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Lunch and Learn: Hiring the right people for your small business

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In this Lunch and Learn, business adviser

shares tools and techniques to help you find the best people for your organisation and build a positive company culture that fosters success. 

Don't miss this chance to improve your team-building skills and take your business to the next level!

As a business adviser, Tony focuses on making small businesses more efficient places to work. With a wide range of experience in joining up operations and technology, he identifies ways for businesses to structure themselves so they get the most out of their teams.

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Improve your team-building skills and take your business to the next level by hiring the right people.

I am a highly accomplished C-suite and Senior Leadership Team member, recognised for exceptional leadership and strategic expertise in sales, marketing and business development. Demonstrated success in international leadership positions, including successful start-ups (UK and USA), Private Equity and IPOs, MBOs and orchestrating three seamless acquisitions. Trusted professional known for managing very complex working environments with a dependable reputation built on trust and honesty. A focused leader experienced in driving companies through high growth, strategic transformations, business integration and fostering high-performing, thriving people-first cultures. Leadership style centred on compassion, motivation and inspiration, setting clear team goals, targets, and incentives to cultivate a culture of continuous communication, interaction and engagement for sustainable performance improvement. Proudly committed to nurturing and developing talent, serving as a hands-on people manager, dedicated coach and compassionate leader who has empowered countless individuals to unlock their true potential and achieve remarkable success.
During my career I:-
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<li>At the age of 27, I created the strategy and led the growth for Mosaic Information Technologies, that resulted in the business being acquired by NASDAQ listed company, Intelect Inc., for $15m after 18-months of a $200k angel investment.</li>
<li>Personally responsible for a $2m trade investment into my start-up, International Multimedia Corporation</li>
<li>Played a pivotal role in starting the Roc Technologies revenue scale-up from £3m to £35m over a 4-year period and part of the senior leadership team that secured BGF’s largest investment for an MBO and acquisition.</li>
<li>Successfully led the Nimbus Partners people integration of 150 people into TIBCO post their acquisition and ran the business unit globally resulting in being promoted to the TIBCO global senior leadership team.</li>
<li>Managed and scaled-up the AvePoint UK business during the pandemic and transformed the territory by implementing a compassionate operating model that became the global standard.</li>
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My core competencies are:
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<li>Organisational Leadership</li>
<li>People Management</li>
<li>Leadership Development</li>
<li>Board &amp; Stakeholder Engagement</li>
<li>Strategic Vision</li>
<li>Global Business Development</li>
<li>Crisis Management</li>
<li>Data-Driven Decision Making</li>
<li>Negotiating &amp; Influence</li>
<li>Financial Planning &amp; Forecasting</li>
<li>Process Transformation</li>
<li>Innovation &amp; Critical Thinking</li>
</ul>
<ins>Industry Highlights</ins>
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<li>£40m + Merger and Acquisition activity.</li>
<li>10+ industry awards.</li>
<li>8 Start-ups.</li>
<li>30+ years of corporate experience including sitting on Boards and SLTs of global public companies.</li>
</ul>

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I am a Leadership and Operational Improvement Advisor, Trainer and Mentor, specialising in helping businesses to focus on Operational Excellence and Building High Performing Management and Leadership Teams.
I work with people managers and business leaders who are stuck in a rut or hit a ceiling and need help focussing on the priorities to help their business improve. Upskilling them with mgmnt &amp; leadership development and mentoring them on how to manage their people fairly and effectively and their processes, workflows and standards efficiently.
With over 20 years Operations Management and Leadership experience, working for multi-national and market leading organisations, I provide real life and practical solutions to business problems.
As a trusted advisor, coach and mentor to Senior Leaders down to front line Team Leaders and Supervisors, I provide them with essential Lean and Management tools, techniques and skills to help them operate more efficiently, with an action oriented approach to achieving improvement goals.

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