Advisory
Our managing partners, Iyas, Liam and Phil, work directly with the boards and leadership teams of a very limited number of technology consulting and digital agency organisations. By definition, our focus depends on where the areas of biggest opportunity or challenge are. We support the CEO and leadership teams in creating, executing and managing growth, scale, innovation and purpose in line with their values and ambitions.
This may be on a specific issue or on a longer term day a month basis for overall business health.
If you're open to advice, ready to commit to action, lead with your values and we like each other, then this is a good way to move forward and meet your business ambitions.
What does the engagement look like?
If you're looking for a voice of experience to discuss tough choices, get out of a rut, exploit a new opportunity, make a change, create and execute your strategy, figure out why profitability isn't where it should be, bounce around how to deal with a challenging contractor, discuss why your best consultants are leaving, why there's a project quality issue, why there's still too much dependency on your "star consultant" (or founder) to dive in and rescue a project, why clients aren't retaining you even though you've done a great job, or any other myriad of issues and opportunities that are involved in running and growing a tech consulting business, then this may be the best option for you.
We work directly with the CEOs and leadership teams of a handful of client consultancies and agencies to help them grow and build scale, and to do it in a values-led way. We'll figure out the best schedule to work with you, on a regular frequency as we're big fans of momentum, to dive into specific topics, and we'll make ourselves available in between for phone and email (within reason!) to help on things that may be more pressing.
Although each engagement is defined according to your needs, the goal is usually to create a business that is sustainable, growing profitably, meeting its ambitions and values-centred. The emphasis has tended to be on:
- Getting better at finding and landing opportunities;
- Creating strategies, and executing them rather than leaving them as "hope";
- Creating supporting structures and processes to scale the business;
- Troubleshooting, discussing exits, rediscovering the mojo, getting clarity on direction, and other small questions!
We only do this work with a handful of organisations. The decision whether to do it or not depends on available time, and the following criteria:
- a demonstrable commitment to take action;
- a demonstrable commitment to lead with values;
- turnover over £1.5 m (smaller than this, and the service would be too expensive to make sense);
- that we get on with each other!
Let's talk
It's essential to talk and meet at the start to see if we are a fit for each other before any kind of commitment. If you'd like to explore if there may be a good fit, schedule a 45 minute chat with Iyas, or contact us and we'll get back in touch to discuss.
Your advisors
Iyas, Liam and Phil are the managing partners of Beyond the Quarter, and will be working with you to support your growth and goals. Between us, we have over 70 years of working with professional services organisations, over a dozen startups to our name (with one failure!), and have been responsible from revenues of zero to 9-digits. We've led organisations through acquisitions, turnaround, IPO and trade sale, and led teams from 2 to 500.
We've also supported a number of founders and CEOs of technology consultancies and digital agencies to build their own companies, work through challenges, and helped them achieve their ambitions, ranging from growing by multiples, to deepening their values and purpose, to exit.