Hexagon Gold Advisory

Partnerships that make change stick.

When a new leader takes the helm, a new generation takes up the mantle, an investor joins the business or the business outgrows the way things have always been, it’s the people who come under pressure. Our partnerships give key people clarity on how they operate under pressure and new ways of working that drive the business forward.

Tell us what’s changing for your business and we’ll recommend the partnership that was built for you.

Tell us what’s changing

Clarity on how you operate under pressure and a plan for how you move forward.

Explore Reset

Understand how your team operates under pressure and identify new ways of working together.

Explore Team

Make the change last. A year of support with progress you can measure each quarter.

Explore Evolve

Professionally accredited and evidence led.

We use research-informed behavioural diagnostics to baseline how your key people operate under pressure, and ICF PCC level coaching to develop actionable strategies that stabilise founder-led and family-run businesses after big changes.

When the rules change

Money, responsibility and pace will change the rules overnight. They also change how decisions are made, how standards are enforced, how roles are defined and how quickly tough conversations need to happen.

TRANSITION

Business interaction with a yellow key passing between professionals in an office setting.

When the keys change hands, unwritten know-how leaves too and the team braces for impact.

SUCCESSION

Elderly man and child milking a cow outdoors in Paulista, Brazil.

Years of watching Dad do it his way isn’t the same as being trusted to make the call on a new idea.

INVESTMENT

The investor backed the founder. Now the team has new controls on work they already did well.

GROWTH

Three diverse businesswomen engaged in a discussion around a computer in a bright office environment.

Everyone is stretched, so new hires learn how you work under pressure, not how to work well.

How to get started.

Tell us what’s changing in your business. Answer four questions to help us understand what you’re facing.
A 30-minute call. We’d like to talk through what’s changing, ensure we’re the right fit and recommend a suitable partnership.
A written proposal. We’ll make a proposal including the scope of work, timing and investment, valid for 14 days.

Tell us what’s changing

Advisory Partnership

Get a clear understanding of the human component before you commit.

For industry bodies and programme funders, lenders and investors who need to understand how the people in the business, or group of businesses, will operate under pressure.

Industry bodies and programme partners. Build behavioural baselines into your multi-year programmes to identify key-person dependence and adoption risk. We can provide reporting your board and funders can use.
Lenders. A commissioned read of key-person dependence before or after a lending decision, written in plain commercial language your credit team can act on.
Investors. Before or after you invest, understand how the business will operate under pressure, where the business depends on one person, and where adoption is at risk.

We use licensed instruments (DiSC® and ResilienceBuilder®), and align our approach with ISO 45003 guidance on psychosocial risk.

Explore Advisory

Associate Partnership

Specialist capacity, inside your engagements.

For consultancies, coaching practices and development institutes delivering change for their clients, who need a specialist in the people side of that change.

Consultancies and coaching practices. One-to-one and team work wtih your clietns, delivered under your brand or ours, to your methodology and reporting standards.
Development institutes and programme designers. We can support you with the human-systems strand of a proposal or programme: consultancy, design, diagnostics, delivery and evaluation.

We can deliver to your standards and maintain the integrity of your client relationships.

Explore Associate

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. Every partnership is delivered by Ashleigh, personally.

ICF PCC · Licensed DiSC® and ResilienceBuilder® practitioner · Aligned with ISO 45003 guidance

Tell us what’s changing

Client reflections.

“I feel more empowered to be the expert in the room and demonstrate that, without feeling the need to justify or explain myself.”

FAQs

What founders and their advisors ask before we begin.

We’ll put a quote in writing once we understand what might be involved in your unique partnership. If you’d like to spend less, we’ll reduce the scope but never the standard.

Yes. We are guided by the ICF Code of Ethics and confidentiality is central to how we operate.

Yes. Most partnerships are invoiced to the business, and we can set objectives and provide progress reports to a sponsor or board.

Neither. We use behavioural diagnostics to evidence a baseline and ICF competencies to guide our ACT and neuroscience-informed methodology.

Yes. When we agree the scope of our work together we can agree to be onsite or completely remote.

Change is recognised as a psychosocial risk at work. ISO 45003 guides how organisations manage that risk, and health and safety regulators in the UK and Australia name poor change management among the hazards employers must manage. Our approach is aligned with ISO 45003 guidance and draws on peer-reviewed research in coaching and behavioural science. Together, we will define and work toward your measures of success.

We are not able to support people who need clinical or mental-health support nor can we work with situations involving harassment, active grievances or legal process. We do not offer wellbeing days, motivational workshops or quick fixes. We work with leaders who are willing to set explicit standards, make people-centred decisions and follow through on their promises.

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.

Tell us what’s changing