One-on-one business coaching for established Australian businesses

Intelligent strategies | Informed decisions | Bankable growth

Get one-on-one coaching with a Tenfold business coach specifically matched to your business.

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Targeted advice for businesses turning over $1M – $20M+. Scale your business with efficient systems, sales uplift, and business renewal.

If you think your business can do more and be better, we have the knowledge and experience to drive top-line performance and bottom-line results.

Discover what’s possible with a Tenfold business growth expert…

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Review of Tenfold Business Coaching

Review of Tenfold Business Coaching

“Coaching with Tenfold gave me experience in areas I wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise.

My Tenfold business coach worked on HR, accounting in more depth, and more insight and reporting on the drivers of my business.”

Shane Smillie Melbourne Energy Group

Shane Smillie, Director
Melbourne Energy Group

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Tenfold client since 2017

“Coaching with Tenfold gave me experience in areas I wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise.

My Tenfold business coach worked on HR, accounting in more depth, and more insight and reporting on the drivers of my business.”

Shane Smillie, Director
Melbourne Energy Group

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Experienced in delivering ROI for Australian businesses

Data-backed advice to deliver bankable returns on your effort.

Business Coach and Firm of the Year 2022 Australia

Our one-on-one business coaching uses smart strategies and proven techniques to deliver results.

We have earned the reputation as Australia’s leading business coach firm, built on 20+ years of growing businesses.

By focusing on ROI as a clear metric, we can prove to our clients (and ourselves) that the Tenfold Business Coaching method delivers bankable growth.

It’s why we’ve been awarded Coaching Firm of the Yearevery year since 2017.

Explore what’s possible for your business with Tenfold’s one-on-one customised business coaching services.

Meet the Tenfold Business Coaches

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Find out why our business coaches choose to work at Tenfold

Meet the Tenfold Business Coaches

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Find out why our small business coaching team is a cut above.

Expert Business Advice and Smart Strategies for Real Results

Business coaching services are matched to your business. Get a structured approach to scalable growth.

Speed to Results

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Immediate actions to drive bankable results and positive returns in the short-term.

Sales | Cashflow | ROI

Advanced Growth

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Take your business to the next level with proven strategies and practical plans.

Get ahead of the curve

Big Picture Plans

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See the big picture for the best version of your business and plan to get there.

Plan with purpose

Business Exit

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Achieve financial freedom through business sale or run by a management team. 

Wealth realisation plans

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Speed To Results

Immediate actions to drive bankable results and positive ROI in the short-term.

  • Targeted plans to get top line growth and bottom line results: Revenue | Profit | Cashflow
  • Identify the strengths of your operations and your team

  • Realistic and achievable plans to take your business to the next level

Speak with a business expert at Tenfold Business Coaching today and put the pedal to the metal.

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Advanced Growth

Strategic planning for businesses that have locked in reliable profit and are looking for next level growth.

  • Market analysis to identify a profitable niche and options for a competitive advantage
  • Planning the resource requirements – staff, finances, plant and equipment, suppliers, marketing – for scaling up

  • Recruiting, retaining and developing technicians, operations and management staff to achieve the business’s strategic targets

Speak with a growth expert at Tenfold Business Coaching today and explore what’s possible for your business.

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Big Picture Plans

Get a macro view of the best version of your business. See the big picture.

  • Setting the business sights and efforts on the owner’s goals and vision

  • Develop the future org chart and the financial model required to achieve the big picture

  • Look beyond your industry to learn from strategies that deliver results for national and global firms

  • Risk identification and management; protect what you’ve earned

Speak with a big picture business coach today and explore what’s possible for your business.

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Business Exit Strategies

Step away from your business. Access the wealth in your business through sale or passive income stream run under management.

  • Market analysis to identify potential acquirers

  • Succession planning to have the business run by GM or internal management team

  • Realistic strategies to deliver a “finished business” and enable founders and owners to access the wealth they have earned

Speak with a finished business expert at Tenfold Business Coaching today and plan for your financial freedom.

