Services
I work with a small number of businesses at any one time, either in group workshops or 1:1. Every engagement starts with a genuine conversation about what you do, who you do it for, and where your communication is letting you down.
From there, we’ll find the right way to work together.
The IDEA Workshop
Learn to see your business communication the way history’s greatest constrained communicators did — and leave with clearer messages you can use immediately.
Most communication training tells you what to say. This workshop teaches you how to think, using real historical objects and a proven four-stage methodology to extract principles that apply directly to your own business.
In a small group of businesses, you’ll work through the IDEA methodology using real objects. You’ll apply it to your own business on the day, with the added benefit of seeing how others in the room are approaching their communication challenges. Businesses that appear very different often share the same underlying problem. Hearing how someone else articulates theirs has a way of clarifying your own.
You’ll leave with: A clear, tested articulation of what makes your business genuinely different. Practical next steps for applying those principles across your existing communication, including website, pitches, and content.
Format: Half-day, in person
Group size: Small groups only (6-10) enough to learn from each other, small enough for everyone to get real attention.
Location: Reading and Thames Valley
Next Session: TBC
Communication Audit
A rigorous, outside-eye review of how your business communicates, and a clear plan for making it work harder.
Sometimes the problem isn’t that you don’t know your business. It’s that you’re too close to it to see what you’re actually communicating to the people outside it.
The Communication Audit is a focused 1:1 engagement where I examine your business communication end to end: your messaging, your audience clarity, and how you’re presenting your products/services. This will identify precisely where the gaps are between what you mean to say and what people are actually receiving.
Using the IDEA methodology as the analytical lens, I look at your existing communication assets — website, pitch materials, social presence, any marketing collateral — and map them against three questions: Is your message clear? Does it connect with the right people? Is it consistent across every channel?
The result is a frank, practical assessment and a set of specific, prioritised recommendations you can act on immediately — not a report that sits in a folder.
The audit covers:
Your core message: what your business is, who it’s for, and what makes it genuinely different.
Your audience: whether your communication is addressing the right person, in the right way
Your offers: whether what you do is presented with enough clarity and confidence to convert the right clients — Your consistency: whether your message holds together across every touchpoint
Format: 1:1, combination of a structured intake process and a review session to walk through findings together
Delivery: In person (Reading/Thames Valley) or online
Output: Written findings and prioritised recommendations you keep
Not ready to work together yet?
There are two free ways to follow the thinking:
The Newsletter — A regular look at what historical objects can teach modern businesses about communication.
LinkedIn — I post two to three times a week on constrained communication, clarity, and how we can take lessons from the past to better map our future.