Advisory Board Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses

Advisory Board Solutions

Independent thinking, structured support, and strategic clarity for growing businesses.

Running a business can feel lonely at the top. Decisions get heavier, challenges get more complex, and sometimes you need independent experts around the table to keep the business moving in the right direction.

A well-designed Advisory Board gives you clarity, accountability, and access to strategic insight you can’t get from inside the business. Whether you’re growing, restructuring, or simply trying to get control back, an advisory board provides the perspective and discipline that move the business forward.

What an Advisory Board Helps You Achieve

Advisory Boards are particularly powerful for SMEs who are:

• Growing quickly without clear direction

• Stretched between daily operations and long-term planning

• Experiencing margin pressure or inconsistent results

• Struggling with leadership bandwidth or capability gaps

• Trying to reset systems, structure, reporting, or accountability

• Needing independent thinking to challenge assumptions

• Preparing for expansion, investment, or change

• Wanting to strengthen governance and decision-making

• Wanting a more scalable business model that runs with less dependence on the owner

• Needing support to increase business value ahead of future transitions

Through our work with clients — including complex, multi-divisional service businesses — we’ve seen how an advisory board can stabilise the business, strengthen leadership, and create practical pathways for growth.

How Advisory Boards Support Your Business

1. Discover Untapped Opportunities

See pathways for new revenue, improved margins, and smarter business models — often hiding in plain sight. This includes opportunities to improve scalability and long-term value.

2. Improve Sales, Margins & Operational Efficiency

Independent advisors help uncover gaps, bottlenecks, and inconsistencies that may be costing you money.

3. Stay Ahead of Market, Technology & Customer Shifts

Boards help you stay relevant, competitive, and well-positioned for what’s coming next.

4. Support Capital Raising & Restructuring Decisions

Navigate banks, investors, refinancing, expansion, and organisational change with confidence.

5. Strengthen Risk Management & Stability

Reduce exposure to issues that could harm the business — financial, operational, or strategic.

6. Build Strategic Partnerships & Networks

Leverage the connections, industry reach, and experience of your advisors.

7. Support Leadership Capacity & Team Alignment

Clear direction and accountability help owners move from doing to leading, empowering the team to step up.

8. Foster Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Boards challenge assumptions and encourage fresh thinking, helping the business evolve.

9. Enhance Your Brand & Professional Credibility

Businesses with structured governance are trusted, respected, and taken more seriously by the market.

10. Strengthen Your Exit Value & Long-Term Business Asset

Advisory boards help owners shift from “running a business” to “building a valuable business asset.”

How We Work With You

Our advisory board services are flexible and tailored to your business stage and needs.

1. Board Setup & Design (Fit-for-Purpose)

We design a practical governance structure aligned to your strategy, choosing the right mix of independent advisors and internal leaders. This includes:

• Board purpose and charters

• Meeting rhythms

• Reporting requirements

• Role clarity

• Selection of advisors

• Strategic focus for the next 12–36 months

• Ensuring the board supports a profitable, valuable, and scalable business model

2. Board Participation (Certified Advisory Board Chair)

We can join your existing advisory board to:

• Facilitate meetings

• Guide discussions

• Keep conversations strategic rather than operational

• Support the business owner and leadership team to make better decisions

• Ensure accountability and momentum

• Link advisory board priorities with financial performance and strategic direction

3. Step-Back Support (Independent Setup)

If you want full independence

• We set up the advisory board

• Structure it, document it, and prepare the business

• Then step aside so you benefit from external advisors without us in the room

• We remain available for check-ins or guidance if needed

This model works well for businesses preparing for growth, scaling, or leadership transition — especially when building a valuable, long-term business asset.

Why Choose Towards Growth

Decades of SME Experience

We’ve supported businesses through growth, restructuring, multi-division management, cash flow pressure, capability issues, and operational complexity — including current work with medium-sized organisations navigating leadership, reporting, and systems challenges.

Certified Advisory Expertise

Our approach is grounded in the Advisory Board Centre framework — clear, structured, practical governance for SMEs.

Financial & Strategic Depth

As management accountants and business advisors, we bring a unique combination of:

• financial clarity

• strategic planning

• operational insight

• leadership support

• value creation and scalability expertise

Practical, Calm, Non-Jargon Style

We help you see through the noise, make decisions with confidence, and bring stability back to the business.

Integrated Pathways Beyond the Advisory Board

If further support is needed, we provide pathways into Business Advisory, Fractional CFO work, or Consulting — ensuring the board’s decisions turn into action and results.

Ready to Strengthen Your Strategic Direction?

If you’d like to explore whether an Advisory Board is right for your business:

Book a 20-Minute Advisory Board Discovery Call

If you’d like to explore whether an Advisory Board is right for your business:

Book a 20-Minute Advisory Board Discovery Call