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The Leading Business Advisor to New Zealand Growth Companies. Grumley+Company assists New Zealand businesses with every phase of the business lifecycle – from launch and growth to maintaining and thriving.
Our key business advisor Toss Grumley guides over 200 New Zealand companies with the right advice, plans, strategy and structure. His insights are based on growing his own businesses and a coaching framework developed from his MBA at Warwick Business School in the UK.
Toss’s management career began early, when he became general manager of a leading wholesale supply company at the age of twenty-five.
As a Director & Shareholder Toss has helped grow multiple eight figure businesses and has successfully exited three businesses to date.
Proactive and innovative, Toss brings clarity, confidence and a structured approach. Passionate about helping business owners, he shares his experiences and insights widely as a regular contributor to national business media.
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If you’re looking to grow your business, a quick Google search will show you there are plenty of tools that claim to do it all. Dashboards, CRMs, forecasting software, project management platforms, automation, AI, where do you start?
Some are useful, but in our experience, most end up becoming expensive clutter on your desktop, reminders of good intentions that didn’t pan out. Because even the best tools can’t create growth on their own, they need your insight as the person behind the wheel.
Tools Don't Replace Strategy, They Execute It
One of the areas where most business owners go wrong is adopting tools before they have a plan for where they’re going.
A CRM won’t fix a sales process with holes in it. Project management software won’t create accountability if the priorities change every other week.
Before you choose the tool, you need a strategic plan that takes into account where you are now and where you want to be in the future.
Financial Visibility Tools
Still using your annual accounts as a metric to make decisions by? By the time you’re looking back over the year, the decisions that influenced those results have already been made.
At Grumley+Company, we build quarterly review sessions into our business coaching model, allowing us to look at the data and apply it against what’s happened recently in the business. Not only does it create accountability, but it gives our clients a chance to reflect on what is happening while there’s still time to impact it.
Planning and Accountability Frameworks
Most business owners aren’t short on ideas, but they don’t always know which ones deserve attention now, which can wait, and who is responsible for making them happen. What they need is a good planning framework.
Our process includes a full-day strategy session to look at brand, marketing, systems, people and financials. Once we’ve unearthed that information, our conversations can become an actionable plan, with the accountability that comes with it.
People and Systems Tools
Growth often slows when too much knowledge sits inside the owner’s head. But if every decision, customer issue or operational question has to come back to one person, you’re guaranteed to hit a capacity problem.
Delegation, written workflows and regular leadership conversations can remove some of that dependency.
Marketing and Brand Tools
Marketing tools are most useful when they’re tied to a strategy, not just because everyone else seems to be using them.
Before putting more money into ads, content, email or automation, get clear on what you’re trying to achieve. Do you want to build brand awareness, improve conversion, enter a new market, increase order value, or a combination of all of the above?
Brand consistency is crucial for building trust, regardless of whether you’re targeting B2B or consumers. So make sure your message and offer align with your strategy from the start.
The Advisor as a Tool
As wonderful as it would be if there were one tool that did it all, for most business owners, the most powerful impact is the combined influence of software and outside perspective.
A business growth consultancy combines data with professional insight to see patterns that are harder to spot from inside the business. This allows them to ask the right questions, bringing you closer toward your goals.
Led by Toss Grumley, who brings an MBA-backed framework to the advisory process, Grumley+Company has supported more than 200 businesses achieve their goals.
Explore case studies to learn more about our results, or, if you’re ready to take the next step, book a business coaching consultation today.
The Tools That Actually Accelerate Business Growth
If you’re looking to grow your business, a quick Google search will show you there are plenty of tools that claim to do it all. Dashboards, CRMs, forecasting software, project management platforms, automation, AI, where do you start?
Some are useful, but in our experience, most end up becoming expensive clutter on your desktop, reminders of good intentions that didn’t pan out. Because even the best tools can’t create growth on their own, they need your insight as the person behind the wheel.
Tools Don't Replace Strategy, They Execute It
One of the areas where most business owners go wrong is adopting tools before they have a plan for where they’re going.
A CRM won’t fix a sales process with holes in it. Project management software won’t create accountability if the priorities change every other week.
Before you choose the tool, you need a strategic plan that takes into account where you are now and where you want to be in the future.
Financial Visibility Tools
Still using your annual accounts as a metric to make decisions by? By the time you’re looking back over the year, the decisions that influenced those results have already been made.
At Grumley+Company, we build quarterly review sessions into our business coaching model, allowing us to look at the data and apply it against what’s happened recently in the business. Not only does it create accountability, but it gives our clients a chance to reflect on what is happening while there’s still time to impact it.
Planning and Accountability Frameworks
Most business owners aren’t short on ideas, but they don’t always know which ones deserve attention now, which can wait, and who is responsible for making them happen. What they need is a good planning framework.
Our process includes a full-day strategy session to look at brand, marketing, systems, people and financials. Once we’ve unearthed that information, our conversations can become an actionable plan, with the accountability that comes with it.
People and Systems Tools
Growth often slows when too much knowledge sits inside the owner’s head. But if every decision, customer issue or operational question has to come back to one person, you’re guaranteed to hit a capacity problem.
Delegation, written workflows and regular leadership conversations can remove some of that dependency.
Marketing and Brand Tools
Marketing tools are most useful when they’re tied to a strategy, not just because everyone else seems to be using them.
Before putting more money into ads, content, email or automation, get clear on what you’re trying to achieve. Do you want to build brand awareness, improve conversion, enter a new market, increase order value, or a combination of all of the above?
Brand consistency is crucial for building trust, regardless of whether you’re targeting B2B or consumers. So make sure your message and offer align with your strategy from the start.
The Advisor as a Tool
As wonderful as it would be if there were one tool that did it all, for most business owners, the most powerful impact is the combined influence of software and outside perspective.
A business growth consultancy combines data with professional insight to see patterns that are harder to spot from inside the business. This allows them to ask the right questions, bringing you closer toward your goals.
Led by Toss Grumley, who brings an MBA-backed framework to the advisory process, Grumley+Company has supported more than 200 businesses achieve their goals.
Explore case studies to learn more about our results, or, if you’re ready to take the next step, book a business coaching consultation today.