Grow your creative business, with the leadership, people and culture to support it.
As your business grows, your leadership has to grow with it.
I work with founders and leaders of growing creative businesses to help you stay ahead of the people challenges growth creates - strengthening your leadership, developing your managers and building a culture that can support where the business is going.
Sound familiar?
Everything still seems to come through you
Your team has grown, but decisions, questions and problems still find their way back to you.
You are trying to lead the business while also being the person everyone turns to when they need an answer.
Your managers need to step up
The people who were brilliant at their jobs are now responsible for leading other people.
They need to give feedback, delegate, manage performance, motivate their teams and handle difficult conversations - often without ever having been shown how.
Your role is changing
The way you led the business when it was smaller may not be what it needs from you now.
You might need to let go of things you have always done, lead through other people and spend more time thinking about where the business is going.
Coaching gives you space to work out what your changing role needs from you and the kind of leader you want to be as the business grows.
Your people need more clarity
Informal ways of communicating and working can become stretched as more people join.
People need to understand what’s expected of them, who makes which decisions and where they have the freedom to act without asking you first.
We can create greater clarity without adding unnecessary layers or bureaucracy.
You want to protect the best of your culture
Growth changes culture.
The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was when there were five of you. It’s to be intentional about what you want to protect, what needs to evolve and the kind of business you want to become.
A trusted partner for the people side of growth
I am Chantel and for more than 18 years, I have worked alongside founders, MDs, CEOs and leadership teams navigating growth, change and the realities of leading people, including as an HR Director within the creative industry.
Today, I bring that experience together to give founders an experienced thinking partner outside the day to day.
Someone who:
Gives you space to think.
Challenges you when you need it.
Brings practical people experience.
Helps you make better decisions about how you lead your people and your business.
My work brings together leadership coaching and strategic people support, whether that means supporting you as your role changes, developing your managers, creating greater clarity or helping you think through the people and culture challenges that come with growth.
What is taking up your headspace?
You do not need to know whether you need coaching, people advice or something else, just tell me what is happening for you and we can take it from there.