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Business Growth Consultancy

Business growth consultancy

Expert strategies for scaling your business

Struggling to grow your business? You’re not alone.

Scaling a business comes with challenges: rising costs, operational inefficiencies, and uncertainty about the next steps. Without a clear business growth strategy, many business owners find themselves stuck, unable to move forward confidently.

At The Alternative Board (TAB), our Business Growth Consultancy is designed specifically for business owners, helping you develop a scalable business growth plan while gaining access to expert insights and a business growth network of like-minded leaders.

Whether you're looking to refine your marketing growth strategy, strengthen operations, or secure funding, our tailored approach ensures you have the right strategy, tools, and support to drive long-term success.

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How our business growth consultancy helps you scale

Our approach goes beyond generic advice. We offer practical, real-world solutions tailored to your specific business needs.

Business growth strategies tailored to your goals

Every business is unique, which is why there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to growth. We'll help you develop an ideal business growth strategy based on your industry, challenges, and ambitions.

  • Customer growth strategy - Understand shifting customer preferences and refine your sales and retention strategies.
  • Product growth strategy - Expand your product or service offering while ensuring operational efficiency.
  • Marketing growth strategy - Attract and retain the right customers with targeted marketing approaches.

Access to a business growth network

You don’t have to figure it all out alone. Through TAB’s peer advisory boards, you’ll gain access to a business growth network of experienced business owners.

  • Learn from those who’ve been in your position and overcome similar challenges.
  • Gain fresh perspectives on business growth and sustainability.
  • Expand your network with trusted, high-value connections.

🔹Related: Networking and Business Growth

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Business development tools and expert coaching

Introducing the Business Builder’s Blueprint

The Business Builder’s Blueprint is TAB’s exclusive strategic business planning process, designed to help you create a structured, actionable business growth plan.

  • Clarify Your Business Vision – Define long-term goals and focus on strategic priorities.
  • Develop a Scalable Growth Plan – Break down business growth strategies into achievable steps.
  • Strengthen Your Decision-Making – Use proven business development growth strategies tailored to SME success.
  • Gain Real-Time Insights – Track progress and adapt based on customer preferences and market shifts.

🔹Related: Business Builders' Blueprint – Learn More

Additional Business Development Tools Available Through TAB

Beyond the Business Builder’s Blueprint, our consultancy services provide access to:

  • AI for Business Growth – Data-driven tools that optimise decision-making and streamline operations.
  • Custom Growth Strategy Mapping – Build an ideal business growth strategy that adapts to your industry and market trends.
  • Exclusive Peer Advisory Boards – Connect with a business growth network that accelerates your progress.

🔹Related: Business Development Tools for Growth

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Financial planning & investment strategies

Growth requires investment, but knowing where to allocate resources can be challenging. Our facilitators help you make informed decisions about funding and reinvesting profits.

  • Explore business growth fund opportunities to fuel expansion.
  • Develop a sustainable scaling strategy that aligns with your budget.
  • Understand what organic growth in business is and how to scale efficiently.

🔹Related: Why You Should Never Give Away Equity When SMEs Raise Finance

Why Choose The Alternative Board (TAB)?

Proven Track Record

TAB has helped thousands of organisations develop sustainable business growth strategies.

Real-World Insights

Unlike traditional consultancy, our advisory boards provide practical, experience-based guidance.

Tailored Support

Our consultancy is built around the unique challenges of each business, regardless of size.

68%

of our members said their turnover increased since joining TAB

91%

of members said their ability to address people or organisational issues improved 

87%

of members said their leadership skills improved with the support of TAB

TAB Member Success Stories

Finding the support infrastructure I was looking for
by Suzanne Lawson

Suzanne Lawson from Moorland Contract Group shares her business journey and how TAB was exactly the support she was looking for.

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From Struggles to Triumph: Kerrell's Journey to SME Success through TAB
by Kerrell Blyth

Kerrell Blyth, Managing Director of NCS Ltd, turned her struggles into triumphs through her Leeds South TAB board membership.
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StratPro with TAB finally gave me a cohesive and collaborative team
by Stephen Attree

Stephen Attree, Managing Partner of MLP Law based in Manchester, talks about the experience of his team as they went through the StratPro Programme.
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Start your TAB journey

 Get in touch to explore how the TAB community can help you and your business.

Arrange an initial meeting with your nearest board facilitator to get to know each other.

Discover whether TAB is right for you and your business.

Attend your first TAB board meeting and experience the power of peer support.

