A no-fluff, hands-on approach to defining your company’s strategy and getting your team on board.
But do you actually know how to do it?
If you run a business, you already have a strategy—whether you realise it or not.
Maybe you built your company on instinct and hard work, and it’s grown because you’ve made good decisions along the way. But now, you’re at a crossroads. You need to scale, evolve, or adapt—but you’re not sure exactly how.
You don’t need another strategy book. You don’t need a 300-slide corporate strategy deck. You just need a clear, structured way to think about strategy—and to get your team thinking the same way.
That’s exactly what this course is for.
A self-paced, practical course that walks you through the exact process to clarify your company’s direction and make the right strategic choices—without the fluff, jargon, or corporate nonsense.
This isn’t a theoretical MBA course. It’s a structured, step-by-step approach that you can use to define your company’s strategy and lead your team through the process.
By the end of this course, you’ll have:
✔️ A clear, structured strategy that makes sense for your business.
✔️ Strategic priorities that align your team and drive focus.
✔️ A decision-making framework so you stop relying purely on instinct.
✔️ A process to engage your leadership team and get buy-in.
✔️ A concrete action plan for executing your strategy.
✅ SME CEOs & Founders who want to get clear on their company’s strategy and ensure their leadership team is aligned.
✅ Senior Leaders & Directors who are responsible for shaping their company’s direction but need a structured way to do it.
✅ Internal Team Leaders & Facilitators who want to run better strategy discussions and decision-making processes.
✅ Consultants & Coaches who help companies with strategy and want a clear framework to guide their clients.
The course follows a structured journey—not just a random collection of strategy tips. You’ll go through a step-by-step process, designed to help you think clearly, make informed decisions, and lead your team through strategic discussions.
Each stage of the course mirrors the Hero’s Journey—because strategy isn’t just a spreadsheet. It’s a process of discovery, decision-making, and execution.
The Call to Adventure – Why strategy matters & what makes it hard.
Mapping the Landscape – What does your company do best?
Understanding the Forces at Play – What do your customers really need?
Setting the Destination – Where are we headed?
Crossroads & Strategic Choices – Exploring different paths.
The Moment of Decision – Making the big calls.
Rallying the Team – Getting everyone aligned.
Taking the First Steps – Turning strategy into action.
The Road Ahead – Keeping strategy alive and adapting over time.
Course Contents:
A no-fluff, hands-on approach to defining your company’s strategy and getting your team on board.
This assessment draws on these key indicators:
There are plenty of strategy books and courses out there. But most of them are:
❌ Too corporate – Built for massive companies, not SMEs who need a lean, practical approach.
❌ A rigid structure that doesn't work for your company and its unique attributes.
❌ Too generic – They throw a bunch of frameworks at you and leave you to figure out how to apply them.
After years of working with leaders and teams, I understand what SMEs actually need:
✅ A clear, practical process - This isn't just a pile of theory, it's a hands-on approach with real outcomes.
✅ A guide to making real decisions - You'll be guided through steps relevant to your business.
✅ Include your team - learn how to lead your team through strategic discussions.
Most businesses work hard but drift—reacting to challenges instead of driving toward a clear future. This section helps you start thinking strategically to build a stronger foundation for success.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ The Trap of No Strategy – Without strategy, you waste time, lose money, and struggle to grow.
2️⃣ What Strategy Really Is (and Isn’t) – Separating real strategy from vague goals and buzzwords.
3️⃣ Your Role as Strategic Leader – Shifting from Operator mode to Strategic Leader mode.
📂 Resources:
✅ Strategy Health Check – Self-assess if your business is strategic or reactive.
✅ Strategy Filter – A simple tool to check if your strategy is clear, focused, and actionable.
✅ Two Hats Exercise – Identify where your time goes and how to focus on long-term growth.
By the end of this section, you’ll have a stronger grasp of what strategy really is, and the mindset shift needed to lead with confidence.
To build a winning strategy, you need to understand what’s working, where you stand, and what’s changing. Here we uncover your strengths, analyse your competition, and prepare for the future.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ What Has Made You Successful So Far? – Identify your true strengths and how to double down.
