Are you a confident leader with a proven track record in business? Build your own consultancy with The Alternative Board
- Chair regular peer advisory boards
- Deliver 1:1 business coaching
- Run consultancy projects
- SLT development programmes
With a TAB franchise you can use your experience to REALLY help local business owners thrive.
Why choose TAB to power your business…
| Deliver far more than just coaching | The business model is very clever, enabling you to forge deep client relationships through your lucrative regular peer advisory boards. Becoming the trusted advisor of your clients enables you to target your business coaching, consultancy and development programmes very effectively and efficiently. |
| This is a booming market, proven to be even more so through periods of uncertainty, which seems to be the world we live in today! The advisory boards and coaching deliver a solid regular recuring income, with the consultancy projects and development programmes on top. | Multiple income streams |
| Client relationships average 4 years+ | TAB is very cost-effective for clients, delivers them huge ongoing value, and is profitable for you – WIN:WIN. The result is a four-year plus average customer retention, which beats other dedicated business coaching, gym and home care franchises by a mile. |
Choose your TAB business journey
| TAB Owner / SOLO | TAB Owner / SCALE UP |
| Build your own portfolio of local business owner clients, leveraging the TAB brand, systems, support and processes so you can focus on people and not paperwork. | Move from working in your business to employing and directing your own facilitators and scale up your own business consultancy, an asset you can sell in the future. |
Whichever route you take, starting your own business with the TAB franchise provides you with a proven roadmap to follow from the sector’s leading brand and a clear exit strategy. You’ll have professional content and collateral, proven systems, and ongoing personal guidance and support to call on at all times.
And you’ll be part of a close-knit network of collaborative fellow franchisees.
Join a community of like-minded business leaders
Our most successful franchisees are confident and compelling, people who care – leaders who enjoy the reward of helping business owners flourish. They utilise the power of the brand, systems, support and content to deliver ongoing value to business owners in their local area.
Leadership from a former franchisee who’s been in your shoes
Our leader – Ed Reid – moved from being a franchisee to take over as franchisor with his business partner Mags Fuller back in 2017. Ed’s been sat right where you are now and knows the TAB journey personally – he’s committed to helping franchisees by sharing his experience. And Ed's original TAB business is still trading, the franchisee who purchased it has grown the business further too!
As UK franchisor we still run a few territories keeping our finger on the pulse and testing new initiatives, before developing further with the network.
We have been in the UK since 2009, but actually trace our roots back to the USA when in 1990 our founder first developed the business concept to share the power he had experienced of non-exec directors. There are now over 400 TAB franchisees serving over 5,000 business owners each month across 25 countries.
34 territories operating in the UK, 75+ available across the country
“If you’ve been successful in your business career and you’re ready to enjoy the emotional and financial rewards of giving back, we look forward to exploring the TAB opportunity with you.” Ed Reid – TAB UK Franchisor
With very low overheads, this high margin business model delivers a regular income with an initial investment of £66,700, including comprehensive initial training and first-year marketing costs. Each high street bank with franchise specialisms knows the model well and provides funding packages appropriate to individual circumstances.
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Eureka moment leads to new support business
James’ career spans 20 years in investment banking, working for HSBC, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley but what he describes as a ‘eureka moment’ lead him to ditch the banking world in favour of mentoring business owners.
The businessman is opening the North Chilterns office of The Alternative Board (TAB), a national franchise business that harnesses the power of the peer board concept which sees like-minded business owners coming together to offer each other support and advice on the issues that are challenging them in their business, and sometimes personal, life.
Picking up the story, James who is married and has two young daughters said, “I was chairing a meeting; it was one of those major meetings with a group of senior level people having a really in-depth discussion about a new trading system.
“I thought – is this what it’s all about? Is this what I’m missing picking the girls up from school for or getting to watch a netball match? And that was it, I decided it was no longer for me.”
James took a career break but set up a property company, developing a high yielding portfolio but it didn’t excite him and he missed working with a team and having people to bounce ideas off.
A good friend told him about The Alternative Board, a business that would bring his business skills into play whilst allowing him to structure his work around family life.
“It’s a win, win for me. Working in banking I was a small cog in a big wheel. There were always people to share ideas with but I feel out of love with the work. When I set up the property business I missed having others to collaborate and share best practice with.
“My new venture gives me the opportunity to use my skills to work with local business people and I can’t wait to get started.”
James will run monthly meetings with small groups of business people and deliver one to one coaching to them in between.
“I am joining a national franchise business with a proven model of supporting business owners. TAB has hundreds of members, from sectors ranging from logistics, to manufacturing, to marketing; they have helped a vast number and range of businesses succeed.”
James is currently putting together his first group of aspirational business owners.
