Andy Henderson Email & Phone Number

Whalley, Gb

Brockhall Village, Blackburn, England, Gb

Welcome To The Summit! Business Leaders, Directors and Founders - this is your succession plan We're here to help you and your team stride forward purposely and climb higher together. What does your business SUMMIT look like? - more revenue and profit?- a stronger more consistent sales pipeline?- greater market share?- a solid, aligned, high performance team?- opportunities and new markets discovered?- investment?- freedom?- more purpose?- renewed enthusiasm?- succession plan, sale, and maybe an exit?- a lasting legacy? Don't go it alone, let a growth-guide walk alongside you, bringing fresh insights, breakthroughs and crucially, more of the answers you need. Decades of strategy, success mapping and implementation experience enable us to guide you to your specific business aspirations in a practical and engaging way. Let's go to your SUMMIT together. We're talking: StrategyMentoringPeoplePlanningMarketingCreativeCommunity HOW? MAP Succession is a proven growth pathway that we’ll guide you, your board and team through, at your side, every step of the way. It's a people first, bespoke and highly focused programme, redefining the foundations of your business and preparing the route for the next stage of growth. We'll help you and your team gain a renewed laser guided clarity and focus on exactly where you are now and where you want to be in the future, and we’ll create a step-by-step plan to get there. This is not just business strategy, it's a highly executable programme, combined with our years of experience in sales and marketing, that will help you navigate with purpose, to your SUMMIT. WHO? It's all about you and your growth and the answers to the questions you are searching for. MAP Succession is ideally suited for SME businesses ranging from £500k-£10m. Successful businesses that have experienced good growth, but in the present business landscape and buyer climate you may be experiencing a temporary plateau.

Blackburn, England, Gb

Started in Lancashire, we are the world’s only peer-to-peer business community growing our businesses through structured helping, and not awkward selling.Find out more by visiting https://www.youraffordableboard.co.uk

We are a movement of culture shapers, shifting conversations of care and support from the few, to the many. We are architects of healthy, thriving environments in the workspace and beyond. Always Flipping the Focus, to turn the negative into positive, we come as we are. Fun, refreshing and non-commercialised, we are support for each other - at all levels. WE ARE open conversation and a listening ear. We aren’t experts, but we know where they and we are with you on the journey.EVERY ONE of our interactions WILL encourage at least 6+ more positive wellbeing conversations. WE WILL impact 25,000 individuals in the next 10 years, positively challenging existing mental health statistics.Intrigued? Join us…we can’t save the world on our own.

Burnley, Lancashire, Gb

Syncora brings together specialist companies and charities with a shared vision. Together, we achieve maximum social impact by creating effective, collaborative services that make a real difference to people’s lives.Our flexible approach, our award-winning staff, and our wide range of expertise help us adapt to the fast-changing environment in which we work. Our purpose, imagination and passion drive us to find solutions to problems in exciting new ways.Each Syncora company has its own specialism, dedicated staff and an impressive track record in healthcare, support, and employability, and we’ve helped thousands of people and their families to live life to the fullest.We’ve developed longstanding partnerships across the North of England to develop new services and build specialist accommodation; investing in services that help families and communities overcome challenges, such as domestic abuse, homelessness, and dependence on drugs or alcohol.Individually we’re strong, but through collaboration and innovation we know we can have an even greater social impact; offsetting the effects of cuts to public expenditure by creating exciting, integrated solutions to complex social problems.That’s why we’ve come together as Syncora.We’re also part of The Calico Group which underpins everything we do with excellent governance, high standards and the support of a leading housing provider.We’re passionate and values-led, and our people are aligned and recruited to be committed to, and care about:- Going one step further with customers- Promoting individual and team wellbeing- Improving and strengthening ourselves and our organisation.Together, we focus on ‘doing the right thing’ in our customers’ interests; challenging processes or organisational barriers (others’, as well as ours) wherever we need to.We pride ourselves on our integrity and developing trusting partnerships – you’ll find that what we say, what we do and what you see are the same.

Our innovative recovery services enable individuals and their families to break free from drug, alcohol and other addictions. We’ll help you find not just substance recovery, but emotional, social, lifelong recovery.YOUR RECOVERY IS IN YOUR HANDS… but we’ll help you each step of the way.We always see the person behind the illness. Our success comes from our staff, 80% of whom, at all levels within the organisation, have been through recovery and can understand and empathise with others in similar situations.We support people throughout their recovery journey in a compassionate way, focussing on the long term solution, even beyond treatment. Clients can live in our housing for up to three years whilst working towards full independent living.With ACORN, treatment is just the beginning.

Burnley, Lancashire, Gb

SafeNet has been keeping women and children safe from domestic abuse for forty years.Over the years we have extended our services to all survivors and have developed specialist support for ethnic minority communities, children and young people, those with complex health needs, LGBT and male survivors.At SafeNet we are proud to deliver fully inclusive and accessible services.SafeNet protects victims and survivors of domestic abuse through the provision of safe refuge and support services, and promotes the prevention of further harm, through various initiatives including, working to build safe and healthy relations and promote equality.SafeNet deliver services throughout the North West from bases in Burnley, Preston, Lancaster, Rochdale and Blackpool.

I receive a tremendous amount of self-fulfilment in giving and sharing what I know with others. The decision to mentor someone younger at the start of their business journey was an easy one. We are at the early stages of our journey together, but our combined efforts are all yielding results. It's fantastic helping to set Sam off on the right course and to see him realise his vision.

