PROBLEMS WE SOLVE
Helping High-Growth Firms Achieve Their Vision
Mid-market business leaders across New Zealand work with senior business coach, Leigh Paulden, when they need expert advice and support to achieve the vision they have for their business.
Whether your objective is to scale and grow your company for future generations, or achieve maximum financial value by strategically selling, Leigh knows what is required to turn a good business into a great business.
Scalable Sustainable Business Growth (SSBG) works with mid-market business leaders who are seeking a recognised business framework, expert guidance, and a proven path forward. We frequently help solve challenging business problems that enable you to:
- Drive scalable sustainable business growth.
- Ensure your people are aligned with the company strategy, making the right decisions, and thinking and working smarter.
- Build capability, motivate your teams, and strengthen your company culture.
- Develop a differentiated strategy to drive revenue growth, increase profits, and achieve business excellence.
- Grow while keeping the essence of the business that you have built.
- Select, communicate, and align your top priorities.
- Improve execution, productivity, and capacity within your company.
- Improve management’s time effectiveness so leadership can spend time on the right things.
- Dramatically improve cash flow to self-fund growth.
- Achieve maximum financial value when it is time to sell.
- Become business champions and move from good to great.
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.
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.
“Before coaching, only 15% of the companies were in high-growth mode. After coaching, that number grew to 65%, representing a 4.4x improvement”.
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.
Our Success Stories
Supacolour
How Supacolour went from domestic success to an international superstar. Read 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.
Get on the path to success
WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING
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
