Which approach would suit you?
Business Programmes
Choose a structured small-group programme for starting a business, exploring a side hustle or rethinking an existing business. Learn alongside others and apply practical guidance to your own circumstances.
Explore Business ProgrammesCoaching
Explore your confidence, direction, decisions and the impact business ownership is having on your life. Coaching helps you develop your own thinking and decide how to move forward.
Explore business coachingMentoring
Draw on my business experience through practical suggestions, honest feedback and constructive challenge. Mentoring helps you assess your options and decide what to do next.
Explore business mentoringA focused workshop or short course
Focus on a particular business question or skill, such as deciding whether business ownership is right for you or communicating with greater confidence.
View forthcoming workshopsBusiness Programmes
Practical guidance for the stage you are at.
Business Programmes offers small-group programmes for people starting a business, exploring a side hustle or reconsidering a business they already run. I lead each session with explanations, practical examples and exercises, with opportunities to ask questions and contribute relevant experience. The aim is to help you make thoughtful decisions and take useful steps forward.
Choose the programme that fits your circumstances:
Starting a Business
(Seven-part programme)
"For people developing a new business, whether this is your first venture or you have run a business before. Explore what you want it to make possible, who it could serve and how to test and develop an idea that has a realistic chance of working."
Starting a Side Hustle
(Four-part programme)
"For people considering a business alongside employment or other commitments. Explore whether a side hustle is right for you, how it could fit into your life and how to test your idea before committing more time or money."
Rethinking Your Business
(Seven-part programme)
"For people already running a business or side hustle who want to reconsider its direction, improve how it works or make it fit their lives better. Step back, examine what needs attention and choose practical changes to move forward."
Something of your own, with your existing commitments in mind.
This programme is for people exploring a small business alongside employment, caring responsibilities, study or other commitments.
You might want to turn a skill into a service, sell something you make or develop another product or business idea. You do not need a finished plan. If you have several possibilities, the exercises will help you choose one to investigate.
It is designed for people considering a business of their own, rather than those primarily looking for a second employed job or a list of quick ways to earn money online.
If you are preparing to make a new business your main occupation, Starting a Business may be more relevant. If you already run a business or side hustle and want to reconsider its direction or performance, explore Rethinking Your Business.
Explore the ProgrammesBusiness Coaching
Space to think about the business and how it’s affecting you.
Starting and running a business can be rewarding, but it can also ask a great deal of you. Alongside the practical decisions, there may be uncertainty, pressure and expectations that are difficult to put aside at the end of the day.
My business coaching gives you space to step back, talk openly and work out what matters to you. Whether you are exploring a side hustle, running an established business or considering a change of direction, my focus will be on you: your thinking, your choices and the life you want your business to support.
Sessions and fees
Individual sessions take place online via Google Meet. The fee is £200 per session, or £999 for a package of six sessions.
When coaching could help
Support when business becomes particularly difficult
How we’ll work together
Taking the first step
You don’t need to arrive with everything worked out. Get in touch, tell me a little about what’s happening, and we can explore whether coaching would be useful to you.
If you are experiencing serious business difficulties and cost is a barrier, please mention this when you enquire. Reduced-fee support may be available, depending on your circumstances and my availability.
Free, with no obligation to book further support.
Business Mentoring
Practical experience to help you decide what to do next.
When you are starting or running a business, it can help to talk with someone who has faced business decisions, tested ideas and experienced the responsibility of making things work.
Business mentoring gives you access to my experience, an outside perspective and practical suggestions shaped around your circumstances. You might be exploring a side hustle, developing a new business, or looking to improve an existing one.
Sessions and fees
Individual sessions take place online via Google Meet. The fee is £200 per session, or £999 for a package of six sessions.
When mentoring could help
Experience, perspective and honest conversation
How we will work together
Taking the first step
Get in touch and tell me a little about your business or idea, and where you would value support. We can explore what you need and whether my experience is a good fit.
Free, with no obligation to book further support.
Something specific you want to work on?
Focused workshops and short courses give you an opportunity to explore a particular business question or develop a useful skill. Forthcoming topics include deciding whether business ownership is right for you and communicating with greater confidence.
Thinking of Starting a Business
An introductory workshop to help you consider whether business ownership is right for you before making a substantial commitment. Explore your motivations, the realities of working for yourself and what a business would need to provide. This is a first exploration, the seven-part Starting a Business programme supports the next stage of testing and developing an idea.
Register your interestCommunication Skills for Business
Work on communicating clearly and confidently with customers, suppliers and collaborators. Topics may include explaining what you do, listening and asking useful questions, presenting your ideas and handling difficult conversations.
Register your interestRegistering your interest helps me shape the programme and lets me keep you informed when details are available. It does not reserve a place or commit you to booking.
Not sure where to start?
You do not need to have worked out whether Business Programmes, coaching, mentoring or a workshop is right for you. A free initial conversation gives us a chance to discuss where you are, what you want to achieve and whether the support I offer could be useful
Free, with no obligation to book further support.
