JAMES GILLESPIE · PERSONAL ADVISOR · COACH · CHIEF OF STAFF
The next big step in your career or venture.
For senior leaders & founders in music & entertainment industries.
Career, venture, or scaling a company. When growth or change forces the next move, the person alongside you matters.
30 minutes to understand your situation and share my initial thoughts.
JAMES GILLESPIE · PERSONAL ADVISOR · COACH
The next big step in your career or venture.
For senior leaders & founders in music & entertainment industries.
Career, venture, or scaling a company. When growth or change forces the next move, the person alongside you matters.
30 minutes to understand your situation and share my initial thoughts.
19 YEARS INSIDE SONY MUSIC · SVP DIGITAL, THEN COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPS · THROUGH 3 INDUSTRY SHIFTS · ADVISING EARLY-STAGE AI IN MUSIC
ONE MOMENT · THREE SHAPES
One moment. Three shapes.
AT A CAREER CROSSROADS
The role stopped being yours.
Or the ground moved under it. You have to make the biggest call of your next chapter, and you need to trust your own judgement again.
BUILDING YOUR OWN THING
You've got the idea. Now the harder part.
A senior industry operator alongside you as you shape it, plan it, and build it well. Someone who has sat in the rooms your first customers used to run.
FOUNDER AT THE SCALING WALL
What worked at 10 people isn't working at 50.
The structure, and the sounding board, that let the company grow without flattening the team who built it.
START HERE
The State of Play Call.
30 minutes. Free. You bring the moment you're in. I give you a private read on where you stand and one clear next move. You leave with a written 2-pager after the call: what I heard, my initial thoughts, and a personalised roadmap for how I'd go about next steps, together, or not.
THE METHOD
Read. Define. Build.
The Root Note Approach. Three reads, in sequence, to a decision made right.
Read how it works →“A calm and considered voice of reason, with the skills and knowledge to walk through the key factors on my mind and help me navigate those in an objective way. I always come out feeling energised, with a clear vision on the next steps.”
Alexander McCloy, Founder – ex-Sony / EMI / UMG
ABOUT
Who I am.
I spent 19 years inside Sony Music, ending as an SVP, first in Digital, then Commercial Partnerships. I ran the UK relationships with Spotify, Apple, Amazon and YouTube through the digital shift, then streaming, now AI. Then I walked out with a letter in my hand and rebuilt. That's why I can help. I've sat in that seat. I've had to make the call when the old answer stopped working.
More on how I got here →When you're ready, the door's open.
30 minutes. Just a proper sounding board for the moment you're in.