Business coaching in Liverpool
Liverpool has nearly fifteen thousand registered businesses, and professional, scientific and technical firms are the largest group. Coaching is one-to-one, fortnightly and ninety minutes at a time, in four areas: personal, leadership, business and financial.
Professional firms are the biggest group.
Consultancies, practices, agencies and technical firms make up nearly one in six Liverpool businesses. In a people business the owner is often the best fee-earner, and coaching works on what only the owner should be doing.
A large share of firms have grown past ten staff.
Liverpool has a slightly lower share of micro businesses than the UK. Once a firm passes ten people the owner’s job changes to managing managers, and that is where Leadership Coaching starts.
Construction firms are the second largest group.
For contractors and trades, coaching covers job costing, cash between stage payments and the site leadership that lets the owner step back.
Liverpool businesses in numbers
ONS counted 14,975 VAT or PAYE registered businesses in Liverpool in March 2026. 13,075 employ fewer than ten people, which is 87.3% against 89.1% for the UK, and 14,635 (97.7%) employ fewer than fifty. Professional, scientific and technical firms are the largest group with 2,360 businesses (15.8%), followed by construction with 1,830 (12.2%).
Source: ONS, UK business: activity, size and location 2026, published 24 September 2026.
Business support in Liverpool
Growth Platform describes itself as the Liverpool City Region’s business support service and runs the local Growth Hub, a single point of access to publicly funded help. The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce at the Cotton Exchange runs membership, events and trade documentation. Coaching is a separate, paid, one-to-one arrangement that works on the owner’s decisions, team and profit. UK coaching options compared sets out the free and paid routes side by side.
Where do sessions happen?
Sessions for Liverpool owners run by video. In-person sessions are available by appointment at the Salford office, for example for the first two diagnostic sessions. In person and online cost the same. Everything starts with a free discovery call, and the Performance on Purpose scorecard shows where you sit before it.
Frequently asked questions
I run a professional services firm in Liverpool. What would coaching cover?
In a firm that sells time, coaching usually starts by making three things visible: what each client earns once the hours spent on them are counted, how much of the team’s time is billed, and how much of the owner’s week goes on client work against running the firm. Those three explain most profit problems in professional services. The work then moves to pricing and scope, to delegation of client relationships, and to the management layer the firm needs before it grows again. Leadership Coaching and Business Coaching are the usual programmes for this.
My business has grown past twenty people. Is coaching still for me?
Yes. The owner’s job changes at that size, from doing the work and supervising it to building managers who do the supervising. Leadership Coaching works on that change: delegation, accountability, the conversations that are being avoided and the meeting rhythm that keeps a team of twenty pointed the same way. Strategic Growth Coaching suits owners planning the next stage, such as a new site, a new service or an eventual sale. The discovery call is the place to decide which fits.
Can my senior team take part in the coaching?
Yes, where it helps. Leadership Coaching often includes sessions with the owner’s two or three senior people, because the delegation and accountability work only sticks when both sides agree what has been handed over and how it will be checked. A typical pattern is one-to-one sessions with the owner, with a joint session every month or so to agree priorities and owners for each. Each manager can also fill in the scorecards, which shows where their view of the business differs from yours. You agree the format on the discovery call.
Book a free discovery call for your Liverpool business.
The call with Andy Jackson is free and lasts 30 minutes. You leave with your position on the Performance on Purpose quadrant, your money, time and mind scores, and your top three priorities in writing.