Seven Hats. One Busy Brain. Better Business Decisions.
I help busy-brained entrepreneurs, founders and late-career pivots make clearer business decisions, communicate more effectively and turn good intentions into useful action.
Your business is busy. The useful work keeps missing the meeting.
A noisy brain can produce ideas, urgency and impressive quantities of activity. None of that guarantees a clean decision or a finished piece of work.
Too many ideas. No clear direction.
The newest possibility keeps replacing the plan before the plan has had a fair hearing.
You know what needs doing. It is still not done.
Important work loses to easy work, urgent work and whatever arrived wearing a notification badge.
The difficult conversation has moved to next Tuesday.
Sales calls, delegation and feedback keep being rescheduled by the part of your brain responsible for avoiding administrative weather.
Your systems work beautifully until real life arrives.
The strategy looks sensible. The calendar looks organised. Then somebody needs something and the stationery catches fire.
Seven mindsets. Which one is running the meeting?
The Hats are not personality labels. They are seven practical mindsets used to explore, act, learn, judge, recover, build and connect.
The advantage comes from knowing which mode the work needs before your favourite one volunteers for every job.
Explorer
Achiever
Learner
Balancer
Bounce-Back
Builder
PeoplingFind the Hat helping you. Spot the one causing friction.
In about seven minutes, you will identify the Hat creating your strongest advantage, the short circuit costing you most and one practical Monday Move to try next.
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No form. No waiting for an email. The free 7 Hats Diagnostic runs on the site and takes about seven minutes to complete.
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Most of Miles’s work is with entrepreneurs, founders and late-career pivots. He also works with leadership teams and organisations when the problem needs a room full of humans to move together.
Work with Miles
Bring the business problem, stuck decision or pattern that keeps creating friction. Start with a free Next Move Call, book a Business Brain Diagnostic when the problem needs proper unpacking, or continue with Miles in Your Corner when ongoing support makes sense.
Teams & Organisations
Strategy, alignment, decision-making, communication and influence for leadership teams and organisations that need useful movement, not another generic workshop.
Explore team work
Strategy, behavioural insight and thirty-odd years of useful scars.
Anti-guru. Pro better question.Miles works mainly with busy-brained entrepreneurs, founders and late-career pivots, helping them make clearer decisions and move useful work forward.
His approach blends entrepreneurial experience, behavioural insight, decision psychology and practical tools. Less motivational wallpaper. More useful movement.
Useful work leaves evidence.
Read first. Decide later.
Chaos & Disorder is where Miles’s essays, stories, Anti-Guru commentary and useful detours live. If you want to get a feel for how he approaches strategy, decisions and business before you book anything, start there.
Read Chaos & DisorderStart with a conversation.
Bring the messy version. Miles will help you work out what deserves attention, whether he can help and what the sensible next step is.