Preparing Your Business For Growth & Maximising Exit Value
Our expert advisors help successful businesses grow sustainably and profitably. With our proven frameworks, we help you achieve the maximum potential in your business, whether you choose to exit or otherwise.
Our Goal
To help service-led businesses maximise value and provide the strategy and ongoing support to achieve this.
We've Walked In Your Shoes
Before Move at Pace, Connor our Managing Partner founded and built a group of businesses comprising of a printing company, branding and web design agencies.
From back bedroom start-up, he built the business to an annual turnover of over £2m and 40 employees before successfully exiting the company in 2020.
We help entrepreneurs build the business they dreamed of, when they first decided to become an entrepreneur.
Industries Served
Move At Pace programmes, workshops and coaching activities are specifically designed and tailored to the needs of service-based entrepreneurs who want to build increasingly profitable businesses.
We work with service-led businesses
- Design Agencies
- Consultant Engineers
- Web Developers
- Private Clinics
- Solicitors
- Estate Agents
- Financial Advisors
- Accountants
- Software Engineers
- Recruitment Agencies
Considered growth planning
Growing a profitable business isn’t easy. The good news is that you don’t have to go it alone and that in every challenge there is an opportunity.
- Have you reached a plateau in business growth? Or the limit of your current knowledge?
- Do you want to scale while retaining profit?
- Do you want to systemise your creative business so that it offers you the time you truly deserve?
IF THIS SOUNDS familiar KEEP READING!
What You Can Expect From Our Support
Understanding of your business
Each of our advisors are exited business owners. Not only have we walked in your shoes, but we have worked with many clients who are facing similar experiences in their respective businesses.
While we will never share anyone else’s details or circumstances, we certainly can and will share the collective experience and learning for the benefit of our clients.
Clear and objective advice
We answer the questions you have objectively and decisively. There’s absolutely zero waffle and we will only share the experience and knowledge that is directly beneficial to your business needs.
You are not paying us to tell you what you want to hear, but rather what you need to.
A personalised plan to follow
Your journey is unique and so should be the plan you follow.
We’ll focus primarily on processes, systems, and people frameworks that allow you to identify where your growth is being held back and where an opportunity for extra profitability is hiding in your business.
Accountability
Entrepreneurship is often a lonely endeavour and rarely do we have a peer to confide in or to ask for advice. We want you to SUCCEED and together we’ll set clear and defined goals, backed with EVERYTHING you need to achieve them.
Of course, we’ll be the first to tell you that you’re doing great, but we’ll also be the first to respectfully challenge any business decision.
Each of our services focus on strategic pillars of growth
No matter what stage your business is at, we have tailored support, training and content directly applicable to the challenges and opportunities you face.
At different levels, there are different devils and the challenges business leaders face, differ significantly.
Our team provide direct and actionable advice specific to your current situation. We directly focus on 6 core pillars that support ambitious, but sustainable growth.
Effective Selling | Operational Excellence
Marketing | Building a Robust Team
Strategy For Profitable Growth | Your Visions & Goals
In return, you’ll build a robust business, ready to achieve its fullest potential.
Many business leaders find this process to be unnatural and uncomfortable. Yet becoming a salesperson and thinking like a sales manager are the cornerstones of any business.
However, in our experience business owners who speak passionately about their services are some of the best non-salespeople, salespeople. We’ll help you build systems and processes and show you how to confidently sell your services without selling your soul.
We have spent hundreds of thousands on marketing and advertising campaigns across digital and traditional media so that you don’t have to.
Let’s work together to build strategic marketing campaigns that will allow you to build authority in all areas of focus.
Service based businesses grow and fail based on their ability to maintain quality at scale.
From your first job this month, to your 1000th, we help you build out the systems and processes to maintain an agreed level of service and quality across every project.
Becoming an employer of choice is no longer about being the biggest company in town. Creating a brand strategy to attract and retrain the right type of employee reduces the friction and cost of hiring.
Implementing a robust recruitment and retention strategy while planning for growth navigates many of the potential headwinds you might face.
When you work hard and put years of effort and sacrifice into your business, you should be rewarded for doing so.
Increasing the headcount and turnover in your business are vanity metrics if the profit isn’t scaling with them.
We focus on retaining profit across every function of the business and building methods to track this automatically.
Whether you are looking to exit your business immediately, you want to remove yourself from the day-to-day operations or you want to pass it down to the next generation, we help structure your business to achieve this.
Will I Benefit From Working With Move at Pace?
- Are you ready to accelerate your business growth and gain momentum?
- Do you want expert guidance from industry-leading advisors?
- Are you looking for a goal-driven, focused strategy for your business?
- Need comprehensive support in all aspects of business development?
- Interested in networking opportunities with like-minded entrepreneurs and mentors?
- Eager to enhance your branding and marketing efforts to resonate with your target audience?
- Want to increase profitability and maintain cost control?
- Looking to optimise your operations and improve efficiency?
- Ready to boost sales performance and attract new customers?
- Preparing for a successful exit or business sale?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, don't let another day go by without taking control of your business's future.
how can we work together?
Our Services
Our expertise focuses on helping service-led businesses grow increasingly profitable. We support this across multiple bespoke services and programmes.
Strategic Support
Working with founders and senior management, we help create a strategic plan for the business aligned with your values and stay on track while delivering it.
What's included
- Regular 1-1 growth strategy call with our leadership team
- Regular or ad hoc meeting schedules
- Follow up support
- Access to our live calls, workshops & industry best practice events
Our intensive strategy sessions aim to align your current position with your vision and ambitions.
The resulting outcome is a plan to achieve this over an agreed timeframe.
What's included
- Intensive half or full day strategy workshop
- Pre-meeting preparation
- Post workshop follow up and actions
- Access to our live calls, workshops & industry best practice events
We have developed a suite of training modules and courses suited to the needs of ambitious businesses.
These training courses can be refined and presented to any level within the business.
What's included
- Bespoke training courses and workshops
- In-house or remote delivery
- Post workshop follow up and actions
- Practical tools to support theory
Growth & Exit Programmes
As a Non-Executive Director, Connor provides independent oversight and objective guidance to help deliver the company’s vision and goals.
What's included
- Big picture thinking backed with strategy
- Time commitment inline with business need
- A proven commercial track record
- Independent support & guidance
- Governance knowledge
- Ambassador for your business
Exclusively for established creative entrepreneurs who want 1:1 access to experienced support when building a robust and increasingly profitable creative agency.
Transform your agency, achieve massive results, and regain a life outside the studio.
What's included
- Extensive business diagnostic with our principal advisors
- Creation of your bespoke Growth Plan
- Unlimited 1-1 support
- Monthly 1-1 strategy call & mid-year reviews.
Whether you want to sell your business now or grow to a desired valuation over the next 3 to 5 years, we can help you build and activate an exit strategy to create and maximise company value.
What's included
- Extensive business diagnostic with our principal advisors
- Creation of your bespoke Exit Ready Growth Plan
- Monthly 1-1 strategy meeting & quarterly progress reviews.
- Unlimited 1-1 support