Hospitality founder, coach, and...
The one who gets you
out of the weeds
Helping hospitality owners stop being the bottleneck, so they can run their business with real direction and build a brand that's profitable and ready to grow.
10 Years
Industry Experience
20+ Team
Staff Led
Award Winning
Founder
Hospitality
Consultant
Built
From Scratch
Testimonial:
“I couldn't see beyond my working life. My work issues had bled into my home life and I'd stopped giving myself or my team space to grow. What I actually learned was that properly training and allowing my team to grow into new spaces of the business was more attainable and necessary than burning myself out. I came away with a different set of tools to manage my time, and I now make space in my week for myself. If you feel a constant sense of paddling just to stay still, take a chance on working with Trevor.”
Alex - Recent Client
Hi, nice to meet you…
I could tell you about the award-winning bar, the UK Top 50, the three years running.
Or the book, the talks, the founders I now work with.
But none of that is the reason I can help you.
Because I've sat exactly where you're sitting. Probably lower.
Eleven years building a place from nothing, with no hospitality background at all. Learning it in real time. And slowly becoming the one thing the whole business couldn't run without.
The phone that never stopped. The standards that only held when I was there. The quiet realisation that I hadn't built a business, I'd built a job that only worked when I was in it, and I couldn't see a way out that didn't cost me everything.
It nearly broke me. And then I found my way out of it. Not by working harder, which is the thing that got me there. By finally getting out of the weeds and learning to run the business instead of letting it run me.
That's what I do now. I help hospitality owners stop being the bottleneck, so they can run their business with real direction and build a brand that's profitable and ready to grow.
Everything I teach, I learned the hard way, so you don't have to.
The Owner Handover
Five weeks to go from spinning plates
to operating in control.
The Owner Handover is five weeks, one to one, to get you out of the weeds and back to running your business instead of it running you. Week by week we rebuild how you operate, so the decisions stop routing through you, the standards hold whether you're there or not, and your time goes to the work only you can do. You come out of it as the owner again, not the most expensive employee, with a business that runs with real direction and is finally ready to grow. It's the work I wish someone had walked me through years ago, before I learned it all the hard way.
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The Owner Handover
The Owner Handover is five weeks, one to one, to get you out of the weeds and back to running your business instead of it running you. Week by week we rebuild how you operate, so the decisions stop routing through you, the standards hold whether you're there or not, and your time goes to the work only you can do.
You come out of it as the owner again, not the most expensive employee, with a business that runs with real direction and is finally ready to grow. It's the work I wish someone had walked me through years ago, before I learned it all the hard way.
Operational Consultancy
Sometimes the problem isn't that you're holding everything together. It's that there's nothing built to hold it. Structures, standards, systems, the way the place actually runs when you're not in it.
Uphill is that work, done with you rather than for you, and scoped to what your business actually needs rather than sold as a package.
Ten years of running a venue, applied to yours. Every engagement starts with a conversation.
Does Any Of This Sound Familiar?
Running a hospitality business puts a specific kind of pressure on the person at the top. Not the kind that shows up in the accounts. The kind that shows up in how you think, how you sleep, and how present you are when you finally get home. If any of the following feel familiar, you're not alone, and more importantly, there's a practical way through it.
Loss Of Identity
Constant Mental Load
Your role has expanded so far that who you are has quietly collapsed into what the business needs.
Even when you’re not working, you’re still carrying decisions, outcomes, and responsibility.
Emotional Isolation
Strained Relationships
You’re still performing at a high level, but it’s being powered by endurance rather than sustainability.
You’re competent and decisive, but always responding, rarely feeling ahead or settled.
The business isn’t failing, but it’s slowly costing you presence, energy, and connection at home.
You’re surrounded by people, but there’s no space to speak honestly about the weight you carry.
Quiet Burnout
Reactive Leadership