Get clear. Get focused. Get moving.
The Touchstone Advisory 90-day starter program helps founders and owner-managers step back from the day-to-day, gain clarity on the business as it stands now, decide what matters most moving forward, and determine the right structure for a professional advisory board to support growth with greater confidence.
When you are too close to the business clarity gets harder to find
Running a business in today’s environment can feel relentless. Growth brings opportunity, but it also brings pressure. Complexity increases. Decisions carry more weight. Competing priorities pile up. And even with a capable team around you, the burden of strategic judgement often still sits heavily with one person - you.
You may be moving fast. You may be working hard. But that does not always mean the business is moving in the right direction.
Does any of this feel familiar?
- You are carrying too much of the strategic load yourself
- Growth has created more complexity, not more clarity
- Important decisions are taking longer, or feeling heavier
- You have support, but not enough external challenge
- You know the business needs sharper focus, but the day-to-day keeps getting in the way
Not all support models are built for this stage of growth
Many leaders turn to coaching, mentoring or peer-to-peer groups when the business starts to feel heavier.
Those options have their place. But they often fall short when what you actually need is practical external perspective, sharper strategic challenge, and a structured way to think, decide and move.
A generic sounding board does not challenge you in the ways that matter most. Neither does advice that sits disconnected from the commercial realities of your business.
When the stakes are high, the right support needs to be relevant, rigorous and connected to action.
“Straight talk. No bullshit. Perfect.”
We do it with you, not to you
The Touchstone Advisory 90-day starter program is built differently. Unlike conventional coaching models or peer support groups, this is a practical, collaborative and personalised process - designed to work inside the real context of your business, not alongside it.
We do not hand you generic advice and walk away. We work with you to create greater clarity, stronger focus and the right structure for disciplined progress.
“Faraday transformed our business.”
A simple but powerful 90-day rhythm
The purpose is straightforward: to help you step back from the day-to-day, gain clarity on where the business stands now, decide what matters most, and build the right structure to move forward with greater confidence.
Because in a changing business, clarity is not a one-off event. It is an ongoing discipline.
What this program helps you achieve
Across 90 days, this program will help you move from reactive pressure to greater strategic control.
- Greater clarity on the business, its priorities and its pressure points
- Sharper decision-making and stronger strategic focus
- Reduced founder dependency and less decision fatigue
- Better external challenge, perspective and accountability
- A clearer pathway to a fit-for-purpose advisory board structure
Why this matters now
When a business is growing, changing or under pressure, delay has a cost. Without the right clarity and challenge, founder dependency deepens, priorities blur, and opportunities pass while the business stays stuck in reactive mode.
The longer this continues, the harder it becomes to separate what feels urgent from what actually matters. This program is designed to interrupt that cycle - before drift becomes expensive.
The pressure is real and it is widespread. In a recent study, 76% of ANZ small business owners reported stress or anxiety, and 57% experienced burnout.
Source: COSBOA and CommBank Small Business Perspectives Report, 2025.
"Knowing what I know now, I wish I'd engaged them earlier."
What happens across the 90 days
Month 1 — Get clear
We step back and assess the business as it stands today, including the key challenges, opportunities, blind spots and decision pressure points.
Month 2 — Get focused
We help you clarify what matters most, sharpen priorities, and create alignment around the next important moves.
Month 3 — Get moving
We determine the right support structure, decision rhythm and next-step pathway so the business can move forward with greater confidence.
The result is not more theory or more meetings. It is clearer thinking, better decisions and stronger momentum.
“The difference with Faraday is they make it happen.”
Built on practical experience and proven advisory board thinking
Touchstone Advisory works in partnership with Faraday to help businesses establish purpose-built professional advisory support that is designed for growth, not bureaucracy.
The 90-day starter program is the first step in helping leaders understand what support they need, how to structure it well, and how to create a more disciplined pathway for growth.
This is about building the right external support around the business at the right time - not adding noise, complexity or governance for its own sake.
You do not have to carry the strategic weight alone
The right support does more than give advice. It helps you see sooner, decide faster and move with greater confidence. If growth, complexity or decision overload is starting to feel heavy, the 90-day starter program is a practical place to begin.
A practical first step for founders and owner-managers who want greater clarity, sharper focus and better support for growth.