From your roots to new routes.Supporting companies across all sectors to achieve their business growth and personal ambitions.

The Alternative Board (TAB) believes that every business owner has the right to expect that their business can deliver for them what they want out of life.The confidential advisory boards that we create, manage and facilitate comprise of local business owners, managing directors and CEOs who run non-competing businesses. Board members meet monthly to learn from one another's successes and mistakes to grow their businesses to the next level. Members also benefit from business coaching sessions focused on their business and personal growth and access to TAB’s business tools designed specifically to help SME business owners.Contact me if you want to find out more and we can meet up over coffee ☕️Working with: Business Owners, Directors, Peer Advisory Boards, Coaching , Consulting, Strategic Planning, Small to Medium Businesses, Family Business,

Identified opportunities to commercialise existing University services and physical assets. Development of new products and services for industry utilising knowledge and expertise from within University.Development of idea-generation 'sandpit' process and delivery of workshops to encourage University -wide collaborative approach to innovation and income generation.

Business Manager of Centre for Design and Innovation (C4DI)Managed C4DI team to promote use of design tools and techniques to achieve business growth.Worked with SMEs across Scotland to help them to adopt user-centred design principles to clarify their vision and solve business challenges . Helped companies generate new ideas , develop new products and truly customer focussed services alongside effective communications and branding.

Delivered Account Management and individual business advice for portfolio of high growth SMEs and spin-out companies from Universities and Research Institutes. With a focus on new technologies and products my sector experience encompassed Oil and Gas, Life Sciences, Digital Media and High Technology. Support activities included Strategy and Technology Development, Investor-Ready , Globalisation, Marketing and Exit Strategy.Implemented Life Sciences Strategy across North East Scotland to support collaboration and co-operation within the sector and academic base.Provided commercialisation support to Universities and Institutes to encourage new ideas to filter out from academia into the business world.

Foresighting. Development and delivery of Labour Market information process to help young people/adults to make career choices in the light of current and future labour market changes. Cross -sectoral approach. Responsible for staff training across 4 area offices.Development of product to allow 4 regional offices to access current local, regional and national data in real time.

Delivered business growth support and advice for companies across West Lancashire in manufacturing, aeronautical engineering , tourism and food & drink sectors. Representative on board for Regeneration projects in areas of economic declineManagement of contracts worth £5 million to support regional initiativesQualified 'Train the Trainer' supporting Business Owners in tourism sector to encourage excellent service and customer retention

Key account responsibility for collaborative partnership with French company for range of 18 product lines. Duties included contract negotiations, production scheduling and delivery, product promotion, pricing , packaging and ingredient sourcing. Frequent travel to FranceFacilitator on quarterly Northern Foods Residential Graduate Management programme

Course Director for Language School serving students and business professionals from France, Germany, Italy and SpainResponsibility for team of EFL TeachersDelivery of 1-2-1 support for bespoke courses