Your team has been trained. Your leaders have been coached. So why isn't the business performing differently?
Praeordium connects coaching, consulting, and capability development directly to business outcomes — built on 30 years of making organisations in energy and industrial services actually perform.
Founded by a former SLB executive who has sat on both sides of the table — running large organisations and building a small business — and knows exactly where the gap between potential and performance lives.
Your team has been trained. Your leaders have been coached. So why isn't the business performing differently?
Praeordium connects coaching, consulting, and capability development directly to business outcomes — built on 30 years of making organisations in energy and industrial services actually perform.
Founded by a former SLB executive who has sat on both sides of the table — running large organisations and building a small business — and knows exactly where the gap between potential and performance lives.
Most coaching focuses on the leader, not the business.
Most training focuses on content, not application.
Most consulting delivers a report, not a result.
The gap isn't effort. It's connection — between development and the performance that actually matters.
Praeordium works from the result backward.
We start with the business outcome — the number that needs to move, the behaviour that needs to change, the capability that needs to exist.
Then we design the coaching, consulting, or development that gets you there.
If you're a business owner or founder:
Business Coaching & Consulting — clarity, systems, and leadership to scale without the chaos.
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If you're an executive or senior leader:
Executive & Leadership Coaching — closing the gap between where you are and what you're capable of.
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If you're responsible for your organisation's capability:
Learning & Performance Development — connecting workforce development directly to business results.
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Where Do You Feel Stuck?
Need leads, sales, and revenue growth?
You can get your phone ringing and your inbox full of top-shelf, ready-to-buy prospects and build a sales team that systematically converts them into customers. It’s time to grow revenue and leave your competitors behind.
Need a team of winners, not strugglers?
Need a team of winners,
not strugglers?
You can join the ranks of elite recruiters and hiring managers and win the perpetual war for talent. It’s time to get the A-player team members you deserve and let the rest work for your competitors.
Need to get control of your cash flow?
Need to get control
of your cash flow?
You can become a savvy finance manager, control costs, conserve cash, and grow profits. It’s time to get control of the money flowing through your business and grow a fat savings account.
Need to get your business ready to sell?
Need to get your business
ready to sell?
You can build a team that'll run your business like they own it and reduce your daily workload. It’s time to build a business that doesn’t revolve around you so you can sell it for a big multiple when you’re ready.
The name Praeordium comes from Latin — the moment before something powerful begins.
Not the training event. Not the coaching session. Not the strategy presentation.
The moment a business owner or leadership team decides the gap between where they are and what they're capable of is no longer acceptable.
Most development programmes end with a report, a certificate, or a debrief.
Ours starts with that moment — and ends with a result.
Not because we work harder than other coaches or consultants. But because we start differently — with the business outcome you actually need, and design everything else around delivering it.
If you've been through coaching or training that didn't change anything, that's not a reflection on your business. It's a reflection of how the engagement was designed.
We design it differently.
Where Is Your Business On the 5 Steps to Freedom?
And what should you do right now to move your business toward the Freedom step?
Complete this 10-minute scorecard to find out!
And what should you do right now to move your business toward the Freedom step?
Complete this 10-minute scorecard to find out!
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In 30 minutes you'll know exactly where your biggest performance gap is and what it would take to close it. No preparation needed. No obligation after.
About
Steve Uren
With over 30 years of international leadership experience in the energy, engineering, and industrial services sectors — including P&L responsibility for a $200M+ regional service line and 15 years building global people and capability functions at SLB — Steve Uren brings a rare blend of strategic, operational, and coaching expertise to every client engagement.
He's led teams across the UK, North Sea, North Africa, West Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and the U.S. He also knows what it's like to be the owner — as co-founder of The Fitba Factory, a small business in Sugar Land, Texas, he navigates the same decisions, constraints, and trade-offs that every client he works with is managing daily.
Today, through Praeordium Consulting & Coaching, Steve works with owners, executives, and leadership teams of industrial services, manufacturing, and energy supply chain businesses between $1M and $50M — helping them identify where profit is leaking, build the systems and people infrastructure to stop it, and move from chaos toward the freedom they started the business for.
The experience behind every engagement:
● Trained and assessed at the Center for Executive Coaching, an ICF-accredited programme — final credentialing hours in progress.
● Chartered Fellow of the CIPD — the highest professional recognition in people and organisational development they offer
● 15 years leading people and capability functions inside energy and industrial businesses — which means understanding your sector's talent constraints, not just generic HR theory
● Built and led the global Learning Solutions team at SLB — one of the world's largest energy services companies — responsible for capability development across multiple regions and business lines
● Scaled a learning organisation from 4 to 50 people in 7 years by connecting every programme directly to measurable business performance
● Carried P&L responsibility for a $200M+ regional service line across Africa — which means every recommendation comes with commercial accountability, not just advisory distance
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Book Your Free Consultation
In 30 minutes you'll know exactly where your biggest performance gap is and what it would take to close it. No preparation needed. No obligation after.
FREE ebook reveals the top 6 mistakes business owners make...and the "Silver Bullets" you need to blast through each one and dramatically increase your cash flow, team productivity, and free time!
About
Steve Uren
With over 30 years of international leadership experience in the energy, engineering, and industrial services sectors — including P&L responsibility for a $200M+ regional service line and 15 years building global people and capability functions at SLB — Steve Uren brings a rare blend of strategic, operational, and coaching expertise to every client engagement.
He's led teams across the UK, North Sea, North Africa, West Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and the U.S. He also knows what it's like to be the owner — as co-founder of The Fitba Factory, a small business in Sugar Land, Texas, he navigates the same decisions, constraints, and trade-offs that every client he works with is managing daily.
Today, through Praeordium Consulting & Coaching, Steve works with owners, executives, and leadership teams of industrial services, manufacturing, and energy supply chain businesses between $1M and $50M — helping them identify where profit is leaking, build the systems and people infrastructure to stop it, and move from chaos toward the freedom they started the business for.
The experience behind every engagement:
● Trained and assessed at the Center for Executive Coaching, an ICF-accredited programme — final credentialing hours in progress.
● Chartered Fellow of the CIPD — the highest professional recognition in people and organisational development they offer
● 15 years leading people and capability functions inside energy and industrial businesses — which means understanding your sector's talent constraints, not just generic HR theory
● Built and led the global Learning Solutions team at SLB — one of the world's largest energy services companies — responsible for capability development across multiple regions and business lines
● Scaled a learning organisation from 4 to 50 people in 7 years by connecting every programme directly to measurable business performance
● Carried P&L responsibility for a $200M+ regional service line across Africa — which means every recommendation comes with commercial accountability, not just advisory distance
Consulting, Coaching, and Capability Development — serving clients globally.
📍 Based in Sugar Land, TX — serving Houston & clients across Texas.
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