“How do I ensure my leaders grow as fast as my business does?”
Being an operational leader in a rapid growth business is hard. Every day brings new challenges to solve. Leaders are often seeing and tackling these for the first time and this can be overwhelming.
Scaling a business rapidly means leaders are extremely busy and lack the bandwidth to focus on their own development.
They often have strong technical or functional expertise but may not have the leadership, management, and strategic skills needed as the business grows.
Founders and early employees often struggle to delegate responsibility and authority as the business scales. They may micromanage rather than empower others.
By investing in targeted, one to one support for high potential team members, you can help them deliver the leadership that’s needed in a fast growth business.
Coaching and mentoring for leaders in growing businesses
I work with operational leaders to help them develop their practice, confidence and effectiveness in regular sessions.
Our work together begins with a goal setting workshop where we collaboratively set goals for our work together.
After that workshop, I meet with you every fortnight or monthly for a one-to-one session.
These sessions combine a blend of coaching and mentoring in a high impact 60 minute video call.
Coaching enables leaders to explore challenges that they currently have in their work. Mentoring allows you to gain relevant specialist knowledge quickly.
Six month programmes cost £2750 to £5250 (exc VAT).
What my clients say about working with me
“When managers reach senior leadership positions, it’s really important that they continue to reflect and grow.
Generic training courses don’t really cut it at this point, you need space to consider how your personal style can be translated into value for your organisation.
When I started working with Simon I realised how critical an external perspective is. Simon takes a personalised approach to coaching and mentoring, he has worked with me to unblock complex change management scenarios, design services and helped me see where I could demonstrate readiness for the next stage in my career.
I was introduced to Simon by my manager, who expressed that he’d like to be in a position to promote me to a director level position within 6 months.
With Simon’s support and guidance, we achieved exactly this.
Simon is warm, thoughtful and a brilliant listener. Our sessions together invest in my personal growth and tie this to meaningful commercial outcomes.”
Charmagne Rayman-Bacchus-Thompson,
Operations Director at Torchbox
“Simon has been an amazing support, champion and challenger for me as I have navigated challenges and opportunities in my career.
I’ve spent most of my career in small organisations, and found myself progressing in a large, more complex organisation – which came with new experiences to navigate. Simon gave me the opportunity to understand where my strengths lie, how I could truly harness them to prosper and rather than dread challenges, use them as great learning and growing experiences.
We’ve been able to use a variety of different approaches and tools, Simon has provided me with some great practical frameworks that I have been able to use, and refine as we’ve deepened our understanding of my focus areas.
Simon is always great at bringing a different perspective, and through building trust and understanding, he’s also able to challenge me and help me with alternative approaches and viewpoints to broaden my thinking. I continue to really enjoy our sessions, and find them invaluable in bringing additional perspectives, opening my eyes to opportunities and always, always reminding me of the value and experience I have to offer.”
Louise Lai,
Chief Client and Transformation Officer at TPXimpact
I’m Simon Wakeman, a consultant COO and coach working with leaders in growth businesses. For over 25 years, I’ve worked with technology centric businesses that are changing and growing.
I’ve worked with small and medium sized businesses with 15 to 700 employees. I help growing businesses scale their operations and build high performing leadership teams.
I’m passionate about organisational design that generates commercial results. My work is strongly grounded in progressive organisational thinking and a desire to create the right conditions for people to consistently do their best work.
