Dr. Stewart Barnes is the founder and CEO of QuoLux™ whose business mission is supporting leaders to be the best they can be and whose purpose is to #InspireBelief. QuoLux™ achieves this through the delivery of its in-person and online leadership, strategy, innovation & management programs - LEAD™, GOLD™, GAIN™, Leading MBA & LEADlight - and through its consultancy division with its focus on How-To e-learning library and DigiTools, business planning, executive coaching and business mentoring, Non-Executive Director & Trustees services, employee engagement, culture change and online Planning2Win simulation.

Provided a dedicated consultancy service offering strategic planning and leadership support to aspiring small-medium sized companies (up to £45m in size) which were capable of accelerated growth, across all sectors in the South West. Growth was an average 22% with many clients doubling sales and profits. My clients have been recognised in local, regional and national awards.I helped enhance leadership capability, raise knowledge and understanding of change dynamics to harness the clients’ senior management team to successfully deliver against the organisations’ change agendas.

HansenGroup a/s is a £100 million, family owned, Anglo-Scandinavian Company with 1,000 employees in fourteen strategic business units on 20 sites in six countries. Achievements and responsibilities include:- Grew the Group organically and by acquisition.- Led the turnaround of four businesses into highly profitable companies that now lead in their market segments through building strong management teams capable of implementing the appropriate internal controls and agreed action plans. Three of the business turnarounds were in different countries with different cultures.- Educated, coached and mentored local managing directors in profitably growing their business. - Introduced across the group Vision and Values, strategic planning, key performance indicators, benchmarking, new business and financial reporting systems, and Situational Leadership, giving a common business planning template, improving performance and financial understanding and instilling a consistent leadership style. - Full divisional P&L, Balance Sheet and cash flow responsibility.- Played an active part in the team that acquired new businesses and sold non-core companies.- Participated in corporate governance issues consistent with main board duties.- Developed group-wide leadership development programme, appraisal system, succession planning, identification of ‘potential stars’ and transfer of same around the organisation to broaden experience and hasten development.- Devised corporate communications and PR brief and appointed and managed agencies for PR, literature, website design and exhibitions.