About Us

 

We don’t help businesses grow.

We help them become investable.

At The Business Growth Accelerator, growth is a by-product, not the goal. Value is.

We work with founder-led businesses where ambition has outgrown structure, execution strain is creeping in, and founder dependency is quietly capping scale and valuation.

Our job is simple:
turn businesses into credible, self-managing assets that investors, acquirers, and boards can trust.

 

What We Do (in plain English)

We remove execution drag and install the systems serious capital expects to see.

That means:

  • clear operating rhythm

    • decision discipline

    • leadership accountability

    • data that actually drives action

    • less reliance on the founder in the middle

When those are in place, confidence follows - internally and externally.

 

How We’re Different

We’re not coaches.  We don’t sell motivation or frameworks-for-frameworks’ sake.

We do the hard, unglamorous work of building investor-grade execution, the kind that holds when things get busy, messy, or uncertain.

This is why founders, VC-backed companies, PE portfolios, funds, and family offices work with us when the stakes are real.

 

Who We Work With

We work best with founders who:

  • want to build a business as an asset, not a job

  • know founder dependency destroys value

  • are preparing for investment, private equity, or exit

  • are ready for clarity, not cheerleading

If your business has people, overhead, and ambition, you’re likely a fit.

 

Where We Start

Before optimisation, scale, or transformation, we start with clarity.

Every engagement begins with an Investor Readiness Diagnostic, a focused assessment that shows:

  • what’s creating execution drag

  • what reads as risk to investors

  • and what to fix first

From there, we build deliberately, with the end in mind.

 

Who We Don’t Work With

We’re not for everyone.  And that’s deliberate. We don’t work with:

  • Founders looking for motivation, hype, or reassurance
    If you want someone to tell you everything’s fine, we’re not a fit.

  • Businesses built entirely around the founder
    If you have no intention of reducing dependency or sharing control, don’t apply.

  • Idea-stage or lifestyle businesses
    We work with real companies, with teams, overhead, and consequences.

  • Founders who want done-for-you fundraising or investor introductions
    We don’t broker deals, promise capital, or “open doors”.
    We build businesses investors want to walk into.

  • Teams unwilling to share numbers or confront uncomfortable truths
    Clarity requires honesty. If that’s a problem, so are we.

  • People shopping for frameworks instead of committing to execution
    We don’t sell theory. We install systems and expect follow-through.

If you’re serious about building a business that stands up to investor scrutiny, and you’re ready to do the work, you’ll feel relieved reading this.

If not, you’ll feel uncomfortable.  Both reactions are useful.  If this section annoyed you, we’re probably not your people. If it made you nod, we should talk.

Angela Sedran |  MBA, MICF, MAICD

Angela doesn’t sell playbooks. She installs leverage.

 She’s a strategist, economist, and execution architect who works with growth-stage, founder-led businesses where ambition has outgrown structure, and everything still runs through the founder.

Angela helps founders replace heroics with systems that stick:
clear decision rights, operating rhythm, leadership accountability, and investor-grade execution.

She is not a mindset coach.
Not a franchised methodology.
And not interested in hype.

Her work sits at the intersection of how founders behave under pressure, how investors underwrite risk, and how execution systems actually scale.

 

Why founders trust her when the stakes are real

Angela’s calm authority isn’t theoretical.

She grew up in the twilight of apartheid South Africa, an only child raised by three generations of formidable women. She learned early how to read rooms, hold complexity, and fix what others avoided.

She’s survived bulimia, widowhood, migration, and solo parenthood, while earning an MBA, navigating corporate leadership, and advising organisations operating at scale.

From negotiating with India’s largest property developers
to consulting for companies like BHP, Lion, and Tip Top
to personally tracking down and recovering six figures from an international scam when authorities said “walk away” -

Angela doesn’t panic.
She diagnoses, decides, and builds.

That’s exactly how she works with founders.

 

What she does today

Angela is the Managing Director of Lionbridge Consulting and founder of Acceler8, where she works with founders, leadership teams, VC-backed companies, PE portfolios, funds, and family offices to:

  • remove execution drag

  • reduce founder dependency

  • install operating rhythm and decision discipline

  • and build businesses investors can trust

Her proprietary IP, including the Execution Drag Triangle, Scorecard System, and Ascension Path, is designed to surface what’s really slowing growth and turn chaos into compounding momentum.

She blends:

  • Systems thinking (MBA + 20 years advising complex organisations)

  • Execution architecture (built inside corporates and scaled founder-led businesses)

  • AI enablement (embedded, governed, and outcome-driven, not hype)

Gallup Strengths: Futuristic. Strategic. Intellection. Input. Relator.

Translation?  She sees around corners, simplifies complexity, and builds teams that step up, so founders can step out.

 

How she works

Angela doesn’t add more work. She removes friction.

She starts with an Investor Readiness Diagnostic, a rigorous assessment that shows what reads as risk, what’s creating drag, and what to fix first.

From there, she builds execution systems that run without her - and without you.

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Adjunct Professor Babette Bensoussan |  MBA, PICF, GAICD

An Adjunct Professor at the UTS School of Business, Babette brings a wealth of expertise and experience in her associate capacity.

Babette's career spans roles as an entrepreneur, consultant, academic, author, and business coach, with a particular focus on Competitive Intelligence (CI) and Strategy.

She's significantly contributed to leadership development, having served as the Program Director for the Women in Leadership Executive Program at MGSM. Her leadership extends to corporate governance, being a director on multiple boards.

Babette's commitment to coaching excellence is underscored by her accreditation with the ICF, AICD, and Women on Boards.

Her academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Business and MBA. She's MBTI accredited, a qualified Counsellor, and an Accredited and Professional Certified Coach.

Babette is the first Australian woman to be honoured with a prestigious award in Competitive Intelligence and she has won the 2006 Alumni Award from the MGSM for her international contributions.

Having co-authored five critically acclaimed books, her works are globally recognised as the leading titles in their field.  She also holds various teaching positions at leading Australian business schools and universities.

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