Is this you?
Change, in business, tends to be agreed on paper long before it affects the business. It’s during the months that follow when the people at the centre feel the pressure of the change. Could this be you and your business?
TRANSITION
A new leader came in with new ways of working, and the team is bracing rather than buying in.
SUCCESSION
The new generation has the titles and the big ideas, but no authority to make the call.
INVESTMENT
Investment brings new reporting and governance, and your team is struggling to keep up.
GROWTH
The business is growing quickly and the work is piling up on the desks of one or two key people.
Our Partnerships.
Our partnerships give key people clarity on how they operate under pressure and new ways of working that drive the business forward.
Clarity on how you operate under pressure and a plan for how you move forward.
Understand how your team operates under pressure and identify new ways of working together.
Make the change last. A year of support with progress you can measure each quarter.
Investors, lenders and consultants.
Explore our specialist Advisory and Associate partnerships that support you.
We’re deployed to stabilise the human system after change.
We’re brought in when change puts pressure on the human system. We use behavioural diagnostics to identify the risk and coaching to develop practical operating strategies that increase human capacity.
Confidential support for high-stakes change.
We are risk-trained, research-informed, human-centred and operationally practical. If you’re facing significant change in your founder-led or family-run business, we can help you stabilise your human systems.
ICF PCC accredited · Licensed DiSC® and ResilienceBuilder® practitioner · Aligned with ISO 45003 guidance
Who you’ll work with.
Ashleigh Hayden, Founder and Principal.
A management consultant and ICF PCC accredited coach with an asset-based lending and accounting background, Ashleigh has spent the last six years working with leaders and their teams on what sustained pressure does to decisions, delegation and performance.
Thought leadership.
Here you will find case studies and definitions for the language we use. You can also read commercially grounded, evidence-led articles that examine how change impacts founder-led and family-run businesses after significant change.
Invisible Authority Lines
CASE STUDY 01 | SUCCESSION Succession may change the title but it doesn’t automatically change who the business defers to; that often takes deliberate work.
An Unimagined Exit
CASE STUDY 04 | PRE-SALE For founders, it can be almost impossible to see the value of what they’ve built. Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to see the picture clearly.
HUMAN CAPITAL
What do we mean when we say people are a business asset?
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Unearthing Gold, our advisory brief, is written for family-run and founder-led businesses and their investors, lenders, consultants and advisors.
Tell us what’s changing
Change exposes the patterns that slow a business down. Tell us what is changing and we’ll take it from there together.