You don't have to make every important decision alone.

Recognise this?

When every important decision lands with you.

• You have several options and none feels obviously right.
• The financial consequences are becoming more significant.
• Other directors don't always agree.
• You keep delaying a conversation you know needs to happen.
• Your advisers understand parts of the problem, but nobody sees the whole picture.
• You want challenge, not somebody telling you what to do.
• You're worried about making the wrong decision.
• Doing nothing is also becoming a decision.

What it does

What Monthly Decision Support does

Monthly, 90-minute decision meetings built around the biggest decisions actually facing your business — evidence-led challenge, leadership alignment where it's needed, and a repeatable way of thinking things through.

Monthly Decision Support helps the owner decide where to move.

• Evidence-led challenge
• Leadership alignment
• Decision Confidence Planner
• Decision Calls when needed
• A record of decisions and lessons

Where it starts

Start with context

Monthly Decision Support begins with Strategic Planning — not as the main recurring purpose, but so every decision is considered against what you're actually trying to build.

• What do you actually want?
• What does the business need to look like to provide it?
• Where are you now?
• What's in the way?
• What needs to be true over the next 12 months?

A decision can only be "right" in the context of what you're actually trying to build.

The format

The monthly decision meeting

We start by looking back — which decisions worked since we last met, which didn't, and whether they were based on evidence or emotion. We look at the current evidence relevant to what's ahead: cash, KPIs, pipeline, capacity, whatever's relevant — not a management accounts meeting, just a plain question: what story is the evidence telling us? Then we get into the decision itself: what's the most important decision facing the business right now, what's the uncertainty, what are you assuming, what are the realistic options. We finish agreeing what happens next.

• Look back
• Current evidence
• Decision session
• What happens next

A supporting tool

The Decision Confidence Planner

For any decision that could change the future of the business, the Planner helps you work through what you're actually deciding, why it matters now, what evidence you have and wish you had, the realistic options, and what's actually stopping you deciding. It's not paperwork for its own sake — it's there to slow an important decision down just enough to think about it properly, without letting it drift indefinitely.

Better businesses aren't built by perfect decisions. They're built by informed ones.

Between meetings

Decisions between meetings

Monthly Decision Support includes access to short Decision Calls for significant decisions that can't sensibly wait until the next meeting — using the Decision Confidence Planner first. That requirement is deliberate. Completing the Planner before the call encourages you to slow the decision down, define what you're actually deciding, identify the evidence and the assumptions, and think it through properly before asking someone else what they'd do. The aim is to help you become a better decision-maker, not to create an on-demand line to call whenever something comes up.

Leadership teams

More than one person around the table?

Not every business is run by one owner. When several directors or senior leaders are involved, the challenge can look different — competing opinions, different ambitions, meetings that drift, and difficult conversations that never quite happen. MBS can provide independent challenge and facilitate the conversation, helping owner-managed leadership teams hear each other properly, get aligned, make a deliberate decision, and leave knowing what happens next.

Real decisions

Real decisions. Real consequences.

A few examples of the kind of thinking these conversations lead to.

These examples are based on real client experiences. Some details may be simplified to protect confidentiality. Outcomes vary, and past results don't guarantee future ones. MBS Coaching helps owners think more clearly and make better decisions — it does not guarantee a particular financial result.

What's included

What is included

Price

£450 per month

This works well for owners and leadership teams facing decisions with genuine consequences, who want independent challenge rather than someone to take over. This works when you want challenge and perspective but remain prepared to own the decision and what happens next.