Strategy & Culture 

Become a High-Growth Business By Design

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Catalyst for Growth Program

Catalyst is a workshop program that will put your leadership team (and organisation) ‘on the same page’ and set you on a course for growth.  Whether you are a startup or an established business, Catalyst will build consensus, get your team on track, and align efforts to outcomes.  Finally, it shapes your growth agenda and marketing plan.

Win Hero CustomersFor Early-Stage Startups

Beachhead Program

If you don’t have three hero customers to leverage as references to evidence your customer value (and the fact that customers are prepared to leverage it), then you don’t have a platform for growth.  marketing investments will fall on deaf ears.  In this program, we work with you to shape your beachhead.

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Leadership Design Program

Without the right personalities and competencies in your top table, you won’t have the balance to secure and deliver growth. This program will help. you to shape your team.

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The Listening CEO Program

Do you know why your customers buy from you? Leaders have the best opportunity to succeed when they get out of the office and listen to customers.  Believe it or not, there’s a trick to getting this right!  In this program, we facilitate a listening program for CEOs to get to know their customers better.

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Bounce Program

Your ultimate business valuation won’t come from a slide-rule calculation by an accountant.  To maximise your valuation, you probably need to do things now to prepare the ground for selling your company at the maximum price.  When goodwill is removed from the value calculation, what does your business have to offer an acquirer?  We work with you to put in place the conditions that will assure shareholders gain the maximum sale valuation.

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TILT/2 Program

Every leader knows how influential a healthy company culture is to business success.  And yet, how often do you measure your cultural health?  What is the personality of your culture?  How are you measuring your cultural health and performance?  TILT/2 is a program developed by The Universal Workforce Institute (TheUWI.com) in conjunction with NDG to optimise cultural performance as a game-changer for business growth and success.

Books

Here you can find Ian’s books, guides and white papers. Enrich your business knowledge, gain insight into business growth and change management.

The Business Bible 2.0

Discover how to design an agile organisation that outperforms its rivals by design with Ian Tomlin’s complete Business Bible for the digital age of business!

9 Decisions to Sharpen Your Axe

Before you leap into action, you must think deeply about the decisions that matter most to your business success.  Building consensus and agreement on the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’ becomes considerably more achievable!