Consultancy Growth Podcast
Hosted by Craig Herd, this podcast is your ultimate guide to scaling your consultancy. Tune in for strategic insights, candid conversations with industry experts, and stories from seasoned consultancy founders. Uncover the real drivers of success and actionable advice to fast-track your growth. Subscribe now and take your consultancy to the next level.
Consultancy Growth Podcast
Build Your Consultancy Around Your Life (Founder Market Fit) With Deri Hughes
Summary
Most consultancy founders are told to chase product-market fit. But what if the real key to long-term success is founder-market fit? In this episode, Craig Herd and Clive Griffiths speak with Derry Hughes, founder of Honeycomb Consulting Skills Training, about how he reshaped his business to fit his strengths, his life, and his long-term vision.
Derry shares how he pivoted through three different businesses before focusing on training, where he found both growth and fulfilment. He opens up about the hard lessons learned from running two businesses at once, why focus is everything, and how building the right leadership team helped him scale sustainably, all while raising four children.
If you’re a consultancy founder wondering what’s next or how to build a business that works for you, not against you this episode is for you.
Episode Highlights and Insights
- Founder-Market Fit: The Overlooked Growth Strategy
Derry explains why aligning your business with your personal strengths, interests, and ambitions is the real key to sustainable growth.
- The Power of Focus
Why trying to run two businesses at once nearly derailed Derry—and how narrowing his focus to training unlocked real momentum.
- Pivoting with Purpose
How Derry moved from outsourced operations to recruitment, and ultimately to training consultancy teams, driven by market demand and his own interests.
- Building the Right Leadership Team
The importance of bringing in partners who complement your weaknesses, not mirror your strengths—and how this decision accelerated Honeycomb’s growth.
- Sustainable Growth vs Hypergrowth
Derry shares why he chose to build a business designed for long-term sustainability, rather than chasing rapid scale and exit strategies.
Why Listen
If you’re a consultancy founder asking, Is this the right business for me?, this episode will show you how to align your consultancy with your strengths, ambitions, and life outside the business—so you can scale on your own terms.
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