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Design Your Business’ Future.
And Get There Faster.

Work with an experienced Growth Mentor with a proven track record in building or buying, scaling and leading businesses through to exit.

Design Your Business’ Future.
And Get There Faster.

Work with an experienced Growth Mentor with a proven track record in building or buying, scaling and leading businesses through to exit.

When should you hire a Growth Mentor?

When you’re unsure of the best way forward.

Sure, your business is doing ok. You’ve past the early days of working hard to turn a profit. But now, you’re embarking on a new direction. Perhaps you’ve been coasting a bit so far and now want to design your exit or scale more rapidly. Or, perhaps, you’ve been growing a cash-cow and want to retire on the dividends. And now you need a solid plan to make that happen.

When you know you're leaving money on the table.

How much opportunity has been missed out in the last few years alone because you haven’t had someone in your corner to help you make better decisions? As a Founder, every decision you make has both a real and opportunity cost. If this is your first business, you may lack some experience, scar tissue or perspective to make the best decisions possible.

When you're spending too much time firefighting and running the day-to-day operation.

You’re too busy making sure the daily and weekly stuff happens so you rarely get the headspace to work on the critical, more strategic stuff that will accelerate your growth in the medium term. You know you need to build stronger team and execution foundations to help you grow the business faster so you can afford better leaders who'll take some load off you.

When you're feeling isolated or lonely at the top and you need an ally.

You may have well-meaning friends, family, and even co-Founders in your corner but no one who has been there, done that to give you independent advice and perspective. A Growth Mentor is an ally who has been in the trenches, been where you want to go and who will both challenge and support you to help you achieve your ambitions for your business.

When should you hire a Growth Mentor?

When you’re unsure of the best way forward.

Sure, your business is doing ok. You’ve past the early days of working hard to turn a profit. But now, you’re embarking on a new direction. Perhaps you’ve been coasting a bit so far and now want to design your exit or scale more rapidly. Or, perhaps, you’ve been growing a cash-cow and want to retire on the dividends. And now you need a solid plan to make that happen.

When you know you're leaving money on the table.

How much opportunity has been missed out in the last few years alone because you haven’t had someone in your corner to help you make better decisions? As a Founder, every decision you make has both a real and opportunity cost. If this is your first business, you may lack some experience, scar tissue or perspective to make the best decisions possible.

When you're spending too much time firefighting and running the day-to-day operation.

You’re too busy making sure the daily and weekly stuff happens so you rarely get the headspace to work on the critical, more strategic stuff that will accelerate your growth in the medium term. You know you need to build stronger team and execution foundations to help you grow the business faster so you can afford better leaders who'll take some load off you.

When you're feeling isolated or lonely at the top and you need an ally.

You may have well-meaning friends, family, and even co-Founders in your corner but no one who has been there, done that to give you independent advice and perspective. A Growth Mentor is an ally who has been in the trenches, been where you want to go and who will both challenge and support you to help you achieve your ambitions for your business.

How we help you, and your business

We help you build clarity and confidence

With independent and experienced views, we’ll challenge your perspective and get you to ask better questions to solve your issues, reduce the noise and create a clear way forward. Drawing from our real-life experience, we will work with you to develop a realistic yet ambitious growth plan and hold you accountable to it. We create a safe space where you can bounce your ideas off someone with a proven track-record and feel confident that any guidance you receive will be free of judgement or strings attached.

We expedite your learning curve

We've developed a proven framework for developing strategy and nailing execution. We’ve taken the best from many popular methodologies available but have refined them over the years and proven that our methodologies work across numerous kinds of businesses.  Applying our frameworks will help you make better decisions to achieve your ambitious targets. You’ll still make mistakes – we’re all humans – but we'll help you eliminate the expensive mistakes and get there faster.

We help you sure up your future

Whatever your end-game, we can help.  Whether you want to keep pushing for scale, prepare for investment or exit, create a succession plan, facilitate a management buyout or install leaders that allow you to step back and enjoy the dividends, we can help prepare and guide you. Our Advisors are experienced CEOs and they've been there, they know how to do this stuff.  You’ve spent years of hard work in creating your business, so it’s vital to start planning for your future now.

