Tea With Tobi

Tobi Alli-Usman

TeaWithTobi ☕️ is a show provided by Prosperwell, the UK’s leading care home and home care digital marketing agency. Our aim is to help care businesses maximise their ability to provide the very best care to their communities. In order to achieve this we have growth focused conversations and provide solutions to the obstacles that prevent business growth. Join Tobi, thought leaders, academics, and his care sector specialist friends for tea and expect to walk away with tangible and practical solutions, which you can implement into your business straight away!

  1. 4d ago

    Preparing To Sell A Care Business & Life After Exit

    Ruth French and Sanjay Dhrona both built care businesses they never set out to run. Both sold. This episode is about how that decision gets made, what the process does to you, and what is left afterwards. Ruth spent ten years as a civil servant before coming into care on a rescue mission. With her brother Roger Catchpole she grew Stow Healthcare from one home to eight, specialising in turning around failing services. Four were rated outstanding by the time they sold, after a process that took three years. Sanjay was a party planner, running large scale events for banks, law firms and the royal family, before joining his family’s care home in Oxfordshire in 2015 for what he thought would be a three month project. He stayed ten years, achieved outstanding in all five areas twice in a row, and sold in under six months after a conversation at an event. In this episode: how they each knew it was time, what the acquirer’s due diligence actually asks for, keeping a sale secret from colleagues who had become friends, telling the teams, founder dependency and how to design yourself out, and what life after exit really looks like. Ruth is now director of French & Co Care Consulting and sits on the board of the Outstanding Society. Sanjay also sits on the Outstanding Society board, founded the Outstanding Diversity Forum, and is an affiliate of Green Templeton College, Oxford. Hosted by Tobi Alli-Usman, founder of Prosperwell. Recorded August 2026.

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TeaWithTobi ☕️ is a show provided by Prosperwell, the UK’s leading care home and home care digital marketing agency. Our aim is to help care businesses maximise their ability to provide the very best care to their communities. In order to achieve this we have growth focused conversations and provide solutions to the obstacles that prevent business growth. Join Tobi, thought leaders, academics, and his care sector specialist friends for tea and expect to walk away with tangible and practical solutions, which you can implement into your business straight away!