GROWTH ON GROWTH

Toss Grumley has quickly grown a successful consultancy by helping other young entrepreneurs set-up, market and grow their own businesses.

TOSS GRUMLEY HAS QUICKLY GROWN A SUCCESSFUL CONSULTANCY BY HELPING OTHER YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS SET- UP, MARKET AND GROW THEIR OWN BUSINESSES. T his magazine first covered high-school ‘dropout’, Tosswell (‘Toss’) Grumley and his Wolf & Fox SME consultancy in 2016 when he was mentoring and then helping university student Ayraman Taore launch his ‘deliver-anything’ answer to Uber in Auckland.

A year later Grumley is a dissertation-short of an MBA at Warwick University, UK (which involves flying back and forth for week-long seminars).

Remarkably, his business is booming. He will also shortly become a father.

Not unexpectedly, the 27-year- old only has one client over the age of 40. He describes his approach as “modern, specialising in growth” and his clients as “open, with no rigid thoughts or strategy; responsive and passionate about their customers” and his major source of new business. ‘ Passion’ is a word which frequently bounces off the walls in his Albert Street premises.

“I don’t put pressure on anyone,” Grumley says, “and have no set formula or process I impose.

“I try to meet at least monthly with clients to review the progress made on an agreed plan, or discuss adjustments.”

Assisting him are a funding and capital-raising expert (“who has already been involved in deals worth over a billion dollars”); a lawyer experienced in capital-raising and comfortable with young entrepreneurs; his own separate marketing company called ‘Unnamed’; designers and copywriters.

Grumley sticks to his ‘speciality’ which seems to incorporate most of the above. He’s also a qualified member of the Institute of Directors.

DIVERSE CLIENTS

Wolf & Fox is an NZTE-approved business partner and has formal links with ATEED. Currently Grumley has 23 clients,