Find what’s holding growth back, and fix it in four weeks.
The 8 Superpowers Growth Intensive is a four-week, done-with-you programme for established businesses whose growth has slowed, run on the proprietary 8 Superpowers platform: four private sessions with Marina, eleven tools that build your documents, and a 90-day plan your team owns.
45 minutes with Marina. If the Intensive isn’t the right fit, she’ll tell you.
Price
$6,999
one price, no retainer required
Length
4 weeks, starting when you’re ready
With Marina
4 private 60-minute sessions on Zoom
For
CEOs, MDs, and Leaders of businesses with 11 to 200 people
You keep
Your Growth Blueprint and a 90-day plan
Backed by the 90-Day Movement Guarantee
Organisations Marina has worked with include Heaford, Ley Rubber, Eco Providers, Readynez, UXForms, Poundbury Wealth Management, Bettys & Taylors Group, Yorkshire Tea, the Caterham F1 Team, MBNA, Bank of America, Lloyds Bank and the Co-op.
Selected Organisations Marina Has Worked With
Week 1
Where the business really stands, and what is capping growth.
Week 2
Who owns what, and who you need to be closer to.
Week 3
How the business makes money, and where it wins.
Week 4
A 90-day plan, and your score measured again.
You keep: your Growth Blueprint, the eleven tools you completed, and a 90-day plan built from your own numbers.
Usually because the business has more priorities than it can fund, and nobody has agreed which one actually moves the number. Most businesses this size don't have a growth problem. They have a priority problem.
"Everyone's working harder, and growth is still slowing."
"We've got six priorities, and they all look urgent."
"Too many decisions still come back to me."
"I know there are opportunities. I don't know which one to back."
"We've tried new strategies. None of them showed up in the numbers."
"The way we work is starting to hold us back."
The Intensive finds the one constraint that is really capping growth, agrees what to do about it, and turns that into a 90-day plan your team runs. Four weeks, one decision at a time.
Most consultancies run on workshops, slide decks and a report at the end. The Intensive runs on the 8 Superpowers platform, a proprietary workspace built specifically for it. Your lessons, your tools, every document your work produces and your channel to Marina sit in one private, secure place, on whatever device you have open.
Short videos from Marina explain each tool and what to look for in your answers.
Answer each tool's questions and the finished document is built from your answers, with your own figures in it.
Every document you've built, by week, ready to open, update or print.
Your own channel inside the platform for the questions that can't wait. Marina answers personally.
Marina reviews everything you've submitted before you meet, so every session starts on decisions.
Your information is held and worked on in one private workspace for your business, not spread across email threads and shared drives.
A traditional consultancy
The 8 Superpowers platform
Proof, before promises
Eco Providers didn't need a better strategy. They needed to decide faster and execute together.
£18m+ · energy and environmental services
Decisions were reactive, the leadership team wasn't aligned, and nobody had time to think beyond the week. Demand wasn't the problem. The business could win work faster than it could deliver it.
Marina put in structured decision-making, a 12-month plan broken into 90-day sprints, and a leadership team that owned the priorities together: the same method and 90-day sprint rhythm the Intensive focuses into four weeks.
Before working with Marina, our leadership team struggled with alignment and clarity as we scaled.
Tom Myers, Managing Director, Eco Providers
The result
3x faster
execution
20%
revenue growth
Successfully sold
aligned across its people, processes and plan
90-day engagement
Only One Major Client, The UK Government. How Do You Scale To Win Others?
An enterprise software venture with real revenue and one major client, the UK Intellectual Property Office, but no repeatable way to win the next one. In 90 days they left with positioning an enterprise buyer could follow and a named list of who to go after.
100+
Businesses advised
Over 35 years, from £1.8m engineering firms to household names such as Yorkshire Tea, the Co-op, Bank of America and Lloyds Bank.
1,000+
Leaders mentored
C-suite executives and leadership teams coached and mentored.
The same three steps every week. You do the thinking on your own business first, so every session with Marina is spent on decisions rather than explanations.
The week opens on the platform, with short videos from Marina explaining the tools and what to look for. Each week opens from your own start date, not a shared cohort.
You answer each tool's questions about your own company. Your finished document is built on the platform from your answers, with your own figures in it.
A private 60-minute Zoom session. Marina has read your work beforehand, challenges the assumptions in it, and you leave with the week's decisions made.
