Founder CEO coaching for scaling businesses
Scaling founder-CEOs and leadership teams
You built this company. Now it needs to outgrow you. We help founder-CEOs build the leadership team, operating system and strategic clarity to scale from 50 to 250 people.
Trusted by 200+ founder-CEOs scaling from £5m to £50m. Most get a day a week back within 90 days.
45 minutes. No pitch. You walk away with one clear action, whether we work together or not.
Dominic limits his client load to ensure every engagement gets his full attention.
Scale-ups we work with:
“Within the first five months, we experienced 500% growth.”
Terry Pattinson, Managing Director, Enable Network Services
You’ve hit the ceiling. Now what?
Somewhere around a hundred people, the thing that made you successful becomes the thing holding you back. You’re still the best operator in the room. That’s the problem. The business needs a system, not a hero.
Leverage
You started this business, but now it can’t run without you.
Every decision lands on your desk. Nothing moves without your sign-off.
Elevate
Your business can’t outgrow its leadership team.
Until your leaders actually lead, you’re the lid on what this company can become.
Orchestrate
Growth without systems is just chaos with better revenue.
Build the operating rhythms and structures that run without you.
Why founder-CEOs work with a coach
Founder-CEOs hit the same wall somewhere around a hundred people. You know it when you feel it. You’re still the answer to every question, the bottleneck in every decision, the person everyone looks at when something goes wrong. Your leadership team waits for permission instead of taking ownership. You’re busy, but the business isn’t actually getting better.
Your coach, Dominic Monkhouse, has been exactly where you are. Built and scaled two businesses to £30m+. Coached over 200 founder-CEOs through the same transition. Not with theory or frameworks borrowed from a textbook. With direct, operational experience of what it actually takes to let go and build something that runs without you.
The skills that got you here are the same ones keeping you stuck. You’re still the best operator in the room. That’s the problem. Your job now is to build a company of operators, not be one. That means real systems, real accountability, and a leadership team that doesn’t need you in the room to make a decision.
Whether through one-to-one CEO mentoring, executive team coaching, or a structured scale-up programme, the outcome is the same. You get your time back. Your team steps up. And the business grows because of the system you built, not because of the hours you put in.
Solutions
Three ways to work with us
For founder-CEOs at the sharp end of growth. You’ve built something real. Now you want to scale it without losing your mind, your team, or your margin.
CEO Mentoring: Scale Without Losing Control
You built this business. Now stop running it. Every decision that lands on your desk is one your team should be making. This is the shift from doing everything to leading everything.
Executive Leadership Team Coaching
You can’t outgrow your leadership team. We give them the models, tools and hard conversations they need to stop depending on you and start driving the business forward.
Scale-Up Business Coaching
Bigger isn’t better unless it’s built right. This is the strategy, structure and execution framework that makes growth stick, rather than just pile on more pressure.
Impact
Alongside Founders, They’ve…
We partner with leaders who refuse to settle. Founders who love what they’ve built. They disrupt their market, build unstoppable teams, and run their business with joy. Here’s what they’ve achieved:
10+
Years of sustained high growth delivered by our clients
£250M+
Largest client exit value achieved with our coaching
12
Founder-led exits completed by clients we have coached
How it works
From first call to founder freedom
1
Discovery call
45 minutes. You tell me where you are and where you want to be. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help. No pitch. No follow-up sequence. Just a straight conversation.
2
Diagnostic deep-dive
I look at your leadership team, your operating rhythm, and the things nobody is talking about. You get a clear, unfiltered picture of what’s actually holding the business back.
3
Structured engagement
Regular sessions tailored to your situation. You build the systems, the team, and the strategic clarity to step back from the day-to-day. The goal: a business that runs without you in the room.
What our clients say
“Dominic’s more than a coach, he’s a mentor. His experience helps me stay on track and make the right calls.”
Sarah Wilkes
CEO, Agilitas
“Dominic stands out for his no-bulls**t approach. He tells it like it is and that’s incredibly constructive.”
Robert Belgrave
COO, Pax8
“Dominic gets the whole leadership team thinking about what’s possible, individually and as a business.”
Mike Selfe
Founder and CEO, SmartSourcing
45 minutes. No pitch. One clear action.
I scaled two companies to £30m. Every week, I'll show you how.
Frequently asked questions
Founder-CEOs and MDs of businesses with 50 to 250 people who want to scale without burning out. Most of our clients are UK-based, though we work internationally. If you built the business and now feel trapped running it, this is for you.
Dominic has built and scaled two businesses to £30m+. He is not a career coach or consultant working from frameworks he read about. Every recommendation comes from direct operational experience as a CEO, combined with 10+ years of coaching over 200 founders through the same challenges you face.
A day or two each quarter face-to-face at the farm in the New Forest, with structured monthly sessions in between. You need half a day a week to commit at the start. If you can give us that, we will get you a day a week back within 90 days. The end goal is our Two-Day-a-Week CEO programme: you run the business two days a week and lead as CEO three days a week.
Engagements start from £3,000 per month. The exact investment depends on scope: one-to-one CEO mentoring, team coaching, or a full scale-up programme. Talk to Dominic and we’ll scope what makes sense for where you are.
If you don’t think you need a coach, it’s not my job to persuade you. My job isn’t to hold you accountable or hold your hand. But if you’re working 60-hour weeks and you’re done with that, I can help. If your leadership team won’t step up, I can help. If you don’t have the highest talent density and the highest margin in your industry, I can help. But only if you want to be helped.