Are you looking to scale more efficiently, stimulate revenue or turn around a declining pipeline?
We help B2B tech companies achieve sustainable growth by providing:
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Services to stimulate and efficiently manage growth; and
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Interim Chief Operating Officer (COO) services.
Through our diagnostic process we stimulate new thinking and apply proven best practices to your highest priority challenges and opportunities.
What makes us different? It’s how we work - challenging convention, overcoming bias and refreshing your thinking. That’s why our tagline is “changing the way business works”.
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Success Stories:
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Recurring revenue growth of 33% in < 18 months
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Increased win ratios from <10% to 66% in less than 12 months
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Generated £1m incremental service revenue from existing customer base
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EBITDA from break-even to 22% within a year
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New market entry in all 4 continents
Business Life Management
Grow On Solid Foundations
Business models are changing. Accelerated by the pandemic and disruptive technologies, employees at all levels are demanding a more wholistic approach with much greater emphasis on health, wellbeing and flexible working underpinned by a deep desire to be appreciated, valued and respected. It’s less about what we do and more about how we think and work. This is leading to the rise of intelligence-on-demand, whereby skills and knowledge are made available on-demand, more closely aligning measurable value with business needs and far more cost effectively than traditional hiring practices.
Ignoring these changes results in a fractured corporate structure, overly reliant on traditional practices and thinking which makes it increasingly difficult to sustain performance levels and harder to attract and retain talent.
Business Life Management is the solution – where sustainable performance is achieved by combining enhanced business efficiency with a working environment that supports a healthier lifestyle.
The focus for delivering this new environment will be the Chief Operating Officer.
Experienced | Trusted
Mark Hawtin
With over 30 years in corporate B2B SaaS technology leadership roles, growing businesses across international markets in all continents, we’re well placed to help businesses clearly define their strategic intentions and translate them into sustained outcomes via industry-proven best practices. We combine a structured approach with creative flair to stimulate new thinking, challenge conventions and seek simple solutions. The goal – healthier business.
Mark has spent the past 34 years as a commercial leader, scaling technology businesses in the healthcare, fuel and retail sectors. His experience includes start-ups, VC and PE-backed companies, IPO’s and acquisitions. He led go-to-market strategies to stimulate business in North, Central and South America, China, India, Japan and sub-Saharan Africa in addition to growing existing presence across Europe.
Intelligent Conversations
How To Engage
We believe in intelligent conversations that mean business, which starts with understanding your dynamic intentions and your vision for your business. We’ve structured an approach that begins with an exploratory call and progresses through a structured discovery and diagnostic session to identify the art of the possible and how to work together.
Our Processes
Thought shop
Executive session to educate and inform on key drivers and trends impacting current business models.
Learn how companies are addressing the critical need to balance sustainable value creation with healthier working environments.
Discovery
A structured working meeting with senior leaders to explore your vision for the business and to set the scene for how Elev8Exec will help turn that vision into commercial reality.
Impact & sense of urgency assessment
An Ignite Diagnostic workshop is the structured approach to benchmarking current performance and working practices in order to identify and prioritise the areas of your business most in need of attention.
The outcome is a unique set of Symphony services to deliver on your vision.
Creating & executing the plan
The unique set of Symphony Services form the basis of a plan for you to implement, utilising your existing resources under guidance from Elev8Exec.
Solutions
Analyse | Insights
Ingnite Diagnostic
Ignite is a structured exploration of the current state of your business.
Guided by your strategy it uses industry benchmarks and a proven set of process and performance metrics to uncover the highest priority areas needing attention in order to deliver strategic goals.
Conducted via data analysis and structured interviews, Ignite will address operational practices, planning forecasting, working environment and culture to identify a unique set of Symphony services to deliver sustainable improvements.
Define | Deliver
Symphony Services
Symphony is a suite of harmonised services based on industry-proven best practices and delivered through a series of workshops.
