You need help. You just can't quite name it yet.

Something in your business isn't right. Maybe it's one thing you can't put your finger on. Maybe it's six things tangled together: cash feels tighter than the sales figures say it should, good people keep leaving, every week disappears into firefighting, and you've stopped taking holidays because everything routes through you.

Then you land on a website like this one and it's all operating models, fractional executives and value creation plans. If none of that maps onto the knot in your stomach, that's not a failing on your part. It's a failing of the words. You shouldn't need the vocabulary of a management consultant to ask for help; translating the knot into a plan is literally my job.

So here's the simplest thing I offer. We talk. Properly. You describe what's going on in whatever words come naturally, however unpolished, and I ask the questions. I've sat with hundreds of leaders at every scale, and I promise you this: the thing you can't name has a name, other people have had it, and it has a known shape once it's out in the open.

How it works

Ninety minutes, just the two of us. Online, or in person over a decent cup of tea if you're within reach (I'm about an hour from London; travel at cost beyond that). No slides, no jargon, no salesmanship. You talk, I listen and ask, and together we untangle it.

By the end you'll have three things in plain English: what the actual problem is (often not the one you arrived with), what I'd do about it if I were you, and an honest view on whether that involves me at all. Frequently it doesn't, and I'll say so. Whether we ever work together or not, you'll leave with a clearer picture than you walked in with.

What it costs

£195, paid by card when you book, and that's the whole commitment; there's nothing to cancel and no follow-up pestering. One caveat in your favour: if it's obvious in the first ten minutes that I'm not the right person, we stop and I refund you in full. I'd rather have your trust than your £195.