Business Consulting
If The Challenge Exists, So Must The Solution
20-20 works with leadership teams to co-create practical programmes, built on the principles of 10x growth, with the desired outcome to become an exceptional “Triple A rated” organisation:
- Accountable – individually, and collectively act, to accomplish the organisation’s mission
- Affordable – able to implement plans using the smallest expenditure on resources
- Agile – successfully anticipate and respond to the emergence of new competitors, technology, and sudden shifts in market demand
20-20 works with senior leaders to help better understand current growth potential, best practices, and construct approaches to maximise growth
20-20 supports leadership teams, with training and guidance, in leading and steering successful change.
In the past 10 years, 20-20 worked with 12 clients to lead 20+ projects to contribute on:
- $50m profit improvement at a multinational engineering company
- £20m profit improvement at a UK defence company
- Accelerating double digit business growth at a growing Bio Tech
20-20 leads, engages with, and motivates client teams to help them:
- Develop fresh insights
- Create pathways to better results
- Stimulate new thinking
- Be vigilant during implementation
The unique frameworks developed by 20-20 challenge leaders to rethink what they know, push teams to outperform what was thought possible, and help create an advantage from every opportunity. The focus is to help leaders develop their organisational capability and operating culture to improve effectiveness, anticipate change, and grow. No consulting engagement is complete without enabling teams to implement new ways of working to achieve sustainable improvements. It is exhilarating, rewarding, and challenging work. It is a privilege to do it and to share the unique satisfaction that comes from helping to secure successful futures for outstanding organisations and their people.
- Possess clarity on sources for growth
- Focus on few initiatives
- Make informed trade off decisions on investment decisions
- Engage in disciplined execution at all levels on growth initiatives
- Use strong metrics and feedback loops
- Ensure profit models are well understood
- Translate customer insights into business improvements
- Promote excellence in execution
- Ensure sustained alignment among leaders
- Build leader capabilities to grow from within
Having created a 12-step program built through years of diligent work alongside CEOs, MDs, and business owners, Les aims to cultivate businesses on a national scale, through a course designed to inspire, motivate, and enable teams to implement their framework, using the steps provided.
The 12 components laid out in the program have been proven to bring transformation on an exponential scale, along with providing a sense of confidence and clarity to those who implement them.
When he’s not scaling up businesses, you can find Les scaling up the side of a mountain in his second home of Scotland. With a lifelong passion for hill walking, Les has made it his mission to top all 282 of the Scottish Munros, with just over 50 left to conquer.
If you feel that you could benefit from Les’s expertise, reach out for a consultation today and discuss your ambitions for business growth.
Alternatively, take a look at Les’s carefully curated 12-step program and see how you can take your business to the extraordinary.
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Testimonials
“Les is fantastic and impeccably organised. He is a really wise coach who shares his experience, and points of view, in ways which are extremely helpful to how my business and personal life are developing”
Victoria Sylvester - Managing Director
“Les’s pace, listening skills, clarity of communications, and attention to detail are all impressive and come dressed in high quality dry humour. Les demonstrated high integrity, empathetic style, great insights and gravitas. His work with our team to manage a challenging programme was excellent and exceeded expectations”
Todd Navin - General Manager Finance & Administration
“Les has been a source of wisdom for me as we work our way forward building a new team, restructuring operations, and build for the future. He has an assured manner which combines support and challenge as a good critical friend should. In my 1-2-1s with Les I have been struck by his knowledge and insight, sharp and perceptive questioning, as well as his appetite for holding my feet to the fire!”
Stephen Nickson - Owner & Managing Director
“Les worked with us during a very difficult and challenging time for the dentistry profession. He provided an invaluable sounding board as a strategic advisor “thinking ahead” across a number of different projects.
I value his advice on major decisions. An indispensable member of the team.”
Prof Paul Tipton
“Les gave us a fun filled day and it was only obvious he had worked us hard when we stood back and looked at all the output we had achieved as a team. He got the best from every person in the room with his direct and engaging style that blends sharp wit with very serious subject matter. Absolutely brilliant. An exceptional day”
Nick Taylor - Chief Executive
“A 1-2-1 with Les is the equivalent of an excellent non-executive director who, with an understanding of the business, can “stand back” and give informed, impartial, and very practical advice”
Michael Jefferies - Managing Director
“Les works at pace, professionally, and with minimum fuss to quickly deliver results. He exudes a natural authority and earns respect from those he comes into contact with his sharp mind and warm heart”
Mark Papworth - Group CEO
“Les exhibits a willingness to lead teams on a “new adventure” with good humour, clear thinking, and that all important ingredient – humility. Pure magic”
Lyn Rees - Group CEO
“Les runs a fantastic workshop. Engaging, fun, great stories, practical insights and all delivered in a way which drives engagement and gets the creative juices flowing. Les is the go to guy for making the complex simple, the difficult easy, and putting a smile on people’s faces – exceptional”
Kelvin Coyle - Managing Director
“Our engagement with Les was incredibly fruitful. He engaged with the team, exploring and challenging patterns of work to identify improvement opportunities which we are now implementing that will result in a significantly more effective organisation in future”
Gavin Huxtable - Steam Business Development Director
“The 1-2-1s with Les are very open as well as being very detailed. Les always follows through on each point and goes the extra mile to assist and help. His experience in business and life really resonate with me and have helped me in many areas in business as well as personally”
Dale Heathcote - Managing Director
“The growth workshop with senior management was excellent. Les provided thought provoking challenges with good humour in a well structured day. Highly guaranteed to provide the spark for a breakthrough and fresh thinking“
Anthony Attard - Group CEO
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