Meet the Team
The PCH Associates are all exceptional professionals that have been chosen to augment the PCH Growth programme, they each bring a specialism and are available to PCH clients depending on need. Each client has a bespoke plan to develop their own business for success and each will require a different set of supporting skills and services.
Consultants and Coaches
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Business Consultant
Alasdair Mackay is the Founder of Clearwater Advantage, a business growth consultancy supporting high-potential companies in meeting the challenges of the next stage of growth.
Clearwater Advantage aims in supporting high-energy, high-potential, ambitious businesses as they take on the challenges of increased scale and complexity that growth brings.
Alasdair works closely with businesses to develop a bespoke programme of improvement by identifying the key issues to be addressed in unlocking business growth, followed by designing the measures to drive the desired improvement and then executing the implementation plan.
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Business Consultant
Gordon Petrie is a leading Business Growth and Transformation Consultant and Director at Indesosa.
Indesosa specialise in helping companies address technology challenges they have identified which are outside the skills and experience available in house.
With over 35 years of experience and skill in IT his solutions Gordon will work with a company to predetermine a long-term winning IT strategy that will merge operational software through the analysis of business practices to grow productivity, efficiency and ROI.
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Business Consultant/Coach
Elwyn is a highly experienced Business Consultant, Coach and Mentor with over 30 years of experience in corporate finance and industry. His career highlights include working for major international banks and running his own Finance Broker business.
Prior to setting up CKL Consultancy Services Limited, Elwyn worked for a leading global manufacturer of compressed air and construction & mining equipment where he was the Regional Manager for Europe, Middle-East and Africa.
Over many years, Elwyn has been instrumental in the establishment, development and growth of businesses in EMEA markets. He is an experienced c-suite professional with a broad range of skills. His passion is for working with the owners of small and medium companies that are looking to grow and maximize their potential and with companies that are under-achieving and need help to move their business forward.
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Executive Coach
Robin Waite, as well as an Executive Coach, is the Director and founder of the Fearless Accelerator, as well as a highly sought-after Business Speaker and bestselling author of several books, including Online Business Start-up, Marketing Machine and the aforementioned, Take Your Shot.
From 2004 to 2016 Robin led a successful marketing agency serving over 250 clients. During this time delivering workshops and masterclasses that helped over 1,000 business owners improve their marketing, product architecture, pricing, websites and digital advertising.
Fearless Business helps amazing business owners to grow their business and shift away from a value-driven exchange of "time-for money" to charging based on “results”.
The FBA is a 12-Week Business Accelerator designed for Coaches, Consultants, Freelancers and Creatives. During the Accelerator they focus on three core pillars, Product Architecture, Pricing and Lead Flow.
Operations/Process
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Process and Sustainability Specialist
Zoe Darlington, Director of Pure Improvement are a business improvement specialist helping in manufacturing and engineering SME's improve their process performance.
Pure Improvement is a highly experienced and qualified Business Improvement practitioner based in Gloucestershire. They specialise in supporting manufacturing and engineering SMEs to raise their business process performance giving them the framework, capability, culture and accountability, required to improve business process performance and saving time, money.
Working with Leadership teams they ensure that Vision, Objectives and KPIs are all aligned so that Business Improvement activity is always focussed on supporting their business goals.
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Process Improvement Consultant
Bruce Wainwright, Director of SOE Projects Ltd, an independent Organisation Consultant delivering value adding change through value chain transformation (Supply Chain, Operations, Logistics Purchasing, including everything in-between) and improvement with a wide variety of sectors to deliver tangible results.
Bruce removes obstacles for businesses whose progresses has slowed or stopped so that the owner can get their life back with their family, stop staring at spreadsheets and make money again. Issues resolved include; unprofitable businesses, high staff turn over, outdated and inefficient processes in need of review. This is achieved by linking operations and strategy to transform how it's done today to be fit for tomorrow.
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Process Improvement Consultant
Andrew Phillips, Director of Lean Lines UK has over 20 years experience in a wide range of industrial sectors & non manufacturing businesses.
As a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (MIET) Andrew has proven expertise in project management and manufacturing systems improvement.
With his high level of technical competence, extensive experience in Lean tools, innovation and change management this empowers him to work with companies to introduce and implement change by engaging with individuals to make sustainable improvements, coach and mentor.
L&D
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Leadership and Team Coach
Amanda Livermore, the Founder of LORE is a coach specialising in team evolution, change and conflict resolution, supporting Leaders to raise their awareness, maximise their communicative effectiveness and decision making so that they can do the same for their organisations.
At LORE they support people to become the individuals they want to be through a blended offering of vertical and horizontal developmental approaches. They help those who are uninspired, incongruent or unfulfilled find meaningful, resonant and nascent direction in the world.
