You have reached a decision you cannot delegate.
Two minutes, in my own words, on what that moment looks like from the owner’s chair.
Watch the introduction
For Business Owners at critical inflection points
A Thinking Partner supporting you during those important phases, when a big move- on, out or up- is pending.
You will already have good people around you — an experienced leadership team, a trusted accountant, bankers with history, maybe even a board and lawyers when you need them. In contrast to other business consultants and leadership coaches, I act in the way a non executive chairman would, ensuring that critical, often irreversible decisions are made with you methodically, carefully, with great deliberation, sensitivity and consultation. I am the one voice in the room whose primary focus is your best interest. I bring a fresh perspective, an unbiased opinion, years of experience in navigating complex strategic challenges and a powerful network of relevant experts.
Engagements run quarterly. Ninety-five per cent of them fall between €280,000 and €600,000 a year.
Most inflection point decisions fall into one of three categories. Which one is on your desk?
Strategic and Structual
- Taking out a business partner
- Resolving Governance issues
- Reorganizing devisions and the business model
- Significant Investments and Capex decisions
Selling, Retiring and Succession
- Preparing for an exit
- Handing over to the next generation
Growth
- Making one or more acquisitions
- Bringing in new investors and growth capital
- Expanding the leadership team
- Internationalisation
The Reading Room
Everything →Essays, Notes, Books, Conversations and Documentaries. Stuff that I find insightful and relevant. Our Reading Room is an invitation to make friends with the eminent dead and the eminent living and learn continously from both.
Poland, Peace, and the New Balance of Power: A Conversation With Dr. Pippa Malmgren
The Delusion of Profit
“There is no such thing. There are only costs.” There’s a particular pressure that comes with a business hitting its stride. The growth is real, the…
A Winning Team
The infrastructure every successful business owner needs, and almost nobody builds with intention. I hold this truth to be self-evident: that almost nobody builds a genuinely…
If you are at a critical inflection point
If one of these is on your desk, or you can sense it coming, an hour in confidence usually gets you further than a month of circling it alone.
Set up a conversation
Almost everything you decide can be revisited. Try it, look at what happens, change course if it was wrong. Those decisions should be made fast, and mostly without me.
Succession. Exit. The growth step that changes the shape of the business. Those are critical inflection points, for private business owners and they are the decisions I am best suited to work on.