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Service
Growth that improves margin, not just revenue.
Identify growth opportunities, clarify strategic priorities and develop a practical roadmap for sustainable business performance.
Who it’s for
Founders, CEOs and private-equity owners when growth has stalled or stopped paying.
$20M–$300M revenue
Founder-, family- or PE-owned
Growth has slowed or stopped paying
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When to call us
If this sounds familiar, it’s this service.
Clients rarely arrive asking for Strategy & Growth. They arrive with one of these.
Situation 01
The problem
Revenue rises while margin stays flat, because new customers, products and channels cost more to serve than they earn.
Why it matters
Unprofitable growth consumes management time and capital that the profitable core needs.
Revenue up, margin flat or down
Long tail of customers and SKUs
Price is set by habit, not by cost to serve
Situation 02
The problem
Leaders see activity — stores, headcount, volume — but not the economics of each unit of the business.
Why it matters
Capital keeps flowing to the parts of the business that look busy rather than the parts that earn.
The board debates activity, not economics
Unit-level profitability is unknown
Decisions wait for the next pack
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What you receive
Yours to keep and run.
Everything is built on your data and in your tools, and handed over with its definitions.
Report + data model
Delivered week 2
Opportunity book
Delivered week 4
Board paper · 2 workshops
Delivered week 6
Roadmap + KPI targets
Delivered week 8
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Timeline & format
Phase by phase.
The longest typical engagement is shown. Shorter scopes compress the middle phases; the baseline and the measurement never move.
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Weeks 1–2
Baseline the economics: profitability by customer, product and channel.
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Weeks 3–4
Size each opportunity and the real cost of complexity.
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Weeks 5–6
Two leadership workshops choose the priorities — and what to stop.
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Weeks 7–8
Roadmap, targets and owners, ready for the board.
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Team
Partner + 2 consultants
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Cadence
Weekly steering, 60 minutes
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On site
1–2 days a week
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Your time
CEO and CFO, ~3 hours a week
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Who leads it
In every weekly review.
HM
Portrait · 4:5
Managing Partner
Leads growth and portfolio work for founder-led and PE-backed companies. Has taken four retail and services businesses through margin-led turnarounds.
Previously
Partner, global strategy consultancy · 11 years
Strategy director, listed retailer
Sectors
Retail · Consumer · Business services
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Fee & what's included
Fixed fee, agreed in writing.
The fee covers a typical mid-market scope. You receive the exact scope and fee in a written proposal within a week of the first call.
Included
The partner leads every working session
Analysis on your own systems — no new tools
Two leadership workshops
A board-ready final paper
Not included
Implementation support (available as a retainer)
Survey panels and primary market research
Travel outside the US and UK, billed at cost
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Related results
3 published cases.
Every Strategy & Growth case on the site, with its baseline, timeline and source.
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Questions
Before you call.
Specific to this service. Fees, timing and confidentiality are covered in the general FAQ.
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