Accelerating profits means working smarter, not harder.
Need time back in your personal & business Life?
Unfortunately, time spent in the business doesn’t always lead to extra revenues or profits and in many cases, it actually leads to business owners burning out. When pressure builds at home and family time is sacrificed to get ahead, our stress levels blow out when the business doesn’t produce the results.
Burning Out?
Let business coaching show you how to work on the business rather than in it
Work Life Balance
Achieving clear job responsibilities and accountabilities will create a team approach and share the heavy lifting across your team
Learn to Delegate
Learn to stop doing the job you pay your employees to do and avoid “saving” them from what hasn’t been done properly
Switch Off Easier
Having a planned growth strategy creates peace of mind knowing you are on the right path
Quality time with Family
Stop worrying about work at home by achieving your targeted financial outcomes
Less Stress
Sharing your journey with an experienced business coach means you are not alone in building a successful business
If it’s quicker to do myself, then is it a smarter use of my time as business owner?
Time management can be complex, after all, your business is your baby. And we all have a natural strength that we lean into as you grow the business. But if over time, we seem to be doing everything and there never is enough hours in the day, then this can be a vicious circle when in a growth mindset.
Being time poor leads to poor habits that owners get trapped into – working in the business and not on the business.
Profit driven goals and strategies, purpose and clarity are essential building blocks for successful businesses. It is important to strategically know your business, and how you and your team use planning effectively to set timebound goals and priorities.
After all, business growth evolves through various stages, and unless you’ve been there before, it is easy to make mistakes and spend time on low value tasks or low impact outcomes.
How my 1:1 business coaching can grow revenues and profits by optimizing your time at work - avoid doing the work that your team should be doing?
Attract Ideal Customers
Knowing who your “A” grade customers are, means you need to spend more time with them. Let’s focus on building profitable revenues and avoid the time wasting customers or those that don't pay on time.
Improving Productivity
Imagine if you stopped doing low value tasks, having a team with clear accountabilities and systems to monitor performance. Use a business coach to help you implement systems and create habits to energize output.
Strategic Initiatives
Time wasted is lost forever. But it also can cost our business us cash and limit equity values.
If we want to grow our business, then implementing the right strategies becomes critical to being successful; why take the risk and add the worry of choosing the wrong option. Fast-track your growth with a business coach.
Overwhelmed in trying to grow your business - unlock the secrets to better time management to drive profits higher through your coaching journey with David Lockwood
“I am a better business person and a better family man for having David in my life.
I now have my time back which is one of the most important changes in my life as a small business owner. As a family man, I can spend more time with my wife & children.
— Andrew Cain
Meet David Lockwood, your coach for time management
I often talk with business owners who are caught in the time trap of working more hours to get ahead in business. However, when we chat it soon becomes clear that owners are working on things that make themselves busy rather than things that make them money.
Let’s be clear; we all want to create significantly more profit.
I have myself been a business owner (and still am!) so I understand your conflict of where you spend your time, and the choices you make. I have learned that family time is so important. My goal for you is to ensure that life doesn’t pass you by whilst you’re working hard.
I am a practical, business results focused business coach, I want to make a difference to your bottom line, to your journey as a business owner and to the team of people who help you do it.
My goal is to improve your financial return, and ultimately to find that balance between your aspirations, and your work and family commitments, and to use your time wisely.
Unlocking profit potential through time management with My Business Brain™
My Business Brain™ is the framework I have created using my years in business. The framework is central to every successful business story.
- Uncover the 'Secret Sauce'My Business Brain TM helps businesses uncover their “secret sauce” and how you can generate value where others don’t, how positioning your business within the competitive landscape is such a powerful tool, and why systems and processes are the only way to leverage a business that wants to grow.
- Develop a Growth MindsetAs you business grows, your vision of the future is brought to life. Your knowledge and expectations are transferred to employees and contractors to implement. And you share how you want your business to run, and set the values and brand positioning that you want to be known for.
- Find Your HeadspaceAt each stage of business growth, business owners confront many challenges to solve but finding the head space is not always easy. Issues such as: (1) Being faced with employing more people, some of whom you want to delegate critical responsibilities to, (2) Demanding better management information to make bigger decisions, (3) Having to comply with procedures that meet the myriad of regulations and industry standards with the risk of fines and penalties for failing them inadvertentl, and (4) Wanting to know which products or services to grow so that cash resources can meet the investment in working capital.
- Don’t Burn CashBusiness can spend a lot of cash attracting customers but it is easy to burn cash doing so if we don’t have a customer retention strategy. Let me help you celebrate you happy customers and how to leverage their experiences for sales growth.
- Leverage Off My Track RecordShare your business journey with a practical and experienced business coach and adviser, to help your use your valuable time wisely in reducing your doubts that you have or will make the best decision you can.See Case Studies
Leveraging the right way
Productivity
Having a scorecard aligned to goals, both operational and aspirational, provides accountability across your business,
People
Build an empowered team that does the heavy lifting through business coaching. Invest in the future of those who will be running key operations of your business for the long term.
Processes
As your business grows, processes are needed because successful businesses repeat what works. Structure is needed to capture what resides inside a business owners or key employee’s head and how decisions are made.
Systems
Customer data (CRM), accounting and management reporting, costing/margins and productivity; profitability by customer or job; the more we grow the more we need to measure. The more information your team has, the better their outputs will be.
