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 June 28th
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.
Three day, all-inclusive business retreat at a luxury spa venue right in the heart of the beautiful Surrey/Hampshire borders countryside
True Profit Business – Get The Book
“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 Member
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
How to trust yourself to make good decisions
Being able to make good decisions is one of the keys to adopting a CEO mindset and growing a successful business. But decision fatigue is real; the more decisions you have to make each day, your ability to make decisions becomes worse. We’re faced with thousands of...
Breaking the YES habit
Last week, I was writing about the difference between being a freelancer, business owner and CEO, and the phrase that seemed to get the biggest reaction was … “You may think you are a business owner, and call yourself a business owner, but your current work schedule...
Being CEO in your business
Wow, what a week! I’m writing this just as I come to the end of our first week of our next new Momentum planning cycle, which is always a high energy, back-to-back week of calls, and I wanted to share with you today my thoughts about being a CEO in your business....
How to write a business proposal that wins you the work
“Send me a proposal” When you’re ending a great sales call with your ideal client, these are the words you want to hear. You’re excited. They’re excited. You both just want to get started on working together. So why do so many of us grapple with writing a business...
How patient are you at winning over ‘pregnancy clients’?
I want to write to you today about patience. I’ve been staying with my mum since Thursday last week. She’s 81, incredibly independent and wants to stay this way for a long while yet. But she’s had another operation on her hip; to correct the one she had in 2019 which...
How and when to hire an Operations Manager for your small business
Having a good Virtual Assistant (VA) to support you in your business is an essential first step to building your support team and releasing yourself from the trap of being a busy freelancer. Not only does a good VA free you up from day-to-day admin tasks, they also...
Relearning Lessons: What was on repeat for 2021
It is said that the lessons we *really* need to learn in life, show up time and time again. We don’t learn it once and be done. Life has a way of circling back and giving us another experience or challenge to navigate to make sure we *really* get the lessons. Many...
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...
