Derek Tanner Email & Phone Number

South Gloucestershire

Embedding core coaching skills and delivering agile training solutions that drive behavioural change and align talent to organisational objectives and values. Providing targeted and holistic and timely support to ensure the wellbeing of teams and individuals.

Cornwall

Delivering the Coaching for Growth and Cornwall Business Start-Up programmes to businesses across Cornwall.Coaching Cornish high growth businesses and start-ups through key business capacity building programmes that assisted 2000 businesses and delivered 2,300 new jobs, £10m of external finance and £50m of GVA to the Cornish economy.

South West

Delivering high impact coaching interventions to leaders and their teams that make a real difference to business performance and enable innovation, change and high growth.

Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire And North Somerset

The Business Growth Service helps businesses who have the right level of ambition, capability and capacity to improve and grow. The service matches experts in business to companies with high growth potential; to provide a bespoke programme of coaching, connectivity, workshops and leadership training; all designed to help business owners and directors ensure their companies fulfil their growth potential and get the right advice and support.Helping ambitious high growth businesses to get tailored advice and support to grow their business through the Government Business Growth Service. I mainly work with SMEs on the Growth through Innovation part of the service which enables them to gain access to a range of funded support that enables businesses to commercially exploit their potential to innovate and create intellectual property as well as eliminate barriers to growth. I am one of a nationwide team of Growth Coaches and Growth Managers who form an unrivalled network of business inspiration and commercial innovation. We can help you to:• Build leadership and management skills• Access finance• Develop new ideas and products• Access and building supply chains• Export for the first time or breaking into new markets• Grow through innovation• Plan manufacturing strategy• Access Business Development Coaching• Improving manufacturing processes• Protect intellectual property• Connecting with a network of ambitious business leadershttp://www.ga.businessgrowthservice.greatbusiness.gov.ukIf you are a potential high growth company in the South West and looking to grow through developing new products and services, streamlining processes or branch out into new markets; you should want to hear more about the GrowthAccelerator service. So please get in touch with me at d.tanner@oxin.co.uk.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Common Purpose is an independent, international leadership development organisation.We give people from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors the inspiration, skills and connections to become better leaders at work and in society. Our aim is to develop a leaders ability to work collaboratively, inspire follower-ship, innovate and thrive in different cultures.Common Purpose run local courses for leaders in 35 cities (and growing) across the world and global programmes for leaders from over 100 countries across six continents. 4,000 leaders each year become Common Purpose alumni.Want to find out more?Visit our website:http://www.commonpurpose.orgExplore the benefits/Impact of our courses at:http://www.commonpurpose.org/why/benefitshttp://www.commonpurpose.org/why/impactSee why we believe that to operate effectively leaders need a different approach to leadership and acquire the ability to Lead Beyond Authority.http://www.commonpurpose.org/who/lba

Gloucestershire

I set up 4Lsd to help leaders imagine and transform. My mission to support ethical business growth having concluded that innovation, enterprise and growth are rarely achieved from a position of isolation. 4Lsd is all about inspiring change and encouraging leaders to continually develop their skills in the pursuit of excellence. The Offer:High growth strategic consultancy, business planning and change management.Independent non-partisan facilitation, mentoring and coachingThe Impact:-Promote strategy direction, clarity and sustainability. -Meet personal and business objectives.-Enhance creative decision making.-Engage employees, customer and community. -Improve competitiveness.-Create the conditions for business growth.

Swindon, London And National

Managing BCS Entrepreneurs project. BCS Entrepreneurs is an exciting initiative that provides a real-time forum for existing and would-be entrepreneurs to network with an expert group of innovation stakeholders from government, finance, academia, established and emerging technology enterprises and digital support clusters.BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, promotes wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice.My role involves leveraging the skills and influence of a bcs community, comprising over 70,000 members, to engage emerging entrepreneurial communities and grow the digital ecosystem, for the benefit of institute members and society. The bcs, Chartered Institute for IT members include many key thought leaders and corporations whose views, skills and experiences are directly shaping digital innovation internationally and ensuring that the IT profession plays a major role in economic growth.

South West

Growth Coach and Business AdviserDelivering business support, advice, coaching and mentoring to SME's on strategy, sales, marketing, finance, operations, innovation, change, people and skills. Working as part of a successful Strategic Development Team helping businesses throughout the South West with turnovers in excess of £1m. Building partnerships within the local business support community to stimulate regional growth. Supporting owners, managers and teams to focus on the real issues facing their businesses and cope with the demands of high growth by facilitating change, business improvement and sustainable development strategies. “Derek’s impartial advice in the areas of branding, operations and skills has contributed significantly to our strategic and business development process and helped us to access the support needed for us to achieve our objectives”. Lisa Snell, Proprietor, Cotswold Handmade Meringues“Yes everything is going very well currently, with the direct marketing recommended by Derek starting to show some good rewards”. Julian Benton, Proprietor, The Bedlodge

Education record

Honours Degree, Law

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Post Graduate Diploma, International Relations