What you do
What Marina does
That's the trade. You keep the part nobody can outsource: the knowledge of your own business. The structure, the writing up and the judgement about what to fix first move to Marina.
Four private 60-minute sessions with Marina, live on Zoom, and eleven documents built from your own business. Every week ends with an action plan.
| Week | Superpowers | Focus | Documents you build | Session with Marina |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Problem & Perseverance | Where the business really stands, and what is capping growth |
Business Stage · Growth Model Map · RAIDS Review Lessons: The Zone of Maximisation · The Growth Plan Pressure Test · Growth Model Map |
Agree the real constraint |
| 2 | People, Partnerships & Proximity | Who owns what, where decisions stall, and who you need to be closer to |
Agile Leadership · Who's Who in the Zoo · Partnership Vision Plan Lessons: Leading The Reinvention · The H.O.T.S. Field Guide · The Alliance Advantage |
Leadership and partnerships review |
| 3 | Positioning & Planet | What you sell, who to, what you charge, and what makes you worth more |
Growth Margin Model · Impact Plan Lessons: The Growth Margin Model · The Planet Premium |
Commercial model review |
| 4 | Process, and all eight together | Turn the decisions into a plan your team runs, and measure what moved |
OKRs by Department · 90-Day Sprints · Growth Gap Rescore Lessons: The Growth Alignment Blueprint · The Growth Horizon Execution |
Plan handover and your before-and-after |
Everything you share stays in one place. It is held and worked on securely in your own private workspace on the proprietary 8 Superpowers platform, not in email threads or shared drives.
Your Growth Blueprint: a personalised workbook of 20+ pages, built from the eleven tools you complete. It isn't a record of what you learned. It's a working document for your next growth decisions, with a 90-day plan inside it.
Your Starting Point · diagnostic and stage
Growth Model Map · how the business works
Risks And Assumptions · the plan, pressure-tested
Leadership And Team · who does what best
Partnership Priorities · who speeds it up
Growth Margin Model · where the money comes from
Positioning Decisions · where you'll win
Department OKRs · one direction for every team
90-Day Plan · owners, cadence, numbers
Before And After · your score, measured again
A space for your business only, for the questions that can't wait for the next session. Marina answers in it personally.
You retake the Growth Gap Report you started with. Your two scores sit side by side, so you can see what moved in your own numbers.
Your Blueprint, all eleven documents and your toolkit stay with you. Update them, print them, and share them with your team.
A 45-minute conversation with Marina about where your business is, and what the four weeks would focus on.
The 8 Superpowers Method™ is Marina Nicholas's way of looking at a business as one connected system, through eight lenses. The four weeks of the Intensive work through all eight, two or three lenses at a time.
Which problem are customers really paying you to solve?
What keeps stalling, and why does it keep coming back?
Why do customers choose you, and will they next year?
Who does the business need to be closer to?
Who owns what, and where do decisions really get made?
Who could take you further, faster, than you'd get alone?
What has to run differently for the business to scale?
What does the business create beyond profit, and what is that worth to a buyer?
See how The 8 Superpowers Method™ is featured in 5,000+ universities →
A coach helps you think, a course gives you the material, and a consultancy hands over recommendations. The Intensive is different: you work on your own business with Marina for four weeks, on a platform built for it, and you keep a plan your team runs.
| Option | Who does the work | How long | What you're left with | Where the work lives | Best when |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business coach | You, with a thinking partner | Ongoing | Clearer thinking, your own notes | Your notebook | You want support for yourself, not a plan for the business |
| Online course | You, on your own | At your own pace | The method, and whatever you apply | A course portal | You want to learn it and have time to apply it alone |
| Management consultancy | The consultants | Weeks to months | A report and recommendations | Slide decks, email and a final report | You need analysis you don't have time to do |
| Working it out with AI | You, with a chatbot | As long as it takes | Plenty of ideas, the same ones your competitors get | A chat window | You need a first draft, not a decision |
| The 8 Superpowers Growth Intensive | You, with Marina | 4 weeks | Your Growth Blueprint, 11 tools and a 90-day plan | The 8 Superpowers platform, private to your business | Growth has slowed and you need the priority settled, fast |
| The 8 Superpowers Accelerator | Your leadership team, with Marina | 12 weeks | A 14-section operating system your team runs | The 8 Superpowers platform, shared with your leadership team | Growth has stalled across strategy, team and process at once |
It's built for established businesses where growth has slowed and the priority isn't agreed. Sessions are on Zoom, so it works wherever you are. Typically 11 to 200 people.
