Services
Matt specialises in a range of areas to help your business thrive.
Business Strategy
NEED ASSISTANCE WITH SETTING & ACHIEVING YOUR STRATEGIC GOALS?
If you don’t know what you want to accomplish, how can you possibly attain it? Creating a goal, and a subsequent plan to achieve it, is the first step in building a successful business. Analysing risks, completing a SWOT analysis, understanding competitors and team competencies are all actions often overlooked in the rush to ‘doing the doing’. Setting challenging ambitions with timelines and accountabilities will shine a light on the pathway to greatness.
“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.” – Lee Bolman
Operational and Cashflow Forecasting
STRUGGLING TO ACCURATELY FORECAST YOUR CASHFLOW?
Underpinning everything is preparing forecasts that serve to highlight, under different scenarios, what is likely to occur over the coming months and years. Knowing where the belt-tightening is needed and providing well thought out and presented financial forecasts to banks and funders is critical.
“Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king.” – Unknown
Restructure Support & Change Management
NOT SURE WHERE TO START TO OPTIMISE YOUR RESOURCES?
It’s inevitable that at some point in a business’s life cycle there is the need to restructure. Never a pleasant task, enlist the guidance of someone who’s been through many a corporate restructure to ensure the model is best-fit to achieve the strategy set. Allow me to be the bad guy and implement the change in a considered, humanistic way while you carry on keeping the business carrying on.
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” – Georg C. Lichtenburg
Governance
LOOKING FOR AN UNBIASED PERSPECTIVE?
Sound governance and leadership is about the big picture – ensuring the checks and balances are in place, it sets the tone of the business, and ensures accountability on the path to achieving strategic goals. Whether it’s a member of the Board of Directors or an out-sourced Leadership Team participant it’s all about an objective opinion from the perspective of someone external to the business.
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell
Mentoring
WANTING ASSISTANCE TO BE YOUR BEST PROFESSIONAL SELF?
Business owners often find it hard to open up about the issues facing their business with friends and family – and sometimes it’s easier to do so with someone without an emotional commitment to it. Someone to offer you direction and guidance, whether you’re a small business owner, new to a management role, or a seasoned executive, it’s an important part of your development and growth to have someone challenging you, prodding you forward, and having your back!
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli