Strategic Mentors

► What We Do Differently?
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We 𝗮𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲 companies, 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 with owners, or 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿 individuals to build high-income, high-value companies. We structure them so as business grows life becomes easier, not harder. 

We help founders 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 so they're financially set for life for the rest of their lives. 

Whether post-acquisition, or while partnering or mentoring, we use this framework:

🔸 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝟭 - 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲
→ Starting position: there's a revenue ceiling, and roller-coaster income pattern
→ New outcome: consistent leadflow, high conversions with 'pull' rather than 'pitch'
→ Breakthrough the ceiling, stay at the new level, continue to build

🔸 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝟮 - 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁
→ Starting position: delivery capacity is limited, constraining growth
→ New outcome: unblock the model to expand capacity at higher profitability
→ Cashflow consistently building as constraints on scale and profitability fixed

🔸 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝟯 - 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
→ Starting position: business depends on founder, hence locked-in and low valuation
→ New outcome: evolved business no longer depends on founder
→ Founder is now a Profit Orchestrator, no longer locked-in to the hamster wheel

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𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗮 𝟳𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 of the approach here: https://share.zight.com/NQuBKgq8

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Learn more at https://strategicmentors.co.uk 
Email: ✉ chrisgardener@strategicmentors.co.uk

Strategic Investor & Mentor

Finance Director to a number of SMEs across numerous industries and sectors.
Size range from £500k sales to £10m sales.

Portfolio Finance Director

Electrocomponents plc

Strategic change leader, international business manager, Europe and Asia executive mentor, business unit manager, finance professional

General Manager, Finance Manager & Marketing manager

Grant Thornton

Advisor to range of clients from £500k - £30m sales across many sectors and industries.

Chartered Accountant

1️⃣ Helping turn Founder Businesses into Sellable/Freedom Businesses - from "I'm busy in the business" to "I own this brilliant asset", with the option to keep or sell 2️⃣ Investor & Mentor

For B2B service business owners who've hit six figures but found themselves working harder than ever: there's a different path to seven figures that doesn't demand more of your time and energy.

This isn't just theory - it's wisdom gained from experience....

I've spent 20 years building, exiting, and helping others scale their businesses. But my greatest business lesson didn’t come from financial success—it came from personal tragedy.

When my wife was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor, I had to reimagine everything. With young kids at primary school, business had to fit my life—not the other way around. Money wasn’t the issue. Time was.

After losing her, I had to rebuild with new boundaries. Limited working hours forced me to think differently. The surprise? My business performed better than ever.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝘆 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁?
Most six-figure businesses grow through addition—more revenue, more clients, more complexity. They hit a ceiling because their business depends on them.

Instead, I help business owners become Multipliable—so as the business grows, it gets lighter, not harder to manage. 

Breaking the £1M barrier changes everything—we use surplus cashflow to build a £2M Freedom Fund for true financial independence.

❯ Multiply results while reducing stress—grow without more work.
❯ Retain control while lightening the load—protect your autonomy.
❯ Build financial independence—a business with profits, not pressure, and £100K+ in passive income for life.

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗜 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵:
1. B2B service-based business owners ready for sustainable, intelligent growth.
2. Founders who want their business to fund their freedom, not consume their life.
3. Leaders who know success isn’t just about more money—but more choices.

𝗠𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱:
❯ Chartered Accountant turned entrepreneur & investor.
❯ Built and exited multiple businesses over 20 years.
❯ Advised & invested in 250+ businesses from startup to £20M valuation.
❯ Amazon bestseller: The Busyness Delusion.
❯ Active portfolio across B2B services, marketing, advisory, IT & cloud, analytics.

𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁:
1. Becoming Multipliable
2. Freedom-First Business Design
3. Removing Growth Constraints
4. Building Wealth Through Business Assets
5. What Actually Matters in Life & Business

𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁:
DM me or learn more at strategicmentors.co.uk

Chris Gardener

Positive Intelligence

Mental Fitness & Self-Leadership Coach

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗠𝗲
As an ex-leader in tech and a multi-neurodivergent learner, I know the intensity of navigating high-stakes environments while being pulled in a hundred directions inside and out. It’s a lot.

