Ashdown Business Coaching - Jim Pirrie
Make more profit and love what they do. I help clients start, scale and sell their business.
With extensive experience in retail & hospitality. I have held board level commercial and general management roles with Sainsbury’s, Asda, Greene King, Matthew Clark and Superdrug in the UK and AS Watson in Hong Kong. With a focus on buying, marketing, digital, ecommerce, loyalty, and store concept development I understand how to build a dynamic, adaptable, and differentiated business model to underpin sales and profit growth.
With a love of all things tech I now also focus on ecommerce and digital excellence as a transformational strategy with all my clients.
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Business Doctors - Steve Jebson
Make more profit and love what they do. I help clients start, scale and sell their business.
With extensive experience in retail & hospitality. I have held board level commercial and general management roles with Sainsbury’s, Asda, Greene King, Matthew Clark and Superdrug in the UK and AS Watson in Hong Kong. With a focus on buying, marketing, digital, ecommerce, loyalty, and store concept development I understand how to build a dynamic, adaptable, and differentiated business model to underpin sales and profit growth.
With a love of all things tech I now also focus on ecommerce and digital excellence as a transformational strategy with all my clients.
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CaPS - Derek Mann
Compliance and Privacy Solutions Ltd (CaPS) is a consultancy specialising in Data Protection and Anti Money Laundering. CaPS works with its clients to provide support in relation to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (direct marketing, cookies etc.) as well as the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Regulations 2017.
CaPS supports organisations across all sectors with polices, processes, training and practical support for adhering to the complex regulations. Our aim is to help our clients minimise risk, meet regulatory requirements and increase customer confidence through risk assessed, proportionate support.
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Chapter Three Consulting - Eddie Finch
Chapter Three Consulting are compliance experts, specialising in a number of key operational business areas. They simplify complex areas of business on behalf of their clients, maintaining their own accreditation to ISO 27001 and ISO 9001. Eddie Finch is a lead auditor for ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 and has been assisting clients with GDPR and Data Protection issues and has managed a number of significant data breaches on behalf of clients.
Chapter Three Consulting can also support companies with ‘ISO as a service’ and can assist with information security and provide online training in this area alongside tabletop exercises and remote phishing tests.
Geoff Cooper is a licensing specialist and works with many well-known companies in the leisure sector in both a proactive and reactive approach.
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Fusion - Chris Mansfield
Do you or your business value networking as part of your overall marketing strategy?
Could you be doing more of it or be doing it more effectively?
Chris Mansfield is a professional networker, retained by a small number of carefully selected, quality businesses to network on their behalf.
Chris will help you benefit from learning some of the skills he’s picked up over 25 years of networking. He’ll make you more effective, by being more targeted, more focused, and less salesy. Do you know exactly what it is you do? Who your target audience is and why your clients should work with you? Chris will help you in all these areas and he’ll also give you hints and tips as to which events are best for you, the 4 steps of good networking and how to get in and out of awkward situations.
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Imaginarium Learning & Development - Joe Cheal
Imaginarium Learning & Development (est. 1993) is a consultancy that specialises in applied business psychology, real-world leadership, people engagement and inspiring the imagination and potential of organisations and individuals through training, group facilitation and executive coaching.
Areas of Expertise
Our overarching specialisation is applied business psychology. This broadens out into a range of topics with which we can provide support and expertise:
• Leadership (i.e. how to engage and empower your people including through times of uncertainty and ambiguity)
• Management (i.e. how to organise, delegate and also deal with performance and conduct)
• Understanding people profiles and building relationships
• Strategic influencing and thinking
• Solving ‘impossible’ problems (e.g. tensions, polarisation, conflicts and paradox)
• Negotiation preparation and skills
• Presenting with confidence
• Training others (live and online)
• Resilience, wellbeing and positive mental health (handling pressure and countering stress)
• Leading through projects and change (taking people with you)
• Driving your career success
• Managing priorities, boundaries and expectations
• Motivating yourself and your team
• Developing confidence
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Sussex Innovation Centre - Nigel Lambe
Sussex Innovation works with start-ups, inventors, innovators and academics to launch their projects to the market or grow their existing business sustainably and profitably. Owned by the University of Sussex, it has three incubator sites (on the University campus, in central Brighton and in East Croydon), and hosts a community of more than 150 businesses. The organisation's mission is to support the region's most ambitious and purpose-led businesses, helping them to scale and deliver economic, social and environmental impact.
Sussex Innovation’s specialist consultancy team are the people to talk to if you’re looking to drive innovative thinking, creative ideas and inventive strategies throughout your business. Whether you need to formulate your response to challenges like Covid-19 or Brexit, or want to proactively explore a more positive disruption such as Net Zero carbon, understanding innovation is key to protecting and growing your business. Book a free session to re-evaluate your products and business model, identify and respond to new opportunities, and build a roadmap to start making things happen.
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The Company Connector - Jeremy Taylor
Are you looking to raise funds to grow your business?
Do you have a great growth project but need help to access grant funding?
Are you looking to improve business processes, energy efficiency or anything else that helps your bottom line, but need support to access grant funding?
Jeremy will provide you with a Grant Readiness Review that will assess your growth ambitions, link them to the grant scheme(s) that you can apply for and give you clear guidance on how to apply.
Jeremy also has extensive experience in commercial growth having worked in business development for 30+ years. He brings imaginative and effective solutions to business issues and has access to contacts in all sectors and many geographies.
Business Interests:
Grant & Bid Writing | Funding | Business Growth | Marketing | Customer Service | International Trade | Event Management and Delivery
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UK Growth Coach - Tim Rylatt
If you are running a company, and it isn’t (yet) delivering the results, balance, or progress you want, I can help.
I’ve worked with 300 companies over 15 years, and seen the headaches, challenges, and opportunities within many SME businesses. I take a keen interest in every person and every company I work with, and love seeing them succeed.
An author of 3 business books, and a multi-award-winning business coach (including Best Management Consultancy 2023), I am the founder of UK Growth Coach & the franchise.
I offer a complimentary 90-minute session to any business owner in the UK with a turnover between £100,000 and £50 million – so do ask me for one!
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