After 30 years with best in class, global blue-chip companies I founded The Value Innovator in 2013 – a “me-only-company” to support ambitious SMEs with easy access to my leading company experience and transformational expertise, specifically in the areas of leadership and strategy.

During my time at Cookson Precious Metals, I was a member of the UK and European Executive, and responsible for almost every commercial aspect of the business.

I have worked in companies with revenues of hundreds of thousands, to hundreds of millions and found that the challenges tend to be the same, just with a few more or a few less noughts attached.

In my experience strategy does not have to be complicated, but it does have to be deliverable; and irrespective of the size, shape, or sector the 3 most common challenges facing business Leaders are how to: improve the performance of their people; the profitability of their products and the productivity of their processes; and that doesn’t have to be complicated either.