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Team and Leadership Consultant
Amanda Greenwood is the owner of Real Teams Coaching, which mentors, coaches and trains leaders in STEM professions who want to enhance their ability to connect, communicate and collaborate and revolutionise the effectiveness of their teams.
Amanda is an accredited executive coach and came to coaching from a long career as a management consultant, advising and assisting large, corporate clients with the people aspects of their organisational change initiatives.
Amanda has a long and successful record of helping people to collaborate better to achieve superb organisational performance.
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Management/ Leadership Consultant
Paul Holbrook of Diary Detox®, a fantastic tool to help Managers understand the value of their activities and focus on the appropriate balance for the level in an organisation.
Diary Detox was created to help managers look in the mirror at what they’re ACTUALLY doing. To see if what fills their days is taking them forward or dragging them backwards. To help them create clarity and focus over what’s important and to ensure it’s what they make time for first and foremost.
Diary Detox Discovery will give you an insight into how your people use their time today. You’ll see the risks at all levels in your organisation and start to understand what is damaging trust in your leaders. You’ll also understand your people’s wellbeing and where they are at risk of burnout.
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Sales/ Leadership Training
Diane Banister, Director of Intelligent Dialogue, a training & development consultancy that focuses on delivering results for their clients. Working nationally & internationally, offering a range of sales, customer service & management development programmes.
Intelligent Dialogue was founded by Diane who became involved in training & development in her role as a National Sales Manager for a leading Building Society. Their main driver is to help people & businesses be successful and achieve their goals.
Their emphasis is on building confidence, putting together clear action plans to transfer their learning into the workplace, and working with the line so that participants and the business get good results.
PR/Marketing
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PR Specialist
Fiona Scott is a PR specialist running Scott Media, journalist, media consultant, videographer and tv producer/director. She has worked in the media for 34 years including ITV, the BBC & Comic Relief. She is a former crime reporter and business editor of the Swindon Advertiser and former series producer for ITV Westcountry. She's also an ambassador of Swindon 105.5 and a working journalist writing regularly for the Business Exchange Swindon & Wiltshire, Bath & Somerset and for Total Guide to...
As her clients businesses grows she works with brands to tell stories and share news, through training, strategy, delivery via the media, blogging, social media management, animation and videography up to full broadcast quality.
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Marketing Director
Sophie Davies, Director of Your Marketing Department reviews all aspects of a business’s marketing to see what's working and what's not. Giving CEOs and MDs confidence in their marketing; creating clarity in strategy and supporting the team to deliver.
They create a clear, consolidated marketing strategy and a plan that everyone can work towards, delivering the results needed within the budget they have, allowing owners to get on with growing their business with one less thing to think about.
Your Marketing Department will look at and clarify who a perfect target audience is, how you need to position yourself to attract them, and identify at what point in the sales funnel you can make the biggest impact on the bottom line, and are here to help build up your marketing function as appropriate.
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Social Media Consultant
Rachel Allen, Founder of Making Business Social has 20+ years’ in marketing and has worked for large blue-chip organisations, local government and the charity sector.
Making Business Social helps ambitious, busy business owners to become more visible and confident online. They are passionate about making sure your business has brilliant content to help you to attract new customers.
They offer a winning system to allow you to manage your social media marketing yourself within 30 minutes a week. Plus, you'll have access to their team of social media experts with heaps of experience across a range of different business sectors who can coach you to make sure your content is really great.
Business Services
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HR Director
Jayne Morgan, Managing Director of Just Global HR Services Limited provide Strategic HR services for all sizes of business, sectors and locations by providing the day-to-day HR support needed to manage any people issues, by supporting businesses with all the HR Administration and Employee Relations as part of that Business or by becoming the entire HR Team.
Just Global HR Services Specialises in HR Outsourcing, HR Consultancy, HR on Demand and Coaching to support businesses to improve its efficiency, change the way they work and provide business growth.
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Health And Safety Consultant
Andy Rhoades, Health and Safety Consultant at ABR Safety and a NEBOSH qualified Health and Safety professional. Andy is also a Graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
Andy’s background covers senior operational management and health and safety, so he knows what it is like to have competing priorities, as a business owner or manager.
Andy can act as a businesses qualified and competent Health and Safety Advisor or support their own internal expertise providing them with their own safety team when and where they need it. Andy will also provide practical advice enabling businesses to understand how to address their risk and safety concerns. He can also provide training tailored to the work environment, with methods designed to take account for all learning styles, so people can understand how the principles apply to them and their work.
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Event Photographer
Kay Ransom, Founder of Kay Ransom Photography, an award-winning professional photographer for the last sixteen years previously working in the film and television industry.
Kay has a photo studio in Cirencester’s town centre that can also be portable and taken to any location in the UK.