2️⃣ Competitor Mapping – Understand who you’re competing with (it’s not always who you think).
3️⃣ Market Trends – Staying ahead of shifts in customer behavior, technology, and competition.
4️⃣ Scenario Planning – Preparing for multiple possible futures so you’re never caught off guard.
📂 Resources:
✅ Unique Strengths Analysis – Identify the reasons customers choose you over the competition.
✅ Competition Map – Pinpoint direct and indirect competitors, plus opportunities to stand out.
✅ Trend Tracker – A structured way to monitor industry shifts and stay ahead of change.
✅ Scenario Planning Framework – Map out different futures and create a plan for any outcome.
By the end of this section, you’ll have a clearer understanding of your strengths, competitive position, and future risks and opportunities—so you can make smarter strategic decisions.
Most businesses assume they know their customers—but assumptions can be expensive. This section helps you understand what your customers truly value, how they find you, and where you might be losing them—so you can make sharper strategic choices.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ What Do Your Customers Really Care About? – Uncover the drivers behind customer decisions.
2️⃣ How Customers Find You – Map the customer journey to spot gaps and missed opportunities.
3️⃣ Identify Your Ideal Customer – Define who you serve best so you can attract more of them.
4️⃣ Where Not to Play – Why saying no to certain customers or markets makes you stronger.
📂 Resources:
✅ Customer Insights Framework – Identify what customers care about (not just what they say).
✅ Customer Journey Map – Track how customers find you and how to improve conversion.
✅ Ideal Customer Profile Worksheet – Define your best customers and where to focus.
✅ “Where Not to Play” Filter – Which customers, markets, or opportunities aren’t worth chasing.
You’ll gain a clear understanding of your best customers, what they really need, and where to focus—so you attract more of the right people and stop wasting time on the wrong ones.
A great strategy starts with a clear destination. This section helps you define what success looks like, set meaningful goals, and align your team around a vision they can believe in.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ Vision, Mission, and Goals – How these elements fit together and which ones actually matter.
2️⃣ What Winning Looks Like for You in 5 to 10 Years – Thinking bigger, setting an ambitious yet achievable vision, and defining the future of your business.
3️⃣ Setting Strategic Goals (And Why Revenue Targets Aren’t Always a Good Idea) – Choosing the right goals that drive real progress, not just financial targets.
4️⃣ Sharing the Vision – Communicate your strategy to inspire and align your team.
📂 Resources:
✅ Vision, Mission & Goals Framework – A structured guide to define where you’re going.
✅ 5-10 Year Vision Builder – Map out what success looks like beyond just growth numbers.
✅ Goal-Setting Worksheet – Set meaningful, high-impact goals to align with your strategy.
You’ll gain a clearer long-term vision, well-defined strategic goals, and the tools to bring your team along for the journey—so your business moves forward with direction and purpose.
Every business faces key choices about how to compete, where to focus, and what to build. This section helps you make those decisions with confidence.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ How to Compete Without Just Cutting Prices – Avoid the race to the bottom and win on value.
2️⃣ The 3 Winning Moves: Differentiation, Cost, or Focus – Choose the right one for your business.
3️⃣ Building Competitive Advantage – Making strategic moves that compound and keep you ahead.
4️⃣ Gaps and Bottlenecks – Identify what’s preventing growth and how to remove obstacles.
5️⃣ Build the Capabilities You Need – Developing the right skills, systems, and resources.
📂 Resources:
✅ Competitive Strategy Framework – Choose how to compete (differentiation, cost, or focus).
✅ Competitive Advantage Tracker – Map how your edge evolves over time and where to invest.
✅ Bottleneck Analysis – Identify and prioritise the biggest constraints limiting your growth.
✅ Capability Map – Map skills, processes, and assets that will take your business to the next level.
By the end of this section, you’ll have a clear competitive strategy, a plan to strengthen your advantage, and a roadmap for removing the barriers holding you back.
Strategy is about choices—and making the right ones at the right time. This section gives you practical frameworks to make high-impact decisions faster and with greater confidence.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ Avoiding Analysis Paralysis – Why too much thinking leads to inaction, how to break the cycle.
