Business coaching and strategy advisory for owners and leaders who are ready to stop reacting and start choosing — through a hands-on strategy workshop and one-on-one coaching.
Explore Planning for Growth Explore Next Level CoachingA full-day workshop that helps you surface the information and insight you need to choose where to focus and what to prioritise in order to grow. You'll leave with a Winning Strategy, and a follow-on 1.5-hour coaching session turns it into an Action Plan to keep you on track.
Find Out MoreOngoing one-on-one coaching for business owners who want sustained support turning strategy into results — building on the momentum from Planning for Growth, or as a starting point on its own.
Find Out More"The most valuable part for me was the structured discipline of the Playing to Win cascade. We came in with a directional strategy; we left with a much cleaner point of view on where we'll play, how we'll win, and critically what needs to be true for that to hold. I'd absolutely recommend this workshop to other business leaders, particularly those at a growth inflection point or entering a new market."
Maria Holic — 10/10
Planning for Growth is a full-day workshop that helps you surface the information and insight you need to choose where to focus and what to prioritise — so you can grow with confidence. You'll leave with a Winning Strategy and an Action Plan to keep you on track.
Next workshops: Wednesday 14 October & Wednesday 25 November, ChristchurchNZ
Find Out MoreYou're not alone if any of this sounds like your business right now:
If even one of these is true, you don't need more effort — you need clarity on where to focus it.
Every business generates a stream of information, signals, and half-formed ideas about where it could go next. The hard part isn't gathering more of it — it's surfacing the right insight and having the discipline to choose where to focus and what to prioritise. Planning for Growth is built to do exactly that: a full-day workshop that turns what you already know (and some things you don't yet) into a Winning Strategy, and a follow-on coaching session that turns your Winning Strategy into an Action Plan to keep you on track.
Over the day, you'll run a proper diagnostic on your business and the market around it, set personal and professional goals for the next 3–5 years, and learn to tell the difference between playing to play and playing to win. You'll map your own business onto a Playing to Win canvas, surface the one problem most worth solving right now, and pressure-test 2–3 genuine choices for solving it — each one tested against what would actually have to be true for it to work, using Roger Martin's Playing to Win framework.
Throughout the day, you'll also learn to use AI tools effectively and accurately to speed up your own analysis and decision-making — a capability you keep long after the workshop ends.
Three weeks later, a 1.5-hour one-on-one coaching session helps you confirm your Winning Strategy and turn it into a written Action Plan — built by you, for your business.
Ambitious owners of start-up businesses, and those looking to grow — across any industry, ready to stop reacting and start choosing.
"The most valuable part for me was the structured discipline of the Playing to Win cascade. It sounds deceptively simple, but the real value is in being forced to articulate whether your five answers actually form an integrated set of choices, not just individually reasonable positions. That's a harder question than it looks, and it surfaced some important alignment conversations within our team. The framework sharpened our thinking on Australia specifically. We came in with a directional strategy; we left with a much cleaner point of view on where we'll play, how we'll win, and critically what needs to be true for that to hold. I'd absolutely recommend this workshop to other business leaders, particularly those at a growth inflection point or entering a new market."
Maria Holic — 10/10
"The purpose of a strategy and how your strategy is an integration of choices to get to your goal. It gave me better clarity on where I should be focusing."
Cinthya Ibarcena — 9/10
"We have quickly applied the learning to our business. We appreciated the follow-up conversation with the facilitator."
Hannah Ippolito — 9/10
"Providing a clear strategy outline for our business."
Andrew Balfour — 9/10
"Practical and applicable."
Bevan Whiting — 10/10
"Ability of facilitators to ask good questions."
Jeremiah Chow — 9/10
"One to one after the session."
Chris Brosnan — 9/10
Our next Planning for Growth workshops run Wednesday 14 October and Wednesday 25 November at ChristchurchNZ. This training is registered with the Regional Business Partner Network — to explore if your business is eligible for support, contact your local Regional Business Growth Advisor (ChristchurchNZ, Canterbury's Regional Business Partner: 03 353 0035, ask for Kat Hitchings).
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Find Out MoreNext Level Coaching is ongoing one-on-one support for business owners who want more than a single workshop — sustained accountability and guidance as you turn strategy into results, month after month.
Find Out MoreBusiness owners and senior leaders who have a direction — whether that's come out of a Planning for Growth workshop or from their own thinking — and want a trusted, independent sounding board to help them stay on track, adapt as things change, and keep making deliberate choices rather than drifting back into reacting.
Every business is at a different stage, so coaching is shaped around what you actually need — get in touch and we'll talk through the right starting point, session frequency, and investment for your business.
Find Out MoreMoreLess is a Christchurch-based business coaching and strategy advisory firm. We help business owners cut through the noise — more of what actually moves your business forward, less of what doesn't.
We work with ambitious business owners who are ready to stop reacting and start choosing — through the Planning for Growth workshop and Next Level Coaching. Both are built around the same idea: real strategy comes from clarity, not more effort, and it only matters if it gets acted on.
Ian founded MoreLess and facilitates the Planning for Growth workshop and Next Level Coaching, working with business owners on growth strategy using the Playing to Win framework.
Get in touch to find out whether Planning for Growth or Next Level Coaching is the right starting point for your business.
Find Out MoreWhether you're weighing up Planning for Growth, Next Level Coaching, or just want to talk through where your business is at — reach out.