Chris Baron Email and Phone Number

A strategic and commercial business leader with a proven track record leading and developing large scale multi-disciplined operations in the leisure industry. Immediately available for consultancy/ Non Executive Director role.Passionately focused on success built though a team where everyone felt valued through personal development, continuous coaching and ensured a culture was embedded that allowed people to deliver at their best with autonomy and responsibility.Key Strengths· Ensuring consistent year on year profit growth by applying very strong financial skills along-side commercially focused analytical skills · Consistently delivering growth and the highest Net Promoter and Employee Net Promoter Score in the group through leading and energising teams to deliver a great customer expe-rience and maximise their full potential. · Delivering high customer satisfaction and repeat spend in a low-cost model.· Delivering many large multi-million pound projects and ensuring they delivered returns that exceeded expectations.· Leading and managing change and Organisational Design reviews, ensuring the skills of the team are maximised.· Developing mutually beneficial long term internal and external relationships through excel-lent inter personal, communication and negotiation skills.· Understands the importance when managing businesses of strategic importance to the lo-cal economy that we should be involved in developing a strategy to build a better sense of place e.g. Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership Director, Town Bid Vice Chair-man for Skegness and Mablethorpe, Vice Chairman of Visit East Lincolnshire BID, Chairman of Greater Lincolnshire Visitor Economy Board etc