Case Study: Reliable Plumbing Achieves Year-on-Year Growth With Coaching’s Innovative Tender Submission Strategy

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Chris Malcolmson, director of Reliable Plumbing, with his Tenfold Business Coach, Ash Thomson

Since starting with Tenfold Business Coaching in 2014, Reliable Plumbing have taken their business to the next level.

Winning tenders is crucial to the success of a commercial plumbing maintenance business. Tenfold business coach, Ashley Thomson, used his industry experience to develop an innovative approach to RFPs. This strategy for Reliable Plumbing’s tender responses consistently puts them ahead of other bidders.

They are proud to have earned the status of preferred supplier for commercial plumbing maintenance for large scale institutional clients such as University of Melbourne.

Tender Win Rate: 78%
Staff Retention: 98%
Recurring Revenue: 87%

Case Study: Reliable Plumbing Achieves Year-on-Year Growth With Coaching’s Innovative Tender Submission Strategy

Since starting with Tenfold Business Coaching in 2014, Reliable Plumbing have taken their business to the next level.

Winning tenders is crucial to the success of a commercial plumbing maintenance business. Tenfold business coach, Ashley Thomson, used his industry experience to develop an innovative approach to RFPs. This strategy for Reliable Plumbing’s tender responses consistently puts them ahead of other bidders.

They are proud to have earned the status of preferred supplier for commercial plumbing maintenance for large scale institutional clients such as University of Melbourne.

Tender Win Rate: 78%
Staff Retention: 98%
Recurring Revenue: 87%
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Chris Malcolmson, director of Reliable Plumbing, with his Tenfold Business Coach, Ash Thomson

How our customised business coaching services work

Our business coaches use proven methodologies to deliver strong return on investment.

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The consistent results of our business coaching services are achieved by:

  • Data driven plans: Customised financial modelling for realistic forecasting. We use data from your business and incorporate benchmarks from comparable high performing businesses in your industry.
  • Accountability: Regular one-on-one coaching sessions in person at our Camberwell offices or via Zoom, focusing on what matters. Sessions are structured to optimise your one-on-one time with your business coach.
  • Strategic direction: Big picture planning for the business. Leadership mentoring for business owners and senior team members to upskill and align your capabilities with the business goals.

Speak with a growth expert at Tenfold Business Coaching today and discover what’s possible for your business.

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Targeted outcomes for your business

Our industry expertise means you get real world advice to achieve targeted outcomes.

One-on-one mentoring with an experienced business coach is focused on strategies for:

  • Increased business turnover

  • Multiplying the profits in the business
  • Adding a new product or service to the business
  • Working less In the business, more on the business

  • Increasing the value of your business
  • Getting the business ready to sell at high value
  • Restructuring the business, or the roles in the business
  • Managing a difficult key employee

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Get a clear perspective of what’s possible for your business…

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Expert advice for real results

Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.

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We’ve been coaching businesses in Australia long enough to know that you don’t get to choose your challenges.

No smart business owner would ever choose to have a difficult employee. Or problems with a business partner. Or clients who don’t pay. Or getting stuck working IN your business instead of ON it. No way you’d choose those problems.

But you can choose your business’s goals.

When you work with a Tenfold business coach, you get the expert advice your business needs and the support you deserve. We’ve steered our clients through the GFC and the COVID pandemic with data-backed decision making. So when we talk about advice and results, you know we walk the walk. You can bank on it.

Find out what Australia’s best business coach team can do for your business….

The best business coach is matched to your business

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Group coaching vs one-on-one coaching: middle of the bell curve vs right-tail performance

Keeping up vs getting ahead of the pack

Many business owners consider group coaching as a lower-cost alternative to one-on-one coaching. It can work, but it’s important to understand what group coaching is designed for – and what it’s not.

Group programs must suit a broad mix of businesses, industries, and stages of growth. That means content needs to be general enough to apply to everyone. By design, group coaching targets the middle of the bell curve: typical businesses, at typical performance levels, solving typical problems.