My career has taken me through IT leadership at Microsoft, research in oral cancer, roles in banking, and the study of naturopathic nutrition. I’ve lived through the pressures of identity tied to performance, of loyalty stretched too far, of boundaries tested until breaking point. I’ve also navigated multiple burnouts — which became my biggest teachers.

That’s why my focus now is on the deeper work of self-leadership — helping leaders relate differently to self-pressure, doubt, and the constant mental noise that clouds judgment.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸
I help senior leaders tackle the root cause of mental turbulence by building mental fitness, rewiring thought habits, and strengthening self-leadership. The outcome is steadiness, clarity, and the freedom to lead with intention instead of pressure.

𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽
If you’re a senior leader who feels your grip on steadiness slipping, let’s connect.

Mental Fitness Coach 

Live Your Truth Coaching

🔸Qualified & Accredited Transformational Coach ICF
🔹EMCC Practitioner Coach
🔸3 Brains Coach (ICF Accredited)
🔸Mental Health First Aider Trained
🔹Prosci Change Management Practitioner
🔸Positive Intelligence®️ and Mental Fitness Coach 
🔹UK ICF Trauma Series: Trauma-sensitive Coaching: Unfolding Compassion, Contactfulness, and Resourcefulness

Self Leadership Coach

Worklife Empowerment Coach

365SOLUTIONS.CLOUD LTD

Overseeing customer journey, engagement, operations and success.

Client Success Director

Microsoft

Leadership & Strategic Delivery
➡️Led a 100-strong team to drive the successful delivery of an enterprise portfolio of cloud services, ensuring operational excellence, profitability, and seamless customer experience.

Key Responsibilities & Achievements
➡️Enterprise Cloud Portfolio Management – Owned a £21M portfolio, leading resource alignment, allocation, and strategic prioritization across multiple business units.

➡️Sales & Deal Management – Led deal approval processes and collaborated cross-functionally to drive revenue growth.

➡️Technical Leadership – Oversaw presales, lifecycle support, and new implementations, ensuring technical excellence and customer success.

➡️Operational Efficiency & Profitability – Defined and drove key performance metrics to optimize efficiency and maximize profitability across the division.

➡️Cloud Adoption & Change Management – Prosci-certified leader, driving enterprise-wide cloud adoption and change initiatives.

➡️Crisis & Incident Management – Served as a direct escalation point for high-impact scenarios, including major cyber threats (e.g., WannaCry) and key retail campaigns.

➡️Talent & Recruitment Strategy – Led hiring efforts from early-career to senior roles as part of the hiring squad, shaping a high-performing team.

➡️People Development & Engagement – Spearheaded talent management initiatives, including career advisory programs, leadership development, onboarding, and monthly learning goals.

➡️Business Transformation & Continuous Improvement – Championed change and improvement initiatives across business units, driving innovation and efficiency.

Service Delivery Leader & Early in Career Lead, Microsoft Services

Managed teams across 17 countries for a global retail client, driving operational success through coaching, mentoring, and collaboration. Worked with senior leadership to shape success strategies that prioritized teamwork, self-leadership, and people development. Led initiatives to improve service delivery, enhance client satisfaction, and introduce innovative solutions for cloud adoption and change management.

Key Achievements:

→Presented at an annual global conference on overcoming cloud adoption challenges, enhancing ways of working for 330,000 customer colleagues. Recognised as being a cloud adoption leader.

→Successfully integrated teams across two global matrix organizations to improve performance.
Proactively monitored IT risks, ensuring operational performance and service continuity.
→Led multi-matrix teams to secure commercial partnerships and investments, ensuring customer service delivery satisfaction annually.


In addition to leading global service delivery for the retail client, I also managed service delivery and support for a major UK media organization, overseeing day-to-day service agreements including cloud tech implementations/updates for this high-profile client.

