CREATIVE GROWTH SPRINT #3/ AUTUMN 26
Turn your one person business into a creative garden ecosystem that grows as you do.
Join the live, online, six-week group program for freelancers and consultants ready to grow financially and creatively.
You left the big job title for more freedom and creativity.
But you’re building a freelance version of what you had before.
You’re exceptional at lots of things.
But can’t find the words that bring your je ne sais quoi (and the real reason you get all those referrals) to life.
You’re over the idea that growth = social media.
You want to build a growth ecosystem designed around how you truly like to create and connect with people on and offline.
Although it can feel like a series of unrelated spinning plates freelance gigs, your one person business is more like a garden ecosystem.
Each area of the garden serves a specific purpose, think; steady cash, creative fulfilment, lifelong learning, building relationships, pro bono work.
Intentionally or not, you nurture each area with varying intensity each season and the evolution of each zone informs the growth of your business as a whole.
The Creative Growth Strategy Sprint is a six week online group program for experienced freelancers and consultants who are ready to intentionally design their business ecosystem as a container for personal, creative, and financial growth.
You’ll get clear on what success means to you today, design the unique garden ecosystem that brings that vision to life, and understand how to connect your brilliant ideas and services with the world around you.
You’ll do this work in conversation with nine other smart, curious humans asking similar questions about work and creativity. Expect a huge dollop of permission to rip up the growth playbooks you’ve known so far <3
You might call yourself a
freelancer
strategist
solo founder
creative director
consultant
Six weeks. Eight people. Six live workshops:
Week 1 // Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards
What does successful growth actually mean to you today? Reflect, reset, and leave with a clear answer that provides the foundation for your growth strategy.
Week 2 // Name Your Roots
Uncover the thread that runs underneath everything you do: what you're genuinely great at, what lights you up, and how to articulate this clearly in order to grow.
Week 3 // Design Your Business Garden
Not every part of your business needs to grow at once. Map the offers, projects, and pursuits that make up your garden, and get clear on what each one actually needs from you right now.
Week 4 // Map Your Context
Your garden doesn't exist in a vacuum. See where it sits within the bigger landscape — clients, collaborators, competitors — and uncover how that context sharpens what makes your contribution distinct.
Week 5 // Build Your Weird + Wonderful Growth Ecosystem
Connect your garden, your ideas and your work to others without relying on chasing an algorithm.
Week 6 // Set Your Strategy In Motion
Name your goals, set up your first growth experiments, and set your strategy in motion.
What’s included
-
Fridays, 2pm–3.15pm GMT / 9am ET, starting 25th September 2026. Real-time working sessions, no pre-recorded content. Recordings are sent if you can’t make a session but this is designed to be attended live!
-
A structured workspace you build across the six weeks, designed to hold the foundations of how your business actually grows. By the end, it holds:
Your Growth Donut and goals
Your market positioning, roots, and core topics
Your Business Garden, mapped — offers, creative outputs, and everything in between
Your Creative Growth Ecosystem — the on- and offline ways you'll connect your ideas with the people you want to reach
-
This cohort is capped at 8 people. You'll be growing your garden alongside consultants, creatives, strategists, and solo founders doing the same.
-
Access to the Miro strategy boards used live in the sessions
Templates for building out your growth ecosystem
1250 GBP. Payment plan of 2× 625 GBP available at checkout.
Your one person business is a garden ecosystem that you get to design, tend to, and evolve every season.
Stretch the vision for your one person business.
Design your garden ecosystem + growth strategy.
Tap into fresh energy, momentum, and creative community.
Meet Matilda
I'm a strategist, startup advisor, and fractional marketing leader based in SE London.
I've spent 10+ years growing startup and scaleup businesses; launching into new markets, driving millions of app downloads, and building brands from scratch to acquisition.
But after several years of running my own consultancy, the ubiquitous goal of “more” stopped making sense to me, especially, for one person businesses like mine.
We have the freedom to design a business, and therefor a life, that is creatively fulfilling and financially rewarding. But working out what that looks like easily falls to the bottom of the to-do list. You end up questioning whether you even have a business or are “just” a freelancer.
I believe that building a one person business is an inherently creative act, and you get to design exactly how you want your business world to look, feel, and grow.
This is the third cohort of the Creative Growth Sprint this year and I can’t wait to meet you inside <3
FAQs
-
During the sprint we’ll look at the fuller spectrum of growth, which can include:
Financial growth: fundamental to running a successful creative business
Creative growth: making work you’re proud of, not just work that pays the bills
Intellectual growth: thinking bigger, deepening your ideas, widening your references
Relational growth: building relationships, collaborators, and community around your work
Ecosystem growth: creating channels, experiences, and touchpoints that strengthen your world
Identity growth: stepping into the version of you that can hold the business you want
Most people feel the tension (“I want to grow, but just more more more?”) without having language or structure for it.
This sprint gives you the concepts, the space, and the tools to define what multi-dimensional growth looks like for you — and then build a strategy that enables you to bring it to life.
-
Yes. We’ll think holistically about growth, but for most people revenue growth is the biggest focus that allows you to spend time growing other areas of your business.
-
If you can’t make. a session, it will be recorded and sent to you.
-
Beyond the 75-minute live session, plan for an additional 45–60 minutes to apply the exercises inside your Notion system.
-
You need to have a solid idea of what you offer (even if the services are not completely clear yet) and already have started working with clients. It’s most suitable for freelancers and one person businesses with several years experience running their business.
-
Yes! I’m absolutely not here to tell you not to utilise the tools we have available to us. I just don’t want your entire business to live or die at the hand of the IG algos so will help you build out a stronger ecosystem.
-
Originally a term used by software development teams, it means focusing intensely on one goal/project in a short time frame.