Most small business consultants have never actually built a business.
Agile Pangolin offers small business consultancy in Exeter, Devon & the South West based on 20 years of starting, running and managing small businesses.
Running a business can feel like constant fire-fighting. There's no time to work ‘on’ the business, because you’re too busy working ‘in’ the business. As a founder or business owner, you not only carry the responsibility, you constantly juggle competing priorities and rarely have the time to step back.
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Sometimes, you just need practical support to solve a specific problem or get you and your business to a new place. This is where a consultant can help - particularly someone who has been there and done it. Someone to help strengthen your business, encourage better decisions, build better systems and help create that in-built resilience so you can face the future with greater confidence, clarity, and control.
A flexible approach to business consultancy
No two businesses are the same, so no two solutions should be the same either.
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If you just want external advice on mapping out a project or where best to focus your efforts, and then be left to do the implementation yourself, then that’s fine by me.
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If you want to outsource the implementation too, with me working alongside you to bring it all together, then that’s fine too.
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The first step is to have a discussion and hear what your challenges are and where you want to get to.
Fall back in love with your business
Operations
Running a business, let alone growing a business, can be exhausting if it depends heavily on you for the day-to-day.
Robust operational workflows improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary complexity. I can help you build dependable systems that reduce human error and free up your time, all while making your business stronger and easier to manage.
"Adrian has a rare ability to translate complex ideas about sustainability, organisational culture, and social impact into compelling narratives."
Stephanie Darkes, Marketing Strategist
Sustainability
Sustainability can feel overwhelming, but get it right and it can be a strategic growth lever for your business.
Consumers and employees are demanding more. And if you're B2B, then there is a growing requirement for you to prove your carbon emissions, protect biodiversity in your supply chain and demonstrate credible sustainability progress when pitching for work.
From Greenhouse Gas Protocols and 'Scopes' to Sustainable Development Goals and engaging your team, if you don't know where to start, I can help you take practical, achievable steps that strengthen your business and reduce it's impact on the planet.
Marketing & Business Growth
Winning new business shouldn't rely on guesswork.
Clarifying your value proposition, strengthening your customer journey and focusing on marketing activities that attract the right clients, not only builds trust, but it means every client is easier to win. And keep. And that helps bring about sustainable long-term growth.
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I can help you define your customer value propositions, develop strategies and routes to market, and help you work out what's working and what's not when it comes to marketing.
Leadership & Culture
All leaders light up a room. Some do it when they walk in and some do it when they walk out.
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Like it or not, you shape your business every day with how you turn up and the choices you make. A good team culture doesn’t just happen – it takes clear vision, strong leadership, bold vulnerability, good communication and accountability.
I can help you bring that about.
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Your team will fly with a culture that enables them to feel supported, engaged, heard and able to adapt confidently through periods of challenge, change and growth.
Arrange a no obligation
exploratory call
Whatever stage of your business or operations, I'd love to discuss how I can add value to your vision.
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I have 20 years experience running complex safety-critical operations, am a 3x founder, have lost two businesses, worked both solo and with business partners and successfully exited a company I ran for 19 years.
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Running a business is hard. Sometimes, an external perspective can make all the difference.
"Adrian is very knowledgeable and passionate about so many aspects of our impact on the environment and how we can improve how we exist on the planet."
Neil Curry. ICE Electronics.