Steve Bennett - Leadership • Business Strategy • Performance • Personal Growth
Steve Bennett believes that every successful business begins with an exceptional leader.
Having spent more than three decades leading teams, building businesses and advising organisations across multiple industries, Steve brings together commercial experience with a deep understanding of human performance. His passion lies in helping business owners and senior leaders create organisations that are built on clarity, strong leadership, robust systems and uncompromising standards.
Throughout his career, Steve has worked with businesses ranging from ambitious startups to established multi million pound organisations, helping leaders simplify complexity, improve accountability and create cultures where people and performance thrive together. His practical, no nonsense approach enables leaders to make confident decisions, align their teams and build businesses that are capable of sustainable growth rather than constant firefighting.
Alongside his commercial expertise, Steve is a respected executive coach, keynote speaker and author, recognised for helping leaders overcome the personal barriers that often limit business success. His belief is simple: when leaders develop themselves, they develop better businesses.
Within Lagrange Collective, Steve specialises in leadership development, strategic thinking, organisational structure, operational standards and personal growth. He helps clients bridge the gap between ambition and execution by creating the discipline, accountability and clarity needed to lead with confidence.
Steve’s philosophy perfectly reflects the mission of Lagrange Collective. Lasting business success is never achieved by one individual. It comes from aligning people, leadership, systems and strategy to create organisations that are stronger, more valuable and capable of thriving long after the founder steps away.
Mark Richards
Mark believes every business has far more potential than it currently realises. His passion is helping founders build commercial systems that create sustainable, profitable growth, without the business relying on them to win every customer or make every commercial decision.
With more than 20 years' experience leading commercial strategy, pricing, revenue growth and go-to-market transformation, Mark has helped businesses unlock significant improvements in profitability, scalability and enterprise value. His career includes senior leadership positions at Equifax, where he led commercial strategy, pricing and growth across international markets, negotiated complex commercial partnerships and built high-performing commercial functions.
Today, Mark is applying those same principles where they matter most: inside growing businesses. As Co-founder of Weorc and Fractional Growth Officer to multiple start-ups and established businesses, he is actively building and scaling companies from the inside. That means he understands first-hand the challenges founders face and translates that experience into practical frameworks, proven systems and repeatable playbooks that deliver measurable commercial results.
As part of the Lagrange Collective, Mark works alongside founders and leadership teams to build commercially excellent businesses. His coaching focuses on commercial strategy, go-to-market execution, compelling value propositions, value-based pricing and scalable commercial operating models. By combining strategic thinking with practical implementation, he helps businesses create predictable growth, improve profitability and reduce dependence on founder-led sales.
Mark's ambition is not simply to help businesses grow, but to help founders build organisations that continue to thrive long after they have stepped away from the day-to-day commercial activity. He believes that lasting success comes from creating commercial systems that are scalable, repeatable and built to endure.
Mike Butler MILM
Mike has a distinguished career rooted in leadership, recruitment, and service. After serving in the Royal Navy, he transitioned in 1988 to a role as a headhunter, focusing on recruiting middle management and senior executives across various sectors, including manufacturing, retail, services, and technology, particularly SMEs, across the UK and even venturing into Europe! His work extends beyond recruitment into leadership development and improving employee engagement to boost organisational performance.
He is also a seasoned Non-Executive Director with extensive experience in governance and leadership. He currently serves as Chair of Transform Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust overseeing 28 primary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and is Chair of Nottingham Sea Cadets, reflecting his continued commitment to supporting young people. Additionally, Mike dedicated 20 years as a Volunteer with Victim Support, providing assistance to victims of crime, including those affected by homicide.
Mike brings decades of leadership, recruitment and governance experience to the Lagrange Collective, helping organisations build stronger leadership teams, attract exceptional talent and create high-performing cultures. Drawing on a distinguished career spanning executive recruitment, leadership development and organisational performance, he works with business leaders to strengthen employee engagement, improve leadership capability and develop resilient, people-focused organisations.
His expertise is underpinned by extensive board-level experience as a Non-Executive Director and Chair, alongside a lifelong commitment to service. From leading governance across a large Multi-Academy Trust and supporting youth development through the Sea Cadets, to two decades volunteering with Victim Support, Mike combines commercial insight with integrity and a deep understanding of people, enabling businesses to build sustainable success through effective leadership.
Permjeet Kainth - Connection Guru
Permjeet builds genuine relationships and remembers the businesses he meets, what they do, who they help, and the opportunities they're looking for. When he meets someone who needs a service, he already knows who to introduce them to.
By becoming part of Permjeet's trusted network, you'll receive warm, relevant introductions to people who already need what you do and are ready for a real conversation. No cold chasing. No relying on algorithms. Just meaningful connections that help your business grow.
As part of the Lagrange Collective, rather than spending countless hours networking, chasing follow-ups and searching for the right opportunities, Permjeet helps business owners focus on what they do best by connecting them with the people who already need their services. His approach centres on building genuine relationships, understanding each business he meets, who they help and the type of opportunities they are looking for. By combining strategic networking with trusted introductions, he creates meaningful connections that lead to quality conversations, new business and long-term relationships, without the need for cold outreach or relying on social media algorithms.
Permjeet's ambition is not simply to make introductions, but to become a trusted extension of the businesses he supports. He believes sustainable growth comes from building a strong network of genuine relationships, where opportunities are created through trust, credibility and mutual value. His goal is to help business owners develop a consistent pipeline of warm referrals and meaningful connections that continue to generate opportunities long into the future.