I specifically focus on 3 main areas of business performance, Leadership, Market Growth & Business Turnaround.

Leadership & Market Growth are in essence the 2 major factors that Executives must internalise & continue to leverage if any company or enterprise is to prosper & survive.

These 2 areas cover all aspects of an operation from the Human Resource/People Development area to strategic market understanding & planning.

Business is like life itself, a cycle - a continuous series of challenges, obstacles, economic movements & above all increasing & sophisticated competition that will always occur & an enterprise must continually re-invent & develop itself if it is to remain relevant & successful.

Of course, it is when an enterprise is successful, has been profitable & growing that often it becomes arrogant, no longer listens to its

customers, gives scant attention to its people & their development & consequently has a poor level of succession planning that may lead to eventual crisis.

In this mode, if the CEO/Board do not implement urgent changes of focus & vision then it sadly before too long finds itself in the wilderness exposed to all kinds of predators & has a short window of time to implement a Turnaround.

MY PHILOSOPHY & STYLE

As a 'hands on' manager in business & never one known to enjoy sitting in the office & writing reports, my style has continued on to this day to my clearly avoiding projects that require long winded reports, exaggerated periods of assessment & overtly walking the political tight-rope.

My entire career reflected definitive periods of engagement to realise the target required before I elected to move on & close the chapter.

It is rare that I involve myself over a long period of time with any entity other than mentoring because I believe that all projects, roles & programmes are planned with the goal firmly in mind over the most efficient time frame possible, this is why I am myopic about business planning & appraisals.

I am not a consultant (I detest the tile) & see myself as a strategic advisor & never engage a project where the leadership has poor or low standards of excellence.

I operate in a simple but targeted manner & expect high results from senior management along with high accountability, integrity & awareness, above all, I expect senior managers to lead not follow or wonder.

I respond best when the Board &/or CEO & their management team are candid & open about their entire business with an accurate appraisal on the current state of their annual business plan & a specific understanding of where they want to go!

I expect to sign a non-disclosure agreement & will reciprocate with my own, this is the foundation of any relationship & portrays the trust & professional respect both parties have toward each other.

On large or detailed projects or such that require a result in a rapid time frame, I may present for engagement other associates who I have collaborated with on other projects or others that I know have an excellent track record in their discipline.

My fees are project based only & are negotiated & agreed with the Board &/or CEO over an exact time frame.

To me, business is not a game (although it has many parallels in sport), is not a club or benevolent society but should be the most noble of all human endeavour with the highest ethics, standards, diversity & above all, transparency.

Above all, business is a place where anyone can excel by deploying the learning, skills & standards they have acquired to ensure not only their own prosperity but the entire world.