Achieve more in less time
Are you close to being the high performing business you set out to be, but just need a bit of help to get there faster?
Do you value you time and want to be as efficient as possible ensuring you get maximum results from anything you action?
Do you want to invest in building your own capabilities as a leader so that you continue to lead a thriving business into the future?
Take your leadership skills and your business to the next level
You’re passionate about what you do, but you don’t know what you don’t know and are motivated to build your skills as a future focused business leader.
You’ve considered traditional education and business programs, but you need no fluff, real and applicable tactics that get results quickly.
You need to know what to do right now, in your business, for your situation to get to the next stage.
“I have more confidence to back myself, strategies that are helping my business grow and a crew of like-minded people to bounce ideas off.”
High performance business training
A hyper personalised program that equips you with the strategic leadership tools you need to maximise your time and achieve real results
How Level Up works:
Personalised to you and your business. We start with a comprehensive diagnostic and audit to pinpoint your growth potential, systems of scale and identify your unique needs. No generic approach here.
Our AI enabled diagnostics and learning system creates a tailored training journey that focuses on your specific growth strategy - you don’t waste time on things you already know and get to focus on the exact actions that will move the dial in your business.
MBA Accredited education. Navigate through micro activities teaching proven frameworks that help you incrementally develop and deploy strategies and help you make faster strategic decisions in the future. The schedule a team session to increase autonomy for the execution of your plan.
Industry mentors & business coaches work with you to confidently apply your strategies, supporting you in your growth development and providing insights, ideas and connections accelerating your progress and confidence.
Who this is for
Motivated owners or founders that want to invest in building their own capabilities as a strategic leader whilst driving their business to the next stage of growth.
Maximise the use of your time
Ultimately, you want to maximise the use of your time, work smarter, not harder, get more results from the actions you take, achieve more in less time.
This may be, but isn’t limited to:
Entrepreneurs that need to move fast so benefit from immediate application and industry connections.
Complex Industries. Those in sectors like advanced manufacturing, technology, space, defence, health, renewables that value high performance training that is specifically tailored to their complex and important market.
Female Leaders that seek a credible and structured approach to building their leadership skills, confidence and reputation in her (often male-dominated) industry.
Aspirational leaders. Those that are driven by the potential of their business and want the best support to help them achieve their goals faster.
“It really brought home what I had to focus on. I had to stand out and that’s exactly what I did!”
What you’ll get
AI enabled diagnostic and personalised training plan: Pinpointing your current stage of growth and identifying areas for development, and creating a plan of action to level up what you currently know and do to help you reach the next stage.
Bespoke growth strategy: Working towards your most important goal and tailored to achieve within your capacity. This might be focused on sales, marketing, HR or operational efficiencies and the use of technology.
MBA accredited business education: Continue to increase your business acumen and the tools in your strategic leadership toolbox or provide your team with what they need to succeed.
1:1 virtual sessions or in-person sessions with Sam as your coach, guide and trainer: Keeping you on track and helping you and the business get the best outcomes from the engagement.
1:1 virtual sessions with an Industry Mentor: Matched to your industry and challenge to provide insights, guidance and connections
Team Workshops: Roll out team workshops to get buy-in and increase autonomy for staff in your business to help you implement your plan.
Strategy, Growth, Digital & Innovation
Sam Hurley, CEO of 25eight, has lead the growth of her business for 10 years, navigating disruptive market changes and the development of new technology.
Prior to entrepreneurship, Sam spearheaded international growth for several international companies, working and living in Asia, the US and Europe. She is adept at helping business and its leaders adopt high performing strategies and operations.
She’ll keep you accountable and ensure the fastest path to your success.
Industry Mentors
We work with a number of mentors from across industries, sectors, roles and responsibilities who love to help you get what you need to succeed.
Rather than just having one mentor, we can call on several to advise you in your current situation meaning you get super specific, tailored advise to fill your gaps of knowledge and build the right connections.
First in, best dressed
How 25eight compares
87%
of past participants experienced significant increase in revenue
91%
Rated 9 or 10 out of 10 on whether they would recommend this to others
100%
felt more confident to continue to grow their business
Let’s help you level up
Based on a 90 day period with the option to go much faster and complete within 30 days.
For micro and early stage small businesses
Diagnostic, plan, strategy & 3 x 1:1 sessions and 1 x team session with Sam
For small and medium sized businesses
Diagnostic, plan, strategy & 6 x 1:1 sessions and 2 x team sessions with Sam
For those that want to fast track their progress aligning everything and everyone in the business
Diagnostic, plan, strategy & 5 x half days in person sessions with Sam and 4 x 1:1 training with the team
For those that want more hands-on support and buy-in from staff
Diagnostic, plan, strategy & 2 x half days in person sessions with Sam and 2 x 1:1 training with the team
Pay upfront to save 10%
Scholarships & discounts available for eligible businesses.
A case study in the long term benefits of our programs
How we helped Standard Ledger from go to grow
The Solution
Over a year-long strategy and capability-building program with 25eight, Standard Ledger developed a growth strategy through education, coaching, and mentorship. While they gained strategic clarity, they needed support implementing it. 25eight continued with them in 90-day cycles, helping integrate their tech stack and build a digital strategy to optimise their tools. As their team and operations expanded, we streamlined their systems for scalability, ensuring each improvement drove them to the next growth stage. We provided internal training and helped build processes an documentation for operational excellence. Across three years, 25eight supported them in the following areas:
Creating a growth strategy
Developed a clear unique value proposition
Developing a competitive advantage and strong position in the market
Identified target customers
Refined the Brand
Built out a content strategy
Identified creative channels to market
Developed a customer experience strategy
Identified employee communications
Identified partnerships
Created key measurements to track
Revising the business model
Mapped the sales funnel, CTR and conversions to find gaps and inefficiencies to be addressed
Updated the entire sales process - implemented new nurture emails, workflows, feedback forms, checklists, automation and more, and met with the team to execute
Created internal reporting dashboards and work with the team to execute regular reporting cycles
Re-designing customer experiences
Marketing messaging, landing page design and support for campaigns throughout the year
Revamping high-traffic website pages for a smoother customer experience
Reinventing business processes and creating a digital strategy
Created various supporting documentation on how the system works for each team and trained them in their specialist areas
Cleansed the HubSpot system and made optimisations based on how the team use the tool
Deep tool analysis - List, Form, Workflow and Property review, feedback and updates to logic to improve efficiencies
Ensured the tech stack was in working order - connected integrations, accounts, pixels, analytics and other various tools
The Challenge
Standard Ledger is an accounting firm embracing virtual and doing things differently, serving startups and high-growth SMEs. They had huge ambitions to expand their markets domestically and internationally. They needed a growth strategy and guidance to implement it. Over time, as their team grew, they needed support to ensure their systems and processes and how best to utilise the tech they invested in for each team didn’t compromise on the customer experience and their growth ambitions.
The Outcome
Standard Ledger has expanded their operations domestically and now internationally. Having grown their team and client base, their are smashing the goals they set.
After working closely with Standard Ledger’s whole team, the understanding they had built of their tools and how to use them increased tenfold. They had a sales strategy that they could use immediately and build on in the future, which integrated seamlessly with the tool they invested in. They are better connected with their customers and have the ability to address feedback and support on a daily basis. Reference and support documents that were created were unique to their business processes and can be used by current and future employees.
Most importantly Standard Ledger got time back and built confidence in their tech stack. Knowing exactly what to do with a tool and having the support gave them the internal capability and confidence to navigate through difficult market conditions and continue to grow their business.
Watch them soar into their next stage of growth.