About Monkhouse & Company
Our impact
Scaling from 30 to 250 team members is brutal. You’re running the biggest business you’ve ever led, and you don’t know what you don’t know. You need to learn. Fast. No time for trial and error. Level up, or get left behind.
We work with the 1%. Founders at the helm of companies on a five-year growth streak. Scaling shouldn’t mean drowning in admin, losing your best people, or watching some “professional” CEO take over what you built. The founders we work with stay in control, build elite teams and create businesses that scale sustainably. While maintaining their well-being and the company’s stability.
No pitch. Leave with one clear action.
Why models?
Scaling isn’t guesswork, but it’s easy to treat it that way. The same problems show up again and again, and trial and error is a slow, painful way to fix them. After working with 200+ companies and learning the hard way what works and what doesn’t, Dominic built the Two-Day-Week CEO Blueprint™: ten years as an operator and more than ten years of coaching, distilled into one operating model for how a founder-CEO’s week should work. It makes scaling faster, simpler, and repeatable, and it borrows from other people’s proven frameworks where they’ve earned a place. These models exist so founders don’t waste years solving problems that have already been cracked.
Why this mission?
Dominic has been there. Twice. At Rackspace and Peer 1, he scaled from zero to £30m in under five years each. But he’s also been fired. He’s failed. He’s had investors lose confidence in him. He knows what it’s like to be at the top and feel like you’re losing control. That’s why he does this work. So founders don’t have to learn through painful experience.
The mission itself started as a conversation with his friend Sherry Coutu, who wrote the 2014 Scale-Up Report. Her argument was simple: Britain doesn’t need more start-ups. It needs scale-ups. Her report put numbers on it. Large firms with 250+ employees are 0.5% of British businesses and 0.7% of American ones. Close that gap and Britain adds 2,000 large businesses, three million jobs and £516bn in turnover in 2014 prices. That’s the structural difference between the two economies, and it’s fixable. The government seems intent on not doing it. Dominic knows how. It seemed daft not to take it on.
Our mission: By 2034, 2,000 founder-led firms will scale from 30 to 250+ team members, creating 3m jobs and £692bn in new revenue (her £516bn, inflation adjusted).
Nobody knows exactly how we’ll get there. We know enough to start, and we’ll evolve to finish. But we know what done looks like, there’s a date on it, and it’s audacious, scary and exciting. That’s the point.
Outcomes that matter
Strategy
A clear roadmap for growth without chaos
Scaling without a plan is just running faster into a brick wall. A clear roadmap ensures you scale deliberately, not just by working harder.
Founder-CEOs create…
A structured plan that aligns leadership, execution, and vision. Driving profitability, not just headcount.
Why this matters
A company that scales with confidence and direction, not confusion and firefighting.
Culture
A team that stays, thrives, and delivers
Scaling isn’t just numbers. It’s people. Without the right hires in the right seats, bad hires, underperformance, and culture drift will stall growth.
Founder-CEOs create…
A high-talent-density team that wants to stay and a culture of trust and accountability that allows founders to delegate.
Why this matters
A business that runs without micromanagement, so you can focus on what actually matters.
Execution
Relentless follow-through and results
Ideas are worthless without execution. When leaders take ownership, innovation turns into progress, and momentum builds instead of stalling.
Founder-CEOs create…
A leadership team that owns execution. Where commitments are met, priorities don’t drift, and growth compounds instead of stalling.
Why this matters
If execution isn’t sharp, strategy is just talk. Scaling demands a team that gets the right things done every time.
Your team
Partners in scale. Working with founder CEOs to grow, lead, and win.
Dominic Monkhouse
Coach and Mentor to 1% Founder CEOs
Dominic scaled two tech firms from zero to £30m in under five years. Now, he works with Founder-CEOs to build high-growth companies without losing their impact.
Philip Rose
Associate Coach
Philip brings an engineer’s mindset to business growth, combining structured thinking with strategic coaching to help leaders scale up, lead decisively, and sustain momentum.
Partners
Jamie Mistlin
TALENT partner
Co-Founder at Recruitment Revolution. A former DJ turned recruitment disruptor who re-engineered the outdated agency model in 2005 with a lean, tech-driven, people-first approach built on collaboration, integrity, and creativity.
Guy Washer
Insight Partner
Over 30 years Guy founded and ran three Insight businesses. He now works with companies to develop Core Customer Understanding and define their Core Value Proposition.
Jonathan Mond
PROFIT PARTNER
Jonathan helps businesses scale and stay solvent. As Global Head Coach of Scaling Up Cash, he guides teams through growth and turnaround, using tools like The Power of One to drive profit, cash flow, and valuation. He also trains coaches worldwide and teaches in The Growth Institute’s executive programmes.
Our clients have achieved incredible results
Clients include A2Z, Agilitas, Danecca, Databarracks, Etch, Nasstar, OnTruck, Pax8, SmartSourcing and UP3.
The Management Lab at Foundry Farm
Scaling a business is about making the big decisions that actually move the needle. That’s why we built The Management Lab at Foundry Farm. A place for leadership teams to step away from the daily chaos, cut the bullshit, and focus.
The Management Lab isn’t some stuffy boardroom. It’s where ambitious teams get clear on strategy, execution, and culture. Then leave with a plan to win and scale.
Some of the things that happen at The Management Lab are leadership offsites to align strategy and priorities. Execution workshops to turn ideas into action. Culture-building sessions to attract and retain A-players. Growth sprints to fix the blockers and accelerate momentum.
Scaling isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing what matters. That’s what happens at Foundry Farm.
Frequently asked questions
Who does Dominic Monkhouse work with?
Founder-CEOs of UK businesses with 30 to 250 team members and revenue between £3m and £50m. You founded it, you still run it, and you hold meaningful equity. The work is wrong for pre-revenue founders and public-company chief executives. Around 80% of clients are UK-based; the rest work with Dominic remotely across time zones.
What models does the work run on?
The core is the Two-Day-Week CEO Blueprint™, Dominic’s own model: ten years as an operator and more than ten years of coaching, distilled into how a founder-CEO’s week should work. Around it sit proven tools from the methodologies Dominic is certified in, Scaling Up among them, used where they’ve earned a place in the blueprint.
Where does the work happen?
Leadership team sessions run at The Management Lab at Foundry Farm in Salisbury: leadership offsites, execution workshops and culture-building sessions, away from the office and the daily noise. One-to-one coaching and mentoring runs remotely, by video, wherever you are in the world.
How do I start?
Book a Founder Freedom Call. It is 45 minutes with Dominic about the next version of the company, the leadership team around you, and the work only you should be doing. There is no pitch, and you leave with one clear action whether we work together or not.
Ready to get back to the work only you can do?
The Founder Freedom Call is a 45-minute conversation with Dominic about the next version of the company, the leadership team around you, and the work only you should be doing.
You leave with one clear action whether we work together or not.
No pitch. Leave with one clear action.