One-on-one coaching with Tenfold is built for businesses that want to move beyond that midpoint and operate at the right-tail end of the bell curve – where performance, profitability, and capability sit well above the average.

How group coaching works – and where it hits its limits

Group coaching usually follows a fixed curriculum delivered to multiple businesses at once. You attend calls or workshops, watch training modules, and complete the same worksheets as everyone else.

Group coaching can be suitable if you:

  • Are early in your business journey
  • Need basic structures, like simple budgets or first-time hiring
  • Want accountability to complete generic tasks and keep up with peers

However, the very things that make group programs scalable also limit their usefulness for established businesses:

  • Content is generic so it can apply to as many participants as possible
  • Advice is pitched at the middle of the bell curve, not at advanced performance levels
  • There is limited time to dive into your numbers, your team, and your market dynamics
  • Strategies must be “safe for the group” rather than optimised for your specific strengths and risk profile

If your ambition is simply to be “about as good” as your competitors, group coaching can be enough to keep you in the herd.

Why Tenfold’s one-on-one business coaching is designed for right-tail performers

Tenfold’s one-on-one coaching takes a different approach. It is structured for owners who want to move out of the average band and into the right-hand side of the bell curve, where businesses are more profitable, more resilient, and more valuable.

When you work one-on-one with a Tenfold business coach we:

  • Build strategies around your specific strengths – brand, capability, relationships, capacity – to create an edge that is hard to copy
  • Identify and minimise the risk created by your weaknesses – margin exposure, key-person dependency, client concentration, or operational bottlenecks
  • Engineer plans at the advanced edge of what your business can safely execute, rather than relying on generic “best practices”
  • Align growth, structure, and succession so the business is built for scale and value, not just for survival

Instead of asking, “What does the average business do?”, the question becomes, “What would the best version of your business do – and how do we get you there safely?”

Which type of business coaching is best?

If your main aim is to learn the basics, keep up with peers, and get general guidance, group coaching can do that job.

If you are running an established business with payroll, significant overheads, and real risk on the line – and you want to operate at a level well above the industry average – then one-on-one coaching with a business coach matched to your business, your team, your goals is best-fit.

Find out what Australia’s best business coach team can do for your business….

Case Study: Diamond Plumbing built a rock-solid team and record-high revenue with Tenfold Business Coaching

Industry: Financial services

Industries serviced: Aged care

The Challenge

Provider Assist was gaining traction through word of mouth referrals but didn’t have capacity to keep up. That rapid growth that created pressure:

  • The business relied on a small number of early clients and informal referrals
  • The owner was involved in every function of the business, limiting scalability
  • Demand exceeded delivery capacity, with no clear plan to recruit or fund growth
  • Client mix was unclear, with concerns that new clients were not ideal but no time or data to assess
  • Cash flow was inconsistent, restricting hiring decisions and strategic investment
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Commercial plumbing contracting business Diamond Plumbing director Darren Langley with his Tenfold Business Coach, Darren Silsby.

Solution

Engaging with Tenfold Business Coaching, the focus was on three core pillars:

  1. Structure: Building a robust recruitment process (clear job description → targeted ad → screening → interview → trial day → informed decision).
  2. Systems: Setting up performance systems: defining “diamond standard” expectations, KPIs, toolbox meetings, career-development planning.
  3. Strategy: Shifting owner’s role from operator to leader: recruiting an operations manager, implementing weekly diary blocks, and using systems for job tracking and follow-up.

Outcomes

The results achieved in under two years of 1:1 coaching were transformational:


  • Scaled from 2 staff to 40+ employees
    across four capital cities
  • Expanded from ~10 Victorian clients to 500+ clients nationally
  • Built a recognised and respected position as an industry leader

  • Stabilised cash flow
    through better clients and improved payment terms
  • Removed owner from day-to-day operations and built a capable management team
  • Achieved rapid growth without burnout, creating long-term financial security

Operationally and personally, the owner moved from being embedded in daily decisions to leading a management team with clarity, confidence and control over the business’s direction.

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with a Tenfold business coach

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