Expand your business and thrive in the process
We work with busy, successful professional service business owners who are working hard at running their business, life and family, but are now feeling overwhelmed, stuck and heading for burnout.
We are here to get you unstuck and start thriving.
If you sell training, consultancy or advice, let’s talk. I’ll show you how to leverage your and your team’s time, increase your profits and start working less hours.
Ready to have a more profitable, purposeful and simpler business, and thrive in the process?
Next Ignite workshop happening November 18th
Here’s how we can help you
Business Growth Strategy & Systems
Get absolute clarity and focus on the key projects that will increase your profits, expand your business impact and ensure you grow strong in the process.
More time & ease
Discover how to create an Ebb & Flow™ to the way that you work throughout your year; a new approach to managing work, time and energy.
Profitable Pricing & Programmes
Discover how to create and deliver profitable products and programmes that allow you to thrive and exceed your clients’ expectations.
Purposeful Vision & Business Planning
Simple, Profitable Business Models
Design and create the business structure and revenue streams that work best for you and the way that you love to work.
Increase Your Business Impact
Get a plan to commercialise your purpose so you can make the money you want AND make the big difference you want; purpose and profit can work together.
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“There are so few really practical, ballsy books like this. I love the way you set out those simple business models and give all the practicalities as well as bringing in the beingness of business. That combination is so powerful.”
The Momentum Grow Strong™ Programme & Community
Whether it’s more money you want, more time, more freedom or to create more impact, Momentum will give you what you need to grow a purposeful, playful and profitable business.
“A brilliant mix of high level strategy help and practical details whatever level you are at.”
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Testimonials & Featured Clients
Joy Burnford, MD of My Confidence Matters
Momentum 2018 to 2020
Website: www.myconfidencematters.com
Success Highlights:
- Increased authority as a Forbes contributor
- A clear plan on how to have strategic high-level conversations
- Moving from operating in a BCB space into a B2B space and being positioned as a leading edge researcher on gender equality
Tone
Luck’s Yard Clinic
Solid systems in place, dream team hired & confidence to launch a new coaching business alongside her thriving family clinic
Adele
Get Gorgous
From overwhelmed to tech confident, Adele’s new lead generation system is rocking her business
Rosie
Nutritional Therapist
Confidence skyrocketed because 95% of enquires are saying YES to her new programme and referrals are coming in with ease
Jen
Clinical Psychologist
From travelling miles every day to now having the time to focus on developing her successful online business while achieving a healthy work/life balance
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Latest Blogs From Karen Skidmore
The Big VAT Ceiling Problem (and how you can avoid getting stuck under it)
If you are struggling with the thought of VAT registration, you need to read this. Perhaps you have a fear of losing clients if you have to put your prices up 20%, or you simply don't know how to approach the whole situation. You can become VAT registered at any time,...
Your Dream Team: who do you need to hire to help you grow?
Do you believe that you are the one to do anything and everything in your business? In the first few months of start-up, there is no doubt that you do almost everything yourself. From answering your emails and sending out proposals and brochures, through to writing...
The Growth Ceilings: what to do when your business growth plateaus
Have you wondered why you are not making the progress that you thought you ought to be making by now? It doesn’t matter how much harder your work, how many more hours you put in or what money you throw at your marketing, there comes a point where your growth gets...
Energy tracking and how to achieve more, with less stress
Our work culture is not working for us anymore! For the past thirty years, our obsession with doing more in less time has exponentially increased. The access to the first home computers and the World Wide Web has opened us to an endless stream of technology to make us...
Shifting with the seasons; why we can’t stay in spring or summer all year
image Hi Karen Walking into my Plotting Shed this morning, there was a distinct chill in the air. For the first time this season, I shuddered and realised it was time for ceremonial switching on of the wall heater. I love the shift in seasons. It reminds me that...
How our fears can be our greatest strengths
Back in 2017 ... those pre-covid days of being able to attend conferences with hundreds of other people! ... I had spent an incredible weekend at the One Woman Conference. There were 400+ women at this event and I had the honour of being invited up on the stage as one...
How to start your week off right
There's absolutely no doubt, that what you do on a Monday morning sets the tone for the rest of the week. And often the weeks proceeding. I've learned the hard way. If I start my week faffing about and scrolling through social feeds, the rest of my week will follow in...
Happy Revenue (and why ‘get more clients’ isn’t always the answer to growing your business)
"Get More Clients!" It’s the message that many marketers want you to hear. Making money is, of course, an important function of your business but when the numbers in your bank account may feel smaller than you think they should be, money has this habit of taking up...
The Profitability Sweet Spot: a simple pricing formula to use with your next proposal or programme
The problem with selling services, such as coaching, advice and consulting time, is that it’s very easy to get caught up with how much you ought to be charging. Emotional stories such as “I’m not that worth that much” or “There’s no way my clients will pay that” whip...
