategic Growth & Leadership Support for Scaling Businesses & Franchisors

Helping leaders build businesses that grow with structure, clarity, and value -without everything depending on them. 


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Strategic Growth & Leadership Support for Scaling Businesses & Franchisors

Strategic Growth & Leadership Support for Scaling Businesses & FranchisorsStrategic Growth & Leadership Support for Scaling Businesses & FranchisorsStrategic Growth & Leadership Support for Scaling Businesses & Franchisors

Helping leaders build businesses that grow with structure, clarity, and value -without everything depending on them. 


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Existing clients- Book a session

The Problems I Solve

The Moment Growth Starts to Expose the Cracks

 Most leaders don’t struggle at the start.
They struggle when success outpaces structure.

The business grows, but:

  • You’re still the decision-maker of last resort
     
  • The leadership team isn’t yet equipped for the complexity ahead
     
  • Consistency relies too heavily on your involvement
     
  • Growth creates pressure instead of confidence
     

At this stage, working harder doesn’t fix the problem.
Designing the business properly does.


That’s the point I’m brought in.

Get Clarity on Your Next Growth Step

What You Really Want

You don’t want to work harder just to keep things moving.


You want growth to feel more deliberate and less dependent on you.

That usually means:


  • Clear priorities, not constant decision fatigue
     
  • A leadership team that handles complexity without escalation
     
  • Standards and ways of working that hold as the business grows
     
  • Confidence that the business keeps moving even when you step back
     
  • A sense that growth is building value, not just workload
     

This is what happens when the business is designed for scale, not just driven by effort.

Dare to scale differently? Let’s start the conversation.

£46m business experience | 30+ years senior leadership | Franchise operator & advisor | ICF, EMCC &

£46m business experience | 30+ years senior leadership | Franchise operator & advisor | ICF, EMCC &

£46m business experience | 30+ years senior leadership | Franchise operator & advisor | ICF, EMCC &

£46m business experience | 30+ years senior leadership | Franchise operator & advisor | ICF, EMCC &

£46m business experience | 30+ years senior leadership | Franchise operator & advisor | ICF, EMCC &

£46m business experience | 30+ years senior leadership | Franchise operator & advisor | ICF, EMCC &

Paths to Success, Tailored for You

A description of my Franchise Growth Partnership package.

Franchise Growth

 For franchisors who have early traction and want to scale with direction.

This path focuses on installing the operating foundations, leadership capability, and execution rhythm that allow a franchise network to grow without becoming founder-dependent.

The outcome is a stronger, more valuable network that scales with intent and creates options for the future.

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Leadership & Capability Growth

 For leaders and teams who are stepping into bigger roles as the business grows.

This path focuses on strengthening leadership effectiveness, decision-making, and accountability, using strengths-based insight as a practical performance lever.

The outcome is leadership capability that keeps pace with the business, rather than lagging behind it.

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“From life’s work to lasting value and freedom of choice.”

Business Growth & Exit Design

 For owners who want to reduce reliance on themselves and build a business that works without constant involvement.

This path focuses on strengthening the fundamentals that increase value, improve resilience, and create real choice, whether that’s continued growth, stepping back, or preparing for exit.

The outcome is a business designed with intention, not left to chance.

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Whether someone’s joining or leaving your business, I help make the transition  more human.

Career Transitions & Change

  For individuals navigating significant change in their career or working life.

This path provides clarity, confidence, and direction during moments of transition, helping people make considered moves rather than reactive ones.

The outcome is momentum with purpose.

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What Clients Say

 “Steve helped us bring structure and clarity to our growth plans at a point where things were starting to feel stretched. Decisions became clearer, the leadership team stepped up, and growth felt more controlled.”  

-Founder & Franchisor

 “We’d reached a stage where too much still came back to the founder. Steve helped us change how decisions were made and build capability across the leadership team, which reduced pressure and improved focus.”
- Managing Director, multi-site business 

 “The biggest shift was moving from reacting to growth to designing for it. The business now feels more deliberate, more robust, and better positioned for whatever we choose to do next.” 

 - Owner, growing SME 

Why Leaders & Franchisors Work With Me

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I bring three things together that are rarely combined:


  • Operator experience – I’ve led and scaled businesses and carried responsibility for performance, people, and profit
     
  • Strategic clarity – the ability to see what needs to be built next, not just what’s broken now
     
  • Capability building – using coaching and strengths as performance levers, not standalone development
     

When specialist expertise is needed, I also bring access to a trusted network of partners, reducing friction and accelerating progress.

This is practical, grounded work, shaped around the reality of running a business.

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Decide What Comes Next

If your business is growing and starting to feel heavier than it should, this is a focused conversation to step back, get perspective, and decide what needs to change so growth works better.


Whether you’re scaling a franchise network, strengthening leadership capability, or thinking about long-term value and exit options, the aim is simple:


clarity, direction, and a business that works without everything running through you.


Get Clarity on Your Next Growth Step

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Trusted By: City FM | ABM UK & I | Three UK | Popeyes Louisiana Chicken | NHS England | Tooth Club |

Trusted By: City FM | ABM UK & I | Three UK | Popeyes Louisiana Chicken | NHS England | Tooth Club |

Trusted By: City FM | ABM UK & I | Three UK | Popeyes Louisiana Chicken | NHS England | Tooth Club |

Trusted By: City FM | ABM UK & I | Three UK | Popeyes Louisiana Chicken | NHS England | Tooth Club |

Trusted By: City FM | ABM UK & I | Three UK | Popeyes Louisiana Chicken | NHS England | Tooth Club |

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