Benjamin Wade

West Peak - BCorp

The Summit Leaders Club™ is one of the fastest-growing leadership communities. It's where today's leaders are developing the skills needed for tomorrow.

Summit Leaders Club™ (SLC™) - Member

West Peak was born out of our love of solving problems with and not for other people. For us, the best element of partnering with clients is always the legacy and results we leave with you. Our mission is to deliver solutions that provide incremental enhancements in your performance and personal flourishing that continues long after we leave.​​

We deliver best-in-class face-to-face and virtual leadership, personal, and team development solutions. Our methods are rooted in science and presented ready for real-world application.

Owner / Managing Director

VOCASO

A people-first community of senior leaders at their top of their game, keen to start a NED career to make a difference to high-growth businesses by imparting their wisdom. Governance-light and mentorship-heavy.

Advisor Member

The Oxford Review

Making Leaders, Managers, HR, Org Dev, L&D, consultants and executive and Org Dev coaches the most impressively knowledgeable professionals around – bar non.

Contributor

Home Grown Club

Home Grown is the members' community that provides entrepreneurial pioneers, founders and owners with unique resources to unlock the true value of their business potential.

Member

Ivo Consulting Solutions

Leading client engagements to help FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and private equity owned companies reduce costs, streamline operations, optimise product margins and increase sales.  With an emphasis on action to provide strategic and operational improvements.

Manager

Helping global organisations to transform Human Capital Management (HCM) into a core business asset that delivers actionable insights. Working to design a HCM solution that’s tailored to precise needs. Complete with the very best in compliance, security and support.

Operational Business Efficiency - Project Manager

Royal Air Force (RAF)

Planning, tasking, co-coordinating and monitoring joint military operations. Providing a vital link between the operations room and the aircrew.

Operational Aircrew (Nimrod MR2, Awacs), Global operations officer, Naval Intelligence

Kreate

EVENT MANAGER

RPM Ltd

Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA

Assistant Program Director

Are you struggling to grow your business because your managers lack the leadership skills to scale with you? 
That’s where I come in.

I help business leaders drive growth and profitability by rapidly upskilling their managers to lead teams effectively.

Want proof? Check out the testimonials on my profile and website.

Here’s how I do it with the Triple-A approach: 
👉🏽 Analyse your specific needs to target key objectives. 
👉🏽 Accelerate learning with tailored training and follow-on accountability. 
👉🏽 Apply results to improve culture and boost your bottom line.

You need managers who deliver results fast—without endless workshops or wasted resources. 
My solutions are designed for quick impact and long-term success.

I've helped companies, from startups to 9-figure brands, create high-performing managers and coached global C-suite leaders.
Ready to unlock growth and profitability? 
Contact me about the Summit Leadership Programme™ or Summit Leaders Club™.

Send a message to start fixing the manager issues holding your business back.

__

www.thewestpeak.com
Email: benjaminwade@thewestpeak.com
Or message me on LinkedIn

Top 10 Podcast Host - How They Lead | MD at West Peak | Co-Founder |🇬🇧 Veteran | Ironman™

Most business teams are expected to perform under pressure, yet they rarely get the space to learn how to become a high performing team in the first place.


High performing teams get to that level by working through stress together.
Learning who needs direct challenge, who needs calm, who pushes on, who shuts down and how to get each other moving again.

Business teams often skip that step.
They don't have the time, capacity, budget.
The odds are stacked before they even start.

This week we took the VSL UK team, part of VSL International Ltd. into the Welsh mountains to slow things down, raise the pressure and find the small one percent gains that separate this already high performing team into an exceptionally high performing team.

It was cold, wet, windy....ideal.
There were quick wins, lessons learnt and many conversations to take back to the boardroom.

✉️ If you want a few ideas to help your own team build this level of performance, drop me a message.
♻️ If you want to explore how we build this into our leadership development programmes, I can share examples.
☎️ If you need advice on how to support all of this with Ai, drop me a line. 

#WestPeak #LeadershipDevelopment #PeoplePerformance #TeamPerformance #HighPerformanceCulture #HR #L&D #LeadershipProgramme #AI

I help businesses build AI supported leadership teams that drive growth, culture & value

Getting this team in one room, in Nairobi was never going to be easy…

Africa. UK. Different time zones. Cultural demands. Travel complexity. Capacity. 

