A PROVEN PATH TO PROFITABLE GROWTH
Sustainable Business Growth Consulting and Expert Guidance.
Helping Mid-Market Business Leaders Achieve Their Visions
Are you struggling to achieve the vision that you have for your company? Unfortunately, there comes a time in every growing business when current strategy, capacity, and resources simply don’t cut it. When your business growth has stalled or is happening so fast you feel out of control, we can provide action and results.
At Scalable Sustainable Business Growth (SSBG), we help business leaders who are struggling to achieve their business goals and know there is a better way to scale. As expert advisors in business growth strategies, we coach mid-market CEOs and leadership teams with a proven framework, an individualised approach, and expert advice to grow and scale with success.
We have a successful track record of business consulting with New Zealand’s top mid-market firms, including a number of Deloitte Fast 50 winners. SSBG clients have a combined annual revenue of $306 million.
We help high-growth firms achieve their visions. Mid-market businesses working with SSBG typically experience 2x or greater cash-flow, 3x industry profitability, and significant revenue growth. In fact, last financial year, our clients had an average business growth rate of 34.23%.
Growth Trajectory
Assessment
A simple yet powerful tool developed to help you assess your growth trajectory and help you build a growth roadmap to future success.
Our Services
Our strategic business management and growth consulting service include programs tailored
specifically for midmarket CEOs and their leadership teams.
Scale & Grow
Frustrated with your growth rate? Whether your business growth has stalled or it is happening so fast that you feel out of control, we provide a proven path to help you achieve your vision and scale with success.
Grow & Exit
Our agile, scalable, and comprehensive business tools and frameworks can help you position your business for a strategic exit that achieves maximum financial value.
Led by Expert Business Consultants
If you’re going to stake your company’s future on someone, then you need to be sure they bring more than just expert opinion to the table. Our trusted and experienced business management consultants are here to help you.
SSBG Director, Leigh Paulden, is one of the leading providers of mid-market advisory and coaching services in New Zealand. For over 40 years, he has honed his business skills, expanded his knowledge base, and built his capability.
Leigh has undergone rigorous international training and has extensive experience with globally proven business growth frameworks. Most importantly, Leigh is passionate about the success of the leaders and companies he is growing through mid-market advising and business coaching.
Our Success Stories
Supacolour
How Supacolour went from domestic success to an international superstar. Read case study.
SalesStar
How SaleStar made the leap from home business to a global force in sales transformation. Read case study.
Achieve Sustainable Business Growth
In business, no matter what challenges you face, your decisions will have an impact on your ability to grow. Business owners come to us when they want a proven path to achieve their vision and increase their bottom line profit.
We deeply understand the critical issues faced by mid- market businesses who are currently growing or looking to grow, including pressures on the leadership team, cash flow, capability, business strategy, systems, accountability, and company culture.
At SSBG, we’re here to help your mid-market business scale and succeed. We provide a holistic business approach. From your business model through to your people and business processes, our business growth experts provide you with the actionable insights and guidance needed to take your organisation to the next level.
When our business growth advisors review a client’s business to understand their business needs, they utilise the best business planning tools from internationally recognised frameworks.
If you want to improve profitability, execution, and business sustainability, our specialist business advisory company is committed to your success.
Business Growth Pains
In the video below, Leigh talks about the common issues facing mid-market business leaders and how to overcome your business growth pains.
Become a Business Champion
We understand the issues facing NZ business leaders. We combine this with knowledge and experience to help you develop a personalised growth strategy and become a business champion.
If you’re serious about business growth – get in touch and let’s see how we can move your business forward.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING
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With Leigh’s wealth of experience and network of contacts we’ve benefitted having somebody at our strategy table that can easily relate to all sorts of situations and offer advice in how to navigate them. (more…)
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Colin Durling , - CDK Stone
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Leigh Paulden has worked closely with both HTC and Hobeca for over six years, and has been instrumental in helping us grow and evolve as businesses. Leigh brings consistent, high-quality coaching, but what sets him apart is his ability to blend structure with people. Read more >>
Robb Huskinson , - HTC
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I describe Leigh Paulden as a diesel engine. He’s just a safe pair of hands and steady. He just follows the process and takes you through it. And so we’ve enjoyed the process of his frameworks and his experience.
