BUSINESS COACHING · OWNER-MANAGED COMPANIES · MANCHESTER & THE NORTH
Coaching from people who have actually run companies — a method with a map and a rhythm, fees on the website, and a free 90-minute session to see the terrain before you spend a pound.
Where are you on the hill?
Pick the stage that sounds like your week.
You’ve got a team now, but somehow less time than ever.
One-to-one coaching rebuilds the business around a rhythm, not around you.
See the route →*Client-reported across engagements closing 2023–2025. Results depend on implementation.
THE OWNER'S TRAP
Somewhere between the first hire and the last tax return, the business quietly reorganised itself around you. Every price, every rota, every awkward call — yours. Turnover grew; your hourly rate didn't. The holiday keeps not happening.
It isn't a character flaw and it isn't rare: it is the default setting of every owner-managed company, and it has a known fix. Structure, priced work, a second tier, and someone outside the business holding you to all three.
THE FELLSIDE METHOD
The same route every engagement walks — mapped in week one, reviewed every quarter, and built so that each stage survives contact with a real Tuesday.
Every engagement starts with the Terrain Survey and a long, honest conversation. Numbers on the table: margin by job, sales pipeline, who does what, and how many hours a week the business takes from you. No plan survives a wrong map.
A 12-month destination, broken into 90-day legs with three priorities each — never ten. You’ll know exactly which lever we’re pulling first (usually margin, not marketing) and what we’re deliberately ignoring.
Coaching sessions every two weeks with your numbers reviewed first, decisions minuted, and actions carried forward until they’re done. Between sessions your coach is a phone call away. This is where most of the +31% comes from.
Each quarter closes with a review against the numbers we set — profit, hours, team scorecards — and a rest-day: what did the climb cost you personally? Then we stack the next cairn and go again.
SIGNATURE TOOL · NO EMAIL REQUIRED
Five numbers run your profit: leads, conversion, average sale, repeat purchases, margin. Improve each a little and the effect compounds. Put your own numbers in and watch.
A 10% lift on each lever grows gross profit by 61% — that is the compounding most owners never see written down.
Make these numbers real →Illustrative arithmetic on your inputs — margin held constant on the uplift; real engagements start by testing which levers genuinely move. Full-page version with the workings.
PROGRAMMES
THE MAIN ROPE
Fortnightly working sessions with a coach who has run a company your size — built around your numbers, your team and a 90-day route card.
For: Owners of established companies (£500k–£10m) who are done being the bottleneck.
£850/month +VAT Rolling monthly · 3-month notice
The full route →
THE ROPED PARTY
A monthly peer board of twelve non-competing owners who see your numbers, hear your plans, and hold you to them. Chaired by a Fellside coach.
For: Owners past £1m who have nobody to think out loud with — and know it.
£495/month +VAT Monthly · 12 owners per group · by application
The full route →
THE FIRST LEG
Ninety days of weekly coaching to put structure under a younger business: prices that make margin, a pipeline you can see, and a week that isn’t all yours to carry.
For: Owners under ~£500k who are still doing everything, earning less than their best-paid employee, or both.
£2,950 +VAT, one-off 90 days · weekly sessions · cohort of one: you
The full route →Plus practical workshops from £95 — open to everyone, free to clients. All fees are on the pricing page, because hiding them would be a strange way to start an honest relationship.
CLIMB LOGS
Every engagement keeps a log. These four gave us permission to publish theirs — before-and-after, no rounding in our favour.
“Nobody climbs a fell by staring at the summit. You pick the next cairn, walk to it, and look up again.”
— Neil Garside, on why route cards have three priorities, never ten
COACHED BY OPERATORS, NOT THEORISTS
“Owners don’t need motivating. They need a map, a rhythm, and someone who’ll say the awkward thing out loud.”
Neil Garside — Founder & Head Coach. Grew a Bolton corrugated-packaging manufacturer to £8.4m and sold it in 2010. Founded Fellside two years later because every coach he’d met talked theory.
Meet all five coaches
SIGNATURE TOOL · 12 QUESTIONS · 10 MINUTES
Twelve honest statements across the six disciplines every owner-managed company stands on — Direction, Money, Team, Systems, Sales and the Owner's Freedom. Score yourself, and the survey draws your terrain: where the ground is solid, and where it falls away.
You'll get a per-discipline read and the route we'd recommend — on screen, immediately, with no email gate.
Map your terrainWHO WE COACH
IN THEIR WORDS
★★★★★“Martin made us put the prices up 8% in month one. I argued for a fortnight. Not one customer left, and that single call paid for three years of coaching.”
★★★★★“The Boardroom is the only room I’m in where nobody wants anything from me. Eleven other owners who’ve seen my numbers and still ask the hardest questions I get asked all month.”
★★★★★“I took my first two-week holiday in nine years last summer. Phone off. The business grew while I was away, which honestly took some getting over.”
UPCOMING AT BLOSSOM STREET
QUESTIONS OWNERS ACTUALLY ASK
Structured, regular working sessions built around your numbers and a 90-day plan — not motivational chats. Your coach reviews your figures before every session, one real problem gets worked each time, decisions are minuted and actions carried forward until done. See the Fellside Method for the full arc.
One-to-One coaching is £850/month, the Boardroom is £495/month, Kickstart 90 is £2,950 one-off, workshops from £95 — all plus VAT, all on the pricing page. No 12-month tie-ins on coaching; three months’ notice either way.
A consultant does the work for you and leaves with the know-how. A coach builds the discipline in you and your team, so it stays. We’re deliberately the second kind — though our coaches’ operator backgrounds mean sessions get very specific, very quickly.
Coaching is unregulated in the UK, which is why voluntary accreditation matters. Fellside is an EMCC organisational member; individual coaches hold EMCC (Practitioner/Senior Practitioner), ICF (ACC/PCC) and ILM Level 5–7 credentials — listed on each coach’s page — alongside the thing we hired them for: having run real companies.
THE FIRST STEP
A 90-minute Survey Session at Blossom Street or on video: your numbers on the table, an honest read of the terrain, and a first route card to keep — whether or not we ever meet again.
NO OBLIGATION · NO FOLLOW-UP PESTERING · EST. 2012
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