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Compadres

Next Generation Business Growth Practice

The future completely relies on the risk takers, the pioneers, the creators, and the innovators. When they cease to exist, or if we compromise to avoid risk… we become obsolete.

Our world needs the best version of you and your business!

Clive sits on the border of an experienced business advisor and entrepreneurial therapist for me. As entrepreneurs do, I have an eye for finding opportunities but Clive helps me realize the true scale of these opportunities by looking at it from a bird's eye view, crossing verticals and industries. He acts as a catalyst for the "aha!" moments and encourages practical thought processes that encapsulate the full scale of the opportunities that are in front of me.

Alfie DawsonCEO & Founder of Bordeaux & Burgundy | UK & USA

It’s through your commitments, you get to know who you are, because you can’t quit. There is no back door, and when you are cornered, that’s when you find out what you're made of.

Seth EpsteinFounder Los York

Compadres is a different way of looking at things it’s totally a unique dynamic. No one else in my life, has the life or business experience, or has built a businesses. It’s different viewpoint of what's going on in my head.

Tom MaynardCo-founder, Amplify

Clive’s story wasn’t just inspiring — it was confronting, grounding, and laced with hard-earned wisdom.

MelissaThe Marketing Academy

The Compadres Growth Framework has ample “I have never thought of that” moments.

Ayumi Moore AokiFounder & CEO Women In Tech

Compadres is commercial and creative clarity for growth

Ron AlexanderCo-Founder Platinum One Finance

Thank you Clive for being so open about your experience and the learnings /wisdom you've built from these scars (what a great topic). I've taken away a few thought-provoking one-liners that I'll revisit and some resources (books and podcasts) to listen to. * Be the best scalpel not a Swiss army knife. * If you're afraid about the future, play a role in creating it. * Rush is the enemy of intimacy. * Life is the only course where the lesson comes after the exam.

The Marketing Academy
Why Compadres

How Compadres changes their business.

Marcus Watson
Founder, Adoreum
People and ideas equal reinvigoration and growth

I feel relief, a great sense of peace, much less anxious, and able to spend much more time doing the things I love with my family and friends. I see a new future for life, the businesses I love so much, and the people in and around it.

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Andrew Cornale standing with Kristen Cornale and Clive Burcham
Andrew Cornale
Founder UnDigital
Clarity & Process equals profits

“One of the best things you ever said to me was: the Andrew of today is carrying the Andrew from 10 years ago up the hill, and the Andrew from today is getting tired of it… let’s decommission Andrew 2013 so Andrew 2023 can accelerate to climb the hill.”

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Wayne Brown
Founder, Curative
Business Transformation

As a business owner, I faced all the same challenges other founders do: growth, procrastination, apprehension, fear, matched up to my ambition to make a difference. Feeling stuck, and like I was going around in circles.

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Business Growth Advisor

We help our clients tackle issues that range from personal to complex business challenges. These encompass areas such as people, pipeline, process, performance, new products, and even full-scale business model reinvention.

I enjoy the back and forth challenges of Compadres Business Advisory. Uncovering problems, and the problem solving. Compadres is a different way of looking at things to all content I listen to, to all the people I am surrounded by in the office, it’s totally a different dynamic. No one else in my life, has the life or business experience, or has built a businesses. It’s different viewpoint of what’s going on in my head.

Founder May 20, 2024
$50m Revenue

 

We work with businesses in the $1M to $100M revenue range, navigating the tricky waters of growth, reinvention, and even exit planning. At Compadres Business Advisory, we walk alongside you to solve challenges and create new futures in business, and indeed your life.

Compadres Framework

Founders and business leaders have an unimaginable role. Compadres has drawn a metaphor: It’s like climbing a mountain while spinning plates. (We think there are approximately 11 categories of plates to spin on the adventure of running an organisation.)

“Several times, I was about to throw the business in the bin, and you (Compadres) had a vision for it that I couldn’t see… NOW The business is flying…the Framework works. Accountability is everything, we have reduced our costs and increased our profits”

CEO & Founder
$5m Revenue

 

This approach has been proven to drive results through creativity, innovation, and teamwork in many organisations worldwide.

Working with world class Creative Entrepreneurs

Who am I?

Clive Burcham

A father, a multi-business founder, a life-junkie, a survivor. I’ve enjoyed my share of great successes, and been humbled by more than a few hard-learned lessons. “May my scars be your wisdom” on your path to success – however you define your ultimate goals. I set up Compadres to work with entrepreneurs and leaders who aspire to more.

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Compadres Blog
25 August 2025

10 habits killing your growth  

From a Founder who’s been guilty of every single one of these, 10x… I built Compadres to help ambitious founders avoid the same traps.
Compadres Blog
18 August 2025

The J CURVE of life

Humans are wired for progress. We love evolution. New things. However, we love comfort just as much. We are massive contradictions.
Compadres Blog
25 June 2025

The End of Big? Sharp Beating Scale. 

Pictured: Sir John Hegarty The question isn’t “How big can you get?”….. It’s “How essential can you become?” On opening day at the 2025 Cannes Lions, Festival of Creativity, Sir John…