Business leadership
Founders, MDs and CEOs of established businesses at any commercial stage: scaling, restructuring, raising, or preparing to sell.
Commercial consultancy · Start-up to exit
Full commercial expertise, every stage.
One senior partner across strategy, operations, marketing, funding, governance and leadership. Built on real time across start-up, scale and exit.
- Start-upFoundations, first commercial systems
- GrowthScaling past founder-led decisions
- ChangeRestructuring, systems, operating model
- InvestmentFunding, valuation, board readiness
- ExitSale readiness, due diligence, transition
The starting point
Few businesses have one problem. They have a stage.
Growing businesses often end up working with several advisors at once, and doing the joining-up work themselves.
The Kable Consulting approach
One partner. The full commercial picture.
Senior commercial experience across strategy, operations, marketing, funding, governance and leadership, joined up from the first conversation.
What we do
Six pillars, one line of travel
We work wherever the business is on the journey. One pillar, or several in sequence.
01
Commercial Strategy & Business Planning
Business model, financial modelling and growth strategy that's investable and credible.
02
Operations, Systems & Change
Operating model and change delivery, as one part of the wider commercial picture.
03
Marketing & Growth Strategy
Marketing built as a commercial lever, measurable and aligned to growth goals.
04
Funding, Investment & Exit Readiness
Investable at every stage, and ready to sell well when the time comes.
05
Governance, Legal & Risk Structure
The structures that let a business scale, be audited, or be sold.
06
Leadership & Team Enablement
A leadership team pulling in one direction, with the rhythms to keep it that way.
Why Kable Consulting
What makes us different
Genuinely full-service
Strategy, operations, marketing, funding, governance and leadership, under one senior advisor.
Start-up to exit
Real commercial experience across the whole business lifecycle, not one stage of it.
Senior, hands-on
Every engagement is led personally. No handoff to a junior delivery team.
Commercial first
Every recommendation is judged on what it does to performance and value.
Systems and change, when needed
A capable partner for operating-model and change work, as part of the picture.
Built to hold under load
Systems and decisions that still work after we leave.
Who we work with
Built for leadership teams carrying real weight
Boards, PE & investment partners
Boards and operating partners who need portfolio businesses commercially strengthened, from value creation through to exit.
“Most businesses need someone who has actually run the whole journey, start-up to exit.”
Katrina Bullen · Founder & Principal Consultant
How we work
A clear, sequenced engagement
- 1
Diagnostic
A short, paid diagnostic phase to understand the business's stage and priorities.
- 2
Scope
A tailored engagement scoped to the relevant pillars. Never a one-size-fits-all package.
- 3
Delivery
Senior-led delivery, embedded with the team, from strategy through to execution.
- 4
Review
Structured review and handover, with a clear path to retained or fractional support.
Your partner
Led personally, start to finish
Katrina Bullen
Founder & Principal Consultant
Every Kable Consulting engagement is led personally, drawing on senior commercial experience across strategy, operations, marketing, funding, governance and leadership.
Katrina spent 25 years building teams and businesses, first in hospitality, then in property, where she co-founded and scaled Caplen Estates into an award-winning business through to a successful exit.
She has lived every stage Kable Consulting works across: start-up, growth, change, investment and exit. First-hand, not in theory.
Accredited CCR3 practitioner
Katrina delivers CCR3's Discovery Process®, which gives leaders and teams a clear read on how they think, make decisions and perform under pressure. Strengths and blind spots are out in the open, so the people side of the plan is built on evidence.
“The best leaders never stop building. They just keep raising the bar.”
Katrina Bullen
Next step
Ready to see the full commercial picture?
A short diagnostic conversation is the fastest way to find out where the business needs support next.
hello@kableconsulting.co.uk