We help entrepreneurs
build scalable businesses
A bespoke blend of business support will accelerate your progress towards the outcomes you want.
Tailor-Made Business Support
Our mission is to help you build a scalable business.
We do so by providing a blend of business coaching, consulting & development tools that is tailor-made to your ambitions, needs and preferences.
Read more about our services here and when you are ready, book an introductory call at a time to suit you.
We’ll be pleased to explore what you want to achieve and how we can help.
Why Choose Us?
We can help you build a scalable business because we have built one ourselves: from start up to sale of a retail technology business with an international footprint on three continents.
Our core market is established SME’s employing between 15 and 250 people offering communications, digital marketing and technology-enabled solutions and services, which reflects our experience.
That said, other long-standing clients operate outside these sectors and we welcome enquires from all types of business.
If you choose to work with us, you can expect:
Pragmatism
We will work with you to develop and embed actionable solutions that fit your unique context, needs and preferences .
Challenge
We will be completely committed to our work together, and constructive, two-way challenge will be integral to this.
Teamwork
We expect that the solutions we develop will flow from ideas, methods and resources contributed by both of us.
Advanced business coaching qualifications and regular, independent accreditation further substantiate the quality of our business support.
Your Next Step
To learn more about how you can tailor our services to build a scalable business, book a no obligation, introductory call.
Our Founder
Planned Ascent was founded by Tim Cornell, whose career includes chapters in marketing, media, data analytics and creative services.
He has also been a tech entrepreneur, equity investor and a Board Director of several consulting businesses providing professional services to predominantly corporate clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Tim Cornell
Founder
Case Studies
Helping entrepreneurs build scalable businesses.
Strategic Planning in a Family Business
This family business performs an essential service: it repairs accident-damaged cars. Yet the challenges of business planning in this family business are …
Building A Leadership Team
In this short case study, we explain how building a leadership team helped an already successful business prepare for a capital event.
Inviting Input to Improve Decision-Making
A CEO of a very large business felt frustrated. She was inviting her leadership team to improve her decision-making and getting more than she needed. …
Unblocking Obstacles to Business Growth
When a business starts out, it is typically a case of ‘all hands to the pump’. As it grows, these frenetic ways of working often get ‘baked in’. If they …
Business Exit: Aligning Ambitions
After ten years hard work building a successful marketing services business, its two owners were tired and wanted an exit: ‘As soon as we stop pedalling, the …
Business Growth Mapping: Video Script
The Growth Mapping framework provides a structure and toolkit to help you assess your business and what it requires to create solid foundations for scalable …
Testimonials
Hear from clients about the quality of our support.
Professional coaching was a foreign concept to me before I began working with Tim. I only had a loose idea of what I was hoping to achieve from the process, but after working together on objectives, a focus was developed and patterns started to emerge. Tim guided me along the way, providing a collaborative space for me to work at my own pace, and throughout the journey highlighting benchmarks of progression. I’m grateful for the work Tim and I have accomplished together, and would recommend his coaching to anyone interested in learning more about their professional path.
Alex Prouhet
Global Director, Deliveroo AdvertisingI highly value the time spent with Tim; he’s a brilliant coach and I’d thoroughly recommend him. Aside from being fantastic at what he does, he’s a great bloke too. Use him!
Sam Reynolds
CEO, Zero DepositTim is an excellent listener who quickly identifies key opportunities and addresses them incisively. His personalised and tailored approach was highly effective, making each session productive and insightful.
I thoroughly valued and enjoyed our time together, finding great benefit in both the journey and the individual sessions.
Andy Batty
Director of Operations,UK & Ireland, Deliveroo
Tim is a great business/executive coach: he is able to glean information to support you in finding answers to the questions you want answered whilst all the time making you feel very comfortable in process of doing so.He uses his own experience of commercial roles with an understated but very engaging style.I would readily recommend Tim if you are open to self-improvement with someone who’s experienced in guiding you through the journey.
Andy Parker
Non Executive Chairman at IDE Group, Non Executive Chairman Anywhere Group of CompaniesTim is an excellent, all-round, methodical and consummate executive and business coach. This stems from a powerful combination of his experience of being in commercial roles with direct exposure to the realities they entail and his understated yet highly effective personal style.
He is able to listen, digest and distil information and then bring to bear an effective combination of questions, material and nudges. In doing so he enables his clients to assess, absorb and adopt changes and improvements that are required to ultimately benefit them and their organisations.
Jeremy Caplin
CEO, 30+ years Corporate Marcomms experience, Client and Supplier-sideTim As the experienced founder of a start-up business the opportunity to work with someone who understands and cares is extremely important to me. Tim has been the ideal partner bringing his business coaching and experience into our circle, but most of all being himself. Tim’s ability to understand me as an individual as well as my business has helped create an environment where exploration and understanding are fun, safe and enlightening. Tim has helped me extract and understand much more about my fledgling business than I imagined.
Raymond Holt
Founder, Agnentis PartnersTim has provided essential support to my business for the last 18 months. He has deep insights into interpersonal relationships at work, and has adapted his coaching to support our leadership team transition from a start-up mentality to one with more accountability and authority. Most importantly he brings fun and energy to his engagements, listening to our needs and then ensuring we get the outcome we asked for.
Edward Upton
Founder & CEO, LittledataJust to place on record that we’ve been immensely pleased with the fantastic support and professional advice we’ve received from you over the past three years, together with the genuine and wholehearted commitment you have given every step of the way. It’s been quite a journey which has culminated in Genesis becoming altogether a much stronger business fit for the future and greater success.
Charles Arbuthnot
Co-Founder, Genesis PRTim worked with Imagineear on a series of related projects over 12 months. He is a keen observer of the different personalities in the team, and has used our respective strengths well to further the discussion.
A thoroughly positive person, I have also found him to be an excellent listener and meeting manager, always well prepared and excellent at process, keeping people motivated over even long sessions. His views are interesting and well thought through, and I have come to value his opinion across a range of issues, not least on the team and management.
We are a small group, and Imagineear is growing fast, and he comes with the benefit of recognising and contextualising many of the issues we face. This makes it easier for us to address them, and to move ahead faster.
Andrew Nugee
Owner & CEO, ImagineearTim has a very special quality to use his executive experience in a way that makes you feel very comfortable and in control of the coaching process. He supports you to find answers to questions that need to get answered.
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