Expert Business Growth Guidance
If you want your business to grow, you need more than ideas. You need focus, proven frameworks and clear guidance to put them into action. At SSBG we have made it our life’s work to understand and apply the world’s best business structures and strategies to help mid-market firms succeed.
Our personalised business coaching program brings these frameworks together in a way that suits your goals and stage of growth. We use them to help you overcome challenges like stalled revenue, profit pressure, decision fatigue or feeling out of control as your business scales.
SSBG Director and Consultant Leigh Paulden is the only senior Gravitas Impact Business Coach in New Zealand. His certification requires ongoing training in leading business frameworks so you always get advice that is current and effective.
Leading Business Frameworks That Drive Results
The frameworks below are not taught separately. Instead, we draw on them throughout your coaching programme and apply what is most relevant to your situation. This approach helps you focus on what matters, make better decisions and scale with confidence.
The key frameworks we use include:
7 Attributes of Agile Growth Framework
A comprehensive and agile framework that incorporates the latest research to help your company achieve growth and longevity. Includes system analysis, leadership and customer-focused modules.
Outthinker Growth Strategy
Provides a strategic pathway to breakthrough strategy and is becoming recognised as the leading business framework to achieve company-wide strategic clarity, disruptive strategy and innovation.
The Great Game of Business
A business operating system that helps your organisation grow and enjoy continual prosperity, through a highly engaged and accountable workforce.
Four Decisions Framework
Helps you attract and keep the right people, create a truly differentiated strategy, tighten up execution habits and conserve cash to weather the storms
Scaling Up Framework
Used by 40,000 businesses globally and includes the famous Rockefeller Habits Checklist, and One Page Strategic Plan.
7 Attributes of Agile Growth Framework
Provides continuous evaluation of the seven attributes that create sustainable growth and longevity in business. Built on the success of the Four Decisions framework, it has been expanded to include systems, customers and leadership, giving business leaders and CEO’s a comprehensive and unprecedented insight into the workings of their company. Partnered with the knowledge and experience of a certified premium business consultant, this framework delivers results quickly.
Four Decisions Framework
In any growing business, there are four critical decisions that impact your ability to grow and scale.
The Four Decisions Framework is based on the “Four Decisions” that companies must get right to attract and keep the right people, create a truly differentiated strategy, tighten up execution habits and conserve cash to weather the storms.
PEOPLE
Your business is your people. Is your team ready for the changes growth will bring?
STRATEGY
Strategy is the most powerful driver of growth. Do you know where your company is going?
EXECUTION
Execution drives profits and time. Is your team ready to do things differently to achieve your goals?
CASH
Growth sucks cash. What are your cash conversion cycles, and do you have the dollars to grow?
Outthinker
The Outthinker process has been developed by a team of ex-McKinsey consultants and honed in practice over 10 years. Focusing on strategy, the methodology is proven to accelerate growth rates by 100%-120%. Outthinker has been applied to over 300 companies globally including Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson.
SSBG Consultant Leigh Paulden is one of only six Certified Outthinker Growth Strategists in Australasia. In the video below, Leigh explains how to Outthink your competitors and create an innovative and disruptive strategy.
The Great Game of Business
In 1983, Jack Stack and other managers successfully turned a failing business into one of the most successful and competitive companies in America.
Based on their learnings, the Great Game of Business operating system is used by companies who are looking to overcome complex business challenges, accelerate growth, or just improve their organisation’s culture by increasing employee engagement.
Scaling Up Framework
The Scaling Up Framework is successfully used by 40,000 businesses globally and is based on Verne Harnish’s book Scaling Up: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. Scaling Up introduces two now famous tools for business growth: The Rockefeller Habits Checklist that specifies the 10 Essential Habits that are proven to significantly improve net profit and reduce the time it takes to run your business. The second important tools is the proven and effective One Page Strategic Plan.
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING
At YellowBites, we knew that if we wanted to grow, we needed more than just ambition, we needed help. Someone who could provide a clear strategy and give us the confidence and discipline to execute it well.
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Rodney Jurgens, Managing Director - Yellow
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. Read more >>
Colin Durling , - CDK Stone
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.
Robb Huskinson , - HTC
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
