You already know something needs to change.
If you leave this and come back to it next quarter, nothing will be different.
Small group. 8 Owners
LIMITED TO 8 BUSINESS OWNERS ONLY - FREE BUSINESS COACHING BONUS
FRIDAY 15TH may 2026
09:30am – 11:30aM
Rothley Court Hotel, LE7 7LG
friday 15th May 2026
09:30am – 11:30aM
Rothley Court Hotel, Rothley, Leicestershire
How to Reclaim
10 - 15 Hours a Week and Stop Being the Only One Who Can Get Things Done.
For business owners with a team who constantly feel like they're the only one holding everything together.
Matt Bull, ActionCOACH UK Coach of the Year and coach to over 200 owner-led businesses, has spent a decade fixing exactly this. Owners he's worked with typically reclaim 10 - 15 hours a week within 60 days by fixing how ownership operates inside their business.
In this focused, in-person diagnostic session, you’ll gain immediate clarity on precisely where ownership is breaking down in your business and the exact changes needed to fix it
Free to attend. Not recorded.
Limited to 8 business owners only.
These sessions typically fill up quickly.
Still the One Holding Everything Together?
In 2026, running a business is tougher than ever. Costs are up, margins are tighter, and you're pulled in countless directions. You're not lazy, but your business still depends entirely on you, functioning as the most critical employee. Decisions land on your desk that shouldn't. Every week feels reactive.
That moment for change won't arrive on its own. The pattern won't break without a structural shift. Most owner-led businesses don't have a team problem; they have a leadership and ownership problem. The result: you work harder, carry more, and the gap between effort and outcome quietly widens.
At The Ownership Edge, we address the root cause:
- Blind Spots: Why you're reactive, stretched, and indispensable in the wrong way.
- Accountability Breakdown: Why telling your team to take ownership never works.
- Operator to Leader Shift: The practical path to leading without disrupting your business.
- Blind Spots: Why you're reactive, stretched, and indispensable in the wrong way.
- Accountability Breakdown: Why telling your team to take ownership never works.
- Operator to Leader Shift: The practical path to leading without disrupting your business.
More hours won't fix this. A different way of operating will. If you're ready to build a business that performs without depending entirely on you, this morning starts that transformation.
You're probably better at running your business than leading it. Here's why that's the problem.
You're probably better at running your business than leading it. Here's why that's the problem.
Consider Claire. Six years into her consultancy, she had what many owners dream of a growing client base, a solid team, and a strong reputation. Yet, she was juggling more than ever. Costs rose, margins tightened, and half her week was spent on tasks unrelated to growth. Her team wasn't stepping up. Decisions that should have been made without her landed back on her desk. Problems arrived fully formed, issues she'd addressed repeatedly.
The business moved forward, but she ran harder just to keep pace. She hoped a new hire or a break in pressure would fix the structure. It never did. She found herself asking:
"Is this just what running a business looks like now?"
or
"Why does everything still come back to me?"
Then she attended one of our events. The real problem became clear it wasn't a people problem, but a structure and leadership issue. Her team wasn't performing because the conditions for performance were absent.
No clear ownership.
No real accountability.
No framework that functioned without her constant involvement. She hadn't just become the bottleneck; she'd unintentionally built it from day one.
The first two weeks after the event were uncomfortable. Claire changed how she communicated, delegated, and stopped picking up tasks. Her team initially pushed back, making her question the process. But she persisted. Within 30 days, the pattern shifted:
1. Her team resolved problems without escalating them.
2. She cut her working week from 58 hours to 43.
3. Errors costing £3,000 - £4,000 a month dropped significantly.
Within 90 days, she achieved her most profitable quarter in three years. Six months later, she took a two week break, opening her laptop only twice, by choice. The numbers improved, but the biggest shift was her newfound clarity and calm. She was finally running the business, not being run by it.
This event is designed to give you that same outcome.
What Owners Who've Been in the Room Have Said...
“I have clarity, confidence, & a clear roadmap for success…”
I’ve gained clarity and confidence, learned how to position myself to my target market, and now have a clear roadmap for success and freedom.
