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How we help mid-market firms achieve their vision

Mid-market business leaders across New Zealand turn to turn to senior business coach Leigh Paulden of Scalable Sustainable Business Growth (SSBG) when they need expert guidance, proven frameworks, and a clear path forward.

Whether you’re scaling for the next stage, managing rapid growth, or preparing for succession, we help you overcome the challenges that slow momentum, add pressure, and keep leaders awake at night.

Growth and strategy

Are you stuck at a growth ceiling or racing ahead without direction?

Many mid-market firms hit a point where effort no longer equals results. Growth stalls, strategy feels outdated, or expansion becomes chaotic.

SSBG helps you find the right pace of growth so you can ambition with clarity and structure. Together, we’ll shape a strategy that’s clear, achievable, and future proof.

Outcome: Sustainable growth built on clear direction, priorities, and execution discipline.

Learn how Leigh helped SalesStar leap from home business to a global force in sales transformation.

Leadership and decision-making

Feeling stretched thin, or losing confidence in your team?

As your business grows, it can feel like every decision falls on your shoulders, without an independent advisor to challenge or support you.

SSBG helps you step up and out, providing independent advice, structure, and accountability that strengthens your leadership and builds an aligned team around you.

Outcome: A confident, empowered leadership team that makes clear, consistent decisions.

Learn how Leigh helped Dbvisit build a strong leadership team that transformed the business.

Culture & team performance

Is your culture holding you back or propelling you forward?

Culture is the engine that drives execution. When values slip or accountability fades, progress stalls.

We work with you to strengthen alignment, communication, and accountability at every level, transforming culture from reactive to proactive, and people from passengers to partners in performance.

Outcome: A high-performing engaged culture that drives results and frees the leader to focus on growth.

Build a culture that fuels performance. Talk with Leigh today.

Performance & pressure

Are profits flat, or stakeholders demanding more?

Mid-market leaders often work harder without seeing the gains they expect. On top of that, boards, investors, and staff all want results.

SSBG helps you focus on what truly drives profitability and performance, giving you accountability and stakeholders the confidence that the business is on the right track.

Outcome: Stronger margins, improved performance, and greater stakeholder trust.

Uncover how to strengthen profit and stakeholder confidence. Contact Leigh today.

Risk & resilience

Do you worry about being blindsided by disruption or change?

Uncertainty is part of every business cycle. However, you don’t have to feel exposed, and unsure of the threats that lie ahead or how to prepare.

SSBG helps you anticipate risk, prepare for disruption, and build resilience into your strategy and systems. With better foresight and structure, you’ll be ready for whatever comes next.

Outcome: Confidence and stability through change.

Learn how Leigh helped Active Healthcare turn a downturn into significant growth.

Personal freedom & control

Does your business depend too heavily on you?

When every fire lands on your desk, there’s little time left for strategy, family or the bigger picture.

SSBG helps you regain control through structure, systems, and leadership rhythms that allow the business to thrive without your constant presence.

Outcome: Control, freedom, and a business that runs predictably, not one that runs you.

Reclaim your time and reset your role as a leader. Contact Leigh today.

RESULTS WE ACHIEVE

Mid-market businesses working with SSBG typically experience 2x or greater cash-flow, 3x industry profitability, and significant revenue growth. In fact, a number of our customers have appeared on the Deloitte Fast 50 list.

SSBG has helped some of NZ’s top mid-market businesses achieve scalable sustainable business growth.
Read our latest case studies.

Why work with a business coach?

Do I need a business coach?

There is a common misconception that CEOs at the top of their game do not require the services of a business coach. Research recently conducted by Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches reveals a different story.

Gravitas Impact surveyed CEOs from over 120 companies before and after working with a business consultant. The resulting white paper identifies the most common problems, solutions, and outcomes that occur when a CEO engages a well-trained, experienced business coach.

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“Before coaching, only 15% of the companies were in high-growth mode. After coaching, that number grew to 65%, representing a 4.4x improvement”.

Leigh Paulden

Coaching from a World-Class Expert

For over 40 years, Leigh Paulden has honed his business skills, expanded his knowledge base, and built his capability. Having undergone rigorous international training, Leigh is the only senior certified Gravitas Impact business consultant in New Zealand. He is also one of only 6 Outthinker Growth Strategists in Australasia. As a result, he is the leading provider of mid-market advisory and coaching services in New Zealand.

With a successful track record of business consulting with New Zealand’s top mid-market firms, Leigh’s clients had an average business growth rate of 34.23% last financial year.

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Our Success Stories

Supacolour Case Study | SSBG

Supacolour

How Supacolour went from domestic success to an international superstar. Read case study.

Anytime Fitness Case Study

Anytime Fitness

How CEO Richard Ball took a successful American Franchise model and turned it on its head to make it work in the NZ market. Read case study.

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Ready to solve the challenges holding your business back?

Whether it’s growth, leadership, profitability, risk, or simply regaining control, you don’t have to tackle it alone. Contact Leigh to discover how he can move your business forward.
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