Fixed-fee consulting for South African SMB owners. Structured, time-bound, and built around outcomes you can measure.
What I value is Jo's focused and strategic approach to understand one's business model and company goals. Professional, efficient, with impressive turn-around times, on point feedback, and clear direction to meet objectives.
Jody understands the challenges, his customers' business process issues, mapping to a solution that not only delivers what's required but ensures it caters for their future needs. I highly recommend any engagement with this knowledgeable and talented individual.
Jody is a visionary leader with an exceptional clarity of mind, strategic thinking and attention to details. He ensures to get things done with an uncompromising preciseness. It would be an absolute pleasure working with him anytime.
He immerses himself to the point of converging with the business he engages with to create meaningful and sustainable outcomes. He has achieved much success in enabling strategic objectives by collaborating with stakeholders that contribute to enterprise agility.
His professionalism is unmatched and he always has fresh insights to share. In working with him, I've seen first hand how much knowledge and passion he has, not only for the industry he works in but for those he deals with too. If you're lucky enough to get the chance to work with Jody, take it.
"Big thinker" is what comes to mind. He has a curious and logical mind, adept at spotting trends and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. Excellent at developing strategies for the future whilst motivating and inspiring those around him.
Before anything is recommended, the numbers and the people are examined in a fixed sequence. The same method runs behind every engagement.
Three measures decide whether your business needs to stabilise before it grows.
A fast read on where the friction is and whether there is a fit.
The complete interview, data and root cause sequence.
A targeted repair of the process that is costing you most.
A structured programme to steady the business end to end.
Follows stabilization, once the foundations hold.
You started the business to build something. Not to be the bottleneck in it.
Progreso has a structured engagement for each of these. Fixed fee, 4-week sprint, measurable output.
Busy but not confident you're moving forward. Strategy is reactive, not intentional.
Everything runs through you. You can't step back, delegate, or scale without something breaking.
Wrong people in wrong seats, or good people with no clear expectations or accountability.
Your pipeline lives on referrals. When they dry up, so does the business.
You're good at winning work. Keeping it, building loyalty and repeat revenue, is a different problem.
Every node is a 4-week sprint with a fixed fee, live coaching and implementation support built in. Each ends with tangible outputs, not a slide deck of suggestions.
A 5-dimension health assessment. Start here.
For owners who are busy, but not moving forward.
Measured by % of 90-day milestones achieved within 6 months
For owners trapped inside their business.
Measured by Owner hours per week reclaimed; reduction in operational rework
Right people. Right seats. Actually performing.
Measured by Staff turnover; performance review adoption; engagement baseline
Beyond referrals. A predictable pipeline.
Measured by Qualified leads in 90 days; enquiry-to-client conversion rate
Win clients, then keep them coming back.
Measured by Monthly churn; repeat contract rate; NPS
Available at any stage: before, during or after.
Terms Month to month, no lock-in
Every engagement is quoted as a fixed fee before you commit. Taking three or more nodes together earns a bundle discount. Ask on your discovery call.
No billable hours. No scope creep. You know the cost before you start.
Clear start, end, and output every time. No open-ended engagements.
A success metric is agreed upfront. If we can't measure it, we won't promise it.
Implementation alongside you, not advice handed over and left to gather dust.
Worked through with you, at your table, until it runs without you.
A focused diagnostic conversation. We find out where the friction is, and whether there's a fit. Not a sales pitch. If there's no fit, we'll say so.
A 5-dimension health assessment producing a Business Health Report, Gap Analysis and Prioritised Roadmap. The fee is credited against your first engagement.
Choose one node or bundle several. Each sprint ends with tangible outputs, not a slide deck of suggestions. Coaching embedded throughout.