2. WHAT WE DO
• Provide leaders with "one-to-one" professional Socratic mentoring
• Provide transitioning CEOs with "management skills" to augment "sector skills"
• Provide Speaker Sessions on "Disruptive & Transformational Business Strategies"
• Provide CEO targeted Boutique Consulting services in areas such as:
- idea commercialisation / business model development
- strategy development & deployment
- planning & accounting training
- pitch decks / funding procurement
3. ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING SERVICES
• CEOs / Business Leaders / Founders / Entrepreneurs
• Professional Socratic Mentoring Services 1-2-1
• Overcomes isolation, locks into fresh thinking, provides an alternative perspective
• Independence; with no vested interest other than helping you succeed
• Confidential - half or whole day
• Experienced professionals - with plc training & founder experienced
• Mentoring & Coaching of "management skill sets"
- your trusted advisor
4. TRANSITIONING CEO'S
• CEOs / Business Leaders / Founders / Entrepreneurs
• Professional Socratic Mentoring Services 1-2-1 ~ two hours monthly
• CEO Group Meetings monthly - with workshops, sharing ideas & helping each other
• 8 Speaker Sessions on topical issues & identified skill gaps
•Your "unaffordable" Board of up to 12/14 peer group CEOs
• Annual 2 day Retreat to consider issues more deeply, set strategies, plan, prepare
• Build "management skill sets" to augment "sector skill sets"
5. DISRUPTIVE /TRANSFORMATIONAL STRATEGIES
• Disruptive business models have been THE dominant historical mechanism for change
• Disruptive strategies make things more affordable & accessible
• Disruptive behaviour generates corporate and economic growth
DISRUPTIVE - DRIVES CHANGE
6. THINKING DIFFERENTLY?
“if starting completely from scratch, with no legacy investment,
how would I address a solution to this need that is......"
fresh & innovative?
compelling & addictive?
7. MARKET DISRUPTIVE
DRIVING CHANGE THROUGH DISRUPTIVE STRATEGIES
Bus
Bike / Moped
Car
Size
Purpose or Financial Cost
Bring a better product into an established market
8. MARKET DISRUPTIVE
Busses / Bikes / Cars
Journey reduction
(home working)
Collaborative Consumption
ZipCar / Boris Bikes
Bus
Bike / Moped
Car
Size
Purpose or Financial Cost
Bring a better product into an established market
Consumers
“usedriver”
Human cost in time / convenience
High End Disruption
DRIVING CHANGE THROUGH DISRUPTIVE STRATEGIES
9. REMOVE BUSINESS MODEL BIAS
Traditional
Analysis
Model
Reality
Magnitudeofcashflows
Time
Tomorrows Model
10. MAKING DISRUPTIVE STRATEGY PREDICTABLE
• is the opportunity sustaining or disruptive
• have we defined an opportunity around a job to be done or are we targeting a category
• are we building a purpose brand
• are we competing against non-consumption / deploying new technology
• are we focussing where added-value is being de-commoditised
• have we created a model that integrates resources properly to provide a complete solution
• do we have the right degree of autonomy and linkage to our parentage
• do we have a discovery driven plan
• does your money patience have the right focus
11. WHY EMPLOY A MENTOR?
• 3000 Business Plans to 10 investments - that's aVCs skill set ratio!
• "across industry" sees 9 out of 10 fail
• typically inVC back businesses 45% of Founder CEOs are removed within 18 months
• Stanford research shows mentored start-ups are 70% MORE likely to succeed to 5 years
• These Co's are 20% MORE likely to grow ahead of peer businesses
• Driven by "CEO / process management skill sets" to augment "founder skill sets"
• Right now we're delivering 71% ROCE across the businesses we mentor!