Valente Consulting

Valente Consulting: scaling consultancy for British business owners

Valente Consulting is a business consultancy and training firm based in Peterborough (England), founded by Joseph Valente, winner of the 2015 edition of the BBC television programme The Apprentice. The company targets owners of already established businesses, with turnover from £100,000 up to several million, who want to stop being the bottleneck in their own operation and build companies that run without their daily presence.

The one-day in-person workshop

The core service described on the site is a full-day workshop, delivered in person by Joseph Valente and his team of business mentors. It is not presented as a webinar, but as a day of direct access to people who, according to the firm's own presentation, have built and sold several eight-figure businesses.

The workshop includes a personalised 90-day growth roadmap, drawn up from each business's specific numbers and situation; a full business health and systems assessment; strategies designed to be implemented during the same week; and accountability support once the day is over. The company states that places are intentionally limited to maintain focus and a personal approach.

The Valente Blueprint and its eight pillars

The working method is built around the so-called Valente Blueprint, an eight-pillar framework that the firm presents as the same system applied in building, scaling and selling several eight-figure businesses. The pillars are: vision, strategy, marketing, sales, people, systems, profit and scale. Each addresses a specific area, from defining the future of the business and the plan to compete in its market, to generating demand, building a predictable sales engine, aligning the team, creating processes and infrastructure, improving margins and cash flow, and preparing the business to grow without depending on the owner.

The firm insists that it does not teach theory, but works from what its leaders have done in their own companies. The approach is summarised in six areas of action: strategy and planning, sales growth, results-driven marketing, people and leadership, systems and operations, and accountability.

The Seven-Figure Business Boardroom programme

For owners with turnover above £750,000 a year, Valente Consulting offers the Seven-Figure Business Boardroom, a private strategic programme that is smaller and more exclusive than the workshop. It is presented as a kind of personal board of directors for scaling a multi-million-pound business, with a maximum of 20 companies per group and limited places per intake.

Membership includes monthly boardroom sessions with Joseph Valente and the rest of the group, joint venture and CFO intensives focused on the numbers, strategic planning and financial review, private networking and peer accountability at the same level, and bottleneck analysis with actions and masterminding. Each month, the group reviews results, numbers and margins, identifies key challenges, sets actions and priorities, solves problems with the room and scales with structure and accountability. Sessions are held at Trade Mastermind HQ.

The client journey

The site describes an eight-step process from booking to what it calls owner freedom: booking the workshop, receiving a welcome pack with preparation material, attending the workshop, a business assessment to pinpoint cash flow, systems or team leaks, drawing up a personalised growth strategy, implementation support, ongoing accompaniment and, finally, scaling and freedom. The company also organises its own events, VC Events, in which owners who have built, scaled and sold businesses take part to share their experience.

Joseph Valente's background

The biography published by the firm describes Joseph Valente as having been expelled from school at fifteen, who began his career as a plumbing apprentice with a van and went on to win the 2015 edition of BBC's The Apprentice, securing a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar and becoming, according to the company, the first tradesperson ever to do so. He later built ImpraGas, which the firm describes as the UK's largest independent boiler installation company, with more than 150 employees, and founded Trade Mastermind, a training academy that became one of the largest coaching platforms for trade and construction business owners. Valente Consulting was launched to bring that same method to ambitious business owners. Among the accolades it mentions are Forbes 30 Under 30, the IoD Director of the Year award, his work as a best-selling author and keynote speaker, investor and eight-figure business owner, and host of The Trade Secrets Podcast and Unfinished Business.

Client profile and cited results

The workshop targets owners of established businesses, with turnover from £100,000 to several million, who face stalled growth, tight cash flow, constant firefighting or a team unable to function without them. The company states it has trained more than 5,000 UK business owners and cites testimonials from attendees on Google, including that of Brandon Harper, who mentions a value of more than £108,000 in three weeks, and reviews from Project Abundance and Derren Miller-Price about the depth and practical focus of the programme.

Location and contact

Precision House, Bakewell Road, Peterborough, England, PE2 6XU · Phone: 0330 058 7100 · Email: customerservice@trademastermind.co.uk