Everyone needs help with their business


To improve, stay ahead, or grow.


Seeing businesses improve is my passion!

At some point, business owners realise they're not where they want to be. They started off with goals and ambitions but somewhere along the way, it all got lost in the busyness of life.

I will come and sit down with you and help you get refocused and realigned with those dreams and goals.

I have seen clients' businesses improve significantly through:

  • Increasing efficiency and reducing wasted effort
  • Challenging and refining current thinking
  • Identifying and progressing innovative ideas
  • Streamlining and simplifying processes
  • Improving client and customer perception
  • Returning value to the bottom line
  • Developing their people

What My Clients Say

Stephen provided a breadth of experience in business improvement, and challenged our thinking.

Bandag (Bridgestone Group)

Stephen provided a pragmatic approach to our EHS and Supply Chain improvement program, engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders taking a holistic view to incorporate a range of business efficiencies

Boeing

Stephen has transformed our approach and thinking to becoming a business that focuses on developing our organization.

Global Engineering and Construction

We have learned so much from Stephen's understanding of business risk. His proactive engagement and coaching of our senior management has been invaluable.

AusRam Engineering

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At Beyond Your Horizon we work with leadership to help them develop and manage the business to success, whether it is simply to help them with Strategic Planning initiatives, develop and implement management systems, or assist with organisational change. 

The choice to fail or the choice to succeed is entirely yours; you can plan to do nothing different and fail to realise your vision, or you can invest time and resources into yourself, your team and your business and move onto the path for greater success.   Planning though in itself does not ensure success.  Drive, motivation and commitment are required to put plans into action to endure for the long haul.

At Beyond Your Horizon, our mission is to help individuals and businesses to not just look beyond their current circumstances to greater possibilities, but to achieve their purpose.  Few enterprises reach success through a sprint; most have to run a marathon.  Running a business successfully is fraught with risks, but these can usually be overcome with good planning and management.  We work with you, one step at a time, to achieve transformation.

What does a successful business look like? That is different for every business owner.  It may be to:

  • Lead the market, create new markets
  • Improve client, customer or worker satisfaction
  • Increase sales, profitability and reduce costs
  • Challenge workforce productivity and performance
  • Streamline practices and procedures
  • Inspire management to stretch beyond current reasoning
  • Improve the culture, to ensure consistency of leadership
  • Surpass competition to be the supplier of choice

What does success look like to you? Why do so many businesses never achieve but go from one day to the next, hoping for...?  Why do businesses stagnate or worse yet collapse and disappear never to be seen again?  Does the future of your business look buoyant, is it just surviving, or do your options look bleak?

Business development isn’t about sales or marketing.  Business development is about creating long-term value opportunities for your products and services.  We seek to ensure that, between you and your customers, suppliers and other stakeholders, you achieve enduring growth and improvement in your business.  Understanding the organisational risks helps to develop the right plans and management systems to address what matters.  Leadership have to recognise and create the environment to ensure goals and plans succeed.  The business has to be sustainable for longevity, with plans and processes reflecting this. 

At Beyond Your Horizon, we focus on understanding what it is you want to achieve and help you to realistically attain it.  We work with you to improve and adjust your current course to align with the intended objective.  Remember the processes and improvements implemented have to be practical to go the distance.