Business Mentoring Case Studies
As a Business Consultant and Mentor, Chris Dowling has helped many businesses to thrive. With his 40 years of experience having owned and run his own business, he now helps small to medium businesses as well as start-ups. He works with businesses across all sectors to improve profitability and provide accountability. He helps them to grow, deal with a multitude of challenges and grab opportunities. Our business mentoring case studies below give an insight into how Chris applies his extensive experience to real life situations, helping other businesses.
Although Chris is based in East Sussex and the majority of his clients are in the South East, he also works with businesses further afield via online meetings.
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Sussex-based Business Increases Sales
Situation Chris has been working with the owner of a Sussex based gardening and cleaning business since early 2025. When they first met and talked

Local Brighton-based building business
Overview In June 2025, Chris began working with a local, Brighton-based business in the building industry. The business owners were looking for support to address and resolve some internal operational challenges as well as guidance to plan for sustainable growth. Challenge Before working with Chris,

An established landscape construction business in Warwickshire
The business was in need of a review and refresh of both its marketing and operational activities. Work undertaken I have worked with the owner

Start-up watch and jewellery business in the Manchester area
He needs to work on start-up groundwork and take products to market. The client started his watch and jewellery business in the autumn of 2017.

An established Chartered Surveyor in Kent
In the spring of 2020, just after the start of the first Covid-19 lockdown, I was contacted by a chartered surveyor based in Kent –