Most companies would call it too hard.

Castor Vali didn’t.

This week we brought their people together in Nairobi at HQ for the final stage of a high performance programme. 

Two days of honest reflection, tough conversations, and practical work on how to squeeze out the last few gains as they steam toward their their 2030 vision. 

They are already a high performing organisation.
They wanted better.
That is why they will get there.

There is nothing more powerful than putting motivated people in the same room and letting them push, challenge, and back each other. You feel the shift in the way they talk, plan, and operate.

The next stage is already in motion.

🔔Follow for leadership lessons from real work with real teams.
☎️ Get in touch to talk high performance 

#Leadership #TeamPerformance #HighPerformance #WestPeak #WestPeakUSA

No alternative text description for this image

Every firm we talk to is trying to work out how to blend humans and AI.
But most are doing it backwards.

They start with tools instead of people.

AI does not fix broken leadership.
It takes what you have and enhances it. 
Good or bad!

The firms winning right now are the ones who train leaders first.
Then support that high-performing foundation with tech.
People drive the pace.
AI amplifies it.

Want to take that first step?
Want to know how?

Get in touch.

🔔  Follow for real insights on people, performance and AI.
♻️ Repost or share to help others take the first step
#AI #Leadership #FutureOfWork #WestPeak

I took my kids on a night time beach walk.
It was late. They were wired. I was tired…


My first instinct was to say no.
Then I stopped myself.
We went. It was dark. It was cold.
It was one of the best moments of the week.

At work we often try to control everything.
Kids show you that life works better when you stop trying to.

Success isn’t how you act when things go well.
It’s how you react when they don’t.

Who taught you a lesson when you least expected it?

🔔Follow me for simple lessons on leadership, performance and Ai from real life.

#Leadership #Parenting #Perspective #WestPeak

Burnout is back on the rise.
But this is the bit no one likes to admit:

It’s not because they work too hard.
It’s because they don’t have enough control.


… in their priorities.
… with their time.
… in how the work gets done.

If you want people to perform, you have to give some control back.

Start with three quick fixes this week:

	1.	Kill one meeting you don’t need. Give someone their hour back.

	2.	Let people set the order of their tasks. Control creates energy.

	3.	Ask one person, “What would make your week easier?” Then do it.

This is the stuff leaders avoid because it looks small.

But people do not burn out from work.
They burn out from feeling powerless.

🔔 Follow for simple leadership ideas you can use today.
♻️ Share this post to help other perform.
☎️ Get in touch for a chat.

#PeoplePerformance #Culture #Burnout #Leadership

Most organisations think they have a fair leadership assessment process.
Most don’t.

A senior UK naval officer said something in a recent video that should make every business board uncomfortable.

Their leaders are assessed subjectively, top down, based on how a line manager feels about them and how well they present. 
That single opinion dictates how they’re reported on, how they’re viewed by the senior team, and how far they progress.

Strip away the uniform and it mirrors what happens in plenty of businesses.

When leadership assessment relies on gut feel, charisma and politics, you create the perfect conditions for something far more expensive than a bad promotion.

You create toxic leadership.

The people who perform well upwards and cause chaos downwards.
The ones who look like high potential but leave a trail of disengagement.
The ones who climb fast because no one measures the damage they cause.

And once they’re in, they spread. 
Performance drops. 
Culture erodes. 
Retention falls. 

If your leadership pipeline can be influenced by whoever shouts loudest or looks polished in a meeting, you’re exposed.

Businesses need a leadership standard.
Clear expectations. Observable behaviours. Consistent assessment.
Top to bottom, bottom to top.

Otherwise you’re gambling your future on perception instead of performance.

👉 Assess your leadership capability with our free tool in my featured section.
🔔 Follow for grounded, practical insight on leadership performance.
♻️ Share to help others on their leadership performance journey.

#Leadership #PeoplePerformance #Culture #WestPeak #WestPeakUSA

I asked 'North' my AI business advisor to tell me what West Peak does.
I wanted to see if the machine had us figured out...

