GrowthWorks Consultants
I work with Founders and first-time CEOs to build and scale great businesses.
With my help, start-ups get results faster and avoid the common pitfalls to scaling by using proven scale-up approaches and systems tailored to your stage of business and specific growth challenges.
My focus is to help founders build an organisation that excels operationally, so it consistently achieves its goals. Here are the areas I typically get involved:
STRATEGY & PLANNING
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
PEOPLE & CULTURE
Ways to work with me:
Option 1: Fractional Chief Operating Officer
Option 2: Advisory & Project Work
Option 3: Mentor to CEOs, COOs and Chiefs of Staff
Dave founded GrowthWorks Consultants to work with bootstrapped, Seed to Series A companies with a mission to do some good in the world.
Dave has spent over 25 years building and growing high-growth digital, data-driven and SaaS businesses and has led executive teams across operations, product, commercial, engineering, HR and finance. He has held board level and senior leadership roles in Venture and Private Equity-backed SMEs and Start-up companies.
Dave learned countless lessons as a start-up COO where he joined a founding team of three techies with revenues of £200k and helped build and scale the business to over 100 people and revenues of in excess of £10mn ARR, attracting clients like Google, Apple and Government Departments.
As a company builder and hands-on, scale-up COO, Dave now helps founders build and scale their operations from scratch, and through each growth-stage, by laying the foundations for success across sales, product, operations, and culture.
Dave works directly with founding and executive teams on their biggest challenges across Strategy, Operations, Commercial and People.
Products and services
Advisory and Project Work
As an advisor I work with founders and start-up teams to achieve company goals through effective communication and by influencing day-to-day operations.
A typical engagement might include some or all of the following:
- Weekly meetings to advise on strategy, goal setting and business operations
- Organisation design and executive recruitment
- Mentoring sessions to resolve specific business challenges
- Fundraising support and help with Board and investor relations
- Value proposition development and channel strategy
- Scaling your team - building a talent acquisition process
- Building processes, documentation and wikis for scale