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Geeta Sidhu-Robb · Growth advisor
I have spent 17 years beside women building serious businesses — through raises, IPOs and a £1B exit.
The work has a methodology I've developed over years.
I teach it at the Bootstrappers' Business Academy.
FIND THE MINDSET THAT CREATES BUSINESS GROWTH
£1bn+
Valuation at the private-equity exit she coached her client through, December 2025
5×
Entrepreneur & Businesswoman of the Year winner
17 yrs
Building and advising businesses, from a £2,000 overdraft upward
IPO → Exit
Clients incl. Gwyneth Paltrow, Nadia Swarovski, Sam Smith of finnCap
Most female founders aren't stuck for lack of ideas. They're stuck because they build businesses differently to men and no one has ever told them that, because no one has ever cared enough to find out.
But, I have worked with over 21,000 women over the last 25 years and I KNOW this to be true. So I decided to fix it. You can read every book, join every mastermind, and your business can still not grow. The climb isn't harder than you thought, it was just never made for you.
You have to build your business around your kids, your home, your marriage, your elderly parents. To do this you need support.
We're here for you
CASE STUDY 2026
Operating profit up 488%.
6-month performance — Feb to Jul 2026 vs Feb to Jul 2025
Total turnover
£000,000
+129%
vs last year
Gross profit
£000,000
+118%
vs last year
Operating profit
£000,000
+488%
vs last year
Profit after tax
£000,000
+451%
vs last year
Gross margin
63.3%
vs 66.3% last year (−3pts)
Associate cost of sales
+149%
Capacity bought, not borrowed
Admin costs
+26%
Held while turnover more than doubled
Bootstrappers' Business Academy
The 7 Rungs to £1 Million METHODOLOGY · From £1/month
The Academy's methodology: 7 stages of growth from your first revenue to your £2M+. One diagnostic, one decision, one thing built. You don't move up until you've built the foundation for where you are now.
1
The Foundation Rung
What the business is for, who you are as its owner, and the one number that tells the truth.
2
The Visibility Rung
Being known by the exact people who can buy from you — deliberately, not accidentally.
3
The Sales Rung
Asking for the money without apology, and customers arriving without you being charming in a room.
4
The Systems Rung
The processes, the team and the rhythm that let the business run a week without you in it.
5
The Revenue Rung
Pricing, margin and predictable growth — activity turned into profit you can plan around.
6
The Authority Rung
Funding, boards and the rooms where the money is — and being the calmest person in them.
7
The Million Rung
The seven-figure business, held steadily — scale, exit or hand over, on terms you set.
26 live sessions a year · Join any time · Cancel any time
EXPLORE THE ACADEMYFive ways in
Start on the Rung You're Actually On
Every single person accesses Geeta's live coaching. As you grow your business you rise up through the revenue rungs of the Academy. That's why we call it the £1 Million ladder!
Getting started · Rungs 1 to 3
Rung 1
Foundation
£1/mo
Getting the base right: purpose, positioning and the one number that tells the truth.
Rung 1 · Community · Fortnightly calls
Rungs 1–2
Emerging
£30/mo
Foundations plus visibility, being known by the exact people who can buy from you.
Rungs 1–2 · Community · Fortnightly calls
Rungs 1–3
Growing
£80/mo
Through the sales rung, with priority responses when you are mid-decision.
Rungs 1–3 · Priority replies in 24 hrs
Scaling up · Rungs 4 to 7
Most popular · Rungs 1–5
Rising
£147/mo
Systems and revenue — where founders stop doing everything themselves. The business starts running a week without you in it.
Everything in Growing, plus rungs 4 and 5
Community access
Fortnightly calls with Geeta
Priority replies within 24 hrs
All seven rungs
Established
£247/mo
Authority and the million rung, with direct access to Geeta — for founders taking the business to scale or exit.
The full seven-rung course
Community access
Fortnightly calls with Geeta
Priority hot seat on every call
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She took me through an exit at over a billion and never once let me negotiate from fear.
Founder & CEO · financial services · 2025
Before the climb
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I Built the Ladder Because I Had to Climb Without One
I was a lawyer. Then my son was born with anaphylaxis and I taught myself nutrition to keep him alive. That became Nosh Detox — built on a £2,000 overdraft, first client Gwyneth Paltrow, five Entrepreneur of the Year awards later.
Since 2012 I've coached founders and CEOs through the parts nobody photographs: the raise that nearly failed, the co-founder who had to go, the exit that changed a family. I chaired Open Britain. I speak at the UN and at Davos. 7 Rungs is all of it, put in order.
2008 Founded Nosh Detox on a £2,000 overdraft
2025 Coached a client through a £1bn+ PE exit
UN Spoke at CSW68 and CSW69; UN Women advocate
WCorp Founder of the WCorporation certification standard
What Changes, In Their Words
She took me through an exit at over a billion and never once let me negotiate from fear.
Founder, financial services
I stepped into a role I felt too small for. Geeta made me the size of it in four months.
Managing Director, professional services
Straight-talking is an understatement. Revenue doubled; more importantly, I stopped dreading Mondays.
Co-founder, consumer brand
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