Hem Patel | Founder | HP Evolution
“ Matt encourages & challenges you throughout the session”
The workshop was a great use of time. Matt is excellent as a coach. There is a quiet confidence and authority around how he operates. He encourages and challenges and helps get the best out of you and the morning gave me the clarity I needed.
Stef Reid | Stefanie Reid Ltd
“I've gone gone from chaos and overwhelm to structure and clarity…”
This workshop has made a huge difference to both my business and personal life. I’ve got my motivation back and achieved far more than I ever would have done alone. Marketing can be complicated but Matt makes it simple
Richard Fletcher | CEO & Founder | IGNYS Ltd
“I have clarity, confidence, & a clear roadmap for success…”
I’ve gained clarity and confidence, learned how to position myself to my target market, and now have a clear roadmap for success and freedom.
Hem Patel | Founder | HP Evolution
“ Matt encourages & challenges you throughout the session”
The workshop was a great use of time. Matt is excellent as a coach. There is a quiet confidence and authority around how he operates. He encourages and challenges and helps get the best out of you and the morning gave me the clarity I needed.
Stef Reid | Stefanie Reid Ltd
“I've gone gone from chaos and overwhelm to structure and clarity…”
This workshop has made a huge difference to both my business and personal life. I’ve got my motivation back and achieved far more than I ever would have done alone. Marketing can be complicated but Matt makes it simple
Richard Fletcher | CEO & Founder | IGNYS Ltd
Anna: Creating a business that run's without you
Dale Evison - Business growth as well as personal growth
Anna Barker - Creating a business that run's without you
Sahel Najib - Coaching in a way that you understand
Dale Evison - Business growth as well as personal growth
This diagnostic session is NOT for you if:
- You believe your business problems are solely due to "bad staff" and not structural issues.
- You're looking for a quick motivational speech rather than a deep, practical diagnosis.
- You're unwilling to critically examine your own leadership and operational habits.
- You're not serious about making fundamental changes to reclaim your time.
- You're not an owner-led business with a team.
The 6 Shifts That Change How Your Business Operates
Most management advice tells you what to do. This session shows you why it isn't happening - and exactly where things are breaking down in your business specifically.
In two focused hours, you'll leave with::
• Shift 1: Where Ownership Is Actually Breaking Down. You'll identify the exact points in your business where responsibility is unclear - before they turn into problems that land back on your desk.
• Shift 2: The One Thing to Fix First. Not a list of 40 actions. One clear priority - based on what you uncover in the room - so you leave knowing precisely where to focus your energy next week.
• Shift 3: The 7-Word Phrase That Stops Problems Coming Back to You One specific response - seven words - that puts responsibility back with your team instantly. No conflict, no repetition, no chasing..
• Shift 4: The McDonald's Secret Sauce - Why Your Standards Aren't Sticking McDonald's doesn't run on talented staff. It runs on structure. You'll leave with the same principle applied to your business — clear expectations, fewer errors, less of you required to maintain them.
• Shift 5: Why the Same Problems Keep Reappearing You've addressed it. You've said it before. It still comes back. This session gives you a clear answer to why - and what to do differently so it stops.
• Shift 6: A Different Way to Talk to Your Team - Starting Next Week Not theory. A specific change to how you run conversations with your team that begins building real accountability from the moment you're back in the business
IF THIS IS YOU ?
STOP WAITING.
FIND OUT MORE.
SAVE YOUR SEAT.
The Ownership Edge
This is a diagnostic session not a generic workshop. Over two focused hours, you’ll go through:
- Diagnosis: Why your business still depends on you and where ownership is actually breaking down.
- Ownership Audit: How to assess your team and identify where responsibility is unclear.
- Leadership Gap: Why delegation fails even when expectations seem clear.
- What Needs to Change First: Where to focus your attention and what to address first based on what you uncover.
Come ready to take notes not just ideas, but the specific gaps, decisions, and actions you’ll take back into your business straight away.
Friday 15th may
9:30Am - 11:30am
rothley court hotel, rothley, leicestershire
YOUR HOST & SPEAKER FOR THE EVENT
YOUR HOST:
MEET MATT BULL
Matt Bull has spent over a decade working exclusively with owner led businesses, not in a consultancy, nor running theory based programs, but sitting across the table from stuck owners and helping them get unstuck.
