For Ambitious Founders
Writing tomorrow's success by lightening the load and igniting growth.
The Problem.
You’re a passionate business leader who’s hit scale-up stage and you’re experiencing new challenges.
The team can no longer fit around one table. The company has grown too large and too complex for you to be involved in every decision it makes. You’re spending too much time handling people problems and too little time where you’re most valuable.
Your successful growth journey (awesome) has brought new challenges and you may not have the time or tools to keep the business stable, scaling and smiling (definitely not awesome).
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And how are you? …really.
Does the business have what it needs to scale?
Do you know what steps to take next?
Do you lead with impact?
Do you still find it fun?
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Not knowing what to do next can be a heavy and lonely burden.
And having the space to focus ON the business rather than IN the business can feel like a pipe dream.
You need the right mix of leadership, strategy, process, people and culture (the “Holy Grail”), to build the strong foundations critical for continued growth. Without them, the pains you feel only get worse.
Slow growth from lack of strategic clarity and opportunity analysis.
Limited leadership development prevents high-potential impact.
Inexperienced managers aren’t set up to get the best from teams.
Values exist but don’t show up as a compass across the business.
Teams struggle to collaborate and instead operate in frustrating silos.
Your best people leave and recruiting superstars is a challenge.
Meetings are painful, lacking purpose, effectiveness and value.
Employee morale is low despite many attempts to boost it.
You’re overwhelmed with fires seemingly everywhere you look.
The Solution.
With ten years at Amazon solving customer, commercial, and operational problems while leading expert teams, I have a keen sense of what the real pain points are, and the long-term solutions needed to resolve them.
And as a professional coach I support leaders to uncover insights, move beyond unhelpful behaviours and acquire new skills, so they move forward with greater impact and fulfilment.
Blending experience in business excellence, growth strategy, people development and culture, I help companies achieve their ambitious goals while fostering a high-performing, joyful (yes, it’s possible) culture.
Services
Growth Levers | Using customer, marketing and data-led insights to enhance awareness, acquisition, strengthen brand presence, and uncover hidden opportunities while building authentic connections that drive sustainable growth.
Operational Capabilities | Optimising how your business plans and functions to find better ways of working and opportunities to steady the ship and scale faster.
People Development | End-to-end process; goal setting to annual reviews. Including all the tools your people need to be set up for success.
Leadership Coaching | Space for leaders of all levels to be championed, challenged, and held to account for insight-led growth and increased productivity.
Manager Training | Level up your people managers so they can become more effective at looking after their team’s well-being, productivity, and impact.
+ve Work Culture | Creating a nourishing culture that engages, supports, fosters loyalty, and attracts top talent in the market.
Recruitment | Identifying your needs as a business, from skill gaps to brand values. Then professional vetting of candidates to ensure a high bar is met.
“In the space of 6 months, Kane has reignited my passion for my work and helped me rediscover the joy in what I do. His unwavering support and belief in my journey have been transformative, allowing me to thrive with newfound energy and clarity. Kane’s unique approach which is underpinned by intuition and empathy has positively impacted everyone in our company, from our talented therapists to our leadership table. His influence has reshaped our team's dynamic and success. You’d be extremely lucky to have Kane on your side.”
- Scarlet Amies | MASAJ Founder & CEO
12-month transformation project at multi award-winning, tea mixologists Bird & Blend Tea Co.
Working with founders/directors to scope and embed strategic change in the organisation and across their leadership team to stabilise the organisation and support rapid scale.
Case Study.
Brief
Support the SLT as part of the ongoing commitment to invest in the growth of the company. Making how they work as frictionless as possible, while also supporting them individually to function at their best.
Wearing two hats:
Growth Coach - enabling senior stakeholders to reach their full potential, increasing their impact on the business.
Strategic Advisor - on growth initiatives to scale the business faster, while setting their people and operations up for success.
Solutions
Leadership development programme
Company goals & KPI frameworks
Mission and value work
People management training
Rhythm of the business
Meeting effectiveness
Communications support
SLT recruitment & counsel
Feedback
“Kane has added an incredible amount of value to our business during his time here - solidifying and growing out our Leadership Team, greatly improving our ways of working, coaching our senior / future Leaders, and strategically diving into areas of departmental pain to assist and move forward where required.
Kane brings structure and method to organisations, recognising areas of potential and using his high levels of awareness to flag potential future problems. Kane encourages curiosity and collaboration at every level of the business, empowering an organisation and Teams to do their best work.
It's been an absolute pleasure to work with Kane and the impact he has had cannot be understated.”
— Matt Hendon | Operations Director
“It's been extremely valuable having Kane as part of our team. He has introduced new ways of working, providing more clarity and structure to drive operational improvements across the business. His work has steered efficiencies, improved meeting effectiveness and bettered communication whilst also helping to shape our overall business strategy. It's been a pleasure to work with Kane.”
— Zoe Regan | Finance Director
“Kane worked with us @ Bird & Blend for over a year on a project to solidify our overarching business strategy, map out a path to achieve it, shape and lead hiring a senior leadership team to deliver and then work on embedding a new way of working focussed on this direction. This was under the Chief of Staff title.
Over the period, supporting and alongside the main missions above, Kane supported us successfully navigating an extremely challenging environment by jumping into a number of ad-hoc projects. He also gave 1-1 coaching to various senior and future senior leaders (myself included) which had a huge impact.
Kane was great to work with, inspired others around him to grow and develop in their roles and brought a new way of thinking to the business. It was great to see that this would remain embedded and stay in the room when Kane was not there. Overall we’re really happy with the results of the project and feel that the business is in a much better place for it..”
— Mike Turner | Co-Founder + MD
“Kane has been a hugely valuable asset to our business. He’s supported the leadership team through change and provided excellent advice and thought leadership. Looking forward to working with him again in future!”
— Alix Thompson-Burn | Head of Ecommerce
No-strings.
Let’s have a free 60-minute chat about your business and the problems you’re facing.
This gives us a chance to see where we can make improvements.
Following this, I will send you a recommendation of next steps and you can decide if it makes sense to you, without any pressure and fully informed of what to expect.
Conversations are held in confidence.