Rising Bridge, Accrington, Lancashire, Gb

As approved and accredited Business Growth Coaches for the Government backed Business Growth Service (formerly Growth Accelerator and the Manufacturing Advisory Service) we know that sometimes businesses need specialist help to provide new skills and experience within the organisation or simply an safe and proven extra pair of hands to assist with project delivery/ Within specialists in many disciplines and Sectors, Affilius has built its reputation on proven return on investments.

Blackburn, Lancashire, Gb

Anthem's purpose is to Engage People and Deliver Results. Our unique ability is to offer both engagement strategies and practices that don't just seek to engage people in the workplace, they ensure that employee engagement has a measurable and positive impact on your customers too. We continue to work closely with our very first customers and continually invest in the success of our clients. Anthem has grown by providing the very best insight into employee, customer and supplier engagement through surveys, analysis and consultancy. With almost 2million data points at our fingertips, our team is skilled at spotting patterns to make meaningful connections between how what people think, how they feel and how this drives their behaviour.

Liverpool, Gb

Prept is not just a product, it is a company and a philosophy, one that is all about solving your business problems. Our friendly and knowledgeable team has experience building applications and products for lots of different clients in a range of sectors.Prept is our star product, an intelligent sales enablement platform that plugs into all your enterprise systems. You don’t have to worry about any of that, we have the wider expertise to implement the integration into your current set-up quickly and with a minimum of disruption.And if anything else should rear its head while we are working with you, we have the digital transformation and design skills to identify solutions that will help you to optimise all your digital platforms.

Alderley Edge, Cheshire, Gb

We sold Lanway in to Chess ICT in May 2016, this is when I joined the Chess business officially. I chose the role of Sales Director after several months getting to grips with the business as it felt like my next big challenge and something I really wanted to do. The last couple of years as MD saw me engaging in a lot more customer centric activities and this is the part of the business that I have really grown to love. The role itself is a busy one! I lead a team of over 20 sales people across three sites with roles open for another 9 people, the business is really growing and the opportunity presented by the Chess business is enormous not only for me and the team, but for our customers too.

I enjoy bringing guidance and direction to the management team, and likewise I love the ideas that they create and bring to the table to develop the business. A huge part of my role is to look at ways to enhance our clients journey with Chess ICT through each of our teams whilst looking at innovative ways to bring new clients into our business to learn what value Chess ICT can add to their organisations. We are a developing businesses that is consistently investing on our skills and expertise that helps us grow our services business MoM. Some of my personal highlights as MD: - Succesfully lead the acquisition of Profile IT 2013/14 - Built a great team, brought some amazing people in ! - Helped to develop and deliver an effective employee engagement strategy - Doubled the size of the business between 2012-2016 £12m > £24m - 34% YoY Services growth 2016/17 - Helped to sell the business to Chess in May 2016 - Played a part in onboarding and maintaining relationships with majority of our VIP Customers.

Prior to my promotion to Commercial and Opps Director, I completed a 3 year degree level course in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management - this effectively gave me some of the technical knowledge required for my new role. The role meant I had the responsibility for overseeing the management of our Commercial and Operations functions. Procurement, Vendor Relations, Customer Services, Bid Management, Marketing. Some highlights from my time in the role: - Became a Shareholder. - Brought Richard Bovingdon in as Sales Director, grew the business with Richard from £8m - £15m. - Won first 1000+ UMPC (pre tablet) deal worth around £400k - First 1000+ netbook stock order placed, largest reseller of Samsung netbooks in the UK - Won CPC framework Bid Desktops (worth approx. £2m rev pa) - Won CPC framework Bid cabling (£200k pa) - Won CPC Networks/server/storage Bid (worth £500k pa) - Won ITRAP Bid (worth £200k pa) - Won NNA Bid (worth £1m pa) - Won PfH Bid (worth £3m pa)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Sourcing new products and suppliersWorking with suppliers to design safer, more relevant products to the IT marketManaging a dynamic stock inventoryIncreasing stock turn and developing a smooth "just-in-time" incoming stock systemUsing economies of scale to bring purchase price downWorking cross functionally to design and implement operational processesNegotiating prices and termsManaging a team of 2 buyersSupporting a team of 10 sales people for all product and vendor pricing requirementsHelping to interpret and respond to various public sector tenders and framework agreement PQQ's and working directly with tier one manufacturers to assess product "best fit"Managing complex supply and delivery agreements and reviewing these arrangements post award of contractRunning a yearly stock take

Industry: ITKEY RESPONSIBILITIES Logging and tracking of all faulty returned partsLogging and tracking of all parts rejected as failures by the production centreClearing an aged stock returns backlog to prevent lossesLiaising directly with suppliers and vendors to return products for refundEnsuring customer complaints or quiries are responded to professionally and swiftlySupporting the sales team with any stock enquiries & questionsHelping to facilitate vendor involvement in more complex or serious client issuesManging the returns inventory to ensure there were minimal lossesArranging the on-site repair and collection of faulty hardware

Sole responsibility for the Customer Services and Returns administration of IPC (UK) Ltd

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IPC International - Industry: ITKEY RESPONSIBILITIESLogging and tracking of all faulty returned partsLogging and tracking of all parts rejected as failures by the production centreClearing an aged stock returns backlog to prevent lossesLiaising directly with suppliers and vendors to return products for refundEnsuring customer complaints or quiries are responded to professionally and swiftlySupporting the sales team with any stock enquiries & questionsHelping to facilitate vendor involvement in more complex or serious client issuesManaging the returns inventory to ensure there were minimal lossesArranging the on-site repair and collection of faulty hardware

Date With Destiny, Life Coaching

Nlp Foundation Diploma, Psychology

Mcips (Supply Chain Management), Procurement

Gcse'S; Bmaths - Bsciences - Bart - B; B, English