Strategic thinking without the corporate b*ll*cks.

What I do. 

Fractional consultancy
Ongoing strategic support for businesses that need experienced thinking without another full-time senior person. I work alongside owners, directors, and teams to provide challenge, perspective, and practical support across the business.

One-off projects
A particular business, marketing, commercial, or customer problem that needs investigating and sorting out.

Training and workshops
Practical training in business, marketing, and entrepreneurship for businesses, organisations, and education providers.

Business Sort-Outs
Focused consultancy for smaller businesses that need my brain on a particular problem, decision, or direction without an ongoing relationship.

I’ve been around the block.

I’ve worked in business, marketing, commercial development, and training for my whole career.

I’ve managed teams of up to 50 people and budgets of around £3.5m, built my own six-figure agency, worked with around 7,000 business owners and organisations, and spent 15 years running my own business.

What I’m particularly good at is seeing the bigger picture. Give me a load of seemingly disconnected information and I’ll usually find the thread running through it.

I don’t specialise in one tiny corner of business because businesses don’t work like that. What looks like a marketing problem might actually be an offer problem. A sales problem might be a broken customer journey. Sometimes the thing everyone is busy fixing isn’t the real problem at all.

Organisations I’ve worked with include: East Midlands Chamber, ClassForKids, British Franchise Association, De Montfort University, Arriva, Leicestershire County Council,  Moulton College, Melton BID, Harborough District Council, Melton Borough Council, Blaby District Council, and Barnsley Borough Council.

“We worked with Libby on what was initially to be a short-term contract, but it became clear that we could not do without her. She brought a wealth of knowledge about how to really get the best from marketing campaigns, which few seem to match. She grasped the intricacies of our industry as quickly and thoroughly as any internal employee and used this to drive continual improvements in the results we achieved.” – Angeline Freer, Progress Care

Messy Business 

Messy Business is my podcast. It asks intelligent, uncomfortable questions about business, work, money, ambition, success, leadership, experience, and what any of this is actually flipping for. LISTEN TO MESSY BUSINESS

Life In Business

My book about building a business that actually works in real life. It challenges a lot of the received wisdom about how businesses are supposed to be run and asks what happens when you build one around the life you actually want. READ LIFE IN BUSINESS