See where your growth is stalling, and how much more is possible.
Growth Insight is an AI-powered look inside your business. It reads your leadership team’s views, your people’s words and your own numbers together, and turns what it finds into your Growth Pathway: a clear plan for growth in 2027 and beyond.
- 01Growth AssessmentFree, about five minutes
- 02Growth InsightAI-powered, a few weeks
- 03Growth PathwayYour plan, included
You have a view of what is holding growth back. Your team has several others.
Ask five leaders what is in the way and you will often hear five answers. Sales blames the product, operations blames the forecast, and the board wonders why the plan is not landing.
Each view is partly right. Without a way to see them side by side, alongside the numbers, the business ends up funding the loudest explanation rather than the real one.
AI does the heavy lifting on the data. I bring the judgement.
Every leader’s scorecard, every conversation and your own numbers are analysed together, so patterns across the whole team show up clearly. I then test every finding against thirty years of working inside businesses, before anything reaches your Growth Pathway.
An in-depth, honest assessment from each member of your leadership team.
Confidential, so people can say what is hard to say inside the business.
Revenue, margin, pipeline and customer data you already hold.
Patterns across your whole team and your numbers, tested against thirty years of experience.
The real constraint, which is often somewhere nobody has been looking.
The few that will make the biggest difference, in order of priority.
How much more growth is realistic, and what it depends on.
Everything you need to know about your team, your opportunities and your potential.
Where growth is stalling
AI reads across every scorecard and conversation to find where views agree, where they split, and what nobody is saying. I test every finding against thirty years of experience.
What drives your margins
Using your own numbers, we look at where profit is made and where it leaks, across customers, deals and the way you sell.
How your team really works
Whether leaders share a view of the problem, how people are rewarded, and whether they help each other or compete.
Your growth levers
Which of the six levers matter most for your business, and which you can leave alone.
Your growth potential
A grounded view of how much faster you could grow, and what it would take to get there.
Your Growth Pathway
Everything brought together into an action plan and roadmap for 2027 and beyond.
From guesswork to a plan your leadership team owns.
- Guessing which fix to fundKnowing which levers will move growth most
- Five different views of the problemOne shared view, backed by your own data
- Margins you can see but not explainA clear picture of where profit is made and lost
- A plan for next quarterA pathway for 2027 and beyond
Six levers, and which of them matter most for you.
Growth Insight looks at all six and tells you which to pull first. Often one or two make most of the difference.
- 01
Leadership direction
The leadership team agrees on the biggest obstacle, and on where the business is going.
A sign it matters: Targets are demanded loudly, but the team is not convinced.
- 02
How the team is rewarded
Pay and recognition encourage people to win together, rather than compete with each other.
A sign it matters: Colleagues guard their accounts and rarely help each other close.
- 03
Sales capability
The skills to find, win, negotiate and grow the right accounts, through your own team and your channels.
A sign it matters: A wide mix of competence, and some big accounts lost to competitors.
- 04
Individual performance
Focused coaching for the one or two people who hold the team back, or the star who will not follow the process.
A sign it matters: Most of the team performs well, and a few do not.
- 05
Information and pipeline
Accurate, shared information about customers and deals, so decisions rest on facts.
A sign it matters: Forecasts are a surprise, and reports are filled in late or not at all.
- 06
The whole business
Product, operations and delivery that make selling easier, rather than harder.
A sign it matters: Salespeople spend their time with customers apologising for problems elsewhere.
Five steps over a few weeks.
It is built to fit around a busy leadership team. Most of the work is mine.
- 01
Agree the scope
A first conversation with you to agree the questions that matter and who should take part. Four to six leaders usually works best.
- 02
Every leader completes the scorecard
An in-depth version of the Growth Assessment, completed privately by each leader.
- 03
One-to-one conversations
I speak with each leader in confidence. People say things to an outsider they would not say in the boardroom.
- 04
AI-powered analysis
Scorecards, conversations and your numbers are analysed together, so patterns across the team show up clearly.
- 05
Your Growth Pathway
I present the findings and the plan to your leadership team in a working session.
Your plan for 2027 and beyond.
Everything Growth Insight uncovers comes together in your Growth Pathway: an action plan and a roadmap, presented to your leadership team in a working session so we can talk it through together.
- NowGrowth Insight
See where growth is stalling and what is possible.
- First 90 daysEarly actions
The quick, low-cost changes that build momentum.
- 2027The plan in motion
The bigger levers, pulled in the right order.
- BeyondGrowth that lasts
Habits and measures that keep it going.
Where you stand
The key insights from your team and your data, clearly and fairly put.
Your growth levers
The few things that will move growth most, in order of priority.
The action plan
What needs to happen, and who needs to own it.
The roadmap
What comes first, what follows, and how you will know it is working.
Where I can help
If you would like support, and in what form.
I am not an employee and I am not with you every hour of the day. The Pathway is built on your data and your people’s thinking, and its purpose is to give you a clear route and some fresh ideas. You own the way forward, and when it succeeds, the credit is yours.
Confidential
Findings describe patterns across the team. Nobody is singled out by name.
Your data, your plan
Every recommendation comes from your own people and your own numbers.
AI with judgement
AI finds the patterns. I bring the experience to know what they mean.
Run with it yourselves, or draw on the tools I bring.
I will build what is needed from what your data says, and I will not sell you something you do not need. Where it helps, these are the ways I can support you.
One-to-one executive coaching
For leaders facing a step change in their role, their team or their business.
Team coaching and workshops
Systemic team coaching, so leadership and sales teams work together better and help each other succeed.
Ready-to-run sales programmes
Opportunity management, negotiation, account management and selling through indirect channels.
Leadership alignment
Bringing the owners and the board into the room on the issues that decide growth.
Talent
Trusted introductions from nineteen years in executive search, when a key role needs filling.
Growth and marketing strategy
Where my own career began, and still the place where many growth questions start.
What clients say about the work.
It has been a pleasure to work with Stephen of the last period. Having a fresh external perspective, supported by extensive experience in change management from various sectors has been extremely useful.
We worked with Stephen on several occasions to help us evaluate our sales approach and drive business growth.
I have known Stephen for many years and during that time I have seen him help sales organisations to grow profitable revenue streams.
Before you commit.
Growth Insight is agreed after a first conversation, once we know the questions that matter. The Growth Pathway is included.
What does AI actually do?
It reads across every scorecard, every conversation and your own numbers at once, and brings out the patterns: where your leaders agree, where they split, and which levers keep coming up. I review every finding before it reaches your Growth Pathway.
Is our data safe?
Your answers and numbers are used only for your Growth Insight and kept confidential. The findings describe patterns across the team, and no individual is singled out by name.
What if you tell us something we have already tried?
Then we will look at why it did not stick. Being honest about past initiatives is one of the areas the scorecard covers, so the plan builds on what you have learned.
What happens after the Growth Pathway?
You own it. Run with it yourselves, or draw on my support where it helps. I am there with you until you do not need me.
Find out how much more growth is in your business.
A first conversation is without obligation. We will talk about where you are, where you want to be in 2027, and whether Growth Insight is the right next step. Or start with the free Growth Assessment.
P.S. If you already know what is holding you back, Growth Insight will tell you whether you are right, and what to do first.