Ready to unlock the potential in your business?
As a business founder, owner, or leader you’re constantly navigating the complexities of growth.
And because growth is never linear, there are inevitable plateaus or pivotal moments that require you to recalibrate. You might have a project on the drawing board that needs development or perhaps you’re looking for fresh insights to meet a current challenge or leverage an opportunity.
That’s where I come in.
With over 20 years of experience as a business strategist, mentor, and facilitator I bring a wealth of knowledge, creativity, insight, and a wide network to help you move forward.
I collaborate with founders, partners, teams, and associations across the professional services sector and my clients have been drawn from the financial, healthcare, project management, marketing, writing, education and training, migration, psychology, leadership and executive coaching, human resources, social enterprises, personal styling, and creative services areas.
Let's have a conversation to explore what you're facing or planning and we'll see how I can contribute and lighten the load.
Common challenges I address:
Missing the low-hanging fruit: Many business owners look outside for growth when opportunities are already within reach. I facilitate a focus on recalibration before reinvention.
Ideas overload: No shortage of ideas, but a lack of clarity is preventing action? I help prioritise and focus on what will drive the most impact.
Down in the weeds: The time you invest in delivering to your current clients and managing the daily demands of running your business means that hitting the pause button and envisaging the next stage of growth is nigh impossible.
Differentiation struggles: Need to stand out in your industry to increase your leads and conversion rates? We'll define key initiatives and strategies to enhance your visibility and credibility with my Authority Initiatives© methodology.
Sidelined Projects: Have a significant change project on the drawing board that's outlined but not yet developed? That could be a website upgrade, a services revamp, an on or offline event, or even the launch of a Podcast. I'll provide guidance and expertise to ensure it’s a success from start to finish.
Every business has a natural growth trajectory that can be restricted in many different ways - my clients say that working with me is often like releasing the handbrake that didn't even realise was on!
What's my approach?
I meet you where you are with completely personalised support that begins with harvesting the past before strategically creating the future. I believe in frameworks, not formulas. When I'm on your support team cookie cutters are tossed out the window!
Clarity. Strategy. Impact. Ultimately, that's what we work on together as we evolve your business.
In a practical sense, I tend to approach my strategic work in three stages:
1. ASSESS
We harvest, evaluate, and leverage your business history to understand what has worked well, and not so well, in the past before defining your next-level goals.
The outcome? A shift from uncertainty to clarity.
2. REFINE
As we refine your focus and direction, we consider what needs to be adjusted or introduced - perhaps changes in your services, audience, marketing, or sales focus.
The outcome? A shift from reactivity to Strategy.
3. ELEVATE
Once we have clarity and strategic insight, we develop and implement a succinct action plan that fits your budget and growth goals.
The outcome? A shift from frustration to impact.
How can we work together?
We begin with a conversation to explore your goals, roadblocks and resources. From there if we both feel we're a good match, my services are most often delivered in one of 4 ways.
A Strategy Session
A 2 hour laser-focused session where we dig down into one or two key areas of your business where you're feeling challenged to replace uncertainty with clarity and a succinct plan of action.
A Strategy Workshop
A full-day strategy workshop (may also include your business partner and key team members) to focus on developing the next stage of your business. Includes significant pre-work to understand the business background and a post-workshop session to ensure the transfer of intention to action.
Strategy Workshop and ongoing mentoring
As above, enhanced by a mentoring program to support implementation, momentum, and impact.
Consulting Projects
To assist in the development of a specific project or to provide ongoing strategic support.
Are you ready to evolve your business?
Let's have a conversation to explore what you're facing or planning and we'll see how I can contribute and lighten the load.
We'll collaborate to create the support structure that will work best for you to deliver the outcomes you need.
I return to the table with Angela twice a year as my ideas build up as I need her external lens on the business. That’s the primary driver. Sometimes I’ll think “I’d really like Angela’s opinion on that” so I’ll gather these thoughts for us to talk through before I make a decision.
I hired Angela to get an expert outside perspective on my business and help me to refine and streamline my offerings. She’s given me so much more than that! It’s been such a relief to have someone “in my corner” to bounce ideas off and to offer clear suggestions for improvement. Angela embodies what she promises, is truly generous with her time and resources, and does it all with warmth and energy.
Working with Angela is a joy! She asked just the right questions at just the right time to help me clarify my thinking and make some initial strategic decisions. She is approachable, knowledgeable and experienced – the perfect combination of traits for me to partner with to redesign my business moving forward.
Angela is firstly full of integrity when you work with her. I never got the sense that she was anything but a wholehearted supporter of me as an individual. There aren’t any hidden sides to Angela when you’re working with her. The only surprises you get are good ones!
She is generous in spirit and in her considerable knowledge of what it takes to bring the business to life and grow it to maturity and beyond. Successes start to mount rapidly after working with her!
I loved having you as my strategist because you utilised all the information available and came up with ideas and the way forward that is perfectly aligned with me. Everything we covered was personalised for me and the synergy and energy in the session was so inspiring.
I didn’t expect the level of self-knowledge I gained. I learnt so much about the beliefs that were holding me back, the mindset shifts I need to make and simple yet powerful tools to support me on my journey. Having Angela on my support team made it seem possible. She dealt with every challenge that arose with such heartfelt, wise counsel – she came into my life at a time when I thought it might be all too hard.