It came back with this:

“You build leadership teams, enhanced through AI, that scale companies.
You fix the gaps that stall growth.
You create clarity, cadence and capability so teams perform at pace.
You turn leaders into the engine that drives culture, execution and exit value.”

It wasn’t wrong.

Here’s the truth I see across fast-growing businesses right now:

- New managers are promoted on potential, not capability.
- AI is bolted on instead of integrated into how people work.
- Senior leaders are overloaded and under-supported.
- Exec teams are misaligned on what performance even means.

That mix slows everything down.
HR teams feel the pressure first.
The business feels it next.

This is where we step in.
West Peak - BCorp builds the leadership infrastructure that growth needs:
Cadence, 
clarity and 
capability.
Then we strengthen performance with AI tools,
 reducing friction and speeding up decisions.
All tailored to the real pressure points in your business.

If you’re leading people through rapid growth and this feels close to home,
I’m happy to show you how our clients use this approach to scale teams and improve results.

Drop me a message me if you want the details.

#PeoplePerformance #LeadershipDevelopment #HRLeadership #AIPerformance #TeamAlignment #WestPeak #ScalingBusinesses

Most leaders think they’re AI-ready....Most are wrong.
Take our two-minute AI readiness check via the comments below.

Using ChatGPT like Google isn’t AI leadership.
No agents.
No automation.
No link to strategy.
No workflow impact.

It feels progressive, but it isn’t.
It’s like swimming against the current.

Over the past year, I’ve spoken to hundreds of senior leaders.
The conversation is the same every time:
“We know we need to get ahead of this, but don’t know the first step to take.”

So we built the first step for you.

A two-minute AI Readiness tool that shows you exactly where you stand across the five areas that decide whether you use AI for a competitive edge.

A clear score.
Personalised results.
Optional conversation with my team to turn insight into action.

If you want to lead the change instead of reacting to it, take the tool.

Link in comments below.

♻️ Share to help others
🔔 Follow to be better
☎️ Call me to talk

#AILeadership #PeoplePerformance #FutureOfWork #LeadershipDevelopment #WestPeak

Yesterday was a mess.
Nothing catastrophic, but distraction after distraction.

Tasks that should have taken an hour dragged into two.
My momentum stalled. My output was slow. My head was foggy.

Steven Bartlett posted this great visual:
Four dots linked by a clean straight line, compared to four dots connected by a tangled one.
Same destination.
One path took far longer.
That was my day.

Here are three takeaways for anyone who has the same experience this week:

1. Protect your entry and exit points.
Most delays come from switching tasks rather than doing them. 
Block the first 20 minutes and last 20 minutes of each work cycle. 
No inbox checking. No calls. No meetings. Pure focus.

2. Don’t rescue your day, rescue the next hour.
Once the day starts slipping, most people write it off. 
Take a short reset, clear the next single task, and rebuild momentum fast.

3. Remove one source of drag.
Not five. 
One.
A decision delegated.
A message redirected.
A conversation postponed.
Clear it and the mental load drops instantly.

The outcome yesterday was fine.
The route was a joke.
Today I’m choosing the straight line.

🔔  Follow for leadership and AI performance insights.
♻️  Share to help others
☎️  Get in touch for a chat.

#Leadership #Productivity #Focus #WestPeak #WestPeakUSA

Last month, I spoke about enhancing people's performance with AI.
After the talk, the biggest question that kept coming up was this:


How do I even take the first step?

My keynote was about removing drag from business systems so leaders can focus on the work only humans can do.

Here's what I shared.

Most teams don’t have an AI problem.
They have a clarity problem.

No shared workflow.
No agreed process.
No definition of what AI is meant to improve.

So they stall. 
Or worse, they experiment with tools in isolation and call it progress.

The first step is not buying software.
It is mapping your leadership and people processes, then deciding where AI can remove friction, save time or raise the standard.

Start with:

One repetitive task that drains hours.
One leadership process that needs structure.
One decision that would benefit from faster, cleaner data.

Pick one, improve it, lock it in, move to the next.

That is how momentum starts.

If you work in HR or L&D and your team is asking the same question, I am happy to share the simple framework we use with clients.

🔔  Follow for practical leadership insights enhanced through AI.
♻️ Share to help others with their performance.
☎️ Get in touch for a chat.

