Speaking

He only speaks
on one thing.

How founder-led businesses get past £250,000 — and what has to happen, in what order.

Dr Vish is The 7 Figure Business Scaling Expert. He takes UK founder-led businesses from £250,000 to seven figures and beyond, and he'll give your room the sequence that does it — not a pep talk, a method they can start on Monday.

Put him in front of business owners and he'll name the ceiling they're stuck under before the first coffee break.

£25,000 + VAT for a 90-minute keynote, with the option to make an offer from the stage. Other formats quoted on enquiry.
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See him work a room before you book him

Three minutes. Real stages, real audiences, no music-video edit. You'll see how he opens, and what he does when someone challenges him from the floor.

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Fit

Who books him — and who shouldn't

He's built for rooms with business owners in them. Conferences for founder-led firms. Membership organisations and peer-group events. Franchise and network conventions. Professional bodies for clinics, consultancies, agencies and legal practices. Bank and accountancy client events. In-house leadership days where the founder wants the team seeing the growth plan the same way they do.

The sweet spot is owners turning over £250,000 or more in service-based businesses — the ones who've proven demand, work brutal hours, and can't work out why the revenue line has flattened. He speaks to them as a peer, not a podium.

He's the wrong choice if

  • You want a general motivational slot. He isn't that, and he won't pretend to be.

  • There are no business owners or P&L holders in the room. The material has nowhere to land.

  • You need a technical AI or software talk. He's deliberately tool-agnostic.

  • You want a hard pitch from stage as the price of a cheap fee. He doesn't trade that way.

If he isn't right, he'll say so on the call and, where he can, point you at someone who is.

The material

Six signature talks

Each one is built and tested. Tell him the room and the clock, and he'll tell you which version fits — a 20-minute slot or a working session.

01

The Three Ceilings

Identity, offer, systems. Owners assume they've hit a market problem when they've actually hit an identity one: the business still runs through them because they're still the product. He shows the audience how to tell which ceiling they're under right now, because pushing on the wrong one is what burns the next two years.

Keynote

45–60 minutes

Keynote 45–60 minutes

  • Which of the three ceilings is actually holding them, diagnosed in the room

  • Why the ceilings arrive in a fixed order, and what happens when you skip one

  • The first move to make against their ceiling this week

02

The Exact 7 Steps

The full sequence from £250,000 to seven figures, and why order beats effort.

His Premier Growth System, end to end: Clarify, Package, Price, Attract, Convert, Deliver & Retain, Scale. Most owners are working hard at step four while step two is broken, which is why the effort doesn't compound. He walks the sequence in order and shows what each step is genuinely for.

Keynote

half-day workshop 45 minutes or 3–4 hours

Keynote half-day workshop

45 minutes or 3–4 hours

  • The seven steps in order, and the cost of taking them out of order

  • How to identify the one step that's currently capping the whole business

  • A sequence to work through rather than a list of tactics to try

03

Referrals Are Rain

Building customer acquisition that doesn't depend on other people's goodwill.

"Referrals are rain. A funnel is irrigation." Most established service businesses are entirely rain-fed and call it a marketing strategy. He shows what an owned acquisition system looks like for a firm that's never run one — without asking anyone to become a marketer.

Keynote 45 minutes

Keynote

45 minutes

  • Why a referral-only business is fragile even when it's busy

  • The minimum viable acquisition system for a founder-led firm

  • What to build first, and what to ignore until later

04

The Reprice

The fastest profit lever in the room — and why owners won't pull it.

Pricing moves margin faster than anything else on the board, and it's the one thing owners avoid for reasons that have nothing to do with the market. This is a working session: the audience opens their own numbers and reprices a real offer while he walks the room.

High-energy workshop 60–90 minutes

Audience works on their own numbers

High-energy workshop

60–90 minutes

Audience works on their own numbers

  • A repriced offer, worked on their own figures, before they leave

  • The internal objection stopping them, named and dismantled

  • How to take a price change to existing clients without losing them

05

The Founder Bottleneck

Building a business that survives your holiday.

"You can't read the label from inside the bottle." When every decision routes through the founder, growth stops at the founder's diary. He covers what to document, what to hand over, in what order, and why delegation usually fails on the second attempt rather than the first.

Keynote. 45 minutes

Keynote

45 minutes

  • Which decisions are genuinely theirs and which they've simply never let go of

  • The order to hand work over in, so it sticks

  • A test for whether the business could run a fortnight without them

06

The AI Multiplier

Where AI genuinely saves a non-technical owner time — and where it doesn't.

No hype, no tool demo, nothing that dates by Christmas. He separates the tasks in a service business where AI removes real hours from the ones where it quietly creates work. Deliberately tool-agnostic, so it stays useful whatever your audience is already using.

Keynote

45 minutes

Tool-agnostic

Keynote. 45 minutes Tool-agnostic

  • A straight answer on where the time savings actually are

  • The tasks to keep human, and why

  • A way to judge any new tool without needing to be technical

Dig the well before you're thirsty.

Working with him

What he's like

on the day

Low maintenance, well prepared, and early.

He sends AV requirements as soon as the date is confirmed, not the week before. He'll do a pre-event call with you to understand the room — who's in it, what they've already heard that day, what you want them thinking about afterwards. Examples get tailored to your audience's sector, so a room of clinic owners hears clinic numbers.

He arrives early, does a tech check, and will sit through the session before his so he can pick up what the previous speaker said. If you want him at the drinks afterwards, he'll stay and talk to your members.

