James is an accomplished Executive Director with over 30 years of experience in leading, advising, and co-investing in businesses across various sectors, such as automotive, manufacturing, engineering, health, education, and national security and justice. He has a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes for businesses and projects facing complex and critical challenges, by applying his financial and commercial acumen, project and programme management, negotiation and transaction, risk management and dispute resolution, workforce development and talent management, and stakeholder engagement and communication skills.As the founder and Executive Director of Value Step Ltd, a dynamic advisory enterprise that supports business owners and senior industry leaders to identify, analyse, and deliver real value steps in their own businesses, James leverages his strategic leadership expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to enable and empower businesses to achieve their goals and overcome their challenges. He is passionate about applying core values and process to every engagement, bringing courage, truth, and laser focus to owners, shareholders, and management boards. He is also committed to education and community, having served as a Chair of School Governors and a director and trustee of a Christian healing ministry charity.