About

A different kind of ally

Pause. Think. Thrive.

Strategic Pause Advisory Ltd exists to support and guide business leaders to build value, resolve problems and thrive; delivered based on Respect, Integrity and Transparency, and underpinned by understanding and a passion for excellence.

There are always competing issues in business, whether you are planning for the future, or to grow, or for succession, or an exit or even just trying to resolve urgent matters so you can get onto the important things!

Creating and maintaining focus while resolving an issue or problem, or a negotiation, or an especially large project, or transformation, without damaging distraction, is not easy; and all that is while balancing the dilemma of retaining consistency and remaining flexible.

Everything is easier with a partner and an ally, who can provide guidance, based on real world experience, delivered by someone who understands leadership, and the difficulties encountered in business and especially when implementing change.

Strategic Pause offers partnership grounded in real-world experience, through fractional leadership guidance, or partnership, representing great value for money. When we work together, you stay in control but with a trusted business ally by your side.

Together we will create time, a strategic pause, for clear thinking. We will work through how to unbundle the issues you face and create a plan to take you from where you are today, to where you need to be, a strategy for your specific situation. We won't waste time and reinvent the wheel, Strategic Pause has built a , based on experience.

Depending on the issue, we can work through a small part of it, e.g. for a negotiation or asset purchase, or a much larger part of it for a business or team transformation.

Where it makes sense other trusted contacts, the network I have built over a lifetime in business, that I have come to trust, are available too. That network of "others", from many walks of life, includes, lawyers, marketeers, accountants, surveyors, brokers, advisers, investors, mentors, coaches, bankers, consultants, IT, HR and AI consultants and many more.