Executive Coaching Melbourne
Authentic leadership captures the hearts and minds of their team
David Lockwood is an experienced business mentor who shares insights and perspectives so you can enhance your effectiveness as a leader, accelerate growth and deliver increased profits.
Struggles of business owners and executives
Navigating the tumultuous terrain of business ownership and executive leadership is fraught with challenges, from grappling with fierce competition that impacts financial performance to fostering team purpose and aligning culture. The burden of delegated decision-making can sow seeds of doubt, while the desire for sustained growth amidst stagnating profits can lead to frustration.
Finance Performance
Is competition causing poor financial performance – needing guidance with implementing the best business strategies?
Lack of Confidence
Are you lacking confidence as a leader and second guessing what I do – am I making the best decision that I can?
Managing People
Frustrated in managing people – aligning culture and values may be the missing piece
Feeling Overwhelmed
Feeling overwhelmed for the road ahead - Reducing stress and anxiety by having a personal sounding board
Lack of Clarity
If there is no clarity around the future plans and goals, then a teams purpose may be working against you
Flat Growth
Profit is flat and growth stagnating – reassessing what is unique within your business
How can business mentorship with David help you?
David’s focus is Positioning Your Business to win. Which means choosing the best strategies to achieve your business objectives. Which in turn revolves around enhancing your own authentic leadership approach and the culture of your organisation whilst ensuring there is clarity around your vision.
Using David’s insights and perspectives to optimise how your business implements its plans, providing one to one support to executives and business owners knowing you are not the first or the last executive to face the challenges of running the complexities of business.
You should expect:
- Accelerated sales and market share
- Growth in gross profit margin
- To overcome blind spots in leadership and personal development
- To create a more aligned and empowered team of leaders supporting you in your role
- Increased profitability
- Improved strategic planning and outcomes
- To be challenged personally so that you reach your leadership potential
- To receive objective and considered feedback
How executive coaching can help your business
Strategic Vision
Strategy is the one critical thing that sets a great business apart. Let me help you obtain clarity around the goals and objectives that are essential in driving the business forwards towards success.
Effective Systems
Without systems, we can't leverage information or people or guarantee that we will make the best decisions we can. Let's match critical levers and numbers with the right systems for growth.
Growth Acceleration
Growth for growth's sake will probably burn cash and risk the viability of a business. Let me show you how to focus on profitable growth.
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“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 Ellem
Meet your business mentor, David Lockwood
David personal business experience is vast and complete. Having built his early career as a Chartered Accountant working in Australia and UK, David has also spent 3 years in Australia’s then 5th largest bank, doing restructuring and workouts for $100m+ businesses.
David set up an accounting business from scratch, and over 10 years it grew to 300+ people. It an unfortunate setback, David went bankrupt when he got personally saddled with debt from workout.
David re-engineered his career to go on to build other businesses both as an owner and as a General Manager/CFO.
Since David became a business coach and business mentor in 2015, David’s business owners and executives have had the benefit of David’s experience and guidance, sharing practical perspectives and insights learned to help you avoid some of the pitfalls of going it alone. My aim is to fast-track your growth both personally and for the business.
My Business Brain™ System
Unlocking business success with My Business Brain™
My Business Brain™ is a transformative system that I have developed to empower my clients and propel their businesses to new heights. With this powerful tool at your disposal, you can unlock the full potential of your entrepreneurial journey.
Building a game plan, setting long term aspirational goals, and aligning culture with winning strategies
Business model, systems and processes, productivity and people – let’s optimise how your business is to grow
Understand your target audience to efficiently attract, convert and retain customers; building long term sustainable revenue streams
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
Business mentoring opportunities
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, manufacturing, wholesale businesses servicing the construction & infrastructure segments, and retail.
Whether you're looking for your first or next phase of growth, or understanding your competition and how to best position for growth, it isn't as scary as you think
Time can create significant conflict or overwhelm for business owners - from investing in more and more hours in the business, trying to get ahead and the sacrifices you need to make in your personal lives. The good news is - it doesn't have to always be this way
Sick of losing good people or have teams who don't deliver work or customer service the way you do? There are ways around this so people become your biggest asset instead of the headaches that come with being a business owner.
A business owner who is responsible for everything and everyone can be a lonely job - an experienced yet external perspective can be a valuable addition to any business owner's journey
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