Whilst some kids had paper rounds, by the time I was 10 I had a small flock of sheep! The sheep produced lambs which I sold in the local livestock market and that’s how I started to develop my business skills.

 

In 1991 I entered the family agricultural merchanting business where I sold animal feed and fertilisers to farmers in Mid Wales.

 

In 1992 I started a Landscaping business during a time of recession. I went onto grow that company into a nationwide commercial landscape construction operation with sales of £4million. The company had two regional offices and won 3 nationwide awards for projects. I developed a Blue Chip Client Base including supermarkets, hotels, fast-food restaurants and London based property developers as well as construction companies and the public sector. Our supply chain spread across Europe and we were asked to tender for work on the Olympic developments at the Greek Olympic Games.

 

 

In 2003 I became a Business Coach and worked with various coaching organisations. But I could see something was missing in what was being offered in the market place to business owners and entrepreneurs.

 

For some time I kept asking myself the question: “What did I need from a coach or consultant, when I was Managing Director of a business which I grew from nothing to be a nationwide player?

 

The answer to that is simple: I needed to understand what I did not know, overcome my fears and self limiting beliefs but I also needed to apply what I knew. But interestingly enough, at the time I thought I knew it all, did not believe I had any fears or limiting beliefs and was applying everything I knew! I also needed someone who had been there, seen it and got the T-shirt.

 

I didn’t take kindly to ex-corporates with no experience of growning and running an SME (Small to Medium Sized Business) trying to tell me how to run my business! I needed someone with experience to show me the tricks to make my life easier. That is the essence of “The Entrepreneur's Coach”.

 

 

National Diploma in Agriculture:                            1984 - 1987      

 

Higher National Diploma in Rural Management:       1988 - 1990         

 

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management:   1990 – 1991     

 

Business Growth Programme:                               2000                 Cranfield University

 

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Practitioner     2005