2️⃣ Decision-Making Frameworks – Proven models for making strategic choices efficiently.
3️⃣ What Would Have to Be True? – A powerful question that unlocks better decision-making.
4️⃣ Investing for Impact – How to allocate resources strategically for maximum growth.
5️⃣ Ranking and Testing Ideas – Prioritising and validating strategic moves before fully committing.
📂 Resources:
✅ Decision-Making Playbook – A set of frameworks for making high-stakes choices with clarity.
✅ What Would Have to Be True? Worksheet – Challenge assumptions and find new ways forward.
✅ Strategic Investment Guide – Where to put your time, money, and energy for the highest returns.
✅ Idea Ranking & Validation Matrix – A simple way to test and prioritise strategic options.
By the end of this section, you’ll have a structured way to make big decisions, prioritise the right opportunities, and move forward with confidence—without second-guessing.
A great strategy is worthless if your team doesn’t understand it or believe in it. This section helps you communicate strategy clearly and engage your team—so everyone is pulling in the same direction.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ How to Communicate Strategy Without Confusing People – Making your strategy clear, simple, and actionable for your team.
2️⃣ Strategy is a Team Sport: How to Engage Others – Turning strategy into a shared effort by getting buy-in and involvement.
📂 Resources:
✅ Strategy Communication Guide – A step-by-step approach to explaining your strategy in a way that makes sense to everyone.
✅ Team Alignment Checklist – A tool to assess whether your team understands and supports your strategic direction.
✅ Engagement Framework – Practical ways to involve employees in shaping and executing the strategy.
By the end of this section, you’ll have a clear and effective way to communicate strategy, ensure alignment, and get your team fully invested in the journey ahead.
A great strategy is useless without execution. This section helps you translate your strategy into a clear roadmap, set the right goals, and make execution a habit—so your plans turn into real results.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ Goals & KPIs: Putting Them Together – How to set strategic goals and track progress without getting lost in meaningless metrics.
2️⃣ Creating a Strategy Roadmap – Breaking down your strategy into clear, actionable steps.
3️⃣ Why Execution Fails, and How to Make It Work – Common reasons strategies fall apart—and how to avoid them.
4️⃣ The Planning vs. Doing Problem – Striking the right balance between thinking and taking action.
5️⃣ Measuring Success: How to Measure Anything – Choosing the right metrics to track what actually matters.
📂 Resources:
✅ Goals & KPIs Framework – A structured way to set strategic goals and define success metrics.
✅ Strategy Roadmap Template – A practical tool to map out key initiatives, milestones, and timelines.
✅ Execution Risk Checklist – Identify and prevent common execution failures before they happen.
✅ Planning vs. Doing Self-Assessment – A guide to help you balance strategic thinking with action.
✅ Success Metrics Tracker – A simple way to measure progress and adjust as needed.
By the end of this section, you’ll have a clear plan for execution, meaningful goals, and a system to track progress—so strategy becomes something you do, not just something you talk about.
Strategy isn’t a one-time event—it’s an ongoing process. This section helps you build strategy into your routine, stay adaptable, and keep your team focused on the bigger picture—so momentum doesn’t fade.
🎥 Videos:
1️⃣ Building a Strategy Habit: Quarterly Reviews – How to check in on your strategy regularly and adjust as needed.
2️⃣ When to Adapt vs. Stay the Course – Knowing when to pivot and when to push through challenges.
3️⃣ Celebrate Success: Building a Winning Mindset – Why recognizing progress keeps strategy alive and motivates your team.
4️⃣ How to Stay Focused on the Big Picture (And Out of the Weeds) – Avoiding the trap of getting stuck in daily operations and losing sight of strategy.
📂 Resources:
✅ Quarterly Strategy Review Template – A structured approach to reviewing progress, identifying obstacles, and refining strategy.
✅ Pivot or Persevere Checklist – A decision-making tool for knowing when to stick with a strategy and when to adapt.
✅ Success Reflection Guide – A framework for celebrating wins and reinforcing progress.
