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Your Business Sucks: Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life
For entrepreneurs and business owners, CEOs and senior executives, and executive peer groups.
Owners start out wanting freedom and end up with every decision stuck on them. Using real stories from coaching founders on five continents, Peter shows the room how to spot owner dependency in their own business, why growth often makes it worse, and what to change first. Direct, practical and often funny, it is built for business owners and leadership teams who want results, not a motivational high. Everyone leaves with one clear 90 day commitment.
- A clear picture of how much the business depends on the owner
- The decisions that keep bouncing back to the owner, and who should take them on
- One practical 90 day move to start building a business that runs without you
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Promotion: None proposed. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: None.
The Hamster Wheel Trap: When Growth Makes You More Essential
For entrepreneurs and business owners and executive peer groups.
Being the person everyone relies on can feel like success until you cannot stop. This session looks at the trap many growing businesses fall into, where every win adds more weight to the founder. Peter walks the audience through the decisions that keep bouncing back to the owner, who should take them on, and how to make the handover stick. Ideal for founder peer groups and owner-led businesses.
- Why growth so often makes the founder more essential, not less
- How to spot the decisions that should no longer sit with the owner
- A first step to hand them on without the business wobbling
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Promotion: None proposed. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: None.
Scaling a Business Without Scaling the Chaos
For entrepreneurs and business owners and CEOs and senior executives.
Winning more work should feel exciting, not like a bigger mess with more chasing and exhaustion. Drawing on his work as the UK's first certified Scaling Up coach, Peter helps founders and leadership teams check whether their people, priorities and systems are ready for growth, and what to fix before they push harder. Practical, commercial and honest.
- A quick check of whether your people, priorities and systems are ready to grow
- The common points where growth turns into more mess
- Clear priorities for the next stage of growth
Session details and terms
Promotion: None proposed. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: None.
About Peter
I'm a business coach, keynote speaker and author of the bestselling book Your Business Sucks. I started in a McDonald's kitchen, built and sold my own hospitality business, and have spent more than twenty years coaching founders and leadership teams on five continents. I was ActionCOACH Global Coach of the Year three years running, 2023 to 2025, I'm in the ActionCOACH Hall of Fame and the Forbes Coaches Council, and I was the UK's first certified Scaling Up coach. My talks help owners build a business that works without destroying their lives. They're direct, practical and grounded in real stories, and every audience leaves with one clear move to make in the next 90 days.
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