Make your growth more predictable

Revenue that has stalled. Sales that depend on one or two people. Marketing that is busy but cannot show a return.

I help owners of £3m to £25m businesses find out which one is holding them back, and fix it.

  • £600K UK order book from a standing start in under a year

  • 4x online sales in eighteen months

  • €2.5M pipeline from a single trade fair

  • £250K consultancy built and sold

Which of these sounds like your business?

Most growth plans do not fail because the idea was wrong. They fail because the business was not ready to deliver them.

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“Revenue has been flat for two years, and we cannot agree why.”

How a French fine-food house quadrupled online sales

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“New business still depends on who the MD knows.”

How Madly built a £600K order book from scratch

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“Marketing is busy, but nobody can say what it returns.”

How Black & Decker and Sylvania found out

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“We launched something new and it has not landed.”

How Remington's launch sold 30% more

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“The leadership team pulls in different directions.”

How Sylvania kept one voice through an acquisition

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“We could not forecast next quarter within 10%.”

What the Growth Readiness Index measures

How I can help your business

GROWTH READINESS INDEX

Find out what is really holding growth back. A twelve-minute diagnostic that scores your business on strategy, culture, marketing and sales. £350, waived if we work together.

GROWTH PARTNER

Turn the findings into results. Two to four days a month on the two or three changes that matter most. Monthly retainer, three-month minimum.

WORKSHOPS & TRAINING

Practical sessions your team leaves with a plan from. Growth, positioning and practical AI, delivered in English, French and Spanish to business schools, incubators and chambers of commerce since 2022.

FRACTIONAL DIRECTOR

Senior marketing and commercial leadership, part-time, without a full-time hire. One to three days a week, for agencies, manufacturers and consumer brands across the UK and France.

What clients say

  • “A perfectly run engagement. David got us asking ourselves the right questions and simply set the company off with fresh momentum.”

    Jérôme, Eogile
    via Malt, translated from French

    ★★★★★ Rated 5.0 out of 5 on Malt across 17 client reviews

  • “He helped us understand elements of our work that we did not and helped us see ideas and possibilities that we were not able to.”

    Director
    via Malt

  • “Not afraid to take the lead, to ask tough questions and challenge existing thinking.”

    Lawrence Salisbury
    Creative Director, Restless

  • “Clear, communicative and patient with me as a novice. Highly professional and personable, and I would not hesitate to recommend him as a partner.”

    Alex Mole
    via Google ★★★★★

Twenty years, and most of it building things that did not exist yet

I have built pan-European marketing functions inside global manufacturers, launched a UK business from a standing start to a £600K order book, created a growth-advisory practice inside a Top 20 accountancy firm, and built and sold a consultancy of my own.

That range is the point. I have sat on both sides (running the function and advising the people who run it) which is why I start by measuring whether a business can actually deliver a plan before anyone writes one.

Deepest experience in manufacturing and industrial, professional services, and property and construction. Based in Hove, fluent in English, French and Spanish, working across Sussex, the UK and Europe.

Manufacturing & industrial

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Professional services

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Property & construction

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Technology

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Consumer & retail

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Manufacturing & industrial | Professional services | Property & construction | Technology | Consumer & retail |

Find out what’s holding back your growth

Could you predict next quarter's revenue within ten per cent and be right? Most owners hesitate. The Growth Readiness Index turns that hesitation into six numbers you can act on.