As well as this Kay also offers corporate and event photography, as well as social media photography packages, zoom background designs and mobile phone photography training.
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Recruitment Specialist
James Dale, Director of Your Talent Solutions, specialising in recruitment projects and programmes with a main aim to help businesses stop using recruitment agencies.
Your Talent Solutions have a wide range of specialised areas, from building businesses their own EVP and toolkit, introduce new technology to improve the candidate experience and building them a process that helps them find their own people. They have successfully found candidates from all over the world to work in the UK, and equally, placed people from the UK all over the world.
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Presenter and Speaker trainer
Chris Dawes, Founder of Open Dawes Training Limited a public speaking, presentation skills, and media training /mentoring company, founded by Chris from his personal journey of overcoming his own debilitating nerves presenting.
Chris has become one of the UK's leading International Motor Sport commentators, as well as hosting awards, events, interviews, podcasts and personal mentoring.
The core business of training and development programmes for public speaking and presentation skills, both in person and online, has clients all over the world.
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Sustainability and Corporate Engagement
Roderick Hebden, Managing Director of New Elements specialise in Corporate Social Innovation and Sustainability consultancy supporting a range of clients, both commercial and charitable, with marketing and income generation.
New Elements are a consultancy that believe that doing well in business can go hand-in-hand with doing good for people and planet. And they know that more and more businesses are starting to recognise the business benefits of showing what they stand for, and work in partnership with other businesses and charities to make positive change in their communities.
As customers and employees increasingly want, and expect, businesses to care about the impact you have, making your business more sustainable or finding ways to support your community can feel like a daunting, and possibly expensive, task. That's where New Elements come in. Rod’s team has decades of experience working with organisations from the smallest charities to the biggest companies in the World. Whatever stage you're at in your journey, they can help.
Finance and Funding
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Cashflow/ Credit Specialist, T&Cs
Nicki Kinton, Director of Confident Cash Flow, helping CEOs and MDs to eliminate late payments and boost cash flow. Creating robust credit management strategies to manage risk, improve financial agility and support business growth.
Nicki was one of the few people to hold a First Class BA Hons degree in credit management and she qualified with the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM).
Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business, without it the business starves and dies. Healthy cash flow needs good credit management practices and tools to support it.
Confident Cash Flow complete due diligence, write terms and conditions, complete credit control and management checks, review debtors ledgers, develop robust procedures, credit policy documents and design meaningful management reporting.
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Commercial Finance
Jerry Riches, Associate Director of Associated Commercial Finance Ltd help businesses, including micro companies, self employed and start-ups, with the finance they require to grow, working with customers, suppliers and accountants, consultants and business coaches.
After 32 years with Barclays Asset Finance Jerry knew every business was different. The challenge of finding the right solution for each customer was and still is the driver for Jerry.
By working closely with his customers Jerry is their advocate to an underwriter.
As well as financing all types of assets (vehicles, machinery, IT, office/shop fit outs & more) Jerry can also re-finance tangible assets, release cash from debtors and provide overdraft facilities and unsecured loans to assist with paying tax, managing stock or for a simple cash injection into a business.
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Commercial Finance
Julian Stevens, Director of Blaise Commercial Finance, founded in 2017, an experienced team of Commercial Banking and Development Finance specialists, undertaking a thorough review with clients to understand their unique business needs and then developing a plan to support their financial requirements.
Julian is a Commercial Finance broker with over 25 years banking experience, helping businesses to fund their goals. With clients across numerous sectors including but not limited to: Real Estate, Healthcare, Hospitality & Leisure, Student Housing and Accommodation, Manufacturing, Construction, Travel and Haulage.
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Innovation and Investor Funding
Ian Tracey, Founder of Anchored In Ltd is an experienced facilitator helping small business owners to understand the mix of funding and connections that they need. Ian has been a mentor for numerous programmes such as the EU funded Astropreneurs programme, the European Enterprise Network and the UKRI GCRF Demonstrate Impact Programme.
Ian believes in the sharing of his knowledge and connections to help drive innovation and society forward and to help policymakers understand what they need to do to help different sectors.
Anchored In works across the innovation system, helping companies understand what funding is best for them, grants, loans or investment. They help companies to understand the mix of funding and connections that they need and help them tell their story with clarity to prospective customers, grant providers and investors.
Admin
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Business Admin
Claire Weaving, Managing Director of Angel Virtual Assistant with over 25+ years experience in the Finance and Office Management sector, in a range of organisations.
Now working with business owners to run and expand their businesses, improve efficiency and deliver success, but often finding their valuable time often hindered by the demand of day to day administration and finance tasks.
Angel VA offers virtual admin, finance support and on-site support depending on the clients’ needs.