Available across all business functions and guided by the outcome of the Ignite Diagnostic, Symphony services are intended to define and deliver the harmony between operational excellence and a healthier working environment.
The services will address environmental factors (culture, organisational structure, working practices, benefits etc.) as well as operational effectiveness and efficiency, with measurable outcomes to highlight progress.
They’re designed to be implemented by you, utilising existing resources.
Agile | Flexible | On-Demand
Interim
COO
As a business leader you know the struggle too well. You’re bogged down by operational tasks, constantly firefighting issues and desperately trying to find that elusive work-life harmony.
What if you could focus solely on your vision, strategy and solving customer challenges without the burden of running the day-to-day operations? Imagine having a capable, experienced COO at your side.
“But we can’t afford a full-time COO,” you might say.
Well now you can.
Here at Elev8Exec we can provide COO services on-demand.
Purpose, Mission And Meaning
Elev8Exec exists to help SME technology businesses achieve sustainable performance improvement by stimulating new thinking and applying proven best practices to their highest priority challenges. Unlike other consultants the advice will be uniquely tailored to suit the new world of work.
We focus our activities on the Chief Operating Officer, supporting the role to transition organisations to the new wholistic enterprise world of work, addressing the demand for a more balanced work-life style and the growing trend for on-demand skills and experience.
Elev8Exec offers clear thinking in complex, chaotic environments – breaking down challenges and solving problems through simplicity. Whether your business is high growth, flat-lining or in distress, we can help you identify actions needed to deliver on your strategic intentions.
Interim COO service
Operational Leadership On-Demand
Ever wished you had a trusted COO by your side?
As an entrepreneur or visionary leader, you know the struggle all too well. You're bogged down by operational tasks, constantly firefighting internal issues, and desperately trying to find that elusive work-life harmony.
What if you could focus solely on your vision, strategy, and solving customer challenges, without the burden of running the day-to-day operations?
Imagine having a capable, experienced COO at your side, allowing you to:
Claim back your weekends and evenings
Avoid the constant strain of balancing strategy and execution
Dedicate your energy to leading the growth of your company
"But we can't afford a full-time COO," you might say.
Well, now you can!
Introducing the Elev8Exec COO on-demand – a game-changing solution that brings proven leadership, optimized processes, and efficient management to your business, at a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time executive.
An alarming 40% of UK CEOs identified recruitment and skills shortages as the biggest barrier to seizing growth opportunities in 2024. Over half say talent gaps are already limiting capacity today.
Rather than enter bidding wars for talent that strain budgets and culture, forward-thinking leaders can tap intelligence-on-demand which provides:
Experienced guidance from someone who's been in your shoes
Streamlined operations that allow your resources to thrive
Flexibility to adjust the level of engagement as per your needs
As someone who's navigated the journey from operations lead to COO and CEO, I understand your challenges intimately. I've crafted visions and empowered teams to execute them flawlessly.
Don't suffer the frustration any longer. Embrace greater freedom, focus, and the sustainable growth your vision deserves.
If this resonates with you, let's have a conversation.
I’m available for short-term projects or longer-term retained arrangements. Your sanity and success are just a click away.
I can help with:
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Sales & Marketing - strategy, processes, market assessment, new market entry
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Customer Services, Advisory Boards & Customer Engagement programs
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Professional Services, Project Delivery Efficiency
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Product and Service Pricing
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Product Development, Product Management
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Admin, Legal & Regulatory
An exceptional leader with shrewd business acument and emotional intelligence
Rob Bawn
Customer Liason Manager medical technology provider
I was continually impressed with his work ethic and drive to improve a struggling business. Mark was responsible for a major cultural change. He was a mentor to me, especially when it came to large commercial sales tactics.
Tom Glassco
Director of Initiatives
intelligence analysis software group
Always inspirational in his communication and showed warmth withing leadership.
James Crisall
Manchester SEO
Exemplary leadership and management skills. An asset to KSS and an essential factor in the company's future growth .
Ian Thompson
Exectutive Director OPIS
a Dow Jones company