Thank you so much for this workshop. It was by far the best event I have attended in years and it was incredibly useful to put ideas together, understand where we are and where to go. I enjoyed your style of leading the day, with a perfect combination of flexibility to accommodate our many random questions popping up, while keeping a clear line and set objectives. I came back home with a level of inner peace regarding the company development and confidence about solving ongoing challenges that I have never felt in 5 years. I hope we will have further opportunities to work together.

When you are in the process of growing up as a company and want to evolve your start-up to scale-up I would definitely work with Fran and Anieke! Scaling is hard and as founders we were struggling with our strategy after struggling with covid, which impacted our company and the essence of what we are doing. We were a bit lost actually. After several meetings and discussions Fran and Anieke proposed to us a scaling plan/program in which we firstly went back to our personal purpose and mission of our company. nWithin this process we had interesting sessions with our core team and just with us as founders. This hands-on approach really helped us to revise our strategy as a company but also on a personal level we learned a lot as founders!

Our main challenge was to determine our 5-year objectives as a leadership team and to bring the organization together so that we can start working towards a sustainable, solid business foundation. We also needed support to build the organisation of the future and to assign clear accountability to different organizational functions, based on competency and skill sets we determined. The ScaleUp Practitioners provided us with insights and expertise in the elements of organisational mapping and how to assign KPI’s and desired outcomes to the functional competencies we have identified and need for the future. Anieke and Francesca are two very complimentary professionals with a no-nonsense approach and tons of experience and commitment to see us succeed as clients.

For a company like PectCof, it is important to be able to switch from start-up mode to start building our business engine and systematically validating our assumptions. Each session with Anieke and Francesca gives the opportunity to take a step back from running our business and to reflect properly on the strategical steps that we need to take to structure our operations more efficiently. After every interaction with the Practitioners, our management goes back home with new insights and real actionable items, such as getting our product from pilot to demo-phase, getting validating our product at customers, and continuously challenging our strategy. We highly recommend the Practitioners to support your venture in this growth phase.

The Scaleup Practitioners have helped the Green Chemistry, New Economy organization with the design and implementation of the Green Chemistry Accelerator program. Anieke’s many years of experience in the chemical industry,, innovation management and scaling venture teams, supplemented with Fran’s expertise in the field of defining clear goals (OKRs) and how to enhance team dynamics and productivity, together they make a big, positive difference for the participating venture teams in our “GCA Green Chemistry Accelerator Program”. What we get are aligned venture teams with a clear focus and appropriate, clear growth path throughout the program. The ladies of Scaleup Practitioners do not avoid difficult conversations. The combination of their expertise, honesty, enthusiasm and humor makes me happy to work with them and together to scale up sustainably strong companies in the Green Chemical space.

The Fastlane Program could not have come at a better time for Willicroft. Every stage of running your business is key but the start up / scale up phase can be particularly treacherous. Three lessons in particular stood out: 1. The need to focus, 2. To have clear actionable goals across our team and 3. To be comfortable taking a step back from time-to-time in order to take a giant leap forward. We can’t speak highly enough of the team (the Practitioners) who are running the program, both as people and mentors. We are now in a completely different position to when we entered the program 6 months ago and much better placed to make Willicroft the success it can and should be.