Our mission is to help you scale your business and revenue...without sacrificing your sanity or freedom along the way.

Welcome to my small corner of the internet, where the magic of business transformation and growth happens! This is the place where I make dreams come true for entrepreneurs just like YOU. You're here because you're searching for a trusted business mentor, or an exceptional business strategist who can help you achieve the results you desire. Look no further, because you've found an expert to help you reach the heights of success!

Is This You?

As a successful entrepreneur and business owner, you're already on the brink of achieving an impressive 8-figure mark. However, you know that you need the right guidance and support to take your business to the next level. That's where we come in – experts you can trust, with extensive experience in driving business growth and helping you develop strategies, systems, and operations that deliver exceptional results.

Perhaps you're feeling overwhelmed and overworked, struggling to keep up with the demands of running your business. You may be experiencing one of 6 common plateaus that can hold you back: revenue stagnation, trading time for money, slow growth, declining revenue, the dreaded feast or famine cycle, or simply feeling burned out and short on time.

But with my expert guidance, you can overcome these challenges and build the business you've always dreamed of. Whether you're ready to scale up, bring on a new leadership team, or simply take control of your business once again, I have the tools and experience to help you succeed.

Let's work together to take your business to the next level and achieve even greater success!

Meet Lor; Business Strategist, Mentor & Author

Let me take you back to 1986, when I was just a teenager with a burning desire for business. I was fortunate enough to be invited to join the Young Enterprise Business scheme while I was in Boarding School. And that's where it all began!

After a lot of learning and a few hard knocks, I took the leap and started my first business. I designed and sold office notice boards, and boy, did I work hard! But my hard work paid off, and my business began to thrive.

My passion for entrepreneurship only grew from there, and I went on to achieve my Master of Business Administration (MBA). This was the turning point in my career. It set me on the path of helping business owners like you to smash through their revenue plateaus and remove all those pesky blockers to scaling a successful business.

Over the past 30 years, I've had the privilege of working with global brands, large corporations, and smaller independent business owners across many sectors and industries. I've built a successful track record as a strategy expert, business mentor, podcaster and best selling author, and I love nothing more than helping clients create a growth strategy that is time-smart, simple to implement and truly unique to you.

I'm the expert for you if you are looking to refresh your growth strategy, your operational readiness to scale, increase your revenue growth, build an organisational design & leadership team for the long-haul and lastly, support you in all aspects of scaling.

But, let's get back to your reality. Running a business can be tough. That's why clients like you usually come to me when you're hitting these common blockers to scaling - the revenue plateaus, the feast or famine cycles, scaling too fast or too slowly, or the exhaustion from being constantly entrenched in the daily operational minutia without a leadership team to support you.

And, its often the case when you're hitting these tipping points, you feel as though your business owns you, rather than the other way around. But fear not, because I'm here to help you take back control of your business, put actionable plans in place and support you to make your business work for you.

We will help you to scale a business you literally won't want to take a holiday from.

So, let's get started on your journey to scaling success!

Meet My Sidekick!

Sue and I both discovered that working as a close-knit team who combine their expertise is much more effective than acting as an advisor flying solo. It benefits our clients, who also prefer to engage experts who are proactively communicating and working in a seamless, joined-up way.

We've teamed up together to successfully support various clients during the last 8 years. We soon realised that by working closely together, we bring a 360-degree holistic oversight of your business, where we can truly offer our best advice and our experiences to support businesses like yours. So, when it comes to helping your business succeed, you'll be in safe hands, having all the expertise your business needs from two very talented experts effectively rolled into one!

MARKETING, BRAND STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP

Sue Barnes

She/Her

Hi, I'm Sue – a seasoned brand and marketing strategist with a passion for unlocking my clients' full potential.

With years of experience working with international corporate brands and leading marketing, branding and communications teams, I've honed my expertise in the agency space. Six years ago, I founded my own brand and marketing agency to help ambitious businesses access the power of positioning, communications, and great design.

Throughout my career, I've thrived on working closely with clients, mentoring them to develop their leadership skills and operational efficiency. I particularly enjoy helping clients fine-tune their processes, ensuring that they're operating at peak performance. My approach always starts with a clear purpose and a desire to make a difference. I work closely with my clients to identify their long-term brand direction, develop new propositions, and bring everything to life with energy, enthusiasm, and impact.

When I'm not busy helping clients, I love spending time with my family and friends. I also enjoy indulging my passion for photography, classic cars, and vintage finds – it's my way of escaping to my own world!

We're Champions Of Social Equity

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We're also a huge advocate of collaboration and community, and when people come together under a common purpose and shared values, they THRIVE.

We have a vision to bring like-minded entrepreneurs together with shared values of achieving equity through building businesses that are inclusive, diverse and accessible to all. And these businesses are the vehicle to help us to deliver greater and broader change. We are stronger together.

Our commitment is to use wealth to drive change where it's needed most, to empower and support others (via advocacy through our own experiences) and play our small part toward building a socially equitable society.

The Values We Live & Breathe By

We actively seek to work with clients who share our values and want to play a role in building a better world around them.

Now then, we're a little picky over who we work with, so if our values also resonate with you, then it's an early indicator we'll also be a great match to work together.

We believe in using our businesses to generate incredible excess wealth so that we can use that wealth to positively empower people, communities and drive equitable change in the world around us.
We believe in stepping up to the plate if you want to achieve your dreams. In recognising and taking accountability for your actions and taking ownership of your results.
We stand for integrity and transparency. If that ‘thing’ won’t work for you, we will tell you (& why).
We are intersectional feminist and actively anti-racist. We acknowledge that systemic racism exists. We have made a conscious effort to identify racist practices, methods, beliefs and culture; both within ourselves and our businesses.
We believe in building ethical businesses, ethical leadership and ethical ways of working.
We support the 99% of the world’s population who want to be wealthy, because everyone is entitled to a share of that 1% glut of wealth without feeling guilt or shame for wanting to live in abundance.
We stand for body acceptance, autonomy and positivity; whatever your size, shape or ability.
We advocate for equity for the LGBTQI+ community, especially for trans and intersex people. We're also protective of the lived experiences of cisgender women, and of any marginalised people held back by systemic repression.
We stand for kindness and against hatred or bullying of any kind.

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