How We Work
Our Venture Bench Growth and Venture Bench GC solutions provide you with on-tap expert support with transparent pricing and a client-centric approach.
We Value
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Client Focus
We start from your needs and work backwards. We love building high impact, scalable growth companies and we see this as being intrinsically linked to the culture, values and individual vision of the founders. We work hard to align our model to your needs, helping you align your vision, strategy and culture to your big goals and approach every challenge with a flexible and agile lens.
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Earn Trust
When you're building your rocket ship, you need to trust your co-pilots. We strive to bring the best out of our clients, gap fill their needs with our skills and experience, and help founders build out their dream team to withstand and thrive during periods of high growth. Earn trust, be authentic and dependable.
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Dive Deep
To provide expert advice to companies expanding and in high growth phase, we need to have a broad range of expertise, skills and experience across industries, functional expertise (strategy, operations, legal, tax, finance, accounting etc) to be able to spot blockers and challenges that need to be solved before they become lethal to a growth plan. We go broad and deep when needed, staying connected to the details, auditing frequently, and to be the steady hand who can help you focus on what matters.
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Bias for Action & Deliver Results
Our clients are savvy, ambitious and what us to show impact fast. They need someone who can keep up. Jump in, quickly identify what's important, build trust the with team to align on solutions and deliver results. Identifying the decisions and actions that are reversible and low risk to move fast on, as opposed to the one-way door decisions is critical. Our experience and intuition are core to our value proposition, avoiding missteps before they become costly mistakes.
How can you use us best?
Freelance resources available to fill temporary gaps or manage periods of transition: Fractional executives seamlessly step in during peaks in workload or leadership transitions, providing essential legal oversight and support.
Handle specialized projects requiring specific expertise. We offer tailored solutions, ensuring you received right-sized support to meet your unique business needs.
Gain fresh perspectives and insights: our fractional experts bring an external viewpoint, challenging assumptions and presenting innovative solutions not internally considered.
Enhance decision-making processes: Armed with a deep understanding of the unique nature of business challenges and risks, fractional legal leaders contribute to informed decision-making processes.
I’m ready. Let’s go!
Consult & Curate:
Before we can jump right in, we need to understand what makes you tick, what do you need most from us and how can we add the most value.
Identify Solution & Pricing:
We work with you to agree custom-fit our retainer scope, roadmap and expected time commitment per month to meet your goals. During this phase we aim to get a holistic understanding on where you are at, and what your core priorities are so we can meet and exceed expectations.
Onboard:
Now that we've agreed we are a match, we send you our proposal and sign engagement terms using our customer-centric onboard portal. In doing so, we prioritise clarity of spend, alignment on deliverable and agreed timelines.
Go-Time:
We jump into action and get started! We are so convinced you will love working with us that we don’t require long term contract commitments, and we can flex the time/scope commitment up or down to meet your needs as we go along. Let's get to work!
Check-ins:
Adapting as we go, always looking to make sure we are giving you what you need when you need it.
Client feedback loop & Process improvement:
We are always raising the bar and we want to hear what you think about us and how we can improve.
Why Choose Us?
Early Access to Experienced Leadership and Strategic Guidance When You Need it Most:
Via our fractional-executive-as-a-service model, you can access top-tier talent for cost-effective, flexible rates at critical strategic junctures of your growth trajectory when you don't have the expertise in-house that you need. You gain the ROI of this experience immediately in critical areas, hyper-charging your growth when you need it most.
Hard Won Experience:
Our team has deep hard-won experience on the world stage, so they can zero in on the key issues, options and solutions much faster than a leader who is focussed on running the operational day to day challenges of a growing business. We can help you launch a new product or service, enter new territories, develop a go-to-market plan, help you pivot your business model, successfully integrate a newly purchased business into your core operations, conduct pre-fundraising target diligence or support you through a critical funding juncture.
Strategic Business Building Lens:
Our clients want support from executives who have walked the walk: built businesses from the ground up, expanded overseas countless times, been on the front line of the growth journey and found solutions to common growing pains that too often halt process when its needed most. Our executives are innovative, skilled communicators and adept at building trust quickly, working collaboratively as one-team, focussed on delivering results.
Exclusive Top Tier Talent:
There are many reasons why our fractional executives choose to work fractionally rather than full time for local companies. It may be that our local executives still want access to cutting-edge work akin to the work they did at HQ for big global players but this work is typically led overseas rather than from Australia. Or it may be that our talent choose to work fractionally rather than full time to provide the flexibility they seek to work remotely, or to spread their experience across a range of exciting high growth companies rather than one. There are many reasons why our team choose to work this way, but engaging these executives via a fractional service may be the only way for you to access their distinctive experience and skillset for these reasons.
Flexible, cost-effective solutions:
We understand that every company is unique, and we tailor our approach to fit the specific needs and goals of the your business, leading to more effective strategies and outcomes.
We are accustomed to jumping into new environments and quickly assessing challenges. This agility allows us to make informed decisions and implement new initiatives and changes quickly, to accelerate your business’s growth trajectory.