Business coaching for designers
Transforming your creative form into a thriving business function.
Are you the founder of a design or creative agency looking to scale, optimise or exit? Do you want to increase your profitability while maintaining creative excellence? Or are you struggling to balance creative integrity with business growth? If so, our specialised business coaching for designers, design and agencies is tailored to meet your unique needs.
Many designers and agency owners start with a passion for creativity and an eye for aesthetics. However, turning that artistic talent into a sustainable and profitable business requires a different set of skills. Recognising this gap is the first step towards growing your studio. This is where we help.
Our Managing Partner, Connor, has firsthand experience starting, building and exiting a successful brand, design and web agency. Taking his business from zero to 200k+ months before exiting, he understands the delicate balance between creative expression and commercial viability, as well as the challenges you face now and those you are yet to realise.
From managing creative teams to pricing your services effectively and attracting high-value clients, we offer practical, design-industry-specific support for your studio at every stage of its growth journey.
Whether you’re a startup design studio or an established agency looking to expand, we have the expertise to guide you.
Our coaching covers crucial areas such as:
- Developing a unique agency positioning
- Building an increasingly profitable agency
- Creating efficient workflows
- Building and managing a wider team
- Growth strategies
- Client acquisition and retention
- Financial management for creative businesses
Let our experienced coaches help you turn your design agency into the successful, profitable business you’ve always dreamed of. With our support, you can focus on what you do best – creating outstanding designs – while we help you build a solid business foundation.
Business coaching process
Understanding
While there is a commonality in the businesses we run, we understand that every business is different. We work with you to fully understand the challenges and opportunities you directly face.
Optimisation
Together we’ll ensure that every business function is working for you and not against you.
Using our experience working with thousands of business owners, we’ll provide experienced but objective advice.
Accountability
We will respectfully challenge you as we work towards your future business objectives.
Our goal will always be to have one eye on the future while managing the reactive needs of you and your business.
Business coaching services
Many designers and creative entrepreneurs, by their own admission are not business people. Yet! Our business coaching services aim to provide you with the skills and knowledge to compliment your creative approach.
Our design or agency owner clients typically reach out when they’re facing challenges in their business or they want to capitalise on growth opportunities.
If you’re feeling creatively drained and overworked, struggling to increase revenue beyond a certain point, or seeking a better balance between creativity and operations, we can help.
If you’re ready to strategically grow your agency and want support, please get in touch.
We provide tailored and personalised 1-1 business consulting and mentoring for current and aspiring agency owners. With decades of experience, our team of business coaches will help you in all areas of agency
As graphic design business coaches, we’re here to help you start, grow and if you choose to, exit your agency. We help you build the studio you dreamed of, when you decided to become an entrepreneur.
Business coaching cost
Our business coaching for designers and agency owners is delivered to the highest standards by a highly experienced coaching team.
With a no-waffle, direct approach to guidance, we provide the support you need, when you need it.
Pricing for our business coaching is completely transparent.
On-demand business coaching
Our on-demand coaching sessions are the perfect choice when you want dedicated support without commitment.
What's included
- Individual coaching session with our Managing Partner
- Sessions last 1.5 hours
- Pre-meeting preparation
- Follow up support
- Access to recordings and transcripts of all calls
- Access to our live calls, workshops & industry best practice events
Scheduled business coaching
We offer discounts for those clients who commit to coaching blocks of 6 or 12 sessions. Same service at a lower price.
What's included
- 6 or 12 individual coaching sessions with our Managing Partner
- Sessions last 1.5 hours
- Pre-meeting preparation
- Follow up support
- Access to recordings and transcripts of all calls
- Access to our live calls, workshops & industry best practice events
Unlimited remote support
This is an additional service for our business coaching clients who want answers to their pressing questions between coaching sessions.
What's included
- Unlimited online support
- Service provided via Whatsapp or Slack
- Next working day guaranteed response
- Access to our dedicated client management team
Confidentiality
The work that we undertake is held in the strictest confidence and we hold this responsibility with the highest integrity. However, the experience our advisors have gained working within their own and many other businesses is integral to providing an expansive breadth and depth of knowledge.
Commitment
No one likes to waste time. We will always be respectful of your time and commitment to our service. We’ll never turn up to a meeting under-prepared. But we expect the same in return.
Get to know us
Connor McAuley
Managing Partner
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If you want to explore the options of working with us, please use the form below. Once we have a few initial details, we’ll set up a completely free discovery call to understand how we might work best together.
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Testimonials
I think a common concern for every entrepreneur or business owner who seeks out a consultant or professional advice is ‘can this person really understand me and my business?’. The answer when speaking about Connor is a definite yes! My time working with Connor was practical and effective. He doesn’t beat around the bush, he gives direct advice or insight without holding back, something that is very valuable to a company like ours.