Build the business. Develop the people. Do both at once.
Most support businesses can help you with tasks. Get Ahead goes further. Alongside our virtual support services, we offer training, coaching and development for the people at the heart of your business: founders finding their footing at scale, managers stepping into leadership, and teams that need to grow with the business around them.
Everything we deliver is practitioner-led. Our trainers and coaches work inside growing businesses every week. They understand the commercial realities, the pace and the constraints. That’s what makes the difference between a session that’s useful on the day and one that actually changes things.
Depending on where you are and what you need, our support tends to fall into one of two areas.
Training & development for your team
Structured programmes for managers, leaders and growing teams. Covering leadership, people management, personal impact and culture. Designed for businesses that are scaling and need their people’s capabilities to keep pace.
Coaching & mentoring for founders
One-to-one support for business owners who need space to think, challenge and clarity. Particularly powerful for founders who have started to grow but haven’t yet put the foundations in place: vision, understanding of the numbers, systems and processes, and leadership approach.
Not sure which fits? We’ll help you work it out. Start with a conversation.
What we can help with
Rather than an off-the-shelf catalogue, we focus on the areas that matter most to founder-led and growing businesses.
Leadership & Performance
As businesses scale, managers need to become leaders, often quickly and often without much support. We help organisations build confident, accountable leadership teams.
- Performance Management Essentials
- Managing Difficult Conversations
- Building Accountability and Ownership
- First-Time Manager Development
- Leading Through Change
Talent, Inclusion & People Development
Strong businesses attract and keep great people, but that doesn’t happen by accident. We help growing businesses move from reactive people management to intentional talent development.
- Talent Management for Growing Businesses
- Succession Planning in Scaling Businesses
- EDI in Practice (beyond policy)
- Building Inclusive, High-Trust Cultures
- Retention and Engagement Strategies
Personal Impact & Commercial Confidence
In a growing business, individual effectiveness matters enormously. Whether networking, presenting, leading meetings or representing your brand externally, confidence and clarity make a real difference.
- Personal Branding for Business Owners and Leaders
- Networking with Purpose
- Executive Presence
- Communicating with Impact
- Influencing Without Authority
Coaching, Mentoring & Growth Culture
For founders who need to step back from the day-to-day and build something more intentional: one-to-one coaching, leadership mentoring, and support for businesses that want to make continuous development part of how they operate.
- Business and Leadership Coaching for Founders
- Coaching Skills for Managers
- Creating a Learning Culture
- Leadership Away Days & Strategy Facilitation
Every programme is tailored
Most of our work is bespoke. We start by understanding your business: your growth stage, your current leadership capability, your people challenges and your commercial goals. From there, we design something that fits.
Delivery formats include half-day workshops, full-day sessions, multi-session programmes, leadership away days, one-to-one coaching engagements and longer-term development partnerships.
Does this sound like you?
You’ve promoted someone into their first management role and they’re struggling to make the shift from doing to leading.
Your business has grown quickly and the culture that made you successful feels harder to hold onto.
You’re a founder who knows what you want to build, but you’re too close to the day-to-day to see clearly how to get there.
You’ve tried training before and found it useful on the day, but nothing much changed afterwards.
You want your leadership team to perform at the next level, but you’re not sure where to start.
If any of those feel familiar, we’d love to talk.
The people behind the work
Our training and coaching is delivered by practitioners from across the Get Ahead network, each with real-world experience of building and running businesses. Here is a flavour of the expertise behind what we do.
Founder, Get Ahead
Rebecca founded Get Ahead in 2010 and has spent fifteen years building it into an award-winning virtual support business with a team of over 90. Her training work focuses on personal impact, networking and professional presence, drawing on her experience working with a wide range of brands including professional services firms. She also consults on franchising and business scaling at Ashtons.
Regional Director, Essex & Suffolk
Sarah has built and scaled several businesses of her own, including a specialist travel business she successfully grew and sold. She works with founders through business and leadership coaching, helping them step back from the operational pressures of running a business and focus on what will actually move the needle. Her coaching draws on a framework of four foundations: vision and clarity, understanding the numbers, systems and processes, and leadership.
Regional Director, Kent & East Sussex
Hazel brings over two decades of senior HR experience across IT, engineering and the charity sector, including many years as part of a global engineering company’s Senior Leadership Team. She leads Get Ahead’s nationwide HR Essentials service and her training work spans HR, people management, leadership development and organisational change.
Our wider network includes practitioners across HR, marketing, operations and finance. Whoever you work with, the approach is the same: real experience, practical application, no generic frameworks.
What our clients say
Talk to us about your training or coaching needs
We don’t believe in off-the-shelf answers. Whether you’re thinking about a single workshop, a development programme for your team or one-to-one coaching for yourself, the best starting point is a conversation.
Call us on 0330 223 7580 or send us a message and we’ll come back to you.
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