Best-in-Class?
As a founder/CEO? As an exec team? As a growth company?
The FORGE Discipline — Executive Team Growth
Behind every best-in-class exec team is a way of working that didn’t happen by accident.
The best teams deliver more than results — they drive transformation. FORGE is the discipline that builds that capacity, creating the clarity, trust, and strategic focus to take on the toughest challenges.It’s a proven process for stepping beyond high performance into sustained impact — developing a distinctive way of working that competitors can’t match and won’t be able to copy.
RISE — Founder & CEO Growth
Best-in-class founders and CEOs don’t go it alone.
Leading a growing business gets complex, personal, and challenging — fast.The most effective founders and CEOs don’t go it alone. They surround themselves with sharp counterpoints — those who challenge their thinking, stretch their ambition, and help them lead with greater clarity and intent.Some choose 1:1 coaching — to step out of the noise, build strategic clarity, and lead with greater intention. Others go deeper through RISE — working closely with fellow founder/CEOs of growth-stage companies in a proven programme designed to unlock clarity, ambition, and long-term impact.The work is always strategic and personal — focused on growth that outpaces the business.
Coach in Residence — Organisation Growth
Aligning execution to strategy. Developing leaders. Sustaining performance.
Like a Chief of Staff. Working in the wider organisation to align execution to strategy while supporting senior and emerging leaders to build clarity, confidence, and capability.It’s about alignment and acceleration: helping leaders understand, support, and maximise the company’s strategic priorities.Always grounded in context. Always designed to unlock potential while developing a strategic team of teams — enabling the business to become best-in-class.
Working with Growth Companies
...and what they say.
Leader&Team works with founders, CEOs, and executive teams in growth businesses — typically £5m to £200m turnover.Many are backed by investment; others are preparing for it, and some choose to remain proudly independent. All share a customer-value-focused strategy and know that unlocking the potential of their people is key to unlocking the potential of the business.Some are scaling up — growing through a single, focused strategy. Others are scaling out — running multiple growth strategies in parallel: organic growth, international expansion, product or market diversification, or acquisition.They are committed to becoming brilliant at the basics — and bold enough to pursue what it really takes to become best-in-class.
Ben has widened my view so that instead of being dragged down into the operational day-to-day problems, I'm able to spend an increasing amount of time focusing my thoughts and energy on strategic and long-term opportunities—both at a professional and personal level. Instead of living in the moment, I live increasingly six months out, a year out, five years out. This has huge benefits to me as a leader and also benefits my personal well-being.Gareth Burrows, CTO, BreatheHR
It’s hard to put the value of my coaching relationship with Ben into one review. He brings clarity at times of flux, cuts through chaos and provides an environment where I am incredibly supported to make the right decisions. Being a senior leader can at times feel lonely. I know I can pick up the phone to Ben at any time and am never made to feel that an issue is inconsequential. Put simply, my life is better for having a coaching relationship with him!Sue Elliott, Managing Director, DRC Communications
A born coach, Ben always finds a way to ask those deep, thought-provoking questions and has a natural ability to break down my challenges into more obvious and solvable pieces.Paul Nolan, International CEO, Benebone
Ben is an exceptional coach whom I hired when faced with making one of the biggest business decisions of my life. I knew of Ben’s reputation: he is insightful, incredibly bright and equipped with a brilliant toolkit and an ability to get quickly to the crux of the matter and to therefore help his client to get there and to find their own, workable solutions; the results were incredible for me. With his coaching I was able to find the right direction in a very difficult and confusing time and, along with it, purpose, calm and renewed focus – which felt like quite a challenge before we began! Thank you Ben, I wouldn’t have got here without you – happy, loving my work again and a TEDx Speaker!!!Helen Martin, Entrepreneur
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What would best-in-class look like for you?
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