Who you'll be working with
I am not a consultant who quotes from books. I have built, sold and led myself — and I know what the month feels like when the numbers don't add up.
Simon Cornehl, owner
Career
I started in financial advice, at a large company where success was measured in numbers every day. Not a comfortable environment. If you don't win clients, you have no income — it was that simple. That is where I learned acquisition, not in theory but on the phone, in meetings, and in countless conversations that went nowhere.
As a team leader I took responsibility for people and for numbers. I trained people who had never sold anything before, and saw what makes the difference between someone who makes it and someone who gives up. It is almost never talent. It is structure and staying with it.
Since 2018 I have run my own business. I know the freedom, and I know the nights spent doing sums. That experience is the reason I don't fob my clients off with motivational lines: I know that lines don't pay invoices.
Since then I have been passing on what I learned. I have accompanied dozens of people into self-employment — and, which matters more to me, brought many of them to a level where they can genuinely live on their work. I am also a certified start-up coach, approved for AVGS-funded programmes.
If I get the impression in the first call that you don't need me, I say so. An engagement that achieves nothing damages us both.
We always start with what is actually happening — not with what feels right. That is the most unpleasant hour and the most important one.
I don't take the work off your hands. I show you which way it goes, and follow up when something is left undone.
There is no guarantee of revenue. Anyone selling you that is selling you something. What I commit to is a plan and someone who sees it through with you.
The first call is free and without obligation. Afterwards you know whether we are a fit — and so do I.
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