What I offer
Set your business up to scale fast
Founder CEOs work with me when they’re:
So stuck in the weeds they’re not able to focus on strategy and value-add activities
Lacking an experienced leadership team or lack expertise in key areas
Needing to scale themselves and their company, but have never done it before
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Service Offering 1: Strategy & Planning
I help start-up leaders build and scale through focus, team alignment and first-class execution:
Start with WHY - communicating your Mission and Vision
Turning Vision into a reality - Goal setting (OKRs), team alignment and execution
Roadmap prioritisation
Service Offering 2: Business Operations
I help founders build an organisation that excels operationally, so it consistently achieves its goals:
Operations planning and cadence
Frameworks - for prioritisation and decision making
Performance reporting and KPIs
Organisation design
Compliance, legal and risk mitigation
Business comms
Service Offering 3: People and Culture
I work with founders to set the foundations for team success, employee engagement and recruiting top talent:
Core values
Building trust
Employee engagement and progression
Culture development
Hiring and onboarding at scale
Leadership development, mentoring and coaching
Fractional Chief Operating Officer
Startups partner with me to set up to scale fast. Founders are busy. They often find it difficult to let go, so they may focus on things they’re good at and are critical for growth: building product, new customers and fundraising. A seasoned COO is a safe pair of hands to delegate to and let go.
Start-up Mentor
Being a startup founder and CEO is hard and lonely. It seems like no one cares as much as you do. It doesn’t have to be this way. I provide a sounding board, practical advice and offer solutions to the tough decisions and help you tackle the growing-pains that fast-growing businesses face.
I help turn visions into reality
I'll help you:
Make sure the big plan AND the nitty gritty happens
Provide the “glue” and connections across teams
Make sure the entire organisational hums
Help you figure out how?.to set goals, make hiring decisions, design structures, frameworks and process for each stage of growth
Startups. Get your house in order - Hire a COO
As an advisor I work with founders and start-up teams to achieve company goals through effective communication and by influencing day-to-day operations.
Experiences
COO, Ito World. Transit Tech: start-up to scale-up.
Joined founding team of 3 to build and scale mission-driven data & SaaS business. Built operations, teams, processes and culture to scale and deliver to our clients Google, Apple, Microsoft, the DfT and transit agencies globally. Grew from £000s to >£10mn ARR and a team of over 100 employees.
GrowthWorks Consultants: Business transformation of B2B SaaS startup
Series A hospitality tech company with a high burn rate.
Worked with CEO to clarify strategy, introduce business planning process and goal setting framework to transform team alignment and prioritisation. Completed organisation re-design, with clear accountability and improved team cohesion.
GrowthWorks Consultants: Startup setting up to fundraise and scale
Early health tech SaaS business, with complex operations.
Fractional COO for a busy CEO, needing to prioritise founder-led sales and fundraising activity. Communicating strategy, business prioritisation, mentoring and setting up the team for first customers and scale.
Operations Director, Bounty Parenting Club
Senior Leadership Team of private equity backed scale-up.
Achieved £2m profit increase across digital and physical media products.
Operations and logistics of 3.5m sampling packs, 3m publications and >1m data records annually across 000s of locations.
Earlier Career
Leadership roles, growing private equity-backed software and data businesses. I have built and led teams across business functions including product, engineering, people, sales and customer success. My generalist skills have become my superpower to align teams to help start-ups flourish and grow.
