Give me a messy topic. Your members get one clear idea.
And mine runs against the grain: there is nothing wrong with how you built your business. Simplify, then scale.
I'm Beth. I've built teams from scratch and grown them, inside the NHS and in my own businesses, after starting out at Pfizer. I've mentored 350 owners, and I work with organisations that serve them, running workshops, talks and programmes for their members. My take is the opposite of most of the advice owners are given, said in plain words they can act on the same week.
Bring me to your members Press enquiries
How organisations work with me
If you support owners of established businesses, through membership, funding, banking, accountancy or events, I can help you give them something they will actually use.
You get someone who has built and grown teams and businesses, not just advised them, and who helps owners bring the expertise they no longer see back to the fore.
Workshops and talks
Live sessions, online or in the room, that leave owners with one clear idea and a step they can take the same week.
Growth programmes
Small-group and one to one programmes for the owners you support, including publicly funded growth schemes. Structured, with time to act between sessions.
An expert voice
Commentary, panels, articles and podcast conversations on owner-led growth, the messy middle, and when to simplify before you scale.
Have members or a programme in mind? Start a conversation
Recent features and talks
How to build, test and monetize digital assets from your expertise
Jodie Cook's Forbes column features the Business Weight Map, the part of my in-person group course clients kept pointing to, and how I rebuilt it as a digital asset in my own business.
Is your business growing in the right direction?
A Lunch and Learn for owners on the different ways a business can grow, and why the wrong kind wears you out. Recording available.
Want to see how I run a room? I host free live workshops for owners. See what's coming up
Shaped sessions, not topic areas
There's nothing wrong with how you built it
Owners are told they are great at the craft and poor at the business. I've built and grown teams and businesses myself, and mentored 350 owners. That story costs more than it corrects.
Simplify before you scale
Almost every owner reaches for more. More marketing, more people, more activity. How to tell whether the business in front of you needs to simplify or scale, because getting that backwards is expensive.
The messy middle
Growth is supposed to get easier. It gets heavier instead, and nobody warns owners about the stage in between. What that feeling is actually telling you, and why it is a signal rather than a failure.
The edge you can't see
Owners stop seeing what they're brilliant at, because it has become normal to them. I did the same in my own businesses. Why it happens, what it costs, and how to bring it back to the fore.
Selected writing
The story that you're not a businessperson is wrong
Why the "great technician, poor businessperson" story is wrong, and what expert owners should do instead.
Thinking partner, not just consultant
Why, past a certain point, more help makes a business heavier, and what actually lightens the load.
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Bethan Miles
Founder, Simplify & Scale · Business mentor · Non-executive director
Beth has spent thirty years building things that grow. In the NHS she built a fully funded team from the ground up; since 2016 she has run her own businesses, a healthcare innovation consultancy and now Simplify & Scale, employing staff and working with associates. Her career started at Pfizer, and she has contracted with Deloitte. Much of that work was national innovation programmes, where nothing happens unless someone can make it happen across organisations that do not answer to each other. She sits as a non-executive director, currently with WM5G and the Willow Tree Foundation. For the last twenty years her work has been inside owner-led businesses, mentoring 350+ of them internationally, from healthcare to construction, on publicly funded growth programmes as well as her own. Her conclusion has not changed in thirty years: there is nothing wrong with how you built your business. The work is to simplify what is already there, then scale it.
Partnerships, speaking and press. A reply from me, not a team.
beth@simplifyandscale.co.uk