Gatenbys Consulting partners with ambitious agency founders to help them become unstoppable.
We explore the best way to drive value to fuel their vision AND be a force for good, whilst falling back in love with their business.
Vision & Value Creation Consultancy
Working with founders with a Value Creation Health Check, Vivid Vision Formation and Value Driver Plan.
We will assess what’s working, what’s not, what’s missing and any significant gold right under your feet.
The framework provides structure to take out the chaos - transforming numbers into narrative. Releasing energy and creativity to create a bespoke, value driving plan for you with clarity for your team.
121 Cognitive Behavioural Coaching
Working 121 in supporting ambitious leaders to explore the best way to drive value for themselves and their agency.
A bespoke programme to sustaining personal growth as you grow your business.
Helping you to make brave decisions from a place of safety, to break through anxiety and indecision. To amplify the postive impact of your growing business.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help agency founders to do better.
By working towards a world where business is profitable and people-focused, by creating value to fuel vision and being a force for good.
And to shape that world by helping ambitious leaders to break through anxiety and indecision, changing the way they think, so they can change the way they act.
Together we will go where others fear to tread.
And we will laugh, a lot.
“If we’re going to become agile changemakers, we need to hack our brains, shift our thinking and overcome our embedded behaviours.”
— NIKKI GATENBY
Combining the energy, experience and sense of humour gained from years at the agency coalface, with the insight and empathy of a qualified cognitive behavioural coach.
We’ll immerse ourselves in your business as if it were our own, and change your day, your week, your business, for the better.
We understand the pressure of keeping all the plates spinning, and have made enough mistakes of our own to know the best ways to avoid them - or at least get out in one piece. With coaching skills we’ll work with you to find the right answers, rather than just telling you what to do. As a result, you’ll make decisions you can believe in, with outcomes you can trust.
Employee-ownership, founder exit, proposition & strategy repositioning, pandemic: I had the pleasure to work with Gatenbys Consulting through a period of dramatic transformation at Clearleft during her role as board advisor.
It goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway) that no matter the challenge, Nikki was there to provide invaluable ideas, advice and guidance, grounded in the lived experience of someone who has so obviously been there, done that, got the badge to prove it.
Nikki's infectious energy and proactive input was absolutely irreplaceable, both for the organisation as a whole and for each of us in the leadership team individually too. Her effortless and intuitive coaching brought out the best in each of us, helping us more genuinely live by our values and purpose.
Last, but certainly not least, she's also an unpretentious, authentic and candid leader who is so, so easy to spend time with, bouncing ideas around together without fear of judgement or reprisal. A breath of fresh air. thanks for all your help Nikki.”
ANDY THORNTON,
BOARD STRATEGY DIRECTOR,
CLEARLEFT
