Entrepreneurial mindset for busy brains

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.

14 questions. Self-scored. About seven minutes. May cause uncomfortable clarity.
Sound familiar?

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.

01

Too many ideas. No clear direction.

The newest possibility keeps replacing the plan before the plan has had a fair hearing.

02

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.

03

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.

04

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.

Miles’s Seven Entrepreneurial Hats

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 HatExplorer
Achiever HatAchiever
Learner HatLearner
Balancer HatBalancer
Bounce-Back HatBounce-Back
Builder HatBuilder
Peopling HatPeopling
The free 7 Hats Diagnostic

Find 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.

Your Top Hat Gift
Your Top Friction Hat
A practical rewire tool
One Monday Move

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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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28 questions. Self-scored. Practical. May cause uncomfortable clarity.
When you want help applying it

Two ways to work with Miles.

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.

For you

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.

Free Next Move Call · Business Brain Diagnostic · Miles in Your Corner
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For teams

Teams & Organisations

Strategy, alignment, decision-making, communication and influence for leadership teams and organisations that need useful movement, not another generic workshop.

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Miles Harrop, business coach, strategist and facilitator
Miles Harrop

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.

What people say

Useful work leaves evidence.

Miles is one of the finest leadership training facilitators I have worked with. His ability to engage and extract value from delegates is unmatched.
Phila Dlamini Head of Learning, Standard Bank Eswatini
Miles creates a safe and focused space that delivers results. His blend of NLP, behavioural economics and performance coaching helped me gain powerful insights and make real progress.
Tove Kane Coach, speaker and creator
Miles has played a crucial role in developing my skills. His coaching techniques are unique to the person he consults and trains. He is the person whose number you dial when you need the right advice and guidance.
Marco Klue Head of Retail Key Accounts and Channel Partners
Miles develops really good insights into your specific situation and helps you develop strategies to grow, while giving you the tools and skills required to action your plans.
Kurt Bruinders
Miles is an excellent facilitator and coach. His approach is different and encourages you to reflect more, which is sometimes exactly what is required.
Sanjiv Ranchod Owner, Ranchod Consulting
Want more Miles before you book?

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 & Disorder
Ready to work on the real problem?

Start 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.