Business coaching for owner-led businesses

Support, structure and accountability for business owners who are good at what they do, and carrying the rest of it on their own. Practical coaching, a room full of people who get it, and actions you can use the same week.

Where the business is the gap Where you want it

Free taster session · No obligation · Online and in person

Why owners get stuck

Running the business is a different job: sales, cash flow, systems, pricing, people, time, confidence and consistency. All of it lands on one desk.

The situation

Everything runs through you

Every decision waits on the one person who already has the least time. Progress becomes whatever survives the week.

The insight

Pressure builds in your head

Growth rarely stalls for want of ideas. It stalls when there is nowhere to think a decision through properly, with someone who has no agenda in the answer.

In action

Perspective, pace, next steps

We bring real business challenges into the room, work them through, and leave with actions you can apply immediately.

The result

Programmes

Every level runs on the same principle: regular contact, honest challenge and actions that get followed up. The difference is how much of it is built around you.

Solopreneurs & small business owners
You are good at what you do, but the sales, planning and operational side can feel heavy when it all sits with you. Launchpad puts you in a small group of no more than eight owners, meeting twice a month.
per month · first session free

Flagship

Established founders
You have momentum. You need structure, accountability and better habits before the business outgrows the way you run it. Accelerate is a monthly rhythm built around your numbers, your pipeline and the decisions in front of you now.
per month · rolling, no tie-in
Larger businesses
You are busy, capable and experienced, and you want someone external to challenge assumptions and sharpen decisions. Velocity is built around your leadership team and your calendar.
priced on scope

How Launchpad runs

A rhythm rather than a course. Enough contact to keep things moving, small enough that nobody hides at the back.

60 minutes · online

Workshop

Gareth or a guest speaker works through one practical business topic. The group discusses it, then everyone sets clear actions for the month ahead.

60 minutes · online

Boardroom

A progress check, then members bring a real problem to the group. You leave with a plan for the blockage rather than sympathy for it.

30 minutes · one to one

Touchpoint

A monthly call with Gareth to ask the questions you would rather not ask in a room, and to clarify the actions that are slowing you down.

How Accelerate runs

Accelerate adds one to one coaching and quarterly planning to the group rhythm, so the work is anchored to your numbers rather than a general topic.

Quarterly · two hours

Planning session

Set direction, targets and the priorities that matter for the next ninety days, with the actions written down and owned.

Monthly · 90 minutes

One to one coaching

Your numbers, your pipeline and the decisions in front of you. Every session starts with what happened to the last set of actions.

Ongoing

Group and between sessions

Time in the room with other owners, plus direct access when a decision cannot wait until the next call.

What we work on

Sales process

How you move someone from enquiry to decision with confidence, and without making it awkward.

Closing questions

How and when you actually ask for the business.

Financial management

Understanding the handful of numbers that shape growth, early enough to act on them.

Time and systems

Making the business less dependent on you remembering everything.

Consistency

Turning good ideas into habits that actually stick.

Confidence

Working through imposter syndrome and decision fatigue, without pretending they are not there.

About

Gareth has worked across many industries, including senior management roles in retail and banking, and now runs his own business while helping other owners run theirs.

He takes a whole life approach to coaching: goals sit inside the rest of your world, not in a spreadsheet on their own. Expect to be supported, and expect to be challenged.

Gareth Allen

Our values

Enjoy the journey

Goals matter, but the route is where you spend your life. It has to be part of the plan.

Deliver what you promise

We commit to supporting you and ask for the same commitment back. Nothing is promised that cannot be delivered.

Be kind

Your thinking will be challenged. It will always be done sensitively, and with respect.

What members say

Gareth has helped me be brave enough to both attempt and achieve things I never thought I could. Alongside working on a plan, Gareth has become a friend that I can turn to when I doubt myself. He helps me look for positives when things go wrong. He goes above and beyond to look after everyone he coaches, and I would wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone.

Jess Rushton

Smart Money People

As the owner of a firm of accountants, I am always very careful who we refer our clients to. I have had no hesitation in referring my clients to Gareth, he has always provided excellent care and advice to my clients. I have seen him take that diligence and genuine desire to help people achieve their goals, and apply it in several different settings. Gareth is a good listener, an excellent planner and able to adapt to different clients’ needs.

Ben Storey

Courtley West Accountants

Gareth is great at getting to the crux of any problem with simple but effective questioning techniques. His calm and thoughtful approach helped give me clarity of thought to develop a way forward.

Katherine Megson

Bruntwood SciTech

Before you book

What happens on the free session?

A conversation, not a pitch. We look at where the business is, where you want it to be, and what is sitting in the gap. If a programme fits, we will say so. If it does not, we will say that too.

Launchpad is 60 to 90 minutes a fortnight plus a 30 minute one to one. Accelerate adds a monthly 90 minute session and a two hour planning session each quarter. That is the minimum commitment, and you get out what you put in.
No. Membership runs month to month. We would rather you stayed because it is working.
Launchpad sessions run online so members can join from wherever they are working. One to one coaching can be online or in person.
If you are early, working alone and want structure plus a peer group, start with Launchpad. If you already have momentum and need the work anchored to your own numbers, Accelerate. Larger businesses and leadership teams sit in Velocity.
Come to a taster session. There is no obligation, and you will get a clearer read on where the gaps are either way.

Book a free session and leave with something you can use, whether or not you join anything.

What happens next

01

A short introductory call, at a time you pick.

02

An honest look at where the gaps are in the business.

03

You decide whether a programme fits. No pressure either way.