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CEO Growth Stress Calculator
CEO Growth Stress Calculator
CEO Growth Stress Calculator
Discover how growth pressures are impacting your leadership effectiveness with our free CEO Growth Stress Calculator. In just 2 minutes, assess your strategic stress levels across alignment, execution, and Go-to-Market clarity. Get a personalised stress score along with practical, actionable tips to reduce pressure, improve focus, and sca
Discover how growth pressures are impacting your leadership effectiveness with our free CEO Growth Stress Calculator. In just 2 minutes, assess your strategic stress levels across alignment, execution, and Go-to-Market clarity. Get a personalised stress score along with practical, actionable tips to reduce pressure, improve focus, and scale your business with greater confidence. Ideal for CEOs, founders, and executives looking to lead with clarity and regain control of their growth strategy.
Go-to-Market Growth Check
CEO Growth Stress Calculator
CEO Growth Stress Calculator
Evaluate your company’s Go-to-Market readiness in under 5 minutes with the GTM Growth Scorecard Check. This free assessment helps CEOs, founders, and commercial leaders identify strengths, gaps, and alignment issues across six key areas of strategic growth. Instantly receive a personalised GTM readiness score and actionable insights to i
Evaluate your company’s Go-to-Market readiness in under 5 minutes with the GTM Growth Scorecard Check. This free assessment helps CEOs, founders, and commercial leaders identify strengths, gaps, and alignment issues across six key areas of strategic growth. Instantly receive a personalised GTM readiness score and actionable insights to improve focus, accelerate execution, and build a repeatable, scalable growth strategy. Ideal for businesses planning expansion, M&A integration, or needing to align teams around a unified plan.
About TheStrategySmith
Our Mission
Where MBB or Big4 might deploy an army to your GTM or M&A project, we are the sliver bullet. Award winning, GTM and M&A specialists for medium to large enterprises, our aim is to be regarded as the 4th initial to MBB or one of the 'Big5', without the big firm overhead.
Providing world class Go-to-Market Strategy & Execution planning, globally accessible for all businesses worldwide.
Whether you’re navigating a merger, scale or sale, planning rapid market expansion, or simply sharpening your competitive edge, my Growth Diamond framework distils what I’ve learned into a practical, six-step roadmap that works in any sector and any geography.
At TheStrategySmith, our mission is to empower and inspire growth for businesses worldwide. We are dedicated to making a significant impact on organizations, helping them achieve their strategic goals and navigate complex challenges.
Sector & Geography Agnostic.
As a trusted partner in transformation, we offer a comprehensive suite of services that drive change and enhance growth. With a proven track record of over 20 years, our founder, Ian, has been at the helm of C-Suite leadership in organizations with over 420,000 people and revenues exceeding £20 billion.
Our core offerings include:
Featured: Growth Diamond – Rapid Go-To-Market Strategy Delivered in 20 Day Sprint.
Unlock accelerated business growth with our Growth Diamond – a proven 6-step Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy delivered in just 20 days. We specialize in fast, actionable GTM planning that drives real results, whether as a stand-alone service or seamlessly integrated into Post-Merger Integration (PMI) projects.
Our method focuses on executing critical success factors to ensure mergers, acquisitions, and organic growth initiatives deliver maximum ROI — fast.
✔ 6-Step Framework
✔ 20-Day Delivery Guarantee
✔ Tailored for Organic and Inorganic Growth Mergers, Acquisitions, and Rapid Market Expansion
Position your business for immediate, measurable growth with Growth Diamond.
Business-Critical Strategy Execution and Transformation Advisory
At TheStrategySmith, we specialize in executing business-critical strategies that drive transformation and deliver measurable results. We provide expert support at the board and C-suite level, with proven success in business change management, M&A advisory, and complex transformation projects.
With a track record of delivering successful outcomes across 100 countries and 150 locations, our team excels in change management, project troubleshooting, and strategic execution. Whether leading mergers, acquisitions, or enterprise-wide transformations, we ensure organizations achieve guaranteed, lasting results.
✔ C-Suite Strategy Execution
✔ Business Transformation and M&A Advisory
✔ Change Management and Project Troubleshooting Experts
Partner with TheStrategySmith to deliver critical strategies with speed, precision, and impact.
Ian, the visionary behind TheStrategySmith, is not only equipped with an international executive MBA but is also a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting, full Member of the Institute of Interim Managers (MIIM) and Association for Project Management (MAPM). Furthermore, he holds esteemed certifications from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) for business valuation and is a 3X charter holder with the Institute for Mergers Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) for international mergers and acquisitions and post-merger integration.
At TheStrategySmith, we are passionate about transforming organizations, driving growth, and ensuring that decision-makers can rest easy, knowing their business is in capable hands. Also Bloom Accredited working in the public sector. Our mission is to empower your transformation journey and inspire growth that leads to extraordinary success.
See | Enable | Embed
Strategy is not a search engine, presentation slides and spreadsheets. We won't create a scientific methodology that seems impossible to understand and even harder to implement. You will be able to sleep soundly but not from reviewing pages and pages of a report or slides. Spreadsheets are a necessity in some cases, but through our See | Enable | Embed approach, you will interpret these reports and processes with ease, and find them easy to manage and implement.
SEE - refers to the importance of gaining clear insights and understanding the existing landscape, both internally and externally.
ENABLE - emphasizes the significance of providing the necessary resources, support, and tools to empower individuals and teams to excel. This involves fostering a culture of continuous learning, skill development, and innovation.
EMBED - entails the integration of new knowledge, skills, and practices into the core fabric of the organisation, ensuring that growth becomes ingrained and sustainable. We wont be that consultant that drops a file on your desk and leaves - we will stick by you to ensure you can can embed your growth activities, strategic plans and project results - so they are there to stay.
All services within See | Enable | Embed follow their own same approach too - for example, working on your strategy for you to See the opportunities within your business or industry sector - we will ensure you are Enabled to seize the opportunities and Embed them into the success for your business.
Our work is assignment based with success criteria and KPI's defined and agreed at the outset.
See | Enable | Embed guarantees a line of sight can be drawn from TheStrategySmith's contribution to the success of your business.
That’s how we ensure your success.
Why Us?
Trust, integrity and confidentiality are the core values of TheStrategySmith.
We want to give you the time and guidance you deserve.
Our ongoing service support is world class; together we will See | Enable | Embed your plan for your success. We didn’t get there alone. And neither will you.
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