Martial Arts Strategy
Providing Clarity for Leaders
Sabaki Strategic Consulting helps founders, executives, and leadership teams make better decisions, build their business, and stay composed when complexity or stress is high.
What’s Wrong
Most leaders aren’t struggling because they lack intelligence or ambition.
They’re struggling because the environment has changed.
Too many variables
Too much stress
Too many decisions
Not enough clarity
Traditional strategy assumes stability but there are better ways to succeed.
Sabaki is not about force. It’s about position, timing, and awareness.
Originally developed in martial arts, the use of Sabaki teaches you how to:
Move and flow with uncertainty instead of resisting it
Assessing the best position to strike from
Use an opponent’s momentum to your advantage
We apply these same principles to business operational strategy, product portfolios and leadership.
Salt Shark
“John has had such an incredible impact on Salt Shark, so I couldn’t recommend him as a mentor enough! Any other young entrepreneurs would be lucky to have him as a mentor.”
Our Services
As businesses grow, complexity increases and so do inefficiencies. Sabaki Strategic Consulting provides Chief Operations Officer level advisory services to help founders regain control of their operations, protect margins, and create scalable structures that support growth rather than restrict it.
This service is particularly valuable for businesses experiencing cashflow pressure, operational drag, or rapid growth without supporting systems.
How We Help
Profit Leak Identification & Elimination
Many businesses lose profit silently through poor pricing structures, inefficient workflows, supplier creep, and unmanaged overheads. We conduct targeted operational reviews to identify and stop profit leakage quickly.
Logistics & Fulfilment Performance Improvement
From warehousing to freight to last-mile delivery, logistics directly affect customer experience and cost control. We assess logistics performance, cost drivers, and service levels to improve speed, reliability, and margin.
Business Structure Optimisation
We review organisational design, role clarity, decision rights, and reporting structures — ensuring the business operates efficiently without over-management or founder bottlenecks.
Business Turnaround Strategy
When performance stalls or declines, clarity matters. We develop structured turnaround strategies focused on stabilisation, cash preservation, operational reset, and sustainable recovery — not reactive cost-cutting.
Who This Is For
Founders overwhelmed by day-to-day operations
Businesses with strong revenue but weak profitability
Companies preparing for scale or investment
Organisations needing structure without bureaucracy
Cost:
From $5,000 per month
Behind every business is a founder making high-stakes decisions often alone. Sabaki Strategic Consulting offers Founder level personal coaching designed to support not just business outcomes, but the individual responsible for them.
This is not motivational coaching. It is grounded, strategic, and practical support for founders navigating pressure, growth, and responsibility.
How We Help
Stress & Burnout Management
Founder burnout is rarely visible until it becomes damaging. We work proactively to stabilise workload, mental load, and recovery rhythms protecting long-term performance and decision quality.
Presence & Engagement in the Business
Many founders are physically present but mentally overloaded. We help you regain focus, improve prioritisation, and re-engage with the parts of the business that actually matter.
Stable, Independent Sounding Board
Founders need a place to think clearly without judgement or internal politics. This service provides a trusted, confidential space to pressure-test decisions, strategies, and concerns with someone commercially aligned but emotionally neutral.
Becoming the Best Version of Yourself
Business performance mirrors personal performance. Coaching focuses on physical energy, emotional regulation, and mental clarity ensuring you operate at a level that matches your ambition.
Who This Is For
Founders carrying decision fatigue
Business owners without a trusted advisor
Executives under sustained pressure
Leaders wanting longevity, not burnout
Cost
From $2,500 Per month
Building and scaling a successful product business requires far more than a good idea. It requires disciplined product strategy, strong supplier relationships, margin control, and a clear roadmap for growth. Sabaki Strategic Consulting provides Chief Product Officer level advisory services to founders who need experienced product leadership without hiring in house.
This service is designed for businesses operating in consumer goods, animal health, FMCG, industrial products, wellness, and e-commerce, where product decisions directly impact cashflow, brand value, and long term scalability.
How We Help
Contract Manufacturing & Product Sourcing
We identify, assess, and negotiate with domestic and international manufacturers to ensure quality, reliability, and scalability while avoiding common cost and compliance pitfalls.
MOQ & Trade Term Negotiation
Minimum order quantities and trade terms can make or break a product launch. We negotiate commercially realistic MOQs, pricing structures, payment terms, and exclusivity arrangements that protect your working capital.
Brand & Packaging Development
Product success is inseparable from brand execution. We guide brand positioning, packaging structure, compliance requirements, and shelf or e-commerce readiness ensuring your product communicates value instantly.
Lifetime Value (LTV) Product Assessments
Not all products deserve continued investment. We analyse existing SKUs to identify margin erosion, pricing inefficiencies, and lifecycle risk allowing you to focus on products that actually drive profit.
Product Roadmaps & Portfolio Expansion
We build clear, commercially driven product roadmaps whether expanding into adjacent SKUs, new markets, or complementary product categories with a focus on risk, capital efficiency, and brand alignment.
Import & Export Requirement Assessments
Regulatory and logistical oversight is critical. We assess import/export requirements, labelling obligations, market-specific compliance risks, and supply chain exposure before you commit capital.
Who This Is For
Founders scaling product based businesses
Companies preparing for export or portfolio expansion
Businesses with strong sales but poor product margins
Operators overwhelmed by supplier and SKU complexity
Cost
From $5,000 per month
Built from experience not theory
Sabaki Strategic Consulting was founded by an experienced entrepreneur and executive who has built, scaled, and advised businesses across high pressure, highly regulated, and fast moving environments.
This work is shaped by real world experience, not frameworks developed in boardrooms or classrooms detached from consequence.
Alongside decades of business leadership, Sabaki is grounded in lifelong martial arts practice, where decisions are made under pressure, timing matters, and clarity is non-negotiable. These principles form the foundation of our strategic approach.
Our clients work with us not for generic advice, but for calm, structured thinking when the stakes are high, whether navigating growth, transition, uncertainty, or complexity.
Sabaki Strategic Consulting exists to help leaders think clearly, move decisively, and remain balanced when conditions are anything but.
Sabaki Strategic Consulting was born out of a deep desire to help guide both established business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs toward living a more balanced, fulfilling, and profitable life. By thoughtfully combining the time-tested techniques and disciplined strategies used in martial arts with proven business strategy and keen commercial acumen, we have successfully supported numerous business owners in growing and thriving. Our approach ensures they achieve sustainable success without losing sight of their personal values or themselves in the process.