How do you scale a consultancy without becoming the bottleneck yourself?
Ben Tye is CEO of Gate One, the growth transformation consultancy within Havas. Alongside leading a 300-person business across three continents, he also works as a psychotherapist – giving him a unique perspective on leadership, organisational change and human behaviour.
In this episode, Ben shares how he:
- Explains why giving someone your complete attention is often more valuable than offering a quick solution
- Uses psychotherapy principles to uncover what sits beneath resistance, conflict and indecision inside leadership teams
- Trains managers to coach rather than rescue, reducing dependency and encouraging genuine accountability
- Organises a growing consultancy around “bases” that give people both a sense of belonging and a platform to grow from
- Transitioned Gate One from founder-led decision-making to distributed leadership with clearer ownership across the business
- Learnt that the hardest leadership shift is letting teams solve problems without stepping in to fix them
Ben offers a thoughtful perspective on what leaders need to unlearn as their organisations grow – and why curiosity often beats certainty.
