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Business & People Growth

One plan for the business and the people running it.

Strategy and talent development in lockstep. We grow the business and the humans who deliver it - one coherent plan, not two disconnected workstreams.

Start with growthHow we work

What we ship

The deliverables.

01

Business Strategy & Positioning

02

Performance Management Systems

03

Talent Acquisition & Retention

04

Culture & Operating Model Design

05

Change Management

06

Leadership Pipeline & Succession

The shape of it

How an engagement is shaped.

Every engagement is bespoke, but the rough shape is consistent. Use this to picture the commitment before we talk.

Duration
90 days for a strategy reset; ongoing as a fractional partner.
Format
Embedded with the leadership team, on-site monthly.
Cadence
Weekly leadership working sessions and a monthly steering review.
Team
A growth principal partnered with your CEO, COO, or people lead.
Best for
Founders and operators reshaping the business and the team behind it at the same time.
Starts with
A 60-minute diagnostic, followed by a 90-day plan and a clear list of what we will own together.

How we run it

Four stages.
Each one ships something.

Every engagement runs the same four stages. The names change per pillar; the discipline doesn't. By the end of each stage there is a concrete output you and your team can review.

  1. STAGE 01

    Diagnose

    A working session with leadership. The actual constraint to growth named honestly, not a polite restatement of the symptom.

  2. STAGE 02

    Strategize

    90-day plan, owned together. Concrete objectives, named owners, and the people moves that have to happen for the plan to work.

  3. STAGE 03

    Run

    Embedded weekly with your leadership team. The plan is reviewed and adjusted in real time, not at quarter-end.

  4. STAGE 04

    Compound

    Hand off to your team but stay on as a fractional partner. Habits stick when someone keeps showing up.

Recent practice

Where this work
has shipped.

Engagements that exercised this pillar.

12 weeks · Regional bank, enterprise

AI & automation + growth

Shipped

  • Audit workflow automated
  • Manual review hours down 64%
  • Two squads reorganised around the system

90 days · Family office, growth stage

Growth + soft skills

Shipped

  • 90-day plan adopted by leadership
  • Two senior hires landed
  • Quarterly cadence in place

Ongoing · Healthcare group

Soft skills + growth

Shipped

  • Clinical leadership cohort, three rounds
  • Service standards rewritten with operators
  • Retention of senior nurses up 22%

Each engagement is anonymised. Same shape, same outputs - the names land when the clients say so.

More recent practice

Ready to start

Let's talk about growth.

Tell us what you're trying to change, and we'll tell you honestly whether this pillar is the right place to start.

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