Business coaching for Manchester.

No. Most Greater Manchester clients run entirely by video, and the M5 office is there for the ones who prefer a table. The address is shared when you book rather than published, so say on the discovery call if you want to meet in person. The practical question is whether a cross-city round trip will survive a busy quarter. Coaching fails on cancelled sessions more than on anything else, and a ninety-minute video slot at eight in the morning is far easier to protect than a two-hour excursion at eleven. Plenty of clients start in person for the two diagnostic sessions and move online once the rhythm is set. Neither option changes the fee.

Yes — across the North West and UK-wide, plus Northern Ireland and South Africa. Nothing about the coaching changes with your postcode: the same fortnightly rhythm, the same ninety-minute sessions, the same ninety-day review against measures you set in month one. The only thing location affects is travel, which is why it comes up at all. If you are in Leeds or Liverpool and want to meet occasionally, that works. If you are in Aberdeen it will be video, and neither of us should pretend a quarterly face-to-face would add much. Being outside Manchester has never been the reason an engagement did not work. Not protecting the diary has.

Owner-managed businesses, typically three to fifty staff, across manufacturing, professional services, construction, hospitality, retail and tech. Sector matters far less than the pattern, and the pattern is remarkably consistent: the owner is still the point every decision passes through, revenue has grown faster than margin, and the work that would actually change things keeps sliding into next month. A fourteen-person installation firm and a nine-person agency arrive with the same problem wearing different clothes. Where sector knowledge genuinely matters — regulation, technical detail, industry pricing conventions — you are the expert in the room and it stays that way. We bring the commercial questions, not a claim to know your trade better than you do.

There is no price list on the site, and you will get a specific figure on the 30-minute discovery call before committing to anything. What drives it is the stream and the rhythm — fortnightly 1:1 coaching is a bigger commitment of time than a monthly accountability check-in, and one headline number would misprice one of them. Two honest points. Buzz Coaching is not the cheapest coaching available in Manchester; there are group programmes running at a fraction of it, and for some owners those are the right purchase. And if the fee would be genuinely uncomfortable for the business right now, say so on the call — the advice is sometimes to fix the cash position first and come back in a quarter.

Fortnightly, ninety minutes, and the fortnight is deliberate rather than administrative. Monthly is long enough that you arrive having forgotten what you committed to, with reasons. Weekly does not leave enough room for anything to actually happen in the business between sessions. A fortnight is about the shortest gap in which a conversation you promised to have has either happened or has visibly not happened. The first fifteen minutes of every session go on last time's commitments — done, not done, what got in the way — before anything new is opened. Accountability Coaching can run weekly where follow-through is the entire problem, but that is the exception rather than the default.

Tell us the first time you think it, not at month six. Measures are set in the first month — hours in delivery, decisions escalated to you each week, margin by job, whatever the binding constraint turns out to be — and reviewed at ninety days against where you started. If they have not moved and you have done the work, the approach was wrong: it changes or it stops. We would rather lose the engagement than keep invoicing a rhythm neither of us believes in. If they have not moved because the actions did not happen, that gets said out loud too, and it is the more common case. That conversation is uncomfortable and it is most of what you are paying for.