About Brad Wright
Strategic Advisor to Engineering and Technical Business Founders
BEng (Hons) CEng MSc MIET
Profile
You have built something most people never will.
A real business. In a technically demanding sector. With a team that depends on you, clients who trust you, and a reputation you have earned over years of delivering when it mattered.
The problem is that most of it still runs through you. And you are starting to feel the weight of that.
I work with engineering and technical founders at exactly this stage. Not to tell you what is wrong - you already know most of it. But to help you see it clearly, prioritise it precisely, and build the capability around you that means the business does not need you in the room for every decision that counts.
Why founders work with me
I am a Chartered Engineer. Former Royal Navy Weapon Engineering Officer. I hold an MSc in Guided Weapon Systems from Cranfield and have held P&L accountability for complex engineering operations exceeding £100M.
I have led in environments where decisions were irreversible and the consequences of poor judgement were immediate. I have built and run businesses in oil and gas, defence, subsea and infrastructure. I have sat in the chair you are sitting in.
That combination - technical depth, operational credibility, commercial experience and the scar tissue that comes from actually running things at scale - is what makes this different from working with a generalist advisor or a business coach.
Engineering founders recognise their own. They know within the first conversation whether someone genuinely understands their world or is working from a framework. I understand it because I have lived it.
What clients actually get
A private, senior thinking partner. Fortnightly. No team involvement unless you want it.
Someone to think alongside when the decisions are significant and there is nobody else in your life you can be fully honest with. A business partner, a former MD and VP, a Royal Navy officer who has navigated high-stakes decisions under pressure - available to you on a standing basis.
The work is structured around the Freedom Blueprint: five elements that progressively reduce founder dependency and build enterprise value. But the relationship is human and direct. Most founders find they get clarity, prioritisation and the confidence to act on things they have known needed addressing for longer than they would like to admit.
What you build over twelve months is a business that is more resilient, more valuable and considerably less dependent on you being essential to everything.
The credentials, in context
I trained at Britannia Royal Naval College and served as a Commissioned Weapons Engineer Officer in NATO operations. I have delivered national defence programmes, governed infrastructure operations for millions of users, and advised on restructuring within the Ministry of Defence.
I have also run SMEs. Hired the wrong people and fixed it. Lost margin on contracts and rebuilt it. Made the mistakes that are less visible at board level and more common at the £5M to £30M stage where most of my clients operate.
Those two registers - large-scale institutional and founder-led SME - are what give me the range to see what most advisors working at this level cannot see: the gap between where your business is and what it could become, and the specific structural moves that close it.
Methodology - The Freedom Blueprint™
The work is structured around the Freedom Blueprint™: five elements that progressively reduce founder dependency, strengthen leadership capability, and build the enterprise value that gives you genuine options - whether that is to scale, step back, or sell on your terms.
If any of this sounds familiar
A 30-minute conversation costs nothing and clarifies everything. You will leave knowing where your biggest constraint sits and what the highest-leverage change would be.
No obligation. No sales process. Just a direct conversation with someone who has been where you are heading.