Work with me

Three steps, and you can stop after any of them.

The Road Map session

£2,500. Optional, and it comes off your first phase if you go ahead.

For when you know something needs to change but not what to change first. Half a day working through how the business actually operates: roles, decisions, priorities, meetings and numbers.

• A structured working session, not a presentation
• A written road map setting out what to change, in what order, and why
• Three follow-up calls over the following weeks, to hold progress once you are back in the day-to-day

If you go on to an embedded engagement within 90 days, the full £2,500 is credited against phase one. Which means it costs you nothing if you continue, and still leaves you with something useful if you don't.

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The embedded engagement

This is the work Cowell & Co exists to do.

I take the Integrator seat alongside you and your leadership team, on fractional terms, until the structure, accountability and rhythm hold without me.

Two routes

If you cannot tell which one you need, that is normal. It is the first thing we work out together, and it does not change what happens in month one.

The shape

Six months, two phases, one day a week. A single day or two half days, whichever fits your rhythm. The day is protected. Busy weeks do not suspend it. Busy weeks are why it exists.

£16,500 a phase, invoiced monthly.

Phase one and phase two are £16,500 each, so six months is £33,000. Phase three is quoted at the end of phase two, because by then we will know how much of it should sit with your team rather than with me.

A full-time operations director at £75,000 costs around £88,000 a year once employer National Insurance and pension are counted, plus roughly £15,000 to recruit, and takes months to hire with no guarantee they are the right one.

Either of us can end the engagement at a phase boundary with 30 days' notice. If it is not working, neither of us should be locked in.

Delivered in English or French.

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This only works as a two-way commitment.

I am not an advisor and I am not a business manager. I am not there to take the problem off your desk and hand it back solved.

• The protected day, every week. It does not move because the week got difficult.
• Real time spent working on the business, with my support rather than in place of it.
• A willingness to be challenged on things you have always done, including how you lead. That conversation is rarely the first one we have but it is almost always a necessary one.

If you are looking for someone to take it all on and run it for you, you have the wrong person, and honestly, you would be the wrong client for me.

Who this works for.

Founder-led businesses of roughly eight to thirty people, typically turning over between half a million and five million pounds, in professional and knowledge-based sectors. Mortgage brokerages, technology businesses, advisory firms, agencies.

I hold four embedded engagements at a time, which works out at around seven a year. That is arithmetic rather than false scarcity. A protected day a week each, done properly, does not stretch further.

If the timing does not line up, I will tell you when the next phase starts rather than squeeze you in. Waiting six weeks for someone with capacity is better than starting with someone who has none.