#Leadership #HR #PeoplePerformance #AIatWork #WestPeak

I have a quick challenge for you.
Skip WhatsApp today from 9 to 5.


If it needs a call, call.
If it doesn’t, leave it.

Those little pings feel harmless, but they drain focus fast. The average person spends 33–38 minutes a day on WhatsApp, usually in tiny bursts that wreck deep work and slow everything down.

Give yourself the gift of an uninterrupted day.
You’ll get more done in six clean hours than in ten messy ones.

Try this today:
• No WhatsApp in work hours
• Call if it’s urgent
• Batch the rest at the end

What’s your biggest focus-killer right now?

Let me know how you get on in the comments below 


Follow for straight talking leadership you can use today.

#Leadership #Productivity #PeoplePerformance #WestPeak

My son asked a question that stopped me cold: “Why do grown ups rush all the time.”

I had no good answer.
It made me think.
We move fast but often with no aim.
We can lose years this way.

If you feel pressure right now, pause and ask one thing:
What am I rushing toward.

Then do this:
	1.	Check your aim at the start of the week.
	2.	Cut a task that doesn’t serve that aim.
	3.	Share the aim with your team.

♻️ Repost to support others.
🔔 Follow for simple leadership lessons.
📢 Check your leadership score in my featured section.

#Leadership #performance #Clarity #WestPeak

Most people think the enemy of growth is failure.
It isn’t, it’s comfort. Let me explain.....

Leaders get comfortable.
Momentum disappears.
Decisions get safe.
Teams settle.

Comfort feels fine in the moment.
It costs you later.

Ask yourself: where have you started coasting?

If you want growth, you have to step back into discomfort on purpose.

Does your team needs a jolt out of comfort and back into performance?
Is it:
- Cross functional friction
- Capability gaps
- AI integration
- Decision cadence & role clarity 
- Difficult conversations 

Message me.
Benjaminwade@thewestpeak.com

#WestPeak #PeoplePerformance #LeadershipDevelopment #ScalingBusinesses #HighPerformance #FutureOfWork

Do you ever snap at someone who did nothing wrong?
Most of us have.

Not because of them,
but because work is still buzzing in the back of your mind.

Pressure has a way of spilling over.
If you don’t deal with it, it ends up hitting the wrong people.

Leaders talk about balance,
but being honest about how you feel is where it starts.

When work gets loud, who takes the hit first?

Follow for simple leadership lessons from real life.

 #Leadership #Perspective #Culture #WestPeak

Sharing for my US network or anyone who may be in Fort Lauderdale to meet Matt Bennett 

 If you have an interest in:

Ai
People Performance
Leadership excellence
Talent development
Margaritas

He is your man.

#sucess #westpeakusa #performance #leadership

I help Founders and CEOs rapidly develop leaders who are at pivotal stages of growth and strategic change.

Last client trip of the year! 

Heading to Fort Lauderdale to support a client in the next phase of their strategic growth. 

Their goals are ambitious and this is anything but a traditional ‘off the shelf’ program. We’re partnering for 12 months to support;
- cultural shifts
- organizational change 
- sales growth
- strategic transformation 

And as it’s the holidays, there’ll be time for some fun too. A sunset yacht trip and West Peak US 2026 vision day down on South Beach. 

Let’s go! 🇺🇸🌴🛥️

GS Fast Growth

GS Fast Growth is not your typical consulting firm - we're a collective of experienced entrepreneurs turned strategic partners, here to transform your business and catalyse growth. With over a century's worth of practical business knowledge, we turn problems into profits, streamline processes, and infuse teams with vital skills. Our services span from identifying operational inefficiencies and crafting business strategies, to cultural and change management. What sets us apart is our unique blend of lived entrepreneurial experiences and proven methodologies, which enable us to offer bespoke solutions for every business challenge. Your success is our success - so much so, we back it with an unmatched guarantee: we deliver value exceeding your investment, or we refund the difference. Let's begin your success story - contact us for a free discovery call today.

Head of Operations and Consultant

Mundo Pato Inc./ UnitusTI

Delivered through our innovative UnitusTI cloud software. Access from any device, anywhere in the world.

