Hands-on help for owner-managed businesses with strategy, leadership, growth and artificial intelligence (AI), so the business can go further and depend less on you.
Most owner-managed businesses grow on the owners' energy, judgement and relationships. It works well, until the business gets big enough that everything still depending on a few people starts to slow it down.
None of this means something is wrong. It means the business is ready for its next stage.
I spend two to three weeks understanding how your business really runs, then give you a short, ranked list of what to change first and what each change is worth.
We work through the priorities together as fixed-fee projects, each with a clear outcome and an end date, done alongside your team on live work.
If you want, I stay on in a light advisory role to keep the changes steady until the business runs them without me.
Most businesses need two or three of them. The Business Review tells you which.
Where is the business going, and what should it stop doing?
What I deliver
What changes
Everyone knows where the business is going, and their part in getting it there.
How is the business run, and who decides what?
What I deliver
What changes
Decisions get made below the owners, and the business runs well when they are away.
How does the business win the right work?
What I deliver
What changes
New work arrives by design, rather than only through the owners' contacts.
How does the business work smarter?
What I deliver
What changes
The whole team works faster, and the business depends less on any one person.
I'm Nick Loxton. I spent eight and a half years as a British Army officer, worked as a geospatial intelligence analyst, then helped build AI-native operations in a growing technology business.
The common thread is looking at an untidy picture, testing what everyone assumes, and saying plainly what is going on. Then staying to make the changes hold. Where a piece of work needs a specialist, I bring one in and stay accountable for it.
I also run Loxtopus Intelligence, an applied intelligence practice for organisations in complex environments.
Tell me a little about your business and what you would like to change. If there is a fit, you will hear back within one working day.
Not sure yet what you need? A short call usually settles it either way.