Trusted Advisor Programme
An ongoing relationship where an experienced advisor sits alongside you — as advisory board member or management advisor — for a set number of days each month.
You need senior counsel embedded in the business, not delivered by the hour.
Ad-hoc advice has a ceiling. By the time you’ve briefed someone on the situation, the moment has often passed. What most SME owners actually want is a senior person who knows the business, is in the room for the important conversations, and is reachable between them — without the cost or overhead of hiring a full-time executive. The gap between “occasional consultant” and “another salaried senior hire” is where the Trusted Advisor Programme sits.
A senior Savjet Associate committed to your business on a defined monthly retainer.
Each engagement is anchored to a fixed number of days per month, ranging from half a day (TAP .5) through to two days (TAP 2), plus a formal Advisory Board option. The Associate — an ex-CEO, Managing Director, or Senior Partner who has run successful businesses locally and internationally — is embedded enough to know the business, attend the meetings that matter (sales, strategy, board, senior team), and be on the end of a call between them. Time is allocated at your discretion: chairing a monthly board, working with the sales team, walking through a strategic plan, or being available when a decision is urgent.
A senior operator on your side of the table.
The Trusted Advisor Programme is designed to keep the company on track. Meetings you’d otherwise attend alone have a second experienced voice in them. The senior team has someone to test decisions with. You get the coordination and coherence of an executive team without adding another executive salary — and at a fraction of the cost of engaging a big-four firm project-by-project.
The Trusted Advisor Programme is for:
- → Owners and Managing Directors who want an experienced advisor embedded in the business.
- → SMEs that don't yet have a formal board but need the discipline and rigour of one.
- → Businesses in transition — succession, restructure, expansion, new market — needing sustained senior input.
- → Owners tired of paying for boilerplate advice from firms that don't know the business.
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SME Mentoring
For one-on-one mentoring for the owner without the embedded advisory board role.
Learn more →Leadership & Culture
For building the leadership capability the advisor identifies as needed.
Learn more →Strategy, Sales & Profitability
For when a specific strategic plan is the immediate work required.
Learn more →Let's have a conversation.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. No slide deck, no pitch — just a conversation about where the business is and what would help.
Practical business advice for owners running Australian businesses between $2M and $200M.
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