✅ Big Picture Focus Tracker – A simple tool to ensure you’re spending enough time on strategy vs. daily operations.
By the end of this section, you’ll have a system for keeping strategy alive, a process for adapting when needed, and the mindset to stay focused on long-term success.
A summary of what's included
It's crucial to achieve a tangible outcome from this process, and you'll work with your team to create a practical action plan to implement the end result. The plan includes tasks, timescales, roles and responsibilities - specific outcomes that will impact your business.
A series of PDF implementation guides provide comprehensive step-by-step instructions. Everything is clearly presented and explained, so you can run the process yourself with confidence.
All my sessions and toolkits come with a variety of real-life examples from businesses of different sizes, from different industries. I analyse and explain how a selection of companies have carried out this work in the past and outline the resulting impact.
The toolkit includes easy-to-use tools to guide you and your team. These step-by-step frameworks take participants through a range of processes to help surface ideas, identify patterns, make connections and draw conclusions. Each comes with clear, concise instructions.
Choose the package that works best for you.
This course will give you the clarity, confidence, and tools to define your company’s strategy and align your leadership team around it.
You don’t need a 300-page strategy deck. You don’t need to overcomplicate things.
You just need a clear process, the right discussions, and the right decisions.
Do you have any questions?
This course is designed for SME CEOs, founders, and senior leaders who need a structured, practical way to create and execute a winning strategy. If you’ve ever thought, “We need a strategy, but I don’t know how to create one,” this course is for you.
It’s also useful for:
✅ Leadership teams who want to align their thinking and decision-making.
✅ Internal team leaders & facilitators who guide strategy discussions.
✅ Consultants & coaches who help businesses with strategic planning.
This course is self-paced, meaning you can complete it on your schedule.
Either way, you’ll be taking action as you go—so the time you invest will directly benefit your business.
No. This is a practical, action-focused course.
You won’t just watch lessons—you’ll apply them using:
✅ Strategy exercises to guide your decision-making
✅ Templates & worksheets to turn insights into action
✅ Pre-made meeting agendas to lead your leadership team through the process
✅ Case studies & real-world examples to illustrate key lessons
By the end, you’ll have a structured strategy for your business—built by you, not just theory.
Absolutely. Many companies think they have a strategy, but in reality, it’s often:
❌ Unclear or outdated
❌ Not aligned across the leadership team
❌ Based more on gut feel than actual decision-making
This course will pressure-test your existing strategy and ensure it’s:
✅ Clear & well-defined
✅ Backed by real insights (not just assumptions)
✅ Understood & aligned across your leadership team
✅ Turned into a concrete action plan
If your strategy is solid, this course will make it even stronger.
Yes! This course is designed to help you lead your team through strategic discussions.
If 5 or more people from your team sign up, you’ll also get a free 1:1 coaching call to help guide the process.
The self-serve course is designed to be clear and easy to follow, but if you want extra guidance:
This is not a business school-style strategy course.
❌ No jargon.
❌ No 300-slide PowerPoints.
❌ No vague theories with no clear application.
This course is:
✅ Designed specifically for SMEs (not giant corporations).
✅ Practical & action-based—you’ll work on your real business as you go.
✅ Engaging, straight-talking, and full of useful frameworks—not boring lectures.
Think of it as a facilitated strategy process in a box—but with personality.
You’ll have lifetime access to all course materials, including future updates.
Once you enroll, you can revisit the lessons, templates, and exercises whenever you need to refresh or refine your strategy.
Since this is a digital course with instant access, there are no refunds. If you’re unsure, reach out with any questions before buying.
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But do you actually know how to do it?
If you run a business, you already have a strategy—whether you realise it or not.
Maybe you built your company on instinct and hard work, and it’s grown because you’ve made good decisions along the way. But now, you’re at a crossroads. You need to scale, evolve, or adapt—but you’re not sure exactly how.
You don’t need another strategy book. You don’t need a 300-slide corporate strategy deck. You just need a clear, structured way to think about strategy—and to get your team thinking the same way.
That’s exactly what this course is for.
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