Even though we’ve gone through a lot of change in the last 12 months, profits have grown substantially
I started working with Richard in early summer 2015. We had been restructuring and repositioning the business over a number of years and had achieved a lot, but I didn’t feel that we were achieving our full potential and taking advantage of our opportunities.
It was really frustrating knowing that we’d got something really great, but not delivering the results quite as fast as planned.
Richard is a very commercial business leader
He has helped us strategically and operationally with running the business. Working with him has helped us be really clear on what we want to achieve over the next 5 years and what we need to do this year to get us there.
Over the last year, we’ve been through a lot of change including two mergers, but everyone in the business is fully on-board with what we’re trying to build and we have a brilliant, cohesive and focused team in place to take us there.
The team is really excited at our prospects
What’s very pleasing is that even though we’ve gone through a lot of change in the last 12 months, profits have grown substantially.
More importantly for me, the entire team is really excited at the prospects for the coming year and I have absolute belief that we will now start to take advantage of our opportunities and grow quickly and profitably in our chosen markets.
We've really improved the speed of change in the business
One of Richard’s strengths is helping us work out what’s really important, getting us to focus on that, and holding each-other to account for delivering it – this has really improved the speed of change in the business.