Clarity for Leaders. Direction for Businesses.
Strategic insight shaped by real-world leadership - helping SME owners & boards through growth, transition, & key decisions
About Y7 Ltd
Patrick Dormon
I’m a Management Consultant and Non-Executive Director with over 20 years’ experience building and scaling 6-, 7-, and 8-figure businesses — including four from start-up. My background includes leading individual companies and multi-entity divisions within Unipart and Persimmon, across sectors such as manufacturing, construction, renewables, and facilities management services.
While I hold BSc and MSc qualifications, most of my real learning has come from running SME businesses first-hand — growing teams, implementing systems, managing change, and driving performance. That experience taught me how to create clarity from complexity, align people and processes, and build profitable, sustainable enterprises.
Today, I work with business owners, boards, and investors who want to strengthen performance, improve governance, and accelerate results.
Why Y7?
My "hands-on" management consultancy approach is built around seven proven pillars that consistently enhance clarity, decision-making, and sustainable growth.
Transform Your Business Strategy
1. Strategic Planning
Making the right decisions at the right time — not more, but better. Clear, forward-looking planning that connects today’s choices with long-term value, bringing clarity when stakes are high. Practical strategy shaped by real operational experience — not theory.
2. Long Term Legacy
Building a business that endures beyond individuals. Creating structure, capability, and leadership depth so the business can scale, support succession or management buy-out, or exit without dependency on any one person.
3. Prioritisation & Focus
Cutting through noise, complexity, and competing demands to focus leadership time and resources on what truly creates value — aligning effort on the actions that improve performance, resilience, and valuation. Fewer initiatives, better outcomes.
4. Integrity & Standards
Strengthening leadership and governance through clear expectations, accountability, and decision discipline. Helping owners and boards move from operational pressure to confident, well-governed decision-making with consistency, transparency, and integrity — especially when decisions are difficult.
5. Business Risk Mitigation
Identifying and reducing strategic, operational, financial, and key-person risks before they become constraints. Turning complexity into clear direction and protecting value through stronger structure, oversight, and resilience — planning with the end in mind for growth, transition, or exit.
6. Challenge, Advisory & Support
Providing constructive challenge alongside trusted support — a sounding board for critical decisions, informed by real-world experience of leading businesses from the inside through growth, change, and uncertainty.
7. Independent Review & Oversight
Offering objective perspective and independent judgement. Helping owners and boards test assumptions, sense-check direction, and make better-informed decisions — preparing confidently for growth, succession, management buy-out, or exit.
Purpose, Partnership, and Approach
My Mission
My mission is to help leadership teams draw directly on my personal leadership experience — enabling them to scale with greater clarity, confidence, and commercial impact.
Working Together
Engaging me as a management consultant or NED is about strengthening your organisation’s leadership capability, enhancing governance, and unlocking growth potential.
Together, we create the conditions for clarity, confidence, and consistent performance.
My Approach
My Approach
You remain in full control of your business — My role is to ensure that time, decisions, and resources are channelled towards the right outcomes, with measurable impact.