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03 / Strategic advice and accountability

Owner Advisory

Make important decisions with an experienced operator in your corner, while your management team stays firmly in charge of delivery.

Purpose
Strategic advice and accountability
Engagement
Ongoing monthly relationship
Investment
Typically £2,000–£3,000 + VAT per month
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The dividing line

Chris challenges the thinking, brings commercial judgement and holds the owner to agreed actions. Your team delivers them.

You and your management team retain full responsibility for implementation.

Best suited to

An owner with a capable team who wants sharper thinking, independent challenge and consistent accountability.

Choose this when the priorities are clear and your management team can deliver, but you want an experienced operator to challenge the thinking and keep the important actions visible.

Scope

What is included and excluded from the engagement

You should know exactly what you are buying, who owns delivery and where Chris’s responsibility ends.

Chris will

  • Monthly 90-minute advisory session
  • Review of priorities and key commercial or operational numbers
  • Challenge around major decisions and agreed actions
  • Reasonable ad hoc input between sessions

This does not include

  • Building systems or configuring software
  • Managing projects or staff
  • Carrying out operational implementation
  • Acting as an outsourced executive or formal director

The engagement

What working together looks like

Give the owner a rigorous place to test priorities, decisions and trade-offs before the management team carries the work forward.

  1. 01

    Before the session

    Bring the decisions you cannot afford to leave vague

    Share the current priorities, the commercial or operational numbers behind them and the decisions that need experienced scrutiny.

  2. 02

    Monthly session

    Test the assumptions before committing the business

    A focused 90-minute session works through the evidence, pressure-tests the trade-offs and agrees the actions the owner and team will take.

  3. 03

    Between sessions

    Keep momentum without outsourcing leadership

    Your team implements. Chris provides reasonable ad hoc input, then returns to progress, evidence and accountability at the next session.

Expected outputs

What you should be able to see, decide or use afterwards

  1. 01Better-tested decisions with the trade-offs made explicit
  2. 02A short, agreed set of priorities and owner-led actions
  3. 03Independent challenge when progress slips or assumptions change
  4. 04A regular forum for the decisions that are difficult to make alone

The wider pathway

See where this level sits

The core route is Owner’s Review, then implementation where needed, followed by advisory support when the client team is ready to own delivery.

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What happens next

Want stronger decisions without handing over leadership?

Chris challenges the thinking, brings commercial judgement and holds the owner to agreed actions. Your team delivers them.

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