Helping you have a great day at work

Clarity is a collective of experts, brought together by our passion to help others and their businesses succeed.

Leading a business is exciting, stimulating and rewarding, but we can empathise that it can also be exhausting and all-consuming.

Our experience combined with your expertise will bring clarity to your thinking, helping to guarantee that you have more great days at work.

We are here as your mentor, coach or consultant, to support you where and when you need it.

What makes us different

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We aren’t an agency with big retainers; neither are we career consultants with a textbook approach.

What makes us different is that we’ve been in your shoes, as business owners and senior leaders, customers and employees meaning that we understand first-hand the challenges that you face.

We realised that together, sharing our combined insight and knowledge could make a real difference to businesses looking for support to grow.

Meet the core collective

Fran Kershaw

A Leadership Development Coach with a commercial edge

Geoff Kershaw

An expert in commercialising D2C and B2B brands

Angus Tilbury

A multi-disciplinary designer and business development specialist

How we help

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We are all different, so are our businesses, so we need to get to know you and your business first.

Only when we know what really makes you and your business tick, what your vision is, what’s working and what’s not, can we agree on the best way that we can work together, supporting you as much or as little as you need.

As a Collective, our resources are flexible, so you only tap into the expertise that you feel you need when you need it.

We charge using a Pay As You Go model. Our costs aren’t fixed but are defined by what you agree that you need and when it’s needed. You decide on the level of input, support or collaboration you need to help you to grow.

Who we’ve helped

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RYAN COOPER

Head of Learning
Learning Pool

“Geoff brings incredible insight and
strategic thinking to problem-solving…
his style is uniquely collaborative and
engaging that instils incredible authority and confidence into our decision making.”

David Nelson

DAVID NELSON

Supply Chain DirectorWorld Of Sweets

“Fran’s support, guidance and counsel helped me to lead the team around me at my best. She has an empathetic style that is disarming, challenging and thought provoking and I now have leadership tools that I will use for the rest of my career”

 

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MATT KING

Head of Customer Experience
Thorntons PLC

“Because of the holistic approach
Ralph and Angus take to understanding businesses and brands, we were able align strategies for the total customer experience… which in turn rapidly drove greater ROI, proof of concept and rollout”

Fran Kershaw

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Driven by the unfaltering belief that everyone has the capability to be a great leader and the role that she can play in helping to unlock that leadership potential, Fran quite simply helps you to have a great day at work. 

With a USP that is a blend of commercial experience and professional qualifications, Fran is uniquely positioned to coach individuals and teams to help businesses achieve sustainable results. Having held senior roles at Walgreen Boots Alliance (Head of Global Brand Partnerships) and Fiskars (Communications Director EMEA) she is now an ICF credentialed Executive Leadership Coach working with a range of clients from diverse sectors such as hospitality, digital marketing and retail. 

Fran delivers real value to her clients through being able to give them exceptional clarity around their personal development that put quite simply, helps them and their teams to have better days at work. 

Fran’s coaching style is very much structured around empathy, respectfulness and genuine honesty. Client’s appreciate her warmth and her ability to tell stories from her own commercial experience that help them to see practical ways forward. 

Fran is a member of the International Coach Federation and trained with Accredited Training Provider Barefoot Coaching. Her depth of coaching training means that she is also studying with the University of Chester for a Post Graduate Certificate In Business and Personal Coaching (equivalent to ILM Level 7) and is a member of the National Council of Psychotherapists. 

Geoff Kershaw

Geoff

An expert in commercialising B2C and B2B brands, by ensuring customers are at the heart of business decisions. 

Employment experience includes working for large corporates (Boots, Barclays) as well as SME’s (MD of Thorntons Stores and eCommerce) and most recently as a founding partner of a brand led Retail & Wholesale business in the UAE.  Project assignments have been as diverse as reinventing a Commercial Planting & Landscaping business, refocussing a Baby Yoga brand and developing content for an eLearning business.

Commercial, creative and pragmatic, Geoff is the most likely in the team to start a new brief by understanding KPI’s and numbers…

Angus Tilbury

Angus

A highly experienced business development professional, with specialist knowledge of design, creative problem solving, sales development and project management.

Utilising strong foundations in critical thinking and problem solving, his core strengths lie in identifying and delivering growth opportunities through honing in on a focused vision, designing a clear strategic direction and translating actions into results and profits.  Career experience includes designing bespoke furniture, planning large scale urban spaces and wayfinding schemes and implementing customer centric shopping environments for retailers.

Organised, focussed and inquisitive, Angus is the most likely in the team to want to start a new brief by getting to know the customers…