ExecutiveNomad.com
You know how to build a business.
But what happens when you no longer want to run one?
Selling a business changes more than your balance sheet. It changes your routine, your responsibilities, your identity and often the way people see you.
The business may be ready to go. That doesn’t automatically mean you’re ready to stop creating, advising, solving problems or being useful.
You may be selling the business. You’re not selling everything it taught you.
Commercial judgement
Years of knowing what matters, what doesn’t, where the risk sits and when to act.
Leadership
Building teams, making difficult calls and carrying responsibility when nobody else can.
Pattern recognition
Seeing problems, opportunities and consequences earlier because you’ve lived through versions of them before.
Experience
A career’s worth of relationships, lessons, mistakes, wins and judgement that doesn’t disappear with the sale.
Don’t start by asking, “What business should I build next?”
Start by asking what you actually want your life to look like now, then work out how much of your experience you still want to use.
Retirement is one option. But it’s not the only one.
You may want to work less, carry less responsibility and have far more freedom. That doesn’t mean everything you know has to sit unused.
Use what you know to solve valuable problems without taking on another company.
Bring experienced judgement to founders, leadership teams and growing businesses.
Help people coming behind you make better decisions and avoid expensive mistakes.
Stay close to business while leaving day to day operational responsibility behind.
Combine advisory work, projects, mentoring, boards and time that belongs entirely to you.
Use the freedom created by the sale to explore an idea that doesn’t look anything like your old business.
You’re not leaving business behind. You’re deciding how much of it you still want in your life.
Executive Nomad helps experienced people design the next stage of their lives, then work out how the knowledge, judgement and expertise they’ve already built can help make that life possible.
Less responsibility. More freedom. More choice over where, when and how you work.
First we uncover it. Then we work out what to do with it.
You don’t need another business idea before you begin. You just need a clearer view of what you’re carrying forward.
Decoded
See what you’ve actually got.
Rewired
See what else could be possible.
Repackaged
Turn experience into a clear proposition.
Repurposed
Decide where you want to use it.
Deployed
If you choose to build, take it to market.
Before you decide what comes next, decode what you already have.
Decoded is a free, private AI guided conversation that helps uncover the experience, judgement and expertise you’ve built, and starts showing you where it could take you next.
Decode your experienceJamie Sylvian has lived the 'Executive Nomad' lifestyle for 3 decades.
While calling 13 countries 'home', Jamie has operated a location independent business, operating at executive and board level for global brands like British Gas, London Electricity, Bet Victor, Casey Research and numerous Private Equity houses.Jamie was a Co-Founder of the marketing business that became Uswitch.com, sold for £210m in 2006.
"Jamie helped me solidify my thinking around branding. He offered suggestions on how to launch and bring in initial clients. With re-purposing this led to ways to grow my consulting business post-launch"
Debra Mitchell
Clinical Research Advisor and Consultant
"Jamie has been there and done it on a grand scale and his guiding hand in leading with a clear no nonsense strategy focusing on results in a pleasant reassuring manner gives me the confidence that I am in safe hands”
Steve Hunt
Ex Construction Industry
" I know that I can approach Jamie directly at any time with any challenges or ideas.I think Jamie is going to be hugely influential on our success moving forwards in what is proving to be a very exciting opportunity!
Chris White
Ex Print & Media
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