Another way to work with us: Coaching.

Business Coaching is a different way of working with us: one-to-one sessions where we bring cross-functional back-office experience to your decisions, rather than implementing the work ourselves.

This isn't consultancy delivered at a distance. We're not writing your policies, setting up your systems, or taking a function off your hands. We're sitting alongside you, asking the questions that surface what's actually going on, and helping you decide what to do about it — and in what order.

It's also not a reading list. Some coaching boils down to "read this book, try this theory, then read the next one." There's plenty to learn from business books, but the real question is whether it's tangible and relevant to your business, your people and the decision you're facing this week. We start with your business, not a framework, and bring in ideas only where they earn their place.

What this typically covers:

• Regular one-to-one coaching sessions, structured around what's live for your business right now

• Practical, grounded advice rooted in your actual numbers, people and situation, not off-the-shelf theory

• An experienced, objective sounding board for decisions you're currently weighing up

• Honest challenge — testing your assumptions and plans rather than simply agreeing with them

• Help prioritising which areas of the business need attention first, and why

• Access to the same cross-functional experience behind our consultancy work — governance, HR, finance, legal, technology, compliance, procurement and strategy — applied to sharpen your own thinking, not to do the work for you

Who it's for: Business owners who want an experienced, objective eye on the business and support deciding where to go — without bringing in a consultant to run the work itself.