What We Do

We are here to assist entrepreneurs to create and grow their businesses.

We partner with you when you need us without taking equity in your business.  We come with a broad range of skills to support and encourage you through areas of business where you may not yet have skills or resources.  We are problem-solvers and will get involved in your business challenges assisting you to resolve them.

Where we do not have in-house skills, we have access to a network of trusted professionals. We take on the responsibility of coordinating and managing delivery within agreed budgets and timelines.

Typically, we would assist start-ups or businesses looking to boost growth with tasks like:

identifying and planning tasks required for achieving the desired goals with budgeting and timelines

researching markets you are entering

co-creating vision, strategy and short term sales action plans

finding the best business structure for you, given the laws that apply to your business.

registering your company, overseeing shareholders negotiations and agreements along with the processes to keep them up to date.

setting you up with a logo, website, your domain registration and some business templates

help you find a good business location, suppliers and overseeing orders, installations and the supply of key services.

designing business systems like financial management systems and tax registration

introducing you to business partners and providers as well as executive level support.

helping with the general admin of establishing and running a new business (bank accounts, supplier accounts, FICA, registration with potential SME customer databases, expense tracking)

helping you decide what roles need to be filled and hire good people.

Paul Finlayson

Mel’s work was absolutely invaluable. She was a great sounding board to my thoughts about the strategic challenges facing the business. She activated plans with great efficiency to enable change in the business. She helped craft the change programme to ensure the people took on board all we were trying to do in resetting the future. 

Her ability to do this was due to the following reasons:

  • Quick thinking and an ability to get to understand what the key levers were in delivering the Banking product to the clients and bankers
  • Clarity of communication to all role players
  • Comfort in her decision making abilities and willingness to support decisions in the face of those reluctant to change
Paul Finlayson
Nedbank Private Wealth

Ed-Unique

“Over the last few months I have felt so privileged to have Mel, and her partner Alison,  to keep me on the straight and narrow and to focus my energies on the low lying fruit.  Having a coach who is able to be very direct and has the ability to “talk straight “from an objective viewpoint has been a wonderful experience.  This has given my business more structure and a clear vision moving forward. Our meetings invoke a clear sense of accountability in reporting on the previous months goals and planning a way forward.  This has enabled me to approach the business from a position of strength and not shooting in the dark and following any opportunity “

Stella Heuer
Ed-Unique