UnLohk Your Potential - Wellness Program for Therapy Facilitators and Clinics are delivered via subscription to the UnitusTI cloud. UnLohk Your Potential is a comprehensive program which has been put together to help businesses to improve their staff wellbeing when it comes to stress and anxiety, mainly at employment setting but also outside of work.This program contains information and techniques from various therapeutic backgrounds but mainly based on the model of Quest Cognitive Hypnotherapy. Cognitive Hypnotherapy is a modern model of therapy and is based on Evolutionary Psychology, Positive Psychology, Cognitive Theory and NLP. 

In this comprehensive program, you will be learning transformational skills to change the way you deal with your stress and help your clients to do the same. With leading-edge data collection, staff and client management tools, and the Program built right into UniturTI, your clients can improve their wellbeing, anytime, anywhere.

Program Author - UnLohk Your Potential - Wellbeing Program for Therapy Facilitators and Clinics

Delivered through our innovative UnitusTI cloud software. Access from any device, anywhere in the world.

UnLohk Your Potential - Wellness Program for Corporate Employees is delivered via subscription to the UnitusTI cloud. UnLohk Your Potential is a comprehensive program which has been put together to help businesses to improve their staff wellbeing when it comes to stress and anxiety, mainly at employment setting but also outside of work. Your staff will be learning transformational skills to change the way they deal with stress, anxiety, and depression and therefore increase their wellbeing, productivity, and performance. With leading-edge data collection, staff and client management tools, and the Program built right into UniturTI, your staff can improve their wellbeing, anytime, anywhere.

Program Author - UnLohk Your Potential - Wellbeing program for Corporate Employees

New Level Results Limited

NLR is a coaching organisation which received Global Award for The Most Innovative Coaching Specialists in 2022 (Award to be officially received in August 2022)

NLR is the only Business Coaching organisation that helps individuals and teams in all walks of life and industries to see transformational and measurable results from coaching. We do this by mapping and tracking the coaching intervention. We literally achieve the kind of results that people dream of. 

We have developed an unrivalled methodology and the software to help you get the results you want and need. 

"Using a system that maps and tracks my progress made my coaching experience so much more successful than traditional coaching" DAN MAUDHUB – MD- WONDERFUL CREATIVE AGENCY

This coaching methodology has already helped hundreds of businesses and teams to outperform their competitors, grow their business and revenue.

Associate Coach

The Scale Business Limited

The Scale business works with CEOs within a challenging but supportive environment to achieve the scale growth they set themselves while retaining talent within their business and being a positive force within their community

CEOs have the benefit of receiving  confidential support and challenge from other CEOs with similar sized businesses but also one on one support from the Scale business chair.

CEOs commit to a day a month to work on the scale growth of their business within a structured board meeting that will mean they returned to their business with a tested plan to deliver results. They will also have regular mentoring sessions with the Scale business chair who have a combined 100s of years’ experience in achieving scale growth within numerous industries .

Being a CEO can be both a lonely and challenging role and is often the pinnacle of many talented business people’s career. PWC surveyed 2500 large businesses and found the average tenure for a CEO was 5 years . 

This means as CEO the clock is ticking the day you start , taking action immediately will increase your chances of success . 

The Scale business is one of the few support networks that works exclusively with CEOs and specialises in their specific needs. We have limited opportunities around the country to join these boards to grow your business . 

All members of the board sign NDAs to ensure confidentiality throughout the whole meeting while the Board chairs ensure it stays within time and stays on focus to achieve the growth each CEO has set themselves .

All board chairs offer an initial hour-long consultation that ensures their board is the right fit for you as a CEO and you are the right fit for the board. They are confident that the Scale business can greatly improve your performance as a CEO as well as personal growth from being part of such a talented group

Chair and Coach

Laura Lohk Mentoring and Coaching

I am experienced coach specialising in helping Company Directors and CEOs to grow and scale their business. 

I help company directors (and their teams) to create clear, robust, strategic plan based on their values, experiences, mindset and the mapping and tracking of clear goals. This has proven to turn both personal and business aspirations into reality and achieve a powerful return on investment for companies and investors alike. 

I help CEOs who want to scale their business fast through an exclusive mastermind program which is proven to double the value of their business and triple their turnover. 

