We help entrepreneurs
build better 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 better 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 better 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 and technology 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 better 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 better businesses.
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Inviting Input to Improve Decision-Making
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Building A Leadership Team
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Strategic Planning in a Family Business
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Testimonials
Hear from clients about the quality of our business support.
I 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 DepositSilverDisc Digital Marketing Agency
Tim 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 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 with 30+ years Corporate Marcomms experience, Client and Supplier-sideWhen we first met in the summer of 2018, Tim visited our business, spoke to us and our team and prepared a detailed set of recommendations that he has since worked with us to deliver. He has consistently offered us a clear and where necessary, challenging view about what was required, backed up with the insights, tools and support we have needed to develop and implement detailed solutions. Along the way, we have spoken to other qualified advisors who have endorsed Tim’s advice, and Tim has been flexible and offered additional input as issues have arisen. We have chosen to continue our working relationship beyond the original programme and would happily recommend Tim to other business owners or leaders seeking similar support to develop smarter businesses and teams.
Charles Arbuthnot
Co-Founder, Genesis PRTim 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.
Arjan Groen
Innovation ConsultantTim 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
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