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Group coaching · In person in Sydney or online

Eight owners. One circle. Every fortnight.

Running a business is a lonely job disguised as a busy one. You are surrounded by people all day and there is still nobody to ask. This is eight owners working on each other’s actual problems. Not networking. Not a seminar.

Anit Patel seated on timber steps, relaxed and smiling
8
Eight owners, hard cap
Never two competitors
8
owners, hard cap, no two competitors
2h
every fortnight, in Sydney or online
4
hot seats each, scheduled in advance
2
private one-to-one sessions included
6
months, twelve sessions, then month to month
Why a group

The person you most need to talk to does not work for you

Your staff cannot help: you are the one meant to have the answers. Your partner has heard it all before. Your accountant sees you at tax time and looks backwards. Your friends are supportive, which is not the same as useful.

So most owners make the big calls alone, at 11pm, on gut feel, and live with the result for two years.

Put that decision in front of seven other owners, and problems that have circled your head for six months often get resolved in twenty minutes, because someone in the group has already lived through it.

Sydney groups

In person, same day and time every fortnight, in a room together.

Online groups

By video call, for owners outside Sydney or anywhere in the world. Same structure, same rules.

How it works

Four rules that make the group work

  1. 01

    Never two competitors

    No two people from the same trade and market in one group. It is the only way owners talk honestly about pricing, margins, the customer who is killing them and the staff member who is not working out.

  2. 02

    Eight owners, hard cap

    Fewer and there is not enough range in the room. More and the quiet ones stop talking, and the quiet ones are usually running the tightest businesses.

  3. 03

    Four hot seats each

    Thirty minutes where the group works on your business and nothing else. A real problem, seven owners plus Anit. Scheduled in advance, so you know when yours is coming.

  4. 04

    Two private sessions included

    Some things you will not say in a group. Two one-to-one sessions with Anit are built in, and nothing from them goes to the group unless you take it there.

Twelve sessions over six months, then month to month. Between sessions the group has its own channel, which is where a lot of the value ends up.

Inside a session

Two hours, and it runs to a shape

Each person commits in front of seven people who will remember. That single mechanism does more than anything else in the group.

  1. 20 min

    Accountability

    Each person says out loud whether they did what they said.

  2. 25 min

    Working block

    One topic the group needs: pricing, hiring, cash, a system worth stealing.

  3. 60 min

    Two hot seats

    Thirty minutes each. A real problem, seven owners, and Anit.

  4. 15 min

    Commitments

    What you commit to now is what you are asked about next time.

The scorecard

Everyone joins through the free Health Check

Before you take a seat, we score the six areas of your business together, one-to-one, in ninety minutes. Then the six areas are re-scored every quarter. Almost every business improves the part it measures.

What happens in the Health Check
Example scorecard · try it
0 / 60
Strategy & Mindset
0/10
Sales & Marketing
0/10
Customer Experience
0/10
Operations & Admin
0/10
People & HR
0/10
Finance & Numbers
0/10

A made-up, very ordinary example. The interesting part is not the 31. It is that the two lowest are Strategy and Sales, and that fixing Sales first would be the wrong order.

Why this group

Run by someone who runs businesses

Four of them. And for a lot of owners the group is the better product: seven other perspectives instead of one, and some of the sharpest advice will not come from Anit.

01

Home care

Regulated, rostered and audited. What compliance really costs in hours.

02

Construction

Quotes, variations, subcontractors and weather. Cash that arrives late.

03

Marketing & IT

What agencies charge for, and what it is actually worth.

04

Hospitality

Rosters, suppliers, thin margins, and the difference a bad Saturday makes.

The group can get things built

When the constraint is a website, an enquiry process, follow-up sequences or a job system, Ascentix specialists can build it, instead of it going on a list you feel guilty about.

Not a stepping stone to one-to-one

If one-to-one would suit you better, you will hear that on the call. Otherwise, the group stands on its own.

Fit

Who this is for, and who it is not

Yes

A good fit

  • 01Owners of businesses with roughly one to fifty people, in Sydney or online
  • 02Trades and contracting, care and allied health, hospitality, professional services, retail
  • 03Anyone who has made decisions alone for years and is quietly tired of it
  • 04People who will contribute, not just collect. The group only works if everyone is in it
No

Not a good fit

  • Anyone who cannot commit to every fortnight. One person drifting in and out damages it for the other seven
  • Anyone who wants to sell to the group. It is not a networking event
  • Anyone in genuine cash trouble. That is an accountant or restructuring adviser, early rather than late
  • Anyone who needs to discuss something confidential every session. One-to-one is the better fit
Three steps, one scorecard

Start free. Go further only if it is worth it.

The six areas you score in the webinar are the same six we score in the Health Check, and the same six we re-score every quarter in coaching. Start at any step, stop at any step.

  1. 1 Free

    Free AI webinar

    Ninety minutes, live on Zoom. See where AI saves an Australian small business time, and score your six areas in the workbook.

    Register
  2. 2 Free

    Free Business Health Check

    Ninety minutes, one-to-one. The same six areas scored properly, and the three things holding the business back, in order.

    How it works
  3. 3 Paid

    Coaching, if you want it

    One-to-one or the Growth Circle. The same six areas, re-scored every quarter, so you can see whether it is working.

    You are here
Common questions

The ones people actually ask

Something else on your mind? Email Anit directly.

Because it is checked before anyone joins. No two direct competitors, ever, even if it means turning away a good applicant. If your industry and market are already represented, you will hear that on the call and go on the list for the next group.

Only the room. Sydney groups meet in person; online groups meet by video call, so owners can join from anywhere. Both have the same structure: eight owners, two hours every fortnight, four hot seats each, and two private sessions included.

Come to the first two sessions. If it is not for you, you leave with no awkwardness. You will know inside two sessions; everyone does.

Yes, in both directions, and it is an explicit condition of joining. Nothing from a private session goes into the group unless you put it there yourself.

It happens; you run a business. You get the notes, and the group channel carries on. But if you are regularly missing sessions the format is not working for you, and you will hear that honestly rather than keep paying for it.

Because the right answer depends on what the Health Check turns up, and for some people the answer is that a group is not it. Fees are covered on the call, in writing, with no obligation.

Yes, and some people do. It is worth talking through on the call rather than deciding upfront.

Coaching is educational and motivational support. It is not accounting, tax, legal or financial advice, and it is no substitute for your accountant, bookkeeper or lawyer. No outcome is guaranteed.

Anit Patel smiling, leaning against a brick wall
The only thing that reliably changes a plan is being asked, out loud, by people whose opinion you care about, whether you did it.
Free discovery call

Find out whether there is a seat

Thirty minutes, no cost, no obligation. We work out whether the group suits you, whether one-to-one would suit you better, and whether the seat you need is open.

Ask whether there is a seat