Mike has led businesses for the past twenty years, across a broad range of sectors including FMCG, engineering, manufacturing and software development, with experience of differing ownership structures from private equity backed to founder or family owned. Mike has a unique blend of a strong financial background along with commercial and growth acumen, which has been successfully applied across a broad background of business sectors, during a successful and varied thirty-five-year career.
Mike has a passion to help leaders and owners to develop and succeed, alongside extensive hands-on experience leading Growth/Leadership/People Management/Strategy/Sales and Marketing and Business Exits which has enabled Mike to develop a large toolkit of knowledge and experience.
He has built a reputation for helping business owners to grow their businesses, improve their work/life balance and get the best out of their people and teams.
Mike is ready to meet with and, or mentor, any business in Cheshire, Manchester and surrounding areas. Contact Mike now for a no obligation discussion and he will help drive your business forward and increase your profits.
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Benefits To Your Business
Business Reviews
Undertaking a review of your business starts with what’s your goal? Where do you want to take the business to? In the course of the review, we will look at over one hundred and fifty different areas of your business including structure, management, processes, marketing, financials and of course your people. We will then present the review to you (and co-directors if you wish) highlighting the strengths and weaknesses in the business together with our recommendations as to actions needed.
Business Mentoring
We like to describe ourselves as your ‘challenging friend’ someone who is on your side, to support, help and encourage you but who will also tell it to you straight. Our role is to enable you to achieve your goals and help along the way with any challenges or obstacles that come up on the journey. We work with a lot of our clients for years, some over ten years, they appreciate having the support of an experienced business person who is available to them to discuss issues of any nature.
Strategic Planning
For many business owners, strategic planning is something that they rarely seem to get around to. Our role here is to discuss and agree with you on what do you want from the business personally and what the business needs to achieve to enable that. Once we have the ‘Destination’ set, we can work with you to agree on how this should be achieved, what needs to be done, benchmarks to be achieved and an overall plan to monitor progress.
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Whatever challenges your business faces, whether that be around people management, financials, marketing or any other area. Ultimately we help you to grow, turnaround or prepare your business for a sale.