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Three ways to develop your next generation of leaders

Developing the next generation of leaders in scaling SMEs — so your business has the talent and capability to grow beyond you.

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What We Do?

Scaling a business is hard. Scaling it without the right leaders around you is harder.

QCx exists to close that gap — developing the next generation of talent in scaling SMEs through expert training, 1:1 coaching and strategic consulting.

Your next generation of leaders develop the soft skills that create real business impact — growth strategy, personal brand, stakeholder management, negotiation and pitching. Because when your people step up, your business scales up.

 

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Management
Training

From full leadership programmes to targeted skills training in presentation skills, marketing strategy and customer experience, every programme is practical, personalised and built around real business outcomes.

Underpinned by a unique blend of group training and 1:1 coaching — so your leaders grow with confidence.

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Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching for ambitious individuals who are ready to step up — and serious about getting there.

With 4,500+ leaders coached and trained across four continents, I bring the experience, the frameworks and the challenge to help next-generation leaders in scaling SMEs build the confidence, and credibility to Step Up.

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Consultancy

Most scaling businesses hit the same wall — quality slips, blame cultures emerge, and customers notice before the business does.

These are classic signs of a product-centric mindset.

Drawing on 20 years of experience and a proven SERVQUAL-based methodology, we help ambitious SMEs place the customer at the heart of every decision — improving retention, increasing customer lifetime value and building a culture that sustains growth.

Growing Pains

 Rapid growth is exhilarating — but it often comes with friction.
 

Fast-scaling B2B companies typically hit a point where the systems, skills, and structures that got them here… start to break.

You may have the vision and potential to lead your market, but instead, your team is firefighting, key hires are churning, and customer expectations are rising faster than your ability to meet them.

These are the classic growing pains of scale:

  • Teams operating in silos, losing sight of the customer

  • Sales and marketing messages becoming generic or misaligned

  • Inconsistent service delivery harming reputation and referrals

  • A lack of clear, data-led decision-making across functions

If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. These issues are normal — but they’re not inevitable.

QCx  helps high-growth businesses transform growing pains into growth gains.

By aligning your people, propositions, and processes around the customer, we help you scale smarter — with fewer fires, and more focus.

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"We're maxed out"

We’re running at close to full capacity and seem to be constantly in ‘firefighting’ mode.

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"We're dropping balls"

Whilst many of our customers are happy with our service, we’re struggling with inconsistency. The business is making too many silly mistakes.

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"We're flying blind"

Meanwhile, our management team are making decisions about the business, sales and marketing strategy based on hunches rather than robust data.

Without careful attention, poor Cx starts to damage both reputation and profitability.
 
Your business deserves to be so much more. 

Increase Profitability & Effectiveness

...of all business functions:
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Finance

Better customer experience reduces churn whilst increasing customer lifetime value, so increases profitability.

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Sales

Better customer experiences improves reputation making it easier to sell more, more often at higher margins.

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Marketing

Better customer insights ensures more effective messaging, so attracting new customers is easier and cheaper.

Turning Customer Frustrations Into Advocacy

Our M⁵ Approach helps you turn every step of the your journey into a growth driver, where each improvement builds on the last, compounding benefits over time to make your CX a powerful tool for sustainable success.
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 If customers love what you do, they will buy more from you, more often and tell their friends about you. Better still, there will be less pressure to replace old customers with new ones.
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Product Options & Pricing

“You can choose to dip a toe in the water with the training and audit options or fully immerse with the Full QCx Programme”

Cx & CRM
'Health Check'

£2,500 (ex. VAT)

Audit & recommendations
Cx assessment, Data, methodologies
CRM data collection assessment
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Team
Training

£2,500 (ex. VAT)

Workshops to inspire your team
Why CX is important
Mapping your customer journey
Using empathy to find moments of truth
Creating a 'Kaizen' culture
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Full QCx
Programme

From £15,000 (ex. VAT)

Full implementations
Management hypothesis
Qualitative insights
Gap analysis
Recommendations
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We also offer individual and group mentoring services to help implement change.

How It Works

Taking the first step towards market leading Cx is simple:

 

Step 1

Tell us about your business and your 'roadblocks' (book a strategy call)

Step 2

Choose to put a ‘toe in the water’ or ‘fully immerse’ (Select your preferred service option).

Step 3

Start your journey to market leadership.
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Why Invest In Cx?

Most managers focus their energies on internal issues, finance, operations, HR, marketing, sales, IT; everything except the customer.
 
 
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
Sam Walton
With so many organisations failing to put the customer at the centre of their thinking, there is a great opportunity for business leaders to gain competitive advantage through exceptional customer experience, or as we like to call it: ‘Quintessential Customer Experience’. 

Whilst your competitors are focusing their attention elsewhere, you can use Quintessential Cx to accelerate your growth and become the market leader.

Why QCx?

In an increasingly digitalised world, many businesses are forgetting that their customers are real people, with real emotions.


Great customer experience is simply about making your customers feel important and making their lives easier.


Too many businesses focus on Customer Perception metrics (most notably NPS and C-Sat) rather than what customers really expect or value.


Over the last 20 years, QCx have developed and refined a methodology that prioritises Customer Expectation. If we know what customers really value, we can not only serve them better, we can create more effective value propositions and sales messages.

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In short, your whole business is aligned.

The M⁵ Framework

Each 'M' element - Management, Method, Metrics, Mindset, and Methodology - works together synergistically. They compound over time, driving increased profitability by aligning strategies, improving performance, and encouraging a customer-centric culture.

Management

Align your management team.

Metrics

Establish baseline Cx metrics to measure future success.

Mindset

Empower your team to be customer-centric.

Method

Implement your unique Cx data collection and response mechanisms to better serve your customers. 

Message

Create compelling value propositions to win more customers.

 They compound over time, driving increased profitability by aligning strategies, improving performance, and encouraging a customer-centric culture.

Who Loves Us!

QCx have worked with global brands, charities and fast-growing SMEs to help them harness the power of Quintessential Customer Experience.
"Quentin and his team won a competitive bis process to pilot and rollout of a global customer experience programme in my role as a Group Marketing & Communications Director. The project's mission was to put customers at the heart of the business and focus on empowering leadership with genuine insight of customer perception and experience to enable data-driven decision making. ...We received unanimous praise for a well-planned, strategically insightful and supportive facilitation from Quentin and the team." - Cat Green
 
More recently QCx has specialised in working with clients in built environment, including main contractors, designers and manufacturers.

 

Great Cx!

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