Membership
Programmes
Structured. Curated. Commercially Focused.
FAB membership is a structured, high-intensity peer advisory programme designed for female business Founders, CEOs & MDs who are serious about commercial growth.
Every session has a purpose-built agenda that brings new insight, direct challenge and practical solutions to your most pressing business problems.
Members are drawn from non-competing sectors, so every voice in the room brings genuinely independent perspective. Between sessions, your Chair holds you accountable to the commitments you’ve made.
What you’ll find here isn’t networking or a support group. It’s your personal board of advisors, meeting every month, with accountability built in and commercial outcomes as the measure of success.
Membership is selective. Our SCALE, ENTERPRISE and VANGUARD boards each operate with strict criteria to ensure every member is a genuine commercial peer.
Three boards. One alliance. Explore our membership programmes.
Format
- 12 x full days per year
- In-person 1-1 with your Chair every two months (Vanguard: quarterly Chair check-ins)
- January Kick-Off & Annual Celebration Event (included)
- All materials, expert speakers, lunches and workshops included
Who it’s for?
- Established business leaders with £500K to £3m revenue
- Entrepreneurs ready to scale beyond current operations
- Leaders strengthening business foundations and systems
- Business owners developing senior leadership teams
- Founders refining strategic vision for growth
- Companies preparing for investor/funding engagement
What’s the benefit?
- Access to diverse perspectives from fellow entrepreneurs at similar growth stages
- Proven strategies from leaders who’ve navigated scaling challenges
- Insights into building and managing senior leadership teams
- Guidance on optimising operations during rapid expansion
- Support maintaining vision clarity through growth transitions
- Expert advice on funding and investment preparation
- Accountability and support during critical decision-making phases
- Avoid costly mistakes through shared experience and wisdom
- Accelerated path to sustainable growth and success
The Challenge
The Solution
The Result
The Challenge
You’ve become the bottleneck in your own business - too dependent on you to scale effectively.
The Solution
Learn from peers how to shift from indispensable to strategic, with accountability partners guiding you through proven approaches to scale beyond personal capacity.
The Result
Break free from operational dependency and scale with confidence through strategic leadership transformation.
The Challenge
Scaling beyond referrals and organic growth is difficult without an efficient sales and marketing machine driving your business.
The Solution
Connect with entrepreneurs who’ve successfully built scalable systems - learn their specific steps, mistakes, and proven strategies for systematic growth.
The Result
Transform from referral-dependent to systematically scalable with a clear roadmap beyond organic growth.
The Challenge
Building and managing productive teams is complex and exhausting - people management drains even the strongest leaders.
The Solution
Connect with peers who intimately understand this struggle - develop practical hiring, performance management, and communication skills through shared real-time experiences.
The Result
Transform team management from exhausting burden to confident leadership through proven strategies and peer support.
The Challenge
Business leadership is isolating - you’re steering the ship, making final decisions, with few people who truly understand the weight you carry.
The Solution
Join leaders who get it - experience immediate relief from isolation, shared decision-making burden, validation without judgment, and freedom from having all the answers.
The Result
Replace loneliness with understanding - break free from echo chambers, and find your trusted circle of peers who navigate the same challenges.
Who it’s for?
- Business leaders with over £3 million turnover
- Entrepreneurs managing complex organisational structures
- Leaders overseeing larger teams and established governance frameworks
- Business owners with existing investor relationships
- Executives answering to investment boards and stakeholders
- Entrepreneurs navigating sophisticated enterprise challenges
- Leaders considering or preparing for business exit strategies
What’s the benefit?
- Access to experienced leaders managing similar-scale organisations
- Insights into investor relations and stakeholder management
- Guidance on advanced governance structures and frameworks
- Support for leading and managing large, complex teams
- Expert advice on exit planning and strategic transitions
- Confidential environment for discussing high-stakes decisions
- Protection of stakeholder value through informed decision-making
- Enhanced outcomes for substantial business operations and exits
The Challenge
The Solution
The Result
The Challenge
Transitioning from hands-on leader to strategic governance while aligning all departments feels impossibly complex.
The Solution
Navigate this critical transition through FAB's structured support system - access proven frameworks, governance structures, and alignment strategies for immediate implementation.
The Result
Transform leadership complexity into confident strategic governance with tested systems and peer-proven approaches.
The Challenge
Planning your business exit feels overwhelming with countless considerations creating paralyzing inertia.
The Solution
Learn from FAB members navigating their own exits - gain reassurance and step-by-step guidance from industry experts who've been there.
The Result
Transform exit overwhelm into confident strategic planning with a clear roadmap and expert peer support.
The Challenge
Navigating the temperament and expectations of your Board and Shareholders feels overwhelming and isolating.
The Solution
Connect with experienced leaders who've faced similar challenges - gain emotional distance, clarity, and strategic perspective through shared experiences.
The Result
Transform shareholder relationships from overwhelming burden to confident navigation with ongoing peer support and accountability.
