Manolutions
Manolutions is my advisory practice. It works with founders, owners, and chief executives who carry the risk personally, the ones who cannot pass a decision upward because there is nobody above them to pass it to. That is counsel rather than coaching. I have sat where they sit and carried what they carry, and the conversation starts from there rather than from a framework.
The work runs on Total QX™, which reads a business as one connected system rather than a stack of departments, and holds every change to a single test: good for the customer, good for the people delivering it, good for the business, all at once. Improve one by quietly charging another and nothing has been optimised, the cost has only moved somewhere harder to see. Alongside the advisory sits nationally accredited leadership and management training, and one-to-one counsel for whoever is carrying the business alone. In a small number of engagements the firm takes equity as well as a fee, which means holding a position in the outcome rather than only a view on it.
The name was coined in the Netherlands more than 20 years ago, for a company supplying management solutions to corporate and business markets. Management and solutions, run together. It is the same company: it carried the name through Belgium, where we added BsnssRcks™, and on to Australia, where it operates from today. What changed is the first syllable. The businesses that hold their value are the ones that also work for the people inside them, not only on the balance sheet, so over time the “man” stopped pointing only at management and began pointing at the human element too. The name never moved; its meaning did, which is precisely what we ask of the businesses we work with. As for why it still exists: the further up you go, the fewer people are left who will tell you the truth about your own business. That is the gap Manolutions fills.