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Paul O’Donohue, CEO - SalesStar
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"I would say to anybody who has a desire to grow, or to double or triple their business, that the earlier you add on somebody like Leigh, the easier your road is going to be because it won’t just be about your end goal, it will be about your roadmap and how to actually get there”.
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Mike Modgill, Director - Supacolour
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There is no question that the time my management team and I spent working with Leigh and the Gravitas programmes was of the highest value. Leigh's fantastically broad business perspective, hands on expertise and smart business thinking was invaluable...
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Mike Shatford, CEO - CEO Design Energy
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Working with Leigh Paulden made us prioritise time as a leadership team and work towards our common goals. As a result we matured processes and systems, assessed potential pitfalls and prepared for the changes required to grow a Tech start-up company into a mid-market one.
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Brett O'Donnell, CEO & Founder - Webtools
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Having a robust framework to help develop both strategy and execution is powerful. When that is allied with a knowledgeable, results-focused coach like Leigh Paulden, then you really are set up for success.
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Sam Shosanya, CEO - Paper Plus Group
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SSBG brings focus through great systems, however, having Leigh Paulden coach you in the journey just adds so much more breadth & depth to those 'must get right' decisions. I unreservedly recommend him.
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Richard Ball, CEO - Anytime Fitness NZ
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Leigh Paulden was there from the very early days of Orbica. He focuses very much on business design, strategic thinking, business expansion and setting yourself up for growth.
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Kurt Janssen, CEO and Founder - Orbica
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Implementation of the methods Leigh Paulden has introduced is delivering great results profit-wise and in terms of our business's position and contribution to the marketplace.
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Mark Bishop, General Manager - Active Healthcare
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I strongly recommend Leigh Paulden and his services to anyone who wants to achieve great growth and take their business to the next level. The value Leigh has added has well and truly outweighed the investment.
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Harvey Fisher, General Manager - Carus Group (2017 Deloitte Fast 50)
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Leigh Paulden works with my management team and I to continually challenge our business to continue to grow systematically and profitably.
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Frank van der Velden, CEO - Touchpoint Group
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Working with Leigh Paulden has had an outstanding impact on our business. We are unlocking the potential within SnapComms and the rate of growth (and everyone’s enjoyment of that growth) has increased dramatically. Highly recommended!
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Sarah Perry , CEO - SnapComms
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I strongly recommend Leigh Paulden and his services. The benefits of developing a positive, focused and results-based environment, with significant additional business value, greatly outweigh any investments we have made.
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Ross Johnson, Managing Director - Global Security
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Our Senior Management Team and I have enjoyed working with Leigh Paulden, where we have all been challenged to fully understand the changes in the marketplace, what’s driving them, and how we must position our company to successfully continue to grow profitably in the future.
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Rod Downs, Managing Director - Pacific Hygiene Limited
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I highly recommend Leigh Paulden and the Gravitas Impact tools to any small-medium growth business looking to take their team to the next level.
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Glen Dobbie, Non-Executive Director - Intueri Education Group
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Learning and implementing the Gravitas Impact tools has made a huge difference in the clarity of direction, focus on the right priorities, improved communication within the business and faster execution.
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E Wayne Bailey , Director - Taurus Group Limited
Premium Executive Business Consultants.
Gravitas Impact is a world-leading executive education platform that helps mid-market companies scale and succeed.
GI Consultants and Coaches undergo rigorous annual training for their certification and are recognised as the most experienced and effective mid-market business growth consultants in the world.
Growth strategy is based on the proven 7 Attributes of Agile Growth™ and Four Decisions® frameworks and methodologies from globally recognised thought leaders.
Growth Strategy Consultants.
Outthinker is an internationally proven framework to help mid-market businesses achieve strategic clarity. The Outthinker process helps business leaders ‘think new’ and identify disruptive and innovative strategies with the outcome of driving long-term company growth.
Used by 300 companies globally to accelerate growth rates by 100%-120%.
Outthinker growth strategists undergo rigorous training and demonstrate transformative client impact.
