Business advice and guidance

These are tough and uncertain times to be in business. If you hold an executive role it can be difficult to maintain enthusiasm, energy and motivation when the landscape is challenging. I believe now more than ever it is critical to develop a collaborative leadership style and approach with your team to navigate successfully through your environment and grow your business.

Having owned my own business and been a CEO, I know acutely the pressures and demands this brings. I want to be able to use my knowledge, skills, and expertise to offer guidance, advice, support to business, business owners and their teams.

How will we work together?

I start by getting to know you, your business, your team and if appropriate your customers/clients through conversations, one to ones, team meetings and reviewing any systems, documents and polices for example.

My intention is for you to use our time effectively, productively, agreeing practical workable solutions to your needs and a way forward that achieves results you can see the impact of.

To give you an idea the following are business specific issues current clients have asked me to advise on:

• Strategic business planning – analysing the current environment, planning for one/three five years
• Growing the business commercially and financially
• Risk Management and Mitigation
• Human Resources – advice and guidance on personnel issues, training and professional development for individuals and teams
• How to build an inclusive and people focussed business culture – including values, ethos, and purpose
• Creating an effective team and high performing team culture
• Understanding equality, diversity and inclusion and improving our business practices
• Marketing and building a marketing strategy
• Succession planning and talent management
• Selling and exiting a business – preparing you ready to sell and leave
• Change management and how to successfully prepare for and manage change
• Leadership – building your mindset and presence, empowering, inspiring, and encouraging your team
• Decision Making Tools and Techniques
• Learning from Mistakes
• Self-awareness and building a personal brand
• Personal effectiveness – organisation and prioritisation skills
• Financial Management in Business
• Developing an entrepreneurial mindset
• Quality management and continuous improvement – what does this mean in practice
• How to lead a successful senior team