He's worked with over 200 businesses across manufacturing, professional services, construction, hospitality, and retail.
The problem is almost always the same. So is the fix. He'll show you both.
- Recognised: ActionCOACH UK Coach of the Year. Ranked in the Top 15 ActionCOACH firms globally out of more than 1,000 worldwide. Multiple business performance and leadership awards.
- Track Record: Owners working with Matt typically reclaim 10 – 15 hours a week within 60 days and see measurable improvements in team output, staff retention, and profitability within 90.
- The Outcome: Not motivation, nor a framework to read later. You get a clear, specific diagnosis of your business and clarity on exactly what needs to change first.
The Business Owner’s Guide to Lead Generation in 2026
This is a practical, in-person workshop for owner-led businesses who are capable of closing but don’t have consistent demand.
Here’s how the day unfolds:
In just two focused hours, we break down:
1. Why your lead flow feels unpredictable
2. Where enquiries are slipping away
3. What’s stopping you standing out clearly
4. How to build a simple, repeatable structure for consistent leads.
This is not about doing more.
It’s about doing the right things - in the right order.
You’ll leave knowing exactly
1. What to fix
2. What to stop doing
3. What to focus on next
So instead of simply hoping things get better in 2026, get the clarity and confidence you need to make it great.
You already know something needs to change.
The question is whether you do something about it today.
Your business is still running. You're still delivering. From the outside, everything looks fine.
But you're carrying a burden that doesn't appear on a balance sheet. The weight of knowing that if you stepped back - even for a week - things would start to slide. That your team is capable, but not operating that way. That you're working harder than ever, and the margin for error is shrinking.
In 2026, that pressure is very real. Costs aren't decreasing. The noise isn't fading. And your time is the one thing you can't get back.
Here's what most people won't say out loud:
• If everything depends on you, you don't have a business. You have a role - one with no line manager, no job description, and no upper limit on what it can demand from you.
• If your team can't function without your input, that's not a reflection of their ability. It's a structural gap, and it's fixable.
• If you're always reacting - to the week to your team, to the next thing that shouldn't need you - you're not leading. You're absorbing. And a business built on one person absorbing everything doesn't scale; it grinds.
The Ownership Edge was built for this:
• Not to motivate you, nor to add to your to-do list.
• It's here to show you exactly why your business is operating this way and what needs to change first.
• The owners who attend leave with a clear diagnosis, a focused picture of what to prioritize next, and a genuinely different way of operating.
• Those who don't return to the same week, the same dynamic, and the same quiet frustration.
In six months, while another owner in their position has freed up their time, rebuilt their team, and stopped carrying everything, they'll still be telling themselves they'll sort it next quarter.
Frequently Asked Questions & What to Expect
Q: I'm a busy business owner. How can I justify 2 hours for this?
A: If your business is currently costing you 10 -15 hours a week in problems that shouldn't reach you, decisions that shouldn't need you, and a team that can't function without your input — two hours to fix the root cause is the most commercial decision you'll make this month. This isn't a talk. You'll leave with a specific diagnosis of your business and a clear picture of what to change first..
Q: What's the catch? Why is it free?
A: There's no catch. Matt runs a small number of these sessions each year to work directly with owner-led businesses. The session is genuinely useful regardless of what you do afterwards. At the end, you'll have the option to book a follow-up conversation with Matt — no obligation, no pressure in the room, and no hard sell. The session stands entirely on its own.
Q: Is this just a sales pitch for a coaching programme?
A: No - but we'll be straight with you. At the end of the session, Matt will briefly mention that some owners choose to continue working with him after the workshop. That takes about two minutes. The other 118 minutes are focused entirely on your business. Nobody will be sold to in the room. What you take away is yours regardless of what you decide afterwards.
Q: What should I bring?
A: Come ready to work. This is a diagnostic session, not a lecture — you'll be examining how your business actually operates, not listening to theory. Bring a notepad. You'll leave with specific gaps identified, clear priorities, and actions to take straight back into your business.
Q: What happens after I register?
A: You'll receive a confirmation email within a few minutes with everything you need - date, time, location, parking details, and what to expect on the day. Matt's team will send a reminder the day before. If anything changes or you have questions in the meantime, you can reach us directly at mattbull@actioncoach.co.uk.
