Escape The Business Trap
Transform your business into a calm, profitable, scale-ready operation.
✅ Tighten margins
✅ Drive sustainable sales
✅ Build a business that runs (and grows) without leaning on you.
I’ve owned, started, built, scaled and sold businesses that together generated over £400 million in revenues
Why Choose Us
Is your business trapping you instead of freeing you?
Many founders wake up years into the journey realising the business they built for freedom is doing the opposite.
Revenue might be climbing but margins are thin.
Cash feels unpredictable, growth is stressful, and every decision seems to land on your desk.
Even after all your hard work, the business still revolves around you, and it’s nowhere near ready for an exit or investment.
If this feels familiar, you’re not alone and it’s exactly what I help founders fix.
Over the past 30 years, I’ve sat exactly where you are.
👋 I’m David Wood.
I’ve owned, built, scaled and sold businesses that together generated over
£400 million in revenues including growing one from £3,000 startup capital to £24 million in annual turnover and £2 million EBITDA, and another to £31m+ annual sales.
I know what it’s like to:
✅ Drive relentless growth while managing cash flow under pressure.
✅ Navigate crises you could never plan for.
✅ Nearly exit at the wrong time and rebuild smarter.
More importantly, I’ve learned how the right systems, team accountability and commercial discipline transform a business unlocking scale, profit, and the freedom you started it for.
How I Help
Ambitious Founders Like You
I partner with founder-led SMEs (typically £500k–£60M turnover) as their Fractional COO & Commercial Growth Partner.
Here’s how we’ll work together to escape the trap:
Escape the Business Trap Diagnostic
Map your business against key scale, margin & freedom drivers.
Identify immediate cash, margin & process wins.
Build a short-term action plan to get control fast.
Fractional COO & Growth Partnership
Hands-on support to tighten margins, pricing & reporting.
Build operational systems & team accountability so you’re not the bottleneck.
Drive sustainable sales growth and prepare for premium valuations or exit.
Business Advisory
Improve cash flow, scalability, and profitability with expert business insights.
Why this works
Unlike many consultants or coaches, I don’t just hand over frameworks.
✅ I bring three decades of lived ownership and leadership scaling, buying, selling, surviving and thriving and I put it to work inside your business.
You’ll get a partner who’s been through every stage you’re facing.
Someone who can spot issues 12 months before they hit, protect your margins, and help you build a business that’s truly enjoyable to own or ready for a high-value exit.
What's possible
Imagine a business where:
✅ Margins are strong and predictable.
✅ Cash flow is stable and never forced into short-term decisions.
✅ Your team runs operations with clarity, discipline and accountability.
✅ You’re free to focus on strategy, or simply enjoying the life you built it for.
Fractional Support A Step To Far?
Check out additional growth path services I offer through UnstoppableB2B and Business Growth Made Easy.
Make 2025 the year your business becomes truly calm, profitable and scalable
Get the trusted partner serious SMEs rely on to tighten margins, scale sales and unlock real freedom.
David J Wood
Book a private strategy call today.