Growth partner for SME founders & CEOs

I help founders build businesses that scale without them.

You've built something real. Now it's time to build it bigger, faster, and without it all depending on you. That's where I come in.

20+

Years experience

200+

Leaders coached

150+

Businesses scaled

50+

Acquisitions integrated

Is this you?

SME Founders

You built it from nothing. Now you're stuck in the middle of everything. You want to step back without the business falling apart.

CEOs & MDs

You're leading a growing business but the team, systems and culture haven't kept up. You need someone who's been where you are.

Business Owners Preparing for Exit

You want to sell or step away in the next few years. The business needs to run without you to be worth what it should be.

Built around your business. Not a template.

I work across growth, people, technology and systems. Every engagement is tailored to where your business is and where it needs to be.

Growth & Strategy

Scale the business

Acquisition Integration

Advise on and integrate acquisitions, turning bolt-on businesses into unified, high-performing operations. From due diligence to cultural alignment.

Client Retention & Base Growth

Design systems and behaviours that protect existing revenue while expanding your client base organically. Every client deserves the same level of attention and care.

Data-Driven Growth

Install performance dashboards and KPI frameworks so decisions are based on evidence, not gut feel. Track value per instruction, not just volume.

Exit Readiness

Build self-sufficient, systemised businesses that are attractive to acquirers when the time comes. Clean data, reduced key-person risk, sellable operations.

Change Management

Guide your business through rapid change. Post-acquisition, tech adoption, restructuring, or cultural transformation. Keeping momentum and morale intact.

Founder Advisory

Partner with you to build a business that runs with self-sufficiency. Healthy work-life balance without sacrificing performance or growth trajectory.

People & Culture

Build the team

High-Performance Team Building

Create teams that are bought into your long-term vision, accelerating growth exponentially rather than incrementally. Recruit, develop, and retain the best.

Culture Architecture

Build cultures of excellence, pace and productivity that stay genuinely customer-focused. Culture isn't a poster on the wall. It's how people behave when you're not watching.

Leadership Development

Coach founders and senior leaders to become brilliant leaders, not just competent managers. One-to-one and team programmes that create lasting capability.

Wellbeing as Performance

Happy, energised teams deliver happier customers and stronger results. Build the environment where performance and wellbeing reinforce each other.

Applied Neuroscience

Evidence-based neuroscience techniques to build better habits, sharpen cognitive performance, and sustain high output across your team. Science, not motivational fluff.

Scalable Systems & Processes

Build operational frameworks that outlast any individual. Reduce key-person risk and create a business that doesn't depend on one hero to function.

Technology

Modernise the operation

AI & Technology Integration

Deploy the latest tools, including AI, to streamline operations, sharpen marketing, win new clients, and free up leadership time for strategic growth. Technology should free up your best people to do their best work.

Continuous Improvement

Constantly researching and implementing proven performance methods. I stay ahead of what works so you don't have to. Bringing the latest thinking in growth, tech, and performance to your business.

“Lee doesn't just tell you what to do. He gets in there and does it with you. The impact on our team was immediate and lasting.”
CEO, London-based SME (50+ employees)

What people say.

Lee transformed the way we think about growth. Within six months, our leadership team was operating at a completely different level. He doesn't just advise. He rolls up his sleeves and makes it happen alongside you.
James Whitfield
CEO, Property Management Group
We were stuck at a plateau and couldn't work out why. Lee diagnosed the issue in our first session and had a plan within a week. The clarity he brought was worth every penny.
Sarah Hutchinson
Founder, London-based Recruitment Firm
The team culture shift was remarkable. People who were thinking about leaving are now our most engaged performers. Lee understands people as well as he understands business.
David Okoro
Managing Director, Financial Services SME
I've worked with consultants before and they hand you a report and disappear. Lee is the opposite. He was in the business with us every step, and the results speak for themselves.
Rachel Simmons
COO, Multi-site Retail Business
Lee helped us integrate two acquisitions without losing a single key member of staff. His approach to people and culture during times of change is exceptional.
Mark Ashcroft
CEO, Multi-site Services Group

The before and after.

This is what happens when you get the right strategy, the right team, and the right systems in place.

Before
Founder-dependent. Every decision runs through you.
After
An autonomous business that operates, decides, and delivers without you in every room.
Before
Flat growth. Working harder but not getting further.
After
Exponential, compounding growth driven by high-performance teams and scalable systems.
Before
High staff turnover. Constantly recruiting, constantly training.
After
Industry-leading retention. A culture where top performers choose to stay and grow.
Before
No clear exit path. The business can't run without you.
After
A sellable, self-sufficient operation with clean data, strong leadership and reduced key-person risk.

Not another consultant.

I spent 20+ years working alongside the CEO and founder of London's most successful estate agency business. As a senior leader and member of the senior leadership advisory council, I helped build it to £250 million turnover with a value of over £500 million. I've built high-performance teams, managed 3,000+ colleagues, trained dozens of managing directors, and coached and developed hundreds of senior staff. I helped create an autonomous business that outperformed the competition with industry-leading recruitment, retention, and results. That's the difference. I've done it.

01

Diagnose

Understand where you are, what's working and what's holding you back.

02

Design

Build the strategy, systems and team structure to get you where you want to be.

03

Deliver

Get in the work. Implement alongside your team, not from the sidelines.

04

Durability

Install the habits, processes and culture that keep performing when I'm gone. You shouldn't need me forever.

A note on fit. This isn't for businesses looking for a quick fix, a slide deck that sits in a drawer, or a consultant who tells you what you want to hear. I work with founders and leaders who are serious about building something that lasts. If that's you, we'll get on well.

Ready to scale with intent?

Let's have a conversation about where your business is and where it could be.

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No commitment, no hard sell. Just tell me what's going on in your business and I'll tell you straight whether I can help.

I'll come back to you personally. Usually within 24 hours.