Highly experienced executive director, manager and business consultant with extensive leadership experienced in business advice, education / training and consulting organisations. Entrepreneurial and innovative with exceptional strategic vision. Skilled at engaging, developing and managing key industry and government relationships, and developing high performing teams across all areas of business. Extensive IT systems design and integration experience. KEY COMPETENCIESBusiness Strategy and Implementation: Highly skilled at formulating business strategy across all areas of a business, including subsidiaries and multiple brands, and translating plans into actions with measurable results.Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Strong track record in all previous roles of spotting gaps in a market or organisation and developing unique solutions – businesses, products or services – to fill those gaps.Marketing Management: Proven ability to steer marketing teams dealing with multi-faceted and complex marketing projects across all mediums, from initial concept design to implementation and with measurable ROI.Business Development and Sales: Adept at building and nurturing sales teams and their managers to achieve long term relationships with stakeholders, build sales pipeline opportunities, and lead complex negotiations to a successful conclusion.Writing and Drafting Content: Accomplished at distilling essential information and generating persuasive, readable content or reports online, in mail / direct mail, and in print. Financial Management and Analysis: Exceptional numeracy and finance skills, with ability to mine relevant data, analyse trends, and measure ROI or risks in all marketing, sales and strategic initiatives. Skilled at designing systems and reports to support management analysis and reporting. Team Leadership: Committed to building and empowering winning teams by actively encouraging a leadership and ownership culture at all levels, by ensuring two-way communication, evaluating options and encouraging action, staying positive, and leading by example.Change Management / Project Management: Highly experienced in managing projects of many kinds, including change programmes, and ensuring delivery on time and on budget, whilst also ensuring no impact to BAU and sales or product development pipelines. Additional experience in consulting on the design and delivery of change programmes for clients.