We help you enjoy your business more

At the end of the day, your business is about more than just money. It's also about your happiness and how much you get to enjoy your business. We will help you find ways to have more fun in your business by helping you focus on what you're great at and structuring the business so that others can do the rest.

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Your Growth Mentors

Sean Steele

Founder of ScaleHQ, Advisory Board Chair, Growth Mentor, Experienced CEO

  • Created 100m in revenue for 4 companies over 8 years
  • Evaluated 200+ acquisitions since 2012
  • Integrated 7 brands into larger structures

Bryan Watson

Advisory Board Chair, Growth Mentor,
Experienced CEO

  • Active entrepreneur - Co-founder of Ovida, an AI-driven platform for coaches
  • Senior Exec or CEO in various tech-based companies, from 250 FTE to 50,000 FTE

Your Growth Mentors

Sean Steele

Founder of ScaleHQ, Advisory Board Chair, Growth Mentor, Experienced CEO

  • Created 100m in revenue for 4 companies over 8 years
  • Evaluated 200+ acquisitions since 2012
  • Integrated 7 brands into larger structures

Bryan Watson

Growth Mentor, Advisor, Experienced CEO

  • Active entrepreneur - Co-founder of Ovida, an AI-driven platform for coaches
  • Senior Exec or CEO in various tech-based companies, from 250 FTE to 50,000 FTE

Happy Growth Mentoring Clients

Kelly Howard
C3 Talent

"You've been a game changer for our business, helping us with strategy, structure, systems, and processes. Your guidance has set up our short to medium-term goals and kept us on track. We're grateful for all the work you've done for us and wouldn't be in the position we are now without you. Thank you."

 

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Rob Dickson and David Mitchell
Spectrum - Co-Founders

"Sean has been a valuable mentor to Spectrum Property and Projects, helping us consolidate our thinking and crystallise our business goals. With his guidance, we've created a framework for success and growth that has been invaluable to our clients, staff, and ourselves. Sean has a knack for getting to the core of issues quickly and providing insights that have helped us make key decisions. We highly recommend him as a Growth Mentor for any small and growing business."

 

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Alex & Marci Vega
Elegre - Co-Founder

"Sean has been an invaluable Mentor to our business, providing dependable support through the ups and downs of growth. He delivers tangible outputs from our sessions and is flexible in adapting to our needs. Sean demonstrates integrity, personability and credibility, making all the difference in how we approach challenges and opportunities. Our experience has been positive and constructive, and we highly recommend getting him in your corner."

 

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Kelly Howard
C3 Talent

"You've been a game changer for our business, helping us with strategy, structure, systems, and processes. Your guidance has set up our short to medium-term goals and kept us on track. We're grateful for all the work you've done for us and wouldn't be in the position we are now without you. Thank you."

 

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Rob Dickson and David Mitchell
Spectrum - Co-Founders

"Sean has been a valuable mentor to Spectrum Property and Projects, helping us consolidate our thinking and crystallise our business goals. With his guidance, we've created a framework for success and growth that has been invaluable to our clients, staff, and ourselves. Sean has a knack for getting to the core of issues quickly and providing insights that have helped us make key decisions. We highly recommend him as a Growth Mentor for any small and growing business."

 

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Alex & Marci Vega
Elegre - Co-Founder

"Sean has been an invaluable Mentor to our business, providing dependable support through the ups and downs of growth. He delivers tangible outputs from our sessions and is flexible in adapting to our needs. Sean demonstrates integrity, personability and credibility, making all the difference in how we approach challenges and opportunities. Our experience has been positive and constructive, and we highly recommend getting him in your corner."

 

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Discover if we are

the right fit for you

 

A Growth Mentoring relationship is only as good as the chemistry and fit between you and your Mentor. 

It’s crucial to ensure that we are the best fit for your business and we never assume we are before we understand your ambitions, challenges and needs.  

We look forward to exploring your situation in an exploratory Discovery Call.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Looking for a broader support model?

We offer an Advisory Board service that’s tailored for Founders who would like a blend of Growth Mentoring but with the addition of 4 Advisory Boards a year with additional advisors, chaired by your Growth Mentor (who are all Certified Advisory Board Chairs). This brings broader and deeper perspective and the ability to add seasoned entrepreneurs and qualified experts in niche areas to form a problem-solving squad to help guide and challenge your growth plans and support your success.

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