The Circle
For women building serious businesses in the North East.Based in Newcastle. Built around honest strategic conversation, real challenge, and the kind of thinking partnership that actually moves your business forward.Two ways in.
Building a serious business in the North East is exactly that, serious.You're making consequential decisions about pricing, structure, growth, and what comes next. Most of them without anyone in the room who can tell you if you're wrong.The networks exist. But they're surface-level, London-centric, or full of people trying to sell you something.You don't need another event. You need a thinking partner.
What We Are
The Circle is a strategic peer advisory offer for established female founders in the North East, run by Three Digital Consulting.It exists for women who are carrying consequential decisions about growth, structure, exit, or what comes next, that deserve more than a networking conversation.
The Circle Shift
One focused session. One answer.Most founders aren't stuck because they lack information. They're stuck because they're too close to the problem to see it clearly — and nobody around them has asked the right question yet.The Circle Shift is a focused half-day strategic session. You bring your most pressing business problem. Alicia brings 20 years of pattern recognition across some of the UK's most complex organisations.Between you, the real problem gets named — probably for the first time — and then worked on properly.One problem. One outcome. Something concrete by the end.£450 + VAT. In person
Newcastle or virtual.
Includes a 30 day follow-up check-in.
The Inner Circle
The room beyond the session.For founders who, after a Circle Shift, want a continuing room. Eight women, half a day a month, facilitated by Alicia. Strategic peer advisory at the level your business actually operates.The Inner Circle is not actively recruiting. Cohorts form by invitation, once a Circle Shift relationship has established fit.If a continuing room is something you're looking for, that conversation starts with a Circle Shift.
Is The Circle For You?
The Circle Shift is for you if:You're carrying a specific business decision that has been on your desk for too long;You want honest, direct challenge, not coaching or cheerleading;You're commercially serious about the outcome;
You want a thinking partner with twenty years of pattern recognition, not a programmeIf you're in your first year, or you're looking for a leads group or referral network, we're probably not the right fit yet. Follow us on Instagram and come back when the time is right.
What We Are Not
The Circle is not a networking group.
It's not a training programme.
It's not a coaching service.
It's not a leads community.It's a strategic offer for established North East founders who are serious about growth and ready for a thinking partner.
About
The Circle is facilitated by Alicia Crowther — a Strategic Advisor with 20 years experience working with organisations from Central Government to national and global corporations including Anglo American, Lloyds Banking Group and the NHS.She founded The Circle as part of Three Digital Consulting, because the women building serious businesses in the North East deserve the same quality of strategic thinking as the organisations she's spent two decades advising.
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The Circle
Serving the North East
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne[email protected]
The Circle is a part of
Three Digital Consulting Ltd
38 Collingwood Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
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