There’s no obligation, only an opportunity to find out more.

Business growth consultancy FAQs

A business growth consultant is an expert who provides solutions for business leaders and their teams to facilitate the growth of their business. 

This includes establishing the business' key goals and objectives and providing specific advice to overcome the business' growth challenges including an evaluation of your business model.

By working with TAB, we have seen thousands of businesses grow and thrive through the combination of peer advisory boards and consultancy services.

In fact, 62% of our members say their profit has increased since working with us and 68% said their business turnover has increased.

Aside from increased business growth and profitability, here are some other key benefits of TAB:

  • Focus on what you want from life
  • Improve your decision-making
  • Make better time choices
  • Become a better leader
  • Plan a successful exit 

Often the qualities that people value in a  business coach include insight, life coaching skills, character and areas of expertise, experience and trust. It is important that you find the right business coach for you. It might be However, when you chat with potential coaches you could ask them questions like:

– What are the biggest challenges you’ve helped client solve?
– What do you do best? What don’t you do so well?
– Where have you failed and how did you handle it?

It’s easy to find your local TAB coach, just visit our board near you page, find your nearest coach and get in touch with them. They’ll be happy to answer any more specific questions about TAB and how we can help your business.

Your monthly coaching session, which can be held online, with your TAB business coach focuses on commitments you made at the last board meeting.

Plus, you review a 90-day goal that you set and commit to with your coach, and build the strategic foundations of your business using TAB’s Business Builder’s Toolkit.

The sessions are designed to provide ongoing support, where you can ask for further guidance and resources to achieve your goals and objectives.

Of course, your coach with adapt to your pressing needs, issues, or challenges that you want to discuss.

At first glance they may seem similar, but there are major differences beneath the surface.

Business owners hire consultants in order to give them answers to challenges the business is facing. A business coach, on the other hand, helps business owners arrive at the best answers themselves. While a consul­tant should tell you how make your business run better, a business coach will help you learn to see these solutions for yourself over time.

At TAB, we do a bit of both.

Any business owner who is looking to grow in both the short and long term should consider a business growth consultant or a business coach.

It has never been more important for SMEs to take advantage of valuable advice and best practice. Between 2020 and 2021, the number of private sector businesses decreased by 6% in England and by 8% in Scotland.

To reach the next stage of growth for your business, it's important you seek out external and impartial advice. This can come through a coach or consultant, or through a peer advisory board.

What our members say...

"TAB has given me coaching sessions, focusing on the positive elements of my business and helping to grow and develop during what is probably the most difficult trading period we have encountered. TAB has also invited me to a monthly board meeting where I joined six existing members, all of whom have extensive business experience and have provided me with some invaluable advice, guidance and accountability."

Kelly Smith, Juice Personnel

"I have a debt of gratitude to TAB after a 400% turnover boost. I can’t speak highly enough of The Alternative Board. It has made a huge difference to our agency. It’s something I would encourage business owners to think about. We wouldn’t have been able to achieve the growth we have without TAB."

Adam Bell, Moment

"TAB is an independent thought process, away from the influences and pressures of work. In the day-to-day job, you can get drawn into distractions, you often don’t have time to think, and you’re just firefighting problems. However, with TAB, getting out of the office and speaking with the board for the 3-4 hours we have together allows me to think more independently."

David Scalley, AJT Engineering

"Before TAB, I didn’t really have anyone I could talk to about business issues. Getting reassurance from my board on things I’m thinking of doing gives me more confidence to get on with it. I really value the openness of my board and facilitator, which allows me to say what I’m feeling and thinking.  I’m now making longer-term plans and decisions about the business.  As a result, I enjoy running the business more because I know we’re heading in the direction, rather than focusing on short-term fixes."

Geoff Hunt, Hey Group

Having a Peer Board is an amazing asset to me. It’s a safe and supportive environment where you get the support of other business owners who are committed to your success. It’s allowing me to be candid and get different views on sorting out knotty problems.

Professor Deborah Eyre, High Performance Learning

"I always feel uplifted and more confident following a board meeting.  The challenges we face as business owners are invariably those shared by the other board members. Bringing them to the table puts them in perspective and usually provides several options on how to tackle them.  Support, being non-judgemental and really trying to understand each other's businesses help make the meetings fun, enjoyable and, most of all, invaluable to the growth and well-being of my own business.  The regular one-to-ones help build on this with tough constructive advice.  I would be lost without the support of TAB."

Jan Buckett , JMB Accounting
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