About

At Strategy Headstart we understand that as a small business or entrepreneur, you sometimes want and need the additional support to help you achieve your business goals - but you can’t pay the thousands of pounds or dollars to the bigger consulting companies who often don’t understand your needs.

As professionals who have worked both in large, corporate consulting environments and spent the past few years running our own small business - and supporting other business owners, we can integrate the best of both worlds and apply the insights needed for success to your business.

About Strategy Headstart

Strategy Headstart is part of the Kinetiva network of services and solutions. We are different from other companies who provide strategy services and business planning support. Why? Because we walk the walk as well as talk the talk.

Not only have we successfully implemented multiple business ideas over the past few years, we have done this whilst travelling permanently - utilising purely online marketing strategies to generate customers and clients for our products and services.

About Lea Woodward

I’m Lea Woodward and I am the principal consultant for Strategy Headstart.

I have a broad range of experience when it comes to business strategy and planning and spent several years working for one of the world’s largest management consulting companies before leaving the rat race to set up my own business.

I have since spent the past few years coaching, mentoring and consulting for other small business owners and helping them apply the best of the corporate strategies to their businesses in a way that helps them achieve their objectives faster, more profitably and with fewer mistakes.

Summary of Qualifications

• Worked with Fortune 500 clients across Europe and the United Kingdom and small to medium business owners in the US, Australia, the Middle East, UK and Europe.
• Highly skilled and experienced in end-to-end process design and implementation to deliver cross-departmental business change.
• Demonstrated capabilities in executive mentoring and coaching to shape and deliver strategic change for overall business improvement.
• Highly skilled in developing and implementing integrated marketing strategies for organisations looking to leverage online capabilities, social networking and web 2.0 developments.
• Demonstrated capabilities delivering training to staff at all levels of an organisation.

“I worked with Lea in 2002/2003 and was always massively impressed with her intelligence, calm and dedicated manner, and “completer-finisher” attitude. It was a privilege to work with Lea and I look forward to the next time I have the chance to do so again.”
Senior Manager, Accenture

Business & Strategy Consulting Experience

• Mentored and coached numerous small business owners in the areas of strategic planning, marketing and productivity.
• Led the creation and launch of an eLearning platform for the sales team of the UK’s largest telco provider.
• Led design and implementation of end-to-end process for new service launch (interactive TV) for UK telco provider.
• Led project to define end-to-end processes and create improved tools to assess healthcare facilities in South Africa to improve treatment of HIV.
• Led development and implementation of end-to-end service fulfilment process delivering broadband services for the UK’s largest telco provider.
• Developed business case and led creation of project scope, programme structure and implementation plan for Call Centre Consolidation programme at large UK Wireless Operator.
• Developed training plan for the implementation of new billing system for large North American Communications provider.

If you’d like to get to know me better on a semi-professional and more personal level, please have a look at my personal blog >>>