The Challenge
Business leadership is isolating - you're steering the ship, making final decisions, with few people who truly understand the weight you carry.
The Solution
Join leaders who get it - experience immediate relief from isolation, shared decision-making burden, validation without judgment, and freedom from having all the answers.
The Result
Replace loneliness with understanding - break free from echo chambers, and find your trusted circle of peers who navigate the same challenges.
Who it’s for?
- Leaders operating inside formal governance structures
- Leaders accountable to a board, investors, PE partners or shareholders
- Founders who have scaled, and appointed CEOs leading businesses they did not build
- Leaders navigating exit, acquisition or significant structural change
What’s the benefit?
- Access to experienced leaders managing similar-scale organisations
- Insights into investor relations and stakeholder management
- Guidance on advanced governance structures and frameworks
- Support for leading and managing large, complex teams
- Expert advice on exit planning and strategic transitions
- Confidential environment for discussing high-stakes decisions
- Protection of stakeholder value through informed decision-making
- Enhanced outcomes for substantial business operations and exits
The Challenge
The Solution
The Result
The Challenge
Your board needs confidence. Your PE partner is working to an exit timeline. Managing those relationships while running the business demands a strategic duality that is exhausting to carry alone.
The Solution
Sit with peers managing the same dual accountability, draw on their direct experience of board dynamics, investor expectations and the timing decisions that shape an outcome.
The Result
Move from managing stakeholders reactively to leading them deliberately, with a considered position on every conversation before you walk into the room.
The Challenge
If you were appointed to lead, your senior team may have been there far longer than you. If you are a founder who has scaled, your team may still be adjusting to the version of you that now leads rather than does.
The Solution
Work through the real dynamics with leaders who have inherited senior teams, rebuilt them, and earned authority in businesses they did not start.
The Result
Establish authority without friction, and build a senior team that follows your direction because they trust the judgement behind it.
The Challenge
At this level the decisions are large and largely irreversible: restructures, significant hires, exit approaches, covenant navigation. There is very little room to be wrong.
The Solution
Bring the decision into a room of leaders operating at the same altitude and pressure-test it before it is made, not after, with a Chair who has sat where you are sitting.
The Result
Make the biggest calls of your career with independent, commercially informed challenge behind them. The right peer input at the right moment is worth more than almost anything else.
The Challenge
You cannot be fully candid with your board; they need certainty. You cannot be fully candid with your team; they need leadership. The isolation at this level is unlike any other kind.
The Solution
Ten leaders, absolute confidentiality, and no agenda in the room other than your success. Peers who understand the weight of the position without needing it explained.
The Result
One room where nothing has to be performed. You say the thing out loud, and you get a straight answer back.
In a recent study by ICF (International Coaching Federation),
companies going through leadership development typically saw...
19% ROI, which is at least 50 x ROI on initial investment.
28% saw a return of 10-49 times
The median company return is 700% (7 x initial investment)
What happens in the Room
Peer advisory boards tackle the full spectrum of business and leadership challenges. Here are the key themes we explore in our sessions
- Navigating leadership loneliness
- Building courage & confidence
- Developing your personal brand
- Learning to let go of control
- Identifying personal bottlenecks
- Setting boundaries & saying “NO”
- Managing overwhelm & burnout
- Balancing personal & professional life
- Addressing health & wellbeing
- Managing growth at the right pace
- Strategic planning & mapping
- Building scalable foundations
- Innovation & disruption strategies
- Strategic pivoting decisions
- Optimizing business sale value
- Diversification opportunities
- Timing strategic moves
- Understanding & managing your numbers at growth stage
- Cashflow management during rapid scaling
- Funding & investment readiness
- Preparing for due diligence and investor conversations
- Financial governance and board reporting
- Exit valuation and how to maximise it
- Managing the complexity of a larger team and structure
- Knowing when and how to bring in a FD or CFO
- Building and protecting your reputation
- Managing investor and shareholder expectations
- Customer retention and reducing churn
- Identifying and attracting your ideal clients
- Employee engagement and culture at scale
- Contract negotiation and renegotiation
- Managing board relationships & dynamics
- Building strategic partnerships & alliances
- Understanding your numbers
- Time management & prioritization
- Systems & process optimization
- OKR implementation
- Communication strategies
- Governance structures
- Cross-functional management
- Infrastructure development
- Delegation & team empowerment
- Managing shareholder or partner disputes
- Handling underperformance and difficult exits
- Navigating redundancies sensitively and legally
- Dealing with a crisis or reputational threat
- Managing breakdown in key client relationships
- Separating emotion from commercial decision-making
- Difficult conversations with senior team members
- Succession planning and leadership transition challenges
- 65% increased financial control
- 60% increase in working “on” instead of “in” your business
- 75% increase in reducing loneliness
- 200% growth/ knowledge/ leadership ability
- 133% increase in a positive mindset