My Business Brain™ System
Trusted by business owners & entrepreneurs in Australia to generate significant profits
Repositioning the business to launch a new brand, set up systems and gain weekends back with the family.
55%
Sales Growth
$400k
Profit Growth per Year
David has been instrumental towards my businesses success, I've doubled my profit in the last year alone. As a young entrepreneur, it was important that I had wisdom and experience behind my back to support me through roadblocks that impacted growth. With David, I've been able to narrow down my "ideal client", revise my pricing structure and improve my work life balance. David is a coach and advisor for many businesses, and has a wealth of experience. I was able to draw knowledge from his past endeavours. More importantly, even though David is much older than me, he is super relatable, easy to get along with and has a young heart and mind :D. Paul Dykman11 July 2023 I have been working with David for almost 2 years now and in that time I have gone from an engineer learning to become a CEO to a CEO of a fast growing company with both our earnings and revenue up around 200% since we started working together. David's expertise and experience have been invaluable to me in my journey to become a better CEO as he has taught me to keep my head at a higher level and the power of thinking big. Matt Long15 August 2022 During 2021 I engaged David for some one on one coaching and advisory services. He is a true professional, he listened, understood my issues and helped me plan a way forward. This resulted in achievable initiatives that added significant value to our business and how we provide professional services to our customers. No matter how skilled anyone is we all need support at some stage. I know this as I run a very successful Business Consulting services delivering strategies, business unit service reviews and the sourcing of corporate business systems. The advice we deliver has a huge impact on organisations and the services they deliver. For the duration of the engagement with david it was great to be on the customer side for a change. Mark10 December 2021 David has been our Business Coach since 2019. His services have been invaluable as he navigated us through many issues. He really "gets it" and was on the same page at all times adding value to my business. Lately he assisted me in negotiating the sale of my business achieving a very satisfactory result. I would highly recommend David as a Coach as he not only has excellent accounting skills but his past experience in business will be an asset to any business. Jeff Slabe3 September 2021 Since we started with David at Unlocking Your Future 6 months ago, he has been instrumental in providing myself and my leadership team with sound strategic advice, assisting us to make informed business decisions. We are on track to increase revenue by 30% in the next FY and we are on target to reach our 12 month business goals. On a personal level, as the business owner, David has inspired and helped me to understand my customer, be goals orientated and know my numbers. David provides me with peace on mind and I am so grateful for his support. I can highly recommend David, as a 'real deal' business coach and mentor. Jeremy Djurovich19 July 2021 MVA Bennett an Accounting Practice with 7 partners has been working with David Lockwood of Unlocking Your Future for approximately 5 years. David has a very inquisitive approach to coaching businesses and the leadership team, he is engaged in the journey of his clients and focused on achieving their objectives. On a personal note David is a trusted mentor who I call regularly to get a true independent perspective on more challenging decisions. I would have no hesitation in referring business and those leading business or wanting to be a leader in engaging with David. Andrew Ellem18 July 2020 We have worked with avid for a couple of years now and he has become an integral part of our business. Before starting with David we had previous experiences with consultants and quite mixed feelings and results. We're a complex business and finding someone who could understand our product and industry well enough to provide value advice had proven hard. David has been a vital sounding board and advisor to Optimising and will continue to be. If you are looking for someone to help you take the next steps, I could not recommend David enough. James Richardson11 May 2020 I would just like to say how much help and assistance David has been to me within my business over the last 4 years and most importantly, through this period of COVID crisis. He is very experienced and has a calm head. I can share my business problems with David and he provides a commercial and yet experienced answer to deal with complex business issues. David has great strategic insights and understands how to create win win situations for both me and my business. Whilst I am worrying about day to day operational issues, David is thinking for me about positioning my business so it can perform to its best potential. David is a great sounding board for my ideas and provides valuable feedback to me. I would highly recommend David as a business mentor and as a business coach. Helen Ni14 April 2020 David initially presented a team workshop for my business so I could leverage my staff to grow my business. Subsequently, David become my business coach and business mentor. I can’t tell you of how much of a difference it has made to my business; revenues up over 30% in 12 months and a consistency of profits that I had never had before. David helped me gain clarity on the value of my role as a leader rather than always focusing on doing the work myself. I can’t recommend David highly enough as a business coach and business mentor. Darren Darren Sanicki12 February 2020 My review is based on a 4 year relationship meeting David inside a business to business networking group in 2015 where I found him to be honest and someoneone who I could work with with and that's saying something.. I have now been working with David for 2.5 years as my Business Coach and haven't looked back. David is someone who I rely on heavily, he is a sounding board with an understanding temprement who listens to what I'm saying provides sound and considered advice. As my business is growing I needed someone to help with the roadblocks and provide clarity, I now have that. We work through the issues that come up on a day to day basis sometimes or weekly, whatever is required normally. We are now planning months in advance, we know where we are at the touch of a button. David rovides support acquiring new staff and ongoing support with our team, sitting in on team meetings etc. Business to business has also changed as we work with suppliers and clients commercially. I am a better business person and a better family man for having David in my life. I now have my time back which is one of the most important changes in my life as a small business owner. As a family man I can spend more time with my wife & children. I'm lucky to have you as my coach David and I appreciate evrything you do. Sincerely Andrew Cain. Andrew Cain21 December 2019
How we can work together
Unlike a lot of business coaches, I work with businesses across a range of industries such as financial services, online marketing, real estate, engineering, accounting, legal, health, wholesale businesses servicing the construction & infrastructure segments, and retail.
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