Marina Nicholas is a UK business growth consultant and adviser, and the creator of the 8 Superpowers Method™. She has spent 35+ years working inside businesses and has advised more than 100 companies, from £1.8m to £295m in revenue. She brings an outside view to the things a leadership team can't always see from inside, and the experience to get them decided.
Her method is featured in 5,000+ universities and applied in 50+ countries. Author of 8 Superpowers of Successful Entrepreneurs and 8 Superpowers of Purpose-Led Leaders.
Marina's story →35+
Years working alongside leaders, MDs, CEOs and leadership teams.
100+
Companies advised, from £1.8M engineering firms to a £295M food group.
1,000+
C-suite executives and leaders coached and mentored.
£20M+
Raised by businesses she has advised, from seed rounds to rescue funding.
Working session
Equestrian Surfaces
Leadership session
Eco Providers, on LinkedIn.
Heaford, on LinkedIn.
$6,999
One price for the complete four weeks. No day rate, nothing added later, and no retainer required.
If your Growth Gap score hasn't moved 90 days after you finish, Marina keeps working with you for a further month, at no charge.
The score is your own. You took the Growth Gap Report before Marina was involved, and you retake the same questions to check it.
A four-week, done-with-you business growth programme for CEOs, MDs, and Leaders of established businesses whose growth has slowed. You work directly with Marina Nicholas in four private 60-minute sessions, complete eleven practical tools on your own business, and finish with your Growth Blueprint and a 90-day plan your team owns. It costs $6,999.
$6,999, one price for the complete four weeks. That covers four private sessions with Marina, the eleven tools, your Growth Blueprint, your private workspace and channel to Marina on the 8 Superpowers platform, and the Week 4 rescore. Nothing is added later, and ongoing support afterwards is optional.
Both, in that order. Short lessons and practical tools do the groundwork on your own business. The four sessions with Marina are where the decisions get made. The documents are done for you. The decisions are made with you.
The proprietary workspace the Intensive runs on, built specifically for it. Your lessons, the eleven tools, every document your work produces and your private channel to Marina sit in one place, held securely for your business rather than spread across email threads and shared drives. Most consultancies don't have one.
A 60-minute session with Marina, plus a few hours on that week's tools. The people who get the most from it do the week's work before the session, so the session is spent on decisions.
Yes. The CEO, MD, or Leader who signs up leads it, and anyone whose area is being discussed can join that week's session. If the whole leadership team needs to change how the business runs, the twelve-week 8 Superpowers Accelerator is built for that.
Established businesses where growth has slowed and the priority isn't agreed, typically 11 to 200 people. It isn't for pre-revenue businesses.
A coach helps you think. The Intensive works on your business: each week you complete tools on your own numbers, Marina challenges what they show, and you finish with decisions made and a 90-day plan your team can run.
AI will give your competitors the same answers it gives you. What it can't do is spot the assumptions you don't know you're making, or hold a conversation until it reaches a decision. That part is Marina's, and the 8 Superpowers platform keeps every decision, owner and number in one place.
Because the constraint is usually findable in one week and fixable in three, and a longer engagement mostly buys more meetings. If the work genuinely needs longer, Marina will say so rather than stretch this to fit.
You run the 90-day plan with your own team, using the documents and the weekly cadence you built, and everything stays yours. If you want Marina to keep holding the plan to account, she continues the calls on an optional monthly retainer of $2,000. Some businesses go on to the twelve-week Accelerator. Most don't need to, and that's the intended outcome.
The 90-Day Movement Guarantee: if your Growth Gap score hasn't moved 90 days after you finish, Marina keeps working with you for a further month, at no charge.
Yes. Marina has worked with clients around the world for decades, not just in the UK. Sessions are live on Zoom and everything else runs on the 8 Superpowers platform, so the Intensive works wherever you are. It is billed in US dollars (USD).
A 45-minute conversation with Marina, not a sales pitch. She'll go through where your business is and what she'd do about it. If the Intensive is the right next step she'll say so, and if it isn't, she'll say that instead.
Start with a 45-minute conversation with Marina. Bring the problem you'd most like solved. You'll leave knowing what she thinks is really in the way, whether or not the Intensive is the right next step.