STRATEGY & GROWTH

Strategy that creates advantage - and gets implemented.

Strategy that creates advantage - and gets implemented.

Strategy that creates advantage - and gets implemented.

Make sharper choices, build sustainable advantage and turn strategic intent into measurable enterprise value.

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The decisions that shape value

The decisions that shape value

The decisions that shape value

Growth rarely stalls because a business lacks ideas. More often, the challenge is choosing where to compete, what to prioritise, how to allocate scarce resources and how to translate strategic intent into commercial performance.

Growth rarely stalls because a business lacks ideas. More often, the challenge is choosing where to compete, what to prioritise, how to allocate scarce resources and how to translate strategic intent into commercial performance.

Where we help

Where we help

Where we help

Choose where to compete

Choose where to compete

Defining the businesses, markets and models worth pursuing — and the ones that aren’t.

Defining the businesses, markets and models worth pursuing — and the ones that aren’t.

Corporate and business-unit strategy

Defining where the business competes, and where it doesn’t.

Proposition and business-model development

Sharpening what’s being offered, and why it wins.

International and adjacent-market expansion

Sequencing new markets before committing capital.

Investment and resource prioritisation

Deciding what gets funded first, and what waits.

Build the growth engine

Build the growth engine

Turning the chosen direction into a commercial engine that can scale.

Turning the chosen direction into a commercial engine that can scale.

Pricing and commercial strategy

Getting the commercial architecture right, not just the price.

Go-to-market, customer and channel strategy

Choosing how the business reaches and keeps its customers.

Product and proposition expansion

Extending what the business offers without diluting what makes it valuable.

Growth and value-creation planning

Turning ambition into a plan with a clear sequence and owner.

Align the business to deliver

Align the business to deliver

Making sure the organisation itself can actually execute the strategy.

Making sure the organisation itself can actually execute the strategy.

Operating-model alignment

Making sure the organisation can actually deliver the strategy.

Organisation, leadership and accountability

Clarifying who owns the result and how decisions get made.

Transformation and performance improvement

Improving performance while keeping strategic priorities intact.

Turnaround and strategic reset

Resetting direction when performance or context has changed.

From analysis to action

From analysis to action

From analysis to action

Advice shaped by having done it.

Advice shaped by having done it.

Advice shaped by having done it.

Strategy looks different when you have had to deliver the number, raise the capital, build the team, answer to a board and decide where to invest your own money. Growth Strategy brings together four perspectives that are usually divided between different advisers: the analytical rigour of a strategy and private-equity adviser; the accountability of a founder and high-growth CEO; the pattern recognition of an investor; and the judgement of a Chair and board member. Each mandate starts with the decision to be made and the value at stake. We define the evidence required, test the options, make the trade-offs explicit and translate the chosen strategy into priorities, ownership, milestones and operating implications. Where continued senior involvement will improve the outcome, we remain engaged through board challenge, programme leadership, management support and execution tracking.

Strategy looks different when you have had to deliver the number, raise the capital, build the team, answer to a board and decide where to invest your own money. Growth Strategy brings together four perspectives that are usually divided between different advisers: the analytical rigour of a strategy and private-equity adviser; the accountability of a founder and high-growth CEO; the pattern recognition of an investor; and the judgement of a Chair and board member. Each mandate starts with the decision to be made and the value at stake. We define the evidence required, test the options, make the trade-offs explicit and translate the chosen strategy into priorities, ownership, milestones and operating implications. Where continued senior involvement will improve the outcome, we remain engaged through board challenge, programme leadership, management support and execution tracking.

OPERATOR

Accountability for the result.

Built and scaled a regulated, capital-dependent technology platform through more than 20x revenue growth, seven-figure profitability, institutionalisation and international expansion.

ADVISER

Rigour without the consultancy machinery.

18 years across strategy, transformation and private-equity advisory, spanning proposition, pricing, go-to-market, international expansion, operating model and value creation.

INVESTOR

Judgement about what will genuinely scale.

Venture Partner and Investment Committee member at Pi Labs for 8 years, assessing markets, teams, economics, competitive advantage and routes to enduring value.

BOARD

Ownership beyond the recommendation.

Chair, NED and board adviser experience brings governance, leadership judgement and sustained accountability after the strategy has been agreed.

Mike’s underlying experience substantiates all four perspectives: more than 20x revenue growth, seven-figure profitability, a 50-plus-person team, international expansion, 18 years of strategy and PE advisory, and Venture Partner and Investment Committee responsibility at Pi Labs.

Mike’s underlying experience substantiates all four perspectives: more than 20x revenue growth, seven-figure profitability, a 50-plus-person team, international expansion, 18 years of strategy and PE advisory, and Venture Partner and Investment Committee responsibility at Pi Labs.

Sharper choices. Clear ownership. Execution that builds enterprise value.

Sharper choices. Clear ownership. Execution that builds enterprise value.

Sharper choices. Clear ownership. Execution that builds enterprise value.

Proof, not promises

Proof, not promises

Proof, not promises

18 yrs

of strategy and private-equity consulting

7 yrs

as a transformational growth CEO.

Selected Outcomes

Selected Outcomes

Selected Outcomes

Strategy tested in the real world.

Strategy tested in the real world.

20x+

20x+

20x+

revenue growth delivered as CEO

As founder and former CEO of CrowdProperty, Mike helped take the business from start-up to a profitable, institutionally funded and internationally expanding platform—building the proposition, team, capital base, governance and operating capability required to scale.

That experience now informs work with founder-led, venture-backed and PE-backed businesses facing growth, strategic reset and value-creation decisions.

Seven-figure profitability

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Team built to 70 across UK and international markets

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£1bn+ projects funded

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international expansion

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Ready to turn strategic intent into performance?

Ready to turn strategic intent into performance?

Ready to turn strategic intent into performance?

Growth Strategy

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