FOR INDEPENDENT AGENCY FOUNDERS
BUILD THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE AGENCY
You are good at the work and alone with the big calls. GYDA grows agencies through peer masterminds and board-level advisory, so you stop making them on your own.
1,000+ AGENCIES 20+ COUNTRIES SINCE 2017. SUPPORTING GOOGLE · NTU · CEEDA · BCI
FOUNDED IN THE UK
WORKING WITH AGENCY OWNERS ACROSS 20+ COUNTRIES.
WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED
Expert advisory and board support, peer-groups, training and consulting to help your agency growth journey.
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MASTERMIND
For founders done figuring it out alone. A facilitated room of agency owners at your stage, plus accountability and the frameworks to act on what you decide.
Peer challenge and accountability
Hot seats on your real problems
Three groups, matched to your altitude
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ADVISORY
For founders who need to fix margin, pricing, proposition or AI fast, or who want a board chair to govern the next chapter, including growth, acquisition or exit.
Strategic consulting, one to one
Fractional NED and board chair
M&A and exit advisory
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TRAINING
For founders, boards and teams who need to level up. Built for agencies, delivered by people who’ve scaled them.
Every session is engaging, energetic (no big workbooks, no verbose theory), practical, no-nonsense, and led by experts who know your world inside out. In-person or virtual. Tailored to your team.
THE AGENCY GROWTH JOURNEY
WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW?
You’ve built something great, but scaling an agency was never about the latest tactic. It is strategy, positioning, pricing, operations and leadership, and you are making every one of those calls on your own.
Some founders crack the ceiling. Most stay under it, working harder for growth that never sticks.
Every founder we work with sits somewhere on the same arc. Find your stage, we will show you the fastest way through.
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You are the best salesperson, the best account lead, and the single point of failure. The business cannot grow past you, and right now it does not have to, because you keep filling the gap. You have bought yourself a job, not a business.
Best entry point: Mastermind + 1:1 operating support
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The firefighting has eased and a team is forming. Now the job is to install a real new-business engine, a leadership layer that owns outcomes, and the operating rhythm that lets you step off the critical path for good.
Best entry point: LITE or LIVE mastermind + consulting
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The business runs without you doing everything, but AI and price pressure are compressing what you sell. The work now is strategic: reposition, productise, and rebuild a defensible edge before the market drags your price down.
Best entry point: ELEVATE mastermind + strategic advisory
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You have built something genuinely valuable. The question is what you do with it, on purpose. Scale it, acquire, merge, sell, or step back into a chair role. Drifting is also a choice, and it is usually the worst one.
Best entry point: Fractional NED / board / Advisory
NOT SURE WHERE YOU SIT?
In five minutes, see how future-fit your agency is, where you are on the arc, the one lever that will move the needle most and GYDA can help.
Four growth drivers scored
Two dependence risks surfaced
A clear next step, free
MORE THAN CONSULTANTS
Our founders, Robert Craven and Janusz Stabik, are more than a consultants. In any given month they’re a sounding board, a board chair, an accountability partner, a mirror - and occasionally the person you call when it all feels like too much.
ROBERT CRAVEN
MANAGING PARTNER
International keynote speaker and business coach, programme lead for Google Partners and Cranfield. Author of ten-plus books on business strategy, specialising in helping agency owners grow.
JANUSZ STABIK
MANAGING PARTNER
Agency growth specialist and board advisor. He has built agencies, advised on acquisitions and exits, and worked one to one with hundreds of founders on the decisions that define them.
YOU’RE IN SAFE HANDS
TWO DECADES GROWING AGENCIES
1,000+
AGENCIES SUPPORTED
20%
COUNTRIES WORKED ACROSS
8+
YEARS AS GOOGLE’S AGENCY GROWTH PARTNER
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Google
Delivering global agency growth programs for Google Premier Partners and Google CSS Partners since 2017
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NTU Business School
Delivering digital agency scaling programs for digital and creative agencies since 2023.
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CEEDA
Delivered agency growth workshops to Central and Eastern Europes top digital agencies.
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BCI
Delivering growth programmes, encompassing agency growth, sales, client services and AI adoption since 2018.
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HURA
Delivered agency growth workshops to Croatia's top 60+ communications agencies.
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GRAKOM
Delivered agency growth workshop to Grakom’s agency members - Denmarks top creative, media and communication agencies.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
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GAME CHANGERS
“GYDA are game changers. From the beginning, my agency has felt the benefit, top to bottom. They have a way of making everything seem simple and straightforward. The benefits so far are amazing and I cannot wait to see what is next.”
Mark Haslam, CEO, Loudmouth Media
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MAKING IT EASIER
“Building a stable, profitable business is hard because it’s not always clear which actions to take. What helped me was learning from GYDA members who had faced the same challenges before. They shared what they did, why it worked, and the results they achieved - making it much easier to take confident action.”
Aurimas Gircys, CEO, APG Media
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A HELPING HAND
“GYDA has been a huge part in our business success. Helping to make the business more simple and increasing the commercial performance of the agency has been fundamental in contributing to the position we're in now.”
Paul Jones, CEO, Ketchup Marketing
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IT WORKS
“So we went ahead and did what you said. Guess what? This week we signed not one but two new clients - From your exact method. Hu-fucking-rah! Fair play to you guys.
This shit really works as they say.”
Ross Cathcart, Founder, First Word
ANSWERS FOR AGENCY FOUNDERS
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS OUR CLIENTS BRING US
Need More Help? Try Our Answers For Founders Page.
YOUR AGENCY DESERVES MORE THAN ‘FINE’
Let's make it fly
If you’re a digital agency leader with ambitions to grow and challenges to overcome, we can help.
Get in touch for an initial chat about how GYDA can help you get where you want to go.