__________

SPECIALITIES

Executive Coaching
Team Coaching
Training
Improving Staff Wellbeing
Female Business Leader’s empowerment
Business Growth
Leadership Development
Business Strategy

______

INDUSTRIES I’VE WORKED WITH

Legal
IT
Construction
Charities
Special Needs Education
Therapy
NHS
HR

I am interested in talking to company directors and CEOs to are committed, ambitious and serious in growing their businesses and realise that to achieve different results, they have to change the way they do things together with the fact that growth and success are difficult to achieve alone. 

Call 077 955 16878 or DM on LinkedIn

Business Growth Mentor & Coach

Slater Gordon Solutions

I acted on behalf of claimants and managed a caseload of approximately 150 Pre-Litigation and small proportion of Litigated NIHL files in a very busy and target driven environment. I managed all aspects of the claim from initial client interviews, drafting letters of claim and responses, negotiating settlements and costs and, when necessary, litigating. My strong communication skills and operations skills were very important in this role as are my abilities to manage client’s expectations and work under pressure due to strict deadlines. In October 2015, I was promoted to Head of Department role. I was responsible for 50+ people and managing their KPI’s and department targets. My role included training and assisting the fee earners with their general and legal queries, attending meetings with the team leaders and senior management, coaching and mentoring staff, negotiating bulk settlements, providing one-to-one supervision and managing my own caseload.

Solicitor/Team Leader/Head of Department

Eversheds Sutherland

I worked in the Construction Litigation department and provided valuable assistance in a busy and fast paced environment. It was a varied role and I was responsible for performing tasks including legal research relating to commercial law and construction law issues, preparing reports to various banks and also providing general assistance to Associates and Partners. I would also liaise directly with clients and review, negotiate and draft construction and engineering contracts and also provide assistance to borrowers.

Paralegal

Hugh James

I acted on behalf of claimants and managed a large caseload of Employers’ Liability and Public Liability claims in a busy and target driven environment. I managed all aspects of the claim from initial client interviews, drafting letters of claim and responses, negotiating settlements and costs and, when necessary, issuing Court proceedings. My strong communication skills were also very important in this role as were my abilities to manage client’s expectations and work under pressure due to strict deadlines.

With over 100 years of practical business experience and a deep-seated commitment to delivering tangible results, GS Fast Growth is more than a consulting firm - we are strategic partners dedicated to transforming businesses.

Our consultancy is provided through a unique collaboration of Entrepreneurs who have all owned, operated and exited successful businesses and have faced first hand the challenges that modern business presents.

We are not “typical consultants” who are long on theory and short on experience we have all lived and breathed our own entrepreneurial journeys and we still walk in your shoes.

We pride ourselves on our ability to transform our client’s problems into profits.

Our services range from identifying operational inefficiencies and formulating business strategies to culture and change management. We offer tailored solutions for every business challenge and can even act as a sounding board for your ideas. We aim to support your business and you as an individual throughout your entrepreneurial life.

We’re proud of our ability to streamline processes, equip teams with new skills, and reclaim valuable time lost to inefficiency. A recent success story involves us turning a loss-making entity into a highly profitable exponential organisation, and helping a start-up create a winning business plan for funding.

What our client’s say?

“The team at GS Growth is second to none. We were facing significant challenges related to market expansion and needed strategic guidance. Their consultants, drawing from their own experience as business owners, provided invaluable insights and a clear roadmap. With their help, we’ve managed to make tough decisions confidently, leading to successful business growth. They are more than just consultants; they are our strategic partners in true sense”

Why us?

We believe in the power of synergy and collaboration. By working with us, we can provide a holistic view of your business challenges and opportunities. Our tried and tested methods and hands on experience will help you to solve problems, create increased client satisfaction and loyalty, attract new clients, and develop integrated and effective solutions that will enhance the reputation and success of your business.

Our Guarantee

Your success is our top priority. We are so confident in our ability to deliver that we offer an
unmatched guarantee: We will exceed your investment value, or we will refund the difference.

Contact us for a free discovery call and let’s take the first steps on the path to building your success story together.

taplio

The Battle

Benjamin Wade

Laura Lohk

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScoreBenjamin Wade's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

Benjamin Wade

Laura Lohk

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}Benjamin Wade's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScoreBenjamin Wade's LinkedIn Performance