Turning the World's Best Business Thinking into
Business Results
Dave Gillen — Business COACH — Brisbane
Business Coaching Must Get Results
(Under Extreme Conditions)
You have access to unlimited knowledge (including the World’s best business thinking and ideas).
Great books, podcasts, YouTube, AI, people you admire, plus your own experience. But knowledge doesn’t automatically turn into results, because there’s no time, and a tornado of issues, people, and thoughts pulling you away from what you need to do every week. In these conditions, a million-dollar strategy is worth nothing.
You end up knowledge-rich and results-poor.
That’s where our partnership comes in.
Why You and I Need a Different Approach
The world’s best business minds give you brilliant ideas. Business coaches can give you a plan. But when implementation is seen as “your problem”, you are left unsupported where it matters most. The outcome is “good-advice-but-no-results”.
You can’t afford that. I can’t afford that.
I get paid based on results, so we’re both in the same boat. Skin-in-the-game means good advice is no longer enough.
From Strategy to Execution Strategy
An execution strategy isn’t a document. It’s a structured environment where your business plans survive reality. Coaching for results means providing this environment.
- Results or Bust: I coach to a target. No exceptions. Good coaching = results.
- Simplicity: We must turn big strategies into small moves you can complete even in the busiest weeks.
- Protection: We must protect important work against everything trying to pull you away.
- Change: Regular 1-1 feedback is the only appropriate support for a fast-growing, fast-changing business.
- Dosage: Time and attention from another human, every week, for you and your goals.
You graduate from knowing the answers, to having them in your business earning you money.
What Happens When You Implement Every Week?
When a chain of weekly progress is built, results can compound quickly. Here are some results that changed for my 1-to-1 clients:
- HR Agency: $300k → $1.5m
- Professional Services: $900k → $2m in 12 months
- Personal Training Business: Doubled business size in 12 months
- Sports Coach: $35k → $200k+ and successful exit in 2 years
- Ad Agency: 5x revenue growth in 2.5 years
See more success stories: Business Coaching Case Studies
The Support to Turn Your Potential Into Results
Your business results are not decided by what you CAN or SHOULD or MIGHT or ALMOST execute.
They’re decided by what you actually DO.
Dave’s 1-on-1 coaching is for the business owner who knows they are capable of better or bigger results, and who knows that astronauts complete a lot more missions with a suit, radio, and mission control than they ever would without them.
If it’s time to put that support around yourself, book a 15-minute call with Dave. We can talk about what needs changing or implementing in your business.
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About Dave Gillen
Dave is a Brisbane business coach who helps business owners go pro as CEO and build a long chain of weekly execution. Clients progress through stages like building a marketing and sales system to drive growth, then removing growth-related problems as they emerge, to allow continued growth. Previously a marketer and copywriter for more than 10 years, this skillset also fills a gap for businesses who don’t yet have a healthy marketing function.
Dave’s Trademarks:
- Translates complex business concepts into simple, actionable steps
- Gives clarity to overloaded, disorganised, and ADHD-ish owners
- Offers pay-on-results partnerships after a short period of due diligence
Track record: 100+ business owners coached in Brisbane and across Australia and New Zealand. Multiple $1m+ growth clients, 3+ year coaching relationships, and clients returning years later for more.
“Over roughly 2 years my business is now 3x bigger. I intend to keep working with him for as long as I’m in business.” — JF Ad Agency, NZ
Clients Say
“I enlisted Dave’s help when I left full time teaching to run my business, full time. As you can imagine, the risks involved in doing that were huge. Whilst working with Dave, I have taken my coaching business from a $35k a year, part-time hustle to a $200k+ a year full time one and now I have also started (and sold) several other businesses.”
LP Sports Coach, Brisbane
“Over roughly 2 years my business is now 3x bigger than it was when I started with Dave. I knew about marketing, but knew almost nothing about how to run a business. My goal was to fast-track this, and instead of it taking me maybe 5 years to learn via trial and error, I wanted to work with someone and try to make good progress in 1-2 years. And that’s pretty much what has happened… Dave made the journey fun, enjoyable, engaging. I intend to keep working with him for as long as I’m in business which will hopefully be the next 20 years or so!”
JF Ad Agency, Timaru, NZ
“Everything changed when I started working with Dave. I was overwhelmed, wearing so many hats, I didn’t know where to focus my attention. Dave taught me how to look out for feedback—what is my business telling me—and then find solutions. He helped me find my ideal place in the business. My son is nearly 1 year old now and the business pretty much runs itself. I’ve only just returned back to seeing clients from maternity leave. Stepping back into a business that doesn’t really need me for the nuts and bolts allows me now to do what I’m best at, looking after clients.”
HM Beauty Spa, Brisbane
Growth Problems Are Predictable and Solvable
No matter what business problems you are struggling to solve, they all cost you time and money. This is why most business owners end up in the same few places. The classics are discussed below (2-3 minutes).
Problem #1: No Profit
Problem #2: No Life
Problem #3: Yoyo Business
10 Reasons To Stop Looking for the Perfect Business Coach and Choose One
- Time. Life is short. Taking 5 to 10 years longer than necessary to reach your goals is not “fine”. That can be a whole childhood. A marriage. Your youth.
- Wealth. A $200k boost in annual profit can increase the value of the business by $400k. Over $600k in wealth created by one good year. That’s why I love businesses so much.
- Intolerance. We must develop an intolerance to dysfunction. If you tend to have great plans that don’t turn into reality, this is a costly gap that must be closed with urgency.
- Failure. Getting the support you need is not a failure. It’s the marker of where you successfully outgrew your own capacity and left the owner-operator model.
- Waste. An owner can burn through a lot of cash trying to spend their way out of every business dysfunction. $10k on a bad website. $20k on failed ads. $50k on a bad hire. Etc.
- Confidence
You’ll be surprised what happens to your energy and speed and conviction with a few wins under your belt. It gets you out of defence and into offence.
Do you really need 10 reasons? If the reasons above don’t matter enough, 4 more won’t either 🙂
Let’s talk about what needs to change to change your results (you probably already have some ideas).