Our Story
...owning your story is the first step to writing it.
Our Approach
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey MacKay
For something infinite and free, time is short and expensive – our business leaders often declare time to be their biggest enemy. Here at Thrive we see time as the most valuable asset any person can have: we know it never seems enough to do everything needed for business success.
But Thrive is here to make your tasks fit your time rather than your tasks taking over your time. We have worked in your world and know that it’s never business as usual; we find the ways to make the changes you want, so you and your team fulfills their potential, while the world spins ever faster, with ever more pressure.
We work with you to understand your business, identify key problems and bottlenecks and people, and create the strategies and tactics you need to achieve the changes you need, to get the results you want.
Our three legs are:
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Strategy and Change: Consulting – analyzing effectiveness of current strategy, evolving it with team engagement and developing tactics for successful change.
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Team Engagement: working with the leader to create and implement approaches that will embed change, improve performance and nurture culture.
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Executive Coaching: built around you, with ready-to-implement strategies, ideas for thought and inspirational readings.
What We Do
Thrive is built as a three-legged stool, with each of our key areas working with the other two to provide total support for your business. This three-pronged approach to your business is what makes Thrive unique as we work with you at a strategic level to understand your challenges then help you shape the solutions.
We take this further than most to ensure your solutions are then embedded for the future by working one-to-one with your team leaders and teams, ensuring your changes actually happen.
why use us
You will be using us because you are experiencing growing pains, because of board pressure to improve financial returns, because you cannot seem to hire and keep the brilliant leaders you need to grow, because the internal culture is stuck and everyone has their own view as to why, because you want someone who gets what it is like, who is in your corner and will work with you to create a new trajectory.
It may be all or none of the above – and there are numerous consultants who will want to help you. Ultimately, you will engage Thrive because you have a need, you like us and you believe we can solve problems.
You want to work with people who will challenge and support you, who are passionate for your success, and you like what others have said about us.
We have led and run complex, pressured businesses. We have a strong record in delivering successful changes and are also a social business. We are so confident about the difference we will make, that we will not charge you if we have not delivered change. We have developed techniques, strategies and tactics so time-poor leaders can accelerate their businesses, engage their teams and prosper. Talk with us about your business.
belief & values
Thrive is a consultancy that saves people time – time is the enemy of the business owner, of the professional services leader, of the social enterprise CEO, of all of us who have dreams and ambitions and have day jobs and lives. We make the most of the time we all have, and we work in a way that recognises that the best will in the world does not create outcomes – actions do.
anti-racism & equality
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be antiracist.” – Angela Davis
Thrive is working hard on anti-racist strategies, within the organisation as well as with clients. The journey started with reading “Why I Am No Longer Talking to White People About Race” a few years ago, and then 18 months ago, “White Fragility”. Both of these books prompted a more intentional approach to anti-racism, searching out people who experience racism to read and follow, who are speaking at conferences and leading workshops. Thrive are able to bring this thinking to white majority clients, to share ideas and create approaches that work. Gender diversity is another area that Thrive is wholehearted about – that more equal power and influence structures will result in a better society for everyone.
charities we support
Social justice and mobility and equality causes come into sharp relief during these times. We are not all in the same boat – we are all in the same storm, but in differing sizes and strengths of boats or rafts. I work pro bono with these three charities and they would welcome any donations at this time. If you want to provide in kind support, get in touch too.
Thank You
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