Enterprise Global Lead Service Delivery Manager

Rackspace Hosting

Enterprise Service Delivery Manager

Working with an established account base to grow and develop existing relationships, hosting installations and establishing long term partnerships.

SMB Business Development Consultant

SkillSoft

Public Sector focussed at the leading SaaS provider of on demand e-learning content and performance support solutions for global enterprises and organisations.
 
•	Secure research meetings with potential prospects to build an account base
•	Achieve quarterly revenue targets
•	Develop relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation to grow business
•	Oversee client on-boarding, delivering software demonstrations and workshops 
•	Collaborate with internal support teams to deliver an end to end quality client experience

Public Sector Account Manager

Symantec

Initially, an Inside Sales Education Services Specialist for the UK team, selling web-based, public scheduled, onsite and custom training to Symantec Partners, Named & Territory Account customers including the Irish Market.  A promotion in April 08 led to a move to the Inside Sales Organisation as a Senior Inside Sales Account Manager. This included:

•	Selling software products and services first to the Irish Market then into the Scottish territory.
•	Prospecting, qualifying and developing leads from different sources, (downloads or telemarketing) 
•	Building and managing pipeline to meet targets using Salesforce.com
•	Developing and managing accounts with a focus on retention
•	Engaging with internal colleagues such as pre-sales, Marketing and Order Operations
•	Working with channel partners throughout the sales cycle to win business

Inside Sales Education Services Specialist & Senior Inside Sales Account Manager

GapGuru

Sales & Marketing Executive

British Dyslexia Association

Events, Training & Projects Coordinator

Porsche Cars GB Ltd

Customer Assistance Centre Executive

Equipping Senior Leaders to Lead Themselves with Steadiness, Clarity & Inner Control ✈ Pilot Your Mind: The Steadiness Advantage™ | ex-Microsoft | ICF/EMCC Coach

𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿.
𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮? You don’t feel like one.

On paper: title, trust, track record.
Inside: spirals, overload, the mental static you can’t switch off.

You’re steering through constant turbulence:
📉 Reorgs, shifting roles, layoffs
🧠 AI disruption, unclear direction, low morale
📍 Pressure to stay calm, clear, and empathetic… while your own steadiness slips

Here’s the truth:
𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱.
“Push through harder” is only locking you in autopilot.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗗𝗼
I equip senior leaders who look steady on the outside but feel scattered inside.

Together, we tackle the root cause of mental turbulence: spirals of doubt, self-pressure, thought loops hijacking clarity.

Then we rebuild your internal controls so you can:
✦ Hold steady when everything else shifts
✦ Make intentional decisions without second-guessing
✦ Reclaim time, energy, and presence
✦ Lead yourself first →so leading others feels natural again

It starts with a 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 → a powerful scan to reveal what’s quietly eroding your steadiness. It kicks off a steady 3-step system designed to recalibrate how you lead and live.

𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣? 𝙇𝙚𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗠𝗲
𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗯𝗯𝗹𝗲.

As an ex-tech leader at Microsoft and a multi-neurodivergent learner, I’ve lived the mental static of being pulled in a hundred directions while still being expected to perform.

Across careers in research, banking, nutrition, and IT leadership, I saw the same pattern: smart, capable people unravelling inside while holding it together outside. I’ve experienced it myself, including burnout.

That’s why my coaching blends science + self-leadership (Positive Intelligence®, 3 Brains Coaching, ICF/EMCC credentialed) with lived experience. Not to help you “cope” 👉🏻 but to shift you from reactive mode into steady, strategic self-leadership.

So you don’t just survive.👉 You thrive with clarity, energy, and agency → without trading your wellbeing.

𝗜𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂?
✅ Quietly at capacity, still “holding it together”
✅ Tried tools, still off-balance
✅Craving less overwhelm, more energy
✅ Ready to stop reacting and lead with intention


🧭 Your mind is the cockpit.
𝙄𝙛 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙤𝙨, 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚.

Let’s steady it, so you can lead yourself, your work, and your life with calm control… even in an unsteady world.

📩 DM me to explore, or visit www.liveyourtruthcoaching.co.uk

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