Fractional Growth Directors
We work with founders who intend to double their business.
Expedite Growth Services joins founder-led businesses as part of their senior team. We are accountable to you, and we do the doing. We identify what is holding your growth back, build the function and the team to fix it, and leave it in the hands of the right full-time hire.
That is one kind of client: founders and CEOs looking to grow their business 100% or more within the next 12 to 24 months.
Who we work with
We are selective, and the filter is ambition.
We work only with founders and CEOs who are looking to grow their business 100% or more within the next 12 to 24 months. Not businesses hoping for a bit more, and not businesses looking to hold steady. If doubling is the plan, we will tell you plainly what has to change to get there.
The intention
100% growth or more, within 12 to 24 months. Below that, a fractional growth director is the wrong investment.
The person
A founder or CEO who owns the decision, makes it, and is in the room each week while it is built.
The business
Turning over between £500k and £10m, with something real to build on: customers, revenue and a reputation.
The problem
Growth rarely stalls for lack of ideas. It stalls because three things arrive at once.
The experience gap
No one in the business has built this before, at this stage. You are learning on the job, at the company's expense.
The affordability gap
The person with the proven experience to build your sales, marketing or operations function costs a senior salary, before that function exists to pay for it.
The mis-hire trap
So you hire cheaply, or hire the wrong profile. A year later you have lost time, money and momentum, and you have more to untangle than before.
The approach
Senior experience inside your business, without the senior salary.
Every engagement is led by our founder, Paul Coleman, as your Fractional Growth Director. He sits within your senior management team and is accountable to you. He is supported by specialists in systems, automation, content and development where the work needs them.
We do not advise from the sidelines. If what we build stops working the week we leave, we have not finished the job. We measure ourselves by one thing: whether it keeps working after the handover.
How it works
The 6D Growth Method
Every business has one constraint holding back its growth at any given time. Our six-step method finds it, removes it, and moves on to the next.
Step 1 of 6
Discover
We get under the skin of your business: the numbers, customers, team, systems and ambitions. This is how we find what is really holding growth back.
What we work on together
Four areas, one accountable lead.
Growth
- Selling
- Marketing
- Reputation
- Operations
Foundations
- Systems, processes and cadence
- Scalable foundations
People
- Building teams
- AI that elevates people
- Ways of working
- People plans
Value
- Enterprise value
- Preparing for sale
- Maximising your exit
AI and infrastructure
AI will make some businesses far more productive. It will make others chaotic. The difference is who is in control.
With our infrastructure and AI partners, we help founders and CEOs take the productivity and keep the control: clear rules, the right tools, and a team that uses them well.
How we help with AI
Spend in the right places
Knowing what not to do is half the value.
Every stage of growth has places where money works hard, and places where it disappears. The premature hire, the rebrand nobody needed, the agency retainer that moves nothing. We will tell you plainly which is which, at the stage you are at now.
Read the Growth Stage GuideWhy it pays
Value that compounds with every constraint removed.
Senior, proven experience for a fraction of the cost of one full-time hire.
Specialist support on tap, without adding to your headcount.
Delivery from week one. No recruitment process, no six months of ramp-up.
The right hire, defined by a function that already works.
Documented systems that do not depend on any one person, including you.
A business that is worth more each time a constraint is removed.
Meet the founder
Paul Coleman
Founder and Growth Director
Paul founded Expedite Growth Services to give growing businesses what they rarely find in one person: senior commercial leadership, and the practical ability to build what that leadership calls for.
Paul leads every engagement personally. Clients work with him directly, not with a junior team behind him.
Experience across education · travel · healthcare and aesthetics · consumer brands · technology · legal and professional services
More about Paul and the team
If you intend to double in the next 24 months, let's find out what is in the way.
We work with founders and CEOs of businesses turning over between £500k and £10m who are looking to grow 100% or more within the next 12 to 24 months. In a short conversation, we will work out what stage you are at, what is holding you back, and whether we are the right people to help. If we are not, we will tell you.
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