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Growth that lasts begins with balance.

Welcome to Elespire.


Elespire exists to help ambitious founder-led businesses grow with strength, clarity and resilience. The work connects brand, experience and culture, helping leaders tune into the signals inside their business and design the right path forward for their next stage of growth.


As companies scale, momentum often comes at the cost of coherence. Teams strain, stories blur, customers feel the shift and growth becomes harder to sustain. The healthiest businesses are those where brand, experience and culture stay in balance, creating a strong Growth Nervous System that can adapt and thrive.


When those systems move in rhythm, businesses become stronger, more valuable and more resilient. When they fall out of sync, energy leaks, confidence wavers and growth becomes fragile.


Elespire works alongside founders, leadership teams and investors to bring that balance into focus. That might mean shaping a clearer brand story, strengthening customer and employee experience, developing teams, or building a growth engine that can scale without losing its soul.

On purpose

The name Elespire blends two forces: elevate and aspire.


It reflects a belief that growth should lift people as well as numbers, and that ambition is most powerful when it is rooted in purpose and value creation.


It’s a reminder that growth is not about striving higher for its own sake, but about lifting with a clear vision, balance and intent.

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Spirit

Curiosity

Generosity

Generosity

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Because the most useful answers are rarely the obvious ones. Sustainable growth starts with great questions and a willingness to look beneath the surface.


Elevate.

Generosity

Generosity

Generosity

With insight, time and energy. The strongest partnerships and the best work are built on shared intent.



Act.

Energy

Generosity

Energy

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Calm, considered and warm. The kind that creates momentum, confidence and forward motion.




Evolve.

Origin

Ellie Duffus, Founder & growth partner at Elespire

Experience shaped by founder-led growth journeys.

Hello, I’m Ellie Duffus. It’s good to meet you.


For nearly two decades I’ve worked inside founder-led businesses as they’ve grown, through early ambition and organic growth, acquisitions, IPO and post-merger integration.


Along the way, I’ve seen one truth repeat itself: growth lasts when brand, experience and culture stay in balance. With balance, opportunities multiply, valuation rises, loyalty deepens, resilience builds, and confidence grows.


Elespire exists to help founders bring balance in early enough, before complexity or pace of scale pulls things apart, so their businesses grow with resilience and commercial strength intact.



〰️ Drum B2B Marketing Strategy of the Year


〰️ Shortlisted, International B2B Marketing Awards (Best Brand Initiative)

Perspectives

Ellie is a great marketing leader with an approach that’s always been innovative and refreshing. The feedback I’ve consistently received from people around her over the last 10 years has been fantastic.”


Andy Sellers, co-Founder, 3Search & 11investments

In practice

Powering organic growth: from unknown brand to IPO

Bringing brands together: foundations for sustainable growth

Bringing brands together: foundations for sustainable growth

What happens when a founder asks: “How do we find our zebra?”


The first marketer at this £8m business, I joined as it was turning five and ready for its next chapter. Together with the founders, we designed, implemented and evolved an international marketing strategy that was integrated with sales and culture.


6.5 years later, the business was award-winning, the team had grown with it, and the company went public at a £98m market cap. It is now a Main Market listed company.

Bringing brands together: foundations for sustainable growth

Bringing brands together: foundations for sustainable growth

Bringing brands together: foundations for sustainable growth

When four business merged, the challenge was clear: how to deliver one brand story that felt bigger than the sum of its parts.


Partnered with leadership to establish and solidify new market position, grow and integrate sales and marketing teams, and elevate industry profile.


The result: established market position, industry recognition and commercial growth, including 46% audience uplift, 82% more leads, and a 25% increase in average deal size.

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