Blue Ocean Boardrooms
Navigating Strategy. Delivering Success
Our Methodology
Blue Ocean Boardrooms challenges you to take a deep dive into your business, explore the vision that inspired your journey and discover what future success looks like.
However you choose to work with us, our process has three clear steps.
Meet Chris
Exit Founder I Global Board Director I Chartered Engineer I Investor
I’m Chris Paddey and I help business owners and CEOs like you step back from the noise and gain a clear, objective understanding of your business’s current position. Through in-depth analysis, we’ll identify opportunities together, address challenges and shape a strategy that aligns with your vision and personal ambitions.
Chris brings together three rare perspectives:
The precision of a Chartered Engineer trained to solve complex problems
The experience of a global board director, shaping strategy at large international consulting firms
The pragmatism of an entrepreneur who successfully built, sold, and integrated his own company into a global group
This blend allows Chris to help leaders think differently, act decisively, and deliver results that endure. He founded Blue Ocean Boardrooms to offer something few advisors can: board-level strategy delivered with both rigour and creativity — and the clarity that comes when leaders step outside the everyday.
"Challenge creates clarity.
Clarity creates success.
Let’s make it happen."
I’ve been in your shoes, carrying the pressure, making the tough calls and knowing what’s at stake. I know how to plot the course to lasting success because I’ve done it myself. I also know you need more than theory or templated advice. You need the kind of insight that only comes from real experience.
If you’re looking for an expert partner to challenge your thinking, sharpen your focus and guide you towards the best outcome for your business, I’d like to welcome you to Blue Ocean Boardrooms.
Chris Paddey
CEO Blue Ocean Boardrooms
Ways to Work Together
Blue Ocean Members’ Club
Ongoing strategic councel
For business owners and CEOs who are ready to challenge their thinking, refocus their goals and develop a fresh strategy for success.
With Club Membership, you will receive a ‘Business Builder’ page and work directly with Chris a number of hours per month to align your goals with a clear plan, turning vision into results and driving real business success.
Boardroom Support
At the heart of your strategic decision making
For business owners and Boards who would benefit from a regular one or two days per month strategic problem-solver to refine their vision, establish clear goals and plot a route to increased business value creation.
Chris may work with you in the form of Non Executive Director or Board Advisor, whatever you decide Chris will work with you to deliver.
Interim
Projects
Focused interventions for your most pressing challenges
When your business needs an experienced strategic thinker to map out a project and implement it efficiently and successfully.
Interim project management is a bespoke service.
Business beyond the boardroom
Our exclusive flagship retreat takes leaders to the Adriatic, combining the calm of open water with structured, board-level strategy sessions that inspire breakthrough thinking.
Step on board and discover how clarity inspired by nature can drive fresh perspectives and deliver bold business improvements.
From £23,500
Blue Ocean Members’ Club
Ongoing strategic counsel
We provide consistent, high-level advisory support through monthly boardroom-style sessions. Each engagement is anchored in our three-stage methodology, ensuring your business remains on course for growth, resilience, and long-term value creation.
With a combination of you and Chris at the helm, you’ll develop a clear view of your goals and set a perfect course.
1. What you get:
A flexible number of hours per month on a Teams call, personalised live ‘Business Builder’ company Teams page, unique strategic business advice.
2. Ideal for:
Business owners and executives who want a trusted advisor in their corner for a few hours every month.
3. Why it works:
Offers continuity, accountability, and strategic insights in a light touch digestible monthly format.
Boardroom Support
At the heart of your strategic decision-making
We act as an extension of your leadership team, bringing independent perspective and boardroom rigour. From shaping growth strategies to preparing for exit, we help boards think more clearly, decide more confidently, and execute with precision.
Bring Chris on board and benefit from his deep experience in business strategy, goal-setting and most importantly - delivery.
1. What you get:
Director-level presence in board meetings, 1–2 days per month, strategic support, personalised live ‘Buisness Builder’ company strategy site.
2. Ideal for:
Business owners, CEOs and Boards seeking structured, external challenge and strategic clarity towards a particular goal – value creation, company sale, PE investment etc.
3. Why it works:
An external, experienced voice with direct influence over board-level strategy and decision making.
Interim Projects
Focused interventions for your most pressing challenges
For specific challenges or opportunities, we deliver board-level projects designed to drive measurable performance improvement. From cost reduction to market entry strategies, each engagement is tailored, outcome-focused, and delivered with the urgency and impact of a C-suite initiative.
In-depth interim leadership that understands your current position in detail and works within your business to create deliverable and measurable outcomes.
1. What you get:
Tailored, high-impact consulting engagement on a critical business initiative (e.g., cost optimisation, M&A due diligence, leadership alignment).
2. Ideal for:
Companies needing rapid, expert-led solutions to drive measurable improvements or tackle critical business issues.
3. Why it works:
Provides targeted solutions delivered with board-level insight and structure.
Business on a Boat
Executive Strategy Retreats
Where clarity meets the calm of the Adriatic
Our flagship experience! Away from the noise of the everyday, Chris hosts exclusive retreats aboard a Prestige M48 executive motor yacht in the Adriatic. These sessions give leaders the space to think deeply, reset perspective, and plot bold new courses with clarity and confidence.
Take yourself away from the everyday and spend time in nature and comfort, focusing on your business, yourself and your ambition.
1. What you get:
3–5 days aboard a Prestige M48 luxury power catamaran, docked in Split, Croatia, with facilitated strategy sessions by Chris blending business rigor with a serene environment.
2. Ideal for:
Leaders seeking breakthrough thinking in an extraordinary location.
3. Why it works:
Removed from daily distractions and immersed in beauty and comfort, Chris will lead you to inspired thinking which will allow you to make bold strategic decisions.
Our Model in Action
“When an Australian multi-business owner (leisure industry) joined our Business on a Boat strategy retreat, we undertook an initial business portfolio deep dive before challenging their Group offering together. The outcome was an inspired new approach to overall portfolio VALUE creation along with short, medium and long term goal agreements. Implementation will be supported by ongoing monthly Blue Ocean Boardrooms – Boardroom Support to ensure goals are met. During the business trip we also reviewed and refined operational efficiency and advised on their latest multi-million $AUS acquisition.”
“We recently undertook an
Interim Project
for a creative industries company Board of Directors. A complex restructure was successfully navigated which saw Blue Ocean Boardrooms working with the company board to deliver greater future business success.”
Our mission for the planet
Our planet’s incredible oceans, with their ability to act as Earth’s largest carbon sink, inspired the Blue Ocean Boardrooms concept. That’s why we are committed to doing everything we can to protect them.
As a purpose driven business we believe growth and success should go hand in hand with environmental responsibility, so we’ve pledged to donate a share of our profits to charities tackling ocean plastics and microplastics more broadly.
Every project we deliver helps remove waste from our seas, protects marine life and creates a cleaner, more sustainable future for everyone.
Ready to take the next step?
Your next strategic step starts here.
Book a confidential consultation with Chris.
