Unlocking Value

About Unlocking Value

Unlocking Value is designed to give founders and owners of professional services firms more confidence when they're working toward an exit or thinking about taking on investment. Across six episodes, our host John Howard speaks with founders, investors and advisors about the moments that define the transaction journey - how to get ready, what to expect and how to succeed. We cover everything from value drivers and team alignment to investor expectations and life after the deal. You’ll hear from people who’ve sold their firms, taken minority investments, stayed on, exited and started again – and from those who advise or invest in firms like yours every day.

Publisher

Garwood Growth

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jul 2025

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Deri Hughes – The Inner Game: What Drives Your Behaviour as a Leader?

   Deri Hughes is Founder and MD of Honeycomb, a firm that helps consultancies develop stronger teams through training and skills development across client delivery, leadership and business development. A big part of this conversation is about what Deri calls the “inner game” – the thoughts and feelings that drive how we behave. Deri talks very openly about his own experience at Bain, where the need for achievement and positive feedback became closely tied to his sense of self-worth and st...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Episode 46: Steve Timms – Rethinking How Consulting Work Gets Done

   Steve Timms is CEO of Diabsolut, a consulting firm that helps organisations get more value from Salesforce and Certinia. When Steve joined Diabsolut in 2024, he inherited a business whose historic source of success was changing. The large ClickSoftware projects it had relied on were disappearing, and the firm needed to decide what it wanted to become next. That led to a much broader rethink of the business. Steve has been moving Diabsolut from implementing what clients ask for towards helping...

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Episode 45: Dave Kirby – Assume You’ll Want to Do It Again

   Dave Kirby is the founder of Coppett Hill, a consultancy that helps private equity-backed businesses improve how they find, win, keep and grow customers. When Dave started Coppett Hill just over three years ago, he wanted to avoid something he had seen throughout his career: professional services firms telling clients to capture and use information systematically while often struggling to do it themselves. One of Coppett Hill’s values is “building for growth”. The principle is simple: if you’...

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• Svetlana Tarnagurskaja
• Sri Ganesan
• Jason Soar
• Sarah Edwards
• Deb Ashton

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