A modern Round Table for business leaders.
A private, high-trust environment where you gain an external board to challenge your thinking, sharpen your strategy, and turn decisions into action.
The Bottlenecked Founder.
You’ve built a successful business, but you’re still working like you’re trying to get it off the ground. The revenue has scaled, but the fundamental systems haven't.
"You are the Chief Everything Officer."
Isolated at the top, surrounded by people who report to you, with no one to give you the unfiltered truth. You know you need to step back to grow, but the day-to-day always wins.
Revenue ≠ Wealth
Top-line vanity metrics mean nothing if your personal wealth hasn't scaled proportionately.
Isolation
No peers at your level to challenge your assumptions or identify your blind spots.
Founder Dependency
The business relies entirely on your energy, decisions, and daily input to survive.
The Time Trap
You need to step back and work ON the business, but firefighting keeps you IN it.
Your Fractional Board of Directors.
You aren't just getting one perspective - you are getting a fractional board plus four specialist advisors working on your specific constraints.
Strategic Clarity
Uncoupling revenue from founder dependency. Install the operational systems and financial metrics needed to transition you from chief firefighter to true business owner.
Disciplined Execution
Relentless, military-grade accountability. Ideas are worthless without execution. We strip away the noise and force focus on the few things that actually move the needle.
Brand & Positioning
Sharpening your commercial edge. Moving from a commodity service provider to a premium authority in your space, allowing you to command higher margins and better clients.
Non-Competing Peers
A highly curated room of serious entrepreneurs. You'll often extract more value from their sessions than your own.
Week Cadence
Full-day 'mastermind' style strategic pauses at Lainston house - a premium venue close to Winchester.
Between Sessions
Direct access to the specialists as needed, plus rigorous critiques of your marketing material and strategy.
The Scorecard
Session one builds your clear goals and Scorecard. Subsequent sessions demand total transparency with your numbers to force results.
The Format.
This is serious business for serious entrepreneurs.
This isn't a standard networking group. It's a high-performance advisory board designed to move your business markedly towards where you want it to be. You’ll form a tight bond with leaders who share your determination and drive, facing ruthless accountability together.
Experience The Hot Seat.
Select a common bottleneck below to see how your fractional board will challenge your thinking in the room.
"If I step away for a week, the business grinds to a halt. I'm working 60+ hours just to maintain our current revenue."
The Board's Response
You are the bottleneck. We need to map your daily tasks, find what actually requires your expertise, and build systems for the rest.
You haven't built a team; you've built a group of helpers. We need to shift your culture from 'asking permission' to 'taking ownership'.
I want you out of the office one day a week starting next month. The business will adapt, or break—and if it breaks, we fix the system.
The Return on Investment.
What you actually get when you commit to the process.
Strategic Clarity
- Access a confidential sounding board with decades of real-world experience who will question assumptions, test ideas and sharpen your thinking.
- Gain fresh perspective and constructive challenge to help you see situations more clearly and think more strategically to move forward with clarity instead of hesitation.
- Establish trusted accountability to help navigate persistent issues, spot opportunities more clearly and overcome feelings of being overwhelmed.
Executive Development
- Curated, high-impact learning tailored to what actually matters at your level without wasting time on endless research.
- Complex ideas broken down into practical, bite-sized insights you can apply immediately.
- A clear focus on the knowledge, tools and thinking that will make you more effective as a leader right now.
Work-Life Balance
- Step out of the day-to-day and create the space to work on your business and enable sustainable growth.
- Regain control over your time and focus so you can lead with intent rather than constantly reacting to the loudest problem.
- Protect your personal wellbeing and headspace by building a business that supports your life, rather than consuming it.
Leadership & Management
- Foster a culture of accountability and clear thinking with a more capable, accountable senior team that can run the day-to-day without requiring your input on every decision and generate cash independently.
- Navigate the transition from founder to chairman with proven strategies.
- Build a more sustainable pace of growth to improve the performance of you and your team without burnout.
Meet Your Advisors.
The four specialists who will be triangulating on your business constraints.
Mick Betteridge MBE QGM
Leadership & Accountability
Helping professional business owners understand and control everything in their business. Mick brings military-grade discipline to eliminate doubts, guesswork, and wasted energy.
Rachel Foord
Marketing & Sales Systems
Business Growth Expert focused on practical marketing and sales systems for UK owner-run businesses. She builds engines that get customers like clockwork, without the guesswork.
Ingrid Sanderson
Strategic Advisory & Growth
Strategic Business Advisor, Growth Coach, and NED. Ingrid helps high-performing professionals and their teams manage complex operations effortlessly so they stay focused, not frazzled.
Daniel Sagar
Operations & Systems
Ex-7-figure founder and creator of The Lean Growth System™. Daniel specialises in finding the real constraint in owner-led service firms and building the operational systems to fix it.
The Track Record.
Anonymized case studies from founders who implemented our frameworks.
Founder-led sales. The business couldn't grow unless the founder was actively pitching and closing deals.
Installed scalable sales systems, hired a commercial director, and completely removed the founder from the sales process.
Client concentration and bespoke delivery. Every project required the founder's unique expertise, capping growth and destroying margins.
Productised the core service offering. Built a delivery team and implemented strict qualification criteria, increasing net margin by 22%.
Flatlined growth and severe founder burnout. Competing on price instead of value in a highly commoditised market.
Re-positioned as a premium authority. Increased pricing by 30%, sacked bottom-tier clients, and reduced founder hours by 20 per week.
Common Objections.
We know you are cynical of generic coaching. Here is the unfiltered truth.
Who This Room Is NOT For.
We fiercely protect the quality of the room. If any of these apply to you, please do not apply.
Startups & Early Stage
You must have an established, profitable business (£500k+ revenue) with an existing team and client base. The frameworks we use are for scaling and uncoupling, not starting.
The 'Quick Fix' Seeker
We build fundamental operational systems and leadership frameworks. If you are looking for a silver bullet, a new "hack", or overnight results without putting in the hard work, do not apply.
The "I Know Best" Founder
If you aren't open to having your assumptions challenged by peers and you think you already have all the answers, this environment will frustrate you.
Looking for a Referral Group
This is not a networking group to pitch your services to each other. It is a working board of directors focused entirely on high-level strategy and execution.
Request an Invitation.
We are interviewing you as much as you are interviewing us. Please ensure you meet the minimum criteria before applying.
Minimum Criteria
- Your business generates at least £500k annual revenue.
- Your business is profitable.
- You employ people in your business.
- You have or aspire to have a management team in place to run your business.
- You must be ambitious, with an appetite to grow your business.
Your Commitment
If accepted into the Group you’ll be committing for a full year. Plenty of time to make a huge difference to your business.
Your Investment
Your investment will be £1,500+VAT per month.
Expect your Return on Investment to be enormous - not just in terms of profit, time and turnover in your business but also in terms of your business education.