Kinetic Mentoring™ Strategic Business Mentoring

A business mentor provides independent, experienced support to help leaders gain clarity, make confident decisions and move their organisations forward. I work with founders, directors and senior managers across Sussex and Kent to help them:

• create strategic focus

• navigate growth or change

• improve cashflow and financial understanding

• strengthen leadership and team performance

• manage commercial challenges

• plan for scale or succession

Sessions can be delivered online or onsite depending on preference. The goal is always the same — clarity, momentum and measurable results.

Business mentoring is built on real-world lived experience. A mentor uses practical knowledge, examples and insight to guide you through challenges.

Coaching focuses more on questioning and reflection to help you find your own answers.

My approach blends both:

• mentoring when you need direction, clarity or experience

• coaching when you need space to think or reflect

• structured frameworks (e.g., SHIFT³) to create progress

This combination is ideal for senior leaders and business owners who want both challenge and guidance.

I mentor founders, owners, senior leaders and boards across a wide range of sectors, including:

• professional services

• engineering and manufacturing

• construction and trades

• technology and SaaS

• creative and digital businesses

• service-based SMEs

• family-run firms transitioning leadership

The common thread is ambition — organisations wanting clearer strategy, better leadership and sustainable growth.

Executive mentoring provides structured, confidential support so leaders can:

• improve decision-making

• build confidence and presence

• resolve people and performance issues

• strengthen leadership capability

• handle complexity and uncertainty

• increase organisational accountability

• align teams around clear goals

Leaders often use mentoring to step out of day-to-day firefighting and think strategically about the business and their role in it.

Yes. With 30+ years in banking, alternative finance, asset-based lending and business advisory, I help clients:

• improve cashflow discipline

• build sustainable financial plans

• understand margins and performance levers

• raise funding (loans, asset finance, invoice finance, investment)

• prepare for finance applications

• avoid common funding pitfalls

This support blends financial clarity with practical business experience.

SHIFT³ (Position → Ambition → Strategy) is a structured clarity tool that helps leaders:

• understand the true starting point

• define what success looks like

• build a focused, practical plan to achieve it

• identify barriers and enablers

• prioritise the actions that drive real momentum

It creates alignment, removes noise and accelerates progress.

Yes. For early-stage founders, mentoring usually focuses on:

• proposition clarity

• early traction

• pricing

• pipeline building

• confidence and mindset

For established SMEs, the focus shifts to:

• strategy

• leadership development

• commercialisation

• cashflow

• scaling

• team and structure

• accountability rhythms

The approach is tailored to where the business is in its journey.

Clients typically see:

• clearer strategic direction

• stronger leadership

• improved cashflow and commercial performance

• better decision-making

• increased confidence

• stronger team alignment

• accountability and execution discipline

• measurable performance improvements

Many clients experience meaningful change within the first 12 weeks.

Yes. While many clients prefer online sessions for convenience, I regularly travel across Sussex and Kent for:

• leadership development

• strategic planning

• team alignment sessions

• board-level mentoring

• onsite diagnostics

• planning and review days

Onsite sessions are helpful when working through complex strategic issues or team-based challenges.

Yes. I mentor clients across the UK through remote sessions, and also support organisations running workplace and strategy mentoring programmes nationally.

Sussex and Kent clients can choose a blend of online and onsite work.

Most clients prefer monthly sessions (one hour), while some meet fortnightly during periods of rapid growth or challenge.

Every session includes:

• structure

• clarity

• agreed actions

• a written mentoring summary

• clear next steps

This creates a consistent rhythm and ensures real progress.

Yes. I regularly mentor:

• senior leadership teams

• boards

• high-potential managers

• newly promoted leaders

• multi-founder teams

• family business leadership transitions

I also support organisations building internal workplace mentoring programmes aligned to ABM and EMCC standards.

I support businesses across the whole of Sussex, including:

• Brighton & Hove

• Crawley

• Crowbrough

• Eastbourne

• Hastings

• Chichester

• Worthing

• Horsham

• Lewes

• Burgess Hill

• Haywards Heath

• Mayfield

• Uckfield

• Rye

• Shoreham

• Bognor Regis

• Littlehampton

For leadership mentoring, executive coaching and strategy sessions, I offer both online and onsite visits throughout East and West Sussex.

I work with business owners and senior leaders across Kent, including:

• Tunbridge Wells

• Tonbridge

• Maidstone

• Sevenoaks

• Canterbury

• Ashford

• Dartford

• Medway towns (Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham)

• Sittingbourne

• Faversham

• Folkestone

• Dover

• Deal

• Gravesend

• Whitstable

• Herne Bay

Sessions can be delivered remotely or in-person depending on the needs of the organisation.

Yes. I regularly travel across Sussex and Kent for:

• strategy sessions

• leadership development

• planning workshops

• board mentoring

• in-depth diagnostics

Most clients use both online and onsite mentoring depending on the situation.

Yes. While I work closely with leaders across Sussex and Kent, I mentor clients across the UK through online sessions — and support larger organisations delivering workplace and strategy mentoring programmes nationally.