Accelerating growth for ambitious businesses
At Enterprise Works, we understand that high-growth businesses face unique challenges when scaling. Whether you're navigating complex market conditions, refining your business model, or looking for strategic funding opportunities, expert advice can be crucial to overcoming these obstacles. That’s where our Founder Advisory Board comes in – offering you access to proven entrepreneurs and business leaders who can provide targeted, actionable solutions to your most pressing problems.
The Purpose of the Founder Advisory Board
The Founder Advisory Board is designed to help medium-sized businesses tackle specific challenges that are hindering growth. Whether you're struggling with scaling operations, securing investment, optimizing your market strategy, or improving operational efficiency, our Board members offer personalized advice and solutions tailored to your business. These experts are highly experienced in starting, scaling, and exiting businesses, and they bring real-world knowledge to help you achieve breakthrough results.
When you engage with the Founder Advisory Board, your business will receive:
- Targeted advice: Focused, expert insights on the specific issues that are slowing down your growth.
- Review of Terms: To ensure a clear understanding, we’ll provide terms and conditions covering essential matters such as confidentiality, commitment, and data protection, designed to protect your business and the Advisory Board’s advice.
- Strategic direction: Guidance to help you identify and implement the best approaches to tackle your challenges.
- One-on-one expertise: Direct access to seasoned entrepreneurs and business leaders who have successfully navigated similar challenges in their own ventures.
Who Are the Board Members?
The Founder Advisory Board is made up of carefully selected business leaders with deep expertise in solving a wide range of business challenges. Their backgrounds span key areas like finance, investment, marketing, legal, operations, and human resources. They’re here to help your business overcome specific growth challenges by applying their personal experience and insights.
How the Process Works
To help you address specific business challenges, we’ve designed a streamlined process for engaging with the Founder Advisory Board:
- Express your interest (anytime) for more information.
- Submit your application (by the board deadline indicated below): Businesses apply by outlining their specific problem or growth challenge, accompanied by relevant materials (e.g., pitch decks or summaries).
- Review and match: Enterprise Works will present your challenge to Board members whose expertise aligns with your needs.
- Problem-solving support: Selected Board members will offer targeted advice and solutions, which may include one-on-one meetings, recommendations, and introductions to relevant resources and networks.
📅 Upcoming application deadlines:
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Friday, 6 February 2026
- Friday, 12 June 2026
For businesses seeking investment advice, it’s important to have completed a “funder readiness” program, such as those run by Barclays Eagle Labs, to ensure you’re fully prepared to engage effectively with the Board’s expertise.
Advisory Role
Our Board members provide objective, problem-focused guidance and do not invest in the businesses they advise, ensuring their advice is unbiased and designed solely to help you overcome specific challenges. All Board members undergo a due diligence process to maintain high standards, including confidentiality agreements and data protection measures.
What Can the Founder Advisory Board Help Solve?
The Founder Advisory Board specializes in helping businesses resolve specific growth obstacles across a wide range of areas, including:
- Market and product strategy: Validate your market assumptions, optimize product offerings, and refine your competitive positioning.
- Operational efficiency: Improve your operational processes, streamline scaling efforts, and manage internal resources more effectively.
- Funding and investment readiness: Navigate the complexities of securing funding, from preparing for investor pitches to exploring alternative financing options.
- Leadership and HR challenges: Strengthen your leadership team, improve people management, and create the right organizational structure to support rapid growth.
Phil Pinder, Director of The Potions Cauldron Group said "Meeting with Enterprise Works' Founder Advisory Board fundamentally changed the way we approached our growth strategy. We had been focused on finding an investor, but through their advice, we realised that better banking and borrowing facilities might be a more effective route for us. It saved us time and helped us prepare properly for conversations with our finance provider. The Founder Advisory Board gave us targeted, real-world insight that directly addressed one of our biggest scale-up challenges — how to fund our next stage of growth in the right way."
Bethan Vincent, Founder, Open Velocity said "The Founder Advisory Board provided an invaluable sounding board as I explored how to balance running a successful consultancy with developing more technical IP within the business in the form of a product. Speaking with three highly experienced advisors helped me clarify how to structure my focus and time, prioritise key features,and gain confidence in the business direction. Their feedback directly shaped the next phase, commissioning the technical specification for our MVP, which I’ve approached with a much clearer sense of scope, feasibility and strategic intent."
➡️ Founder Advisory Board application deadlines: Friday, 7 November 2025, Friday, 6 February 2026 and Friday, 12 June 2026
If you’re ready to tackle your biggest growth challenges with the support of proven business leaders, express your interest today for more information.