I’m Beth. I’ve spent thirty years working out why capable organisations stall. My first career was in the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry, working on national innovation programmes where nothing happens unless someone can make it happen across organisations that do not answer to each other. I’ve run my own healthcare innovation consultancies, contracted with Deloitte, and I sit as a non-executive director.

For the last twenty years my work has been inside owner-led businesses. I’ve mentored more than 350 of them internationally, from healthcare to construction, on publicly funded growth programmes as well as my own. The same patterns show up in every sector, and that is the point: whatever you are building, the chances are I have seen your situation before, in a business that looks nothing like yours.

I built Simplify & Scale because I kept meeting the same person: a brilliant expert who had grown a real business on instinct and, when it began to feel messy, believed the problem was them. It almost never is.

I am an accredited member of the Association of Business Mentors.