A peer advisory board for established SME owners. Launching later in 2026.
The Stray Board · Harrogate
What it is.
The Stray Board is a small group of established SME owners who meet monthly in Harrogate. Each member brings a real, current issue to the table each meeting, something they're actively wrestling with in their business, and the rest of the room takes it on.
The value is in the room. The other members are owners themselves, drawn from non-competing sectors. They've built businesses, made the mistakes, and can tell you what they would actually do. And because none of them have a commercial stake in your decision, the advice is unusually honest. They aren't selling you anything, they aren't your team, they're peers.
What you get is the combined experience of seven other owners applied directly to your specific issue. The kind of input business owners struggle to find anywhere else.
I chair the meetings, but the work happens between the members.
One board. Eight members. That's the whole offer. The Stray Board is a single group built around a single chair, not a network of franchised chapters with someone else running the room.
It's not a networking group. It isn't a mastermind in the American sense. It's a serious peer advisory group built on the same principle as everything else in this practice: honest conversations between owners who actually understand each other's reality.
Who Is It For?
Owners of established Yorkshire businesses, typically with turnovers between £1m and £10m, who are at a stage where the right peer group would be more valuable than another coach, another book, or another conference.
You'll get most from the Board if you're ready to be honest about your business in a room of peers, willing to do the same for them, and within reach of Harrogate for monthly in-person meetings.
Most members will have worked with me through The Reset first, but that isn't a rule. If you're a strong fit and haven't, get in touch.
How It Works.
Up to eight members. Never larger. The dynamics stop working above that number.
A monthly four-to-five-hour meeting in Harrogate. Always in person. Never remote. Presence is what makes it work.
A monthly one-to-one between each member and me, between meetings, to make sure the work each member brings to the room is the right work.
A private channel between meetings for the kind of question or update that doesn't need a full conversation.
One month's notice to leave. No long-term commitment. The lower barrier is deliberate, members stay because the room is worth turning up to, not because they signed something.
Costs And Dates.
The Board launches later in 2026. Pricing and the exact start date will be confirmed closer to the time.
If you sign up below, you'll get first refusal on a place when it launches, ahead of any public release.