Hey everyone 👋

I help founders stop firefighting long enough to actually build something sustainable. You know that feeling where your company only works because you’re holding all the pieces together? Yeah, let’s fix that.

Here’s what gets me out of bed: UK startups are haemorrhaging £250 billion a year - not to competitors, but to disengaged teams and operational chaos. Wild, right? Only 10% of UK employees actually give a damn about their work, yet 62% want something meaningful. The gap is massive, and most founders are too busy drowning to do anything about it.

I’m a fractional COO. Basically, I come in and build the operational backbone you need while making sure your team doesn’t hate Mondays. Systems and culture.

I’ve spent five years doing this. Helped an Aussie startup raise $3M, supported a UK company through a US acquisition, built and managed teams of 15-25 across pretty much every function you can think of. Started my first business at 20, so I’ve been in the trenches - I get what it’s like when everything’s on fire and you’re out of extinguishers.

What I actually do:I don’t show up with fancy slide decks and disappear. I build the real stuff: clear strategy, revenue systems that work, operations that don’t fall apart when you take a holiday. You know, the unsexy things that actually matter.

My vision? Founders who scale without losing their minds, their relationships, or the culture that made their company cool in the first place. Growth shouldn’t mean misery.

Why I’m here: To learn, share war stories (the wins and the spectacular failures), and meet founders who are building something real but need someone who can think strategically and execute fast.

If you’re stuck in survival mode and tired of feeling like everything depends on you, let’s grab a coffee. Virtual or otherwise. 🍻

A good way to approach it first is, like you said, make people stop hating Monday's. It sounds humourous but when you think about it, work culture plays a large role in how well it functions.

Great intro, @Lucy Colson. The “company only works because you’re holding it together” line will resonate with a lot of founders here! Usually right up until the first attempted holiday exposes all the cracks!

@Tankers makes a good point on Mondays, and I’d add that culture is often treated as a perk problem rather than an operating system. Founders assume disengagement is a motivation issue, when in reality it’s usually a clarity and ownership issue. People don’t hate Mondays because they’re lazy; they hate ambiguity, constant rework, and decisions that live only in the founder’s head.

The unsexy work you mention; decision frameworks, handovers, repeatable revenue processes - is exactly what creates space for meaning. You don’t get engaged teams without operational trust, and you don’t get operational trust without someone deliberately building it.

Fractional COO support feels like one of those things founders only value after they’ve tried to scale heroics and burned themselves out. Good to see someone here who’s actually been in the mess, not just diagnosing it from a slide deck!

Looking forward to the war stories. The failures tend to be far more useful than the polished success narratives.