Adrian Bates
Founding and Managing Partner @The Executive Partnership
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WORK HISTORY
Founding and Managing Partner @The Executive Partnership
St Albans, GB
Most businesses don’t stall because of sales.At £1M, everything’s chaotic.At £10M, leadership starts to clash.At £50M, systems stop working.At £100M+, complexity overwhelms the CEO.That’s when growth breaks, —, —.We don’t produce sell theory or produce endless decks. ’ —.
EDUCATION
Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
BSc(Econ), Management Studies
Aston University
MSc, Human Resources Management
CIPD Qualifications
OPQ and Ability Testing | Job Evaluation
ABOUT ADRIAN BATES
If you lead a £5–£100m business, there’s a point where growth stops being a growth problem.Decisions bottleneck at the top.Good people wait for permission.The business works — but only with you in the middle of everything.That’s not a personal failure.It’s a predictable stage of scale.’ & . ’.’.’ :• Scale — building leadership capacity, accountability and performance systems that support 2–3× growth• M&A & Integration — retaining key talent and stabilising culture post-deal• Exit Readiness — turning leadership depth and succession into valuation assets• Turnaround — correcting leadership gaps, cultural drift and execution failureExecutive hiring plays a role — but only where it strengthens a repeatable operating model, not short-term dependency.If your business is performing, but the next phase requires a different leadership system, that’s usually the right time to talk.
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