For Business Owners & Founders
You built the business. Now make it work for you.
Coaching for owners who want to stop running on instinct — and start running a business that grows without burning them out. Ninety days. Two or three levers. Done properly.
Underpricing
Your rates haven't moved in years — raising them feels like risking the relationship.
Everything runs through you
Sales, delivery, invoicing, chasing payments. The business stalls when you stop.
Feast or famine
Busy means no time to sell. Quiet means an empty pipeline. There's never a system.
The business is your identity
Partner tensions, avoided decisions, growth you're not sure you even want.
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The business is fine. That's the problem.
Four situations that account for almost every owner engagement.
Pricing
"I know I'm undercharging. I just can't bring myself to send the email."
Your costs, your experience, and your market rate have all gone up — your prices haven't. We work out what to charge, how to say it, and what to do when a client pushes back. Owners are consistently surprised by how few clients they lose.
Owner as bottleneck
"I can't take a week off without the whole thing stalling."
You're the chief cook and bottle washer — sales, delivery, invoicing, chasing payments. We build an operating rhythm: what only you can do, what gets systemised, what gets delegated or automated, and in what order.
Pipeline
"When I'm busy I don't sell. Then the work ends and there's nothing behind it."
Feast or famine isn't a personality trait, it's a missing system. We build a pipeline you work weekly — small, consistent, measurable — so the next engagement is forming while the current one runs.
Founder identity
"I haven't had a conversation about the business that wasn't transactional in years."
Partner tensions, decisions you're avoiding, growth you're not sure you want. A confidential room to think out loud with someone who has no stake in the answer — except that it's actually yours.
Ninety days. Two or three levers. Done properly.
Not an open-ended relationship. A scoped engagement with a start, a middle, and a review.
A relationship built on results.
Every engagement gets Ronan's direct involvement — not a junior associate, not a template. If after the first month it isn't working, the engagement ends. No questions, no charge for the remainder.
Grow What You Built
One engagement. Scoped to your business.
90-Day Business Engagement
8 sessions · 90 days · one-time investment
A focused 90-day engagement. We pick the two or three levers that actually move your business and work them until they're done.
- 8 × 60-minute 1-to-1 sessions over 90 days
- Pricing & offer review — what to charge and how to say it
- Positioning: who you serve, what you're known for
- A pipeline you work weekly, not when it's quiet
- Operating rhythm — the business runs without running you
- Direct access between sessions
Sessions run over Google Meet, with optional in-person meetings each quarter.
Need invoicing with VAT, PO numbers, or a scoped multi-partner engagement? Request a proposal instead.
What this looks like in practice
Details anonymised. Patterns real.
Pricing & reinvention
The consultancy that stopped undercharging
An engineering consultancy owner whose market had cooled. Over our engagement: raised consultancy fees 15–20% to market rate, increased client markups, enforced purchase orders before work began, and pivoted into an adjacent growth sector. Same business, very different engine.
Founder identity
The founder who rebuilt on his own terms
A founder who exited a successful business after a partnership broke down — at real cost to his health and family. We rebuilt from values out: a new consultancy with strict guardrails, selective clients, and 90-day engagements so the business serves the life, not the reverse.
Positioning
The partners whose work dried up
Two consultants with 30+ years' experience and an empty pipeline. Before spending a cent on marketing: defined three clear service pillars, built before-and-after case studies, and set boundaries on the work they'd no longer take. Clarity first, promotion second.
Talk it through first.
A free 20-minute call. Bring the thing that's bothering you about the business — you'll leave with at least one clear next step, whether or not we work together.
Prefer to write first? Request a proposal — replies land in Ronan's inbox directly.
Common questions
The ones that come up most often before someone books the call.
Is this business consulting or coaching?
Coaching — with commercial teeth. Ronan won't write your strategy for you, but he will make sure you write one, pressure-test your pricing and positioning, and hold you to the decisions you make. You stay the expert in your business; his job is the clarity, structure, and accountability.
Why 90 days?
It's long enough to change how the business runs and short enough to stay urgent. This isn't an open-ended relationship — we pick the levers, do the work, and review. Many clients continue afterwards; that's a decision we make at the end, not a default.
My business is small — is this for me?
Most owner clients run businesses of one to twenty people: consultancies, professional services, trades-adjacent firms, founders post-exit. If you're the bottleneck in your own business, you're the right size.
What if I'm not sure what the problem is?
That's normal — owners are usually too close to see it. The first two sessions are diagnostic: where the money comes from, where your time goes, and where the two don't match. The levers tend to reveal themselves quickly.
Do sessions expire?
The engagement runs 90 days because momentum matters — but if life genuinely intervenes, we pause and resume. Ronan isn't in the business of charging you for sessions you couldn't use.
Invoicing in EUR with VAT, Stripe links, and PO numbers all handled — mention it in your enquiry.
Meet Ronan
"My job is to be the one person in your week who doesn't have a stake in the business — except that it's actually yours."
I've spent over a decade sitting opposite senior professionals and business owners, helping them figure out what's actually going on — not what should be going on, not what the framework says. Then we work on it.
Alongside executives and senior leaders, I've coached SME owners through pricing overhauls and market pivots, founders rebuilding after exits and broken partnerships, and consultancies repositioning before spending a cent on marketing. The businesses are different. The work is the same.
I don't give advice unless asked. I push back when something doesn't add up. I'll remember what you said three weeks ago and ask why this week is different. Sessions are 60 minutes, you set the agenda, and I bring the questions you didn't think to ask yourself.
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