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Why growing businesses need a guide, not just a plan

Most businesses don't need a full-time hire to drive improvement. They need someone to drive it and be held accountable for it.

But the hiring market doesn't work like that. So you either try and make the improvements yourself, give it to whoever's already stretched thin, bring in a consultant for a project, or just leave it — because you're already wearing too many hats.

I spent years watching this happen from the outside. Great businesses with passionate, clever people who have real capability, but they're all stuck in the same loop. They know they could be more efficient. It's just never top of the priority list.

I’ve listened. At Sherpa2, we aren't here to do what others are doing. We do something fundamentally different. One day a month on site, ten months of the year, on the shop floor, with your teams. Embedded in your business, accountable to you for results, at a fraction of the cost.
This is a partnership, not a project. If this sounds familiar, drop me a message.

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3 days ago Fractional CI
The first job for Sherpa2 was a day on the shop floor at a Somerset manufacturer, testing the Fractional CI concept for real. We worked alongside their team rather than sitting in a meeting room, and walked away with 38 separate improvement actions, more than half of which hadn't been on anyone's radar.
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1 week ago Manufacturing
Most manufacturers in the South West don't need a full-time Continuous Improvement manager. They need someone to drive continuous improvement and provide accountability. Welcome to the first Fractional CI offering in the South West: one day a month, ten months a year, on the shop floor with your teams.
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2 weeks ago Leadership
One month of Sherpa2 done. The best thing I've done isn't a proposal or securing client work. It's agreeing to work with a business coach, even though I am one. Don't underestimate the value of external perspective.
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3 weeks ago Partnership
If Carlsberg did first clients... Sherpa2 launched on 1st June. 17 days in, both of my first two invoices had been paid on the same day they were received, with a note saying they knew it mattered to a startup. That's partnership.
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1 month ago Peer support
Even Sherpas need a Sherpa sometimes. Two consultants, an hour just supporting each other, talking honestly as two new businesses. Put the effort in. Show up. The rest follows.
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1 month ago Manifesto
After a decade with SWMAS, that chapter ended. What kept me up wasn't redundancy. It was those South West businesses I'd spent ten years alongside. Sherpa2 is a partnership. I'm not out in front telling you which way to go, I'm alongside you, carrying the load together.
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