And there's no bait-and-switch from stage. He won't pitch a programme unless you've agreed it in advance and it genuinely serves your audience. If you'd rather he made no offer at all, say so and he won't.

IN WRITING

You'll get a one-page confirmation covering talk title, running time, AV list, arrival time and what he will and won't say from stage. Nothing on the day is a surprise.

Formats

Five ways to use him

Pick the honest one. Nobody's going to chase you down any of them.

45–60 min

Keynote

One talk, full stage, tailored open. The standard booking and the one most conferences want. Works as an opener to set the day's frame or a closer to send people out with a next step.

60–90 min

Workshop

Six signature talks on scaling, pricing, acquisition and the founder bottleneck. Keynote, workshop or in-house session. Fees quoted on enquiry.

30–45 min

Panel or fireside

He's a straight answer on a panel and won't filibuster. Give him the questions in advance and he'll bring specifics rather than generalities.

3–4 hours

Half-day

The full seven steps, mapped against each attendee's own business. Includes worksheets and two working breaks. Caps at a size where he can still reach every table.

Half or full day

In-house team session

For a single business. Founder and senior team in one room, getting aligned on the same growth sequence. Requires a scoping call with the founder beforehand.

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What he needs from you

Not much, and all of it early. Give him these and the day runs itself.

The audience brief matters most. Sector, rough turnover band, whether they're owners or employed managers, and what they came for. That's what lets him swap examples so the room hears itself described. For workshops he'll also want table numbers, and he can supply a printable worksheet for your delegate packs.

If your venue has an AV form, send it over and he'll fill it in rather than making you chase.

The checklist

  • Handheld or lapel microphone, tested before doors open

  • HDMI to a screen he can see from stage, 16:9

  • Confidence monitor if the main screen is behind him

  • Confirmed running time, and who's on before and after him

  • A short brief on the audience — sector, typical turnover, what they came for

  • Room setup: theatre for keynotes, cabaret or tables for workshops

  • Water on stage, and a clock or timekeeper he can see

  • A named contact on the day with a mobile number

  • Confirmation in advance if you're recording, and what the footage is for

The fee

£25,000
for ninety minutes.

One number, printed. Plus one option that's worth discussing early, because some events can take it and some can't — and either way the fee is the same.

£25,000

+ VAT · 90-minute keynote

Covers the keynote itself, the preparation behind it, and the work beforehand to make it specific to your room rather than a talk he happens to have.

The option: an offer from the stage

Where an event allows it, he'll make an offer to the room at the end of the ninety minutes and keeps 100% of what's sold. No revenue share, no split, and nothing for you to administer or account for.

It's an option, not a condition. Plenty of events can't allow selling from the platform — associations, some corporates, anything with sponsor rules — and that's entirely fine. Say so in the enquiry and he'll speak without it.

Where it is allowed, it tends to work in your favour as well as his: a room that feels sold to doesn't buy anything, so the content has to earn the offer rather than set it up. He'd rather over-deliver for eighty-five minutes than pitch for twenty.

Included

The 90-minute keynote, a briefing call with you beforehand, tailoring to your audience and their sector, and Q&A if your format has it.

The option

Where your event allows it, an offer made from the stage at the end, sold and fulfilled by his team, with 100% of the proceeds his. You handle nothing and carry no liability for it. Not available at your event? Say so — the fee is unchanged.

Not included

Travel and accommodation, billed at cost. Anything beyond the 90 minutes — a workshop, a second session, a full day — is quoted separately.

Recording

[Whether the session may be recorded, and what you may do with the footage afterwards. Agree this up front — it changes what he's willing to say from the stage.]

Confirmation

A date is held only once terms are agreed in writing. [Deposit and cancellation terms.]

Other formats

Workshops, half-days, in-house sessions and panels are all quoted on enquiry — the right number for a 20-minute panel in London isn't the right number for a half-day in Aberdeen.

Confirm before publishing

The recording, deposit and cancellation lines are bracketed because they become contractual the moment this page is live. Set them once and they'll save you the same conversation with every organiser.

Enquiry

Check his availability

Fill this in and you'll get a straight yes, no or "let's talk" — usually within one working day. If the date's gone or he's the wrong fit, he'll tell you immediately rather than leaving you hanging.

Organiser questions

The things you're about to ask

Where does he travel to?

Anywhere in the UK. Travel is charged at cost and itemised, and for anything more than a few hours from Essex he'll usually want the night before so a delayed train can't cost you a keynote.

Will he speak internationally?

Yes, subject to dates and rights. The material is written for UK owners, so for an overseas audience he'll want a longer briefing call to adapt the examples properly. Flights, accommodation and a day either side are covered by the organiser.

How is the fee worked out?

Format, preparation time, travel and what you want to do with the recording. A 45-minute keynote and a half-day workshop are different pieces of work. Tell him the budget range on the enquiry form and he'll tell you honestly whether it works — including if it doesn't.

Can we record and reuse the session?

Usually yes, and it's agreed in writing beforehand. Internal use for members and delegates is straightforward. Selling the recording or using it in paid advertising is a separate conversation, because it changes the fee basis.

Will he sell from stage?

Only if you've asked him to. The default is no offer at all. If you do want one — some member events specifically do — it's agreed in advance, disclosed to your audience, and kept to the time you've allocated.

How far ahead should we book?

Three to six months for a conference date is comfortable. Shorter notice is worth asking about, because diaries move — he'd rather you asked about a six-week date than assumed it was gone.

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Woodford Green, Essex IG8 8HD
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