It’s for senior executives with ambitious, aggressive targets. You’re facing the hard reality that business as usual isn’t delivering your goals fast enough. But putting more pressure on your team isn’t working, and you’re running out of options.

Often somebody's kicking your ass. Your board has pinned you to a target you’re struggling to hit, but you’ve got to come up with the goods if you want to do well at your job. You’ve a mountain to climb and it feels big because you don’t know what to do.

This programme is best suited for companies who want to get ahead and aren’t afraid of dramatic change. Delivering rapid growth requires almost every part of your business to be transformed, and you’re going to need to be motivated to follow through on your new plan for scale. This isn't a magic bullet. You only get the returns if you get stuck in and do the work.

You get three deliverables from the Commit to Scale Programme.

1. A scale strategy to hit your targets.

2. A business case for the investment you need to grow.

3. An action plan and the frameworks you need to reposition your business for new opportunity.

This feels like a huge relief, because now you’ve got a plan, and a big pressure on senior leaders is to come up with a solid plan to deliver scale.

Plus, you've a sounding board on your team, in the form of an expert specialist in scale. When I’m on the case, I guarantee you’ll get all the support you need to commit confidently to scale.

This is difficult to say without sounding like an arse, but I’m going to go ahead and say it anyway. You’ve hired me because you’re struggling to scale, and I’m the go-to scale expert in NZ.

So, this is not a collaborative co-creation process. You’re too close to your business to question your business model, interrogate your market segments, and find those hidden opportunities for revenue.

We work together to gather the evidence and insights that enable me to build a strategy. Then I do the thinking, you test it, and together we review the results. I’m fully accountable for delivering your strategy, your business case for investment, and your action plan.

People call me the guy who blows things up, because I come in with a completely open mind about your business model. I will reframe the way you look at your market and your business model so you can access different markets and new revenue streams. Delivering rapid growth requires almost every part of your business to be transformed, so don’t expect status quo.

This process may be challenging and uncomfortable. Sometimes people can become defensive because bringing in an external expert suggests inadequacy within your organisation. So, often when I begin working with companies they start out saying we've tried everything. Of course, it isn’t true.

But the process is also reinvigorating. Teams enjoy playing with potential, and I make the process engaging because you want your people to feel excited about doing the work. One of the key pieces of feedback I get from businesses I work with is that they didn’t expect the process to be so fun.

I’ve worked across many different markets, and there’s never been a market that I haven't understood. I love supposedly unglamorous industries, because of the volume of hidden potential. The breadth of market sectors I’ve worked in is useful because innovation comes from inspiration.

The full scope of your challenge never becomes apparent until I dig into the details of your business. If we discover we need to go deeper, then I’ve a team of experts you can tap into for specialist things like margin modelling, setting the cost of goods, research, visual brand development.