Strategic business advisory

Our focus is simple – your success: we do this by ensuring each organisation we work with has a clear strategic direction and the means and capability of achieving its potential

Whatever you need to work on in your business, we can help

Dafferns Business Leader Group
Online 24/7 coaching and learning – with Mindshop Online
Facilitated board meetings and Strategy Away Days
Or just a catch up over a cup of coffee

We specialise in helping business clients to plan for the future and boost the probability of successfully implementing change and helping you build the capability of your team, acting as an external facilitator with problem-solving tools and simple online diagnostics

How we can help your business?

Diagnostics

A great way to kick-start your thinking and provide focus and clarity on where to prioritise your efforts.

Strategy in Action

highly productive 2 hour Strategy in Action session with one of our experienced business advisers, helping you develop a clear actionable one page plan.

Strategic planning workshops

Half or full day retreats with your leadership team, working ON your business rather than IN your business

Online coaching and learning – Powered by Mindshop

Our cloud-based growth, learning and development platform is a great place to capture and track all your strategies, access just-in-time online training courses and the valuable tools and resources in the online toolkit. A simple scalable solution for you and team from the free starter tier to a tailored full coach-lead access.

Please get in touch

If you always do what you’ve always done, the best you can expect is more of the same but with diminishing marginal results – What your business needs in 2025 is a simple plan, with the tools and resources to implement key changes – and we can help you with this
Martin Gibbs – Dafferns Partner

Business Leader Group 2025

Do you sometimes feel lonely in the top job?
Do you find it difficult to spend time working on the business rather than IN the business?
Would you benefit from discussing your key issues with experienced facilitators and like-minded business peers?
Do you struggle to find the time to keep up to date with current areas of strategy development and best practice?

A forum for business leaders – 1:1 advisory support, online and face-to-face training, combined with peer networking and online tools

Find out more if you would like to attend

Business Leader Success Insights Report 2024

Each year Mindshop surveys global leaders and publishes its findings and key insights in a summary report.

Please take a look through the report here.

Our advisory and strategy team

View the team

Martin Gibbs

Managing Partner

Simon Cossey

Business Development Consultant

Emily Ball-Goldfinch

Corporate Services Senior Manager

David Halkett

Business Services Director

Lucy Hatton

Corporate and International Partner

Killer Coffee

How to start to fix any business issue in 30 minutes over a Killer cup of Coffee.

What are the top three burning issues in your business?

Where are you NOW? WHERE do you want to be? HOW are you going to get there?

Contact Martin Gibbs if you fancy a coffee

Boosting your probability of Change Success

Research tells us that the probability of change success in any project or initiative, whether for yourself or for your business is only 30%. A ‘trial and error’ approach to change comes with a high cost in terms of lost time, reduced confidence, wasted money and poor utilisation of resources.

In a changing world, success depends on your ability to adapt and beat the odds.

Contact Martin Gibbs to boost your odds of success in 2025

Decision Matrix

A business strategy planning tool we use internally and with clients to decide between and evaluate different alternatives and options.

Contact Martin Gibbs help you with your Decision Matrix

Dafferns Profit Improvement Workshop
It was a superb session, timing wise spot on as the Heads are keen to work together to achieve change. You will have seen how committed they all are! The workshops are fantastic, well thought out and relevant. Being part of the process has enabled us to focus on what we want to achieve and develop our skills to get there
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