"Great dreams are visions coupled to strategies for making them real"


Hello and welcome to my website
Creating and developing a business is an adventure which can be at times exciting, extremely challenging and, in many cases, immensely rewarding.
Working with an advisor who is external to your organisation is a tried and tested way of accelerating the journey to success.
Whether as a personal coach, mentor, consultant or non-executive director, engaging the right thinking can add an enormous amount of value.
Explore my little micro-site to discover ways I can help you and why I'm qualified to do so.
Or if you prefer to cut straight to the chase, let's have an introductory chat;


Tap into experience, help get your business going

Strengthen your ideas
You have an idea for a business or maybe you have already started one. How can you maximise your chancess of success in the early stages, when you know the least about what is in store for you and your fledgling enterprise? You are responsible for every aspect of the business, not just those bits you know and can do well. How can you make sure your plan covers all the bases and will deliver the results you want?
An experienced advisor or mentor can listen to and challenge your ideas so they become robust and watertight. Sometimes, just one good, in-depth conversation is all it takes to discover the strengths and weaknesses of your plan and come up with small improvements that can make a big difference.

Focus on the right things
Make the most of your best opportunities but avoid having your work cluttered with so many good ideas that no one thing gets delivered, leading to frustration or burn out. Finding the time to take the broader view of the possibilities and prioritising them is not always easy. Maintaining focus in the face of day-to-day reality is possibly even more difficult. However both are key ingredients in the success of any endevour.
Regular sessions with a business coach will help you structure your thinking and clarify your priorities as well as maintaining your focus on the decisive activities for your business going forward.

Proceed with confidence
Launching a new product, service or campaign is tremendously exciting but it is rarely the end of the story. In fact, for your venture to stand the test of time you will need to constantly monitor, diagnose and improve it.
Making sure you have the right basic measures and approach to continuous improvement will help maintain success in a constantly changing world.


Get things right and take them to the next level

Vision, mission & leadership
Having an exciting and motivating vision for the future is the key to inspiring staff as well as winning and maintaining customers, whatever your business.
Visionary leadership is not a tall order. Most business leaders, especially founders, have a solid gold sense of mission that can be uncovered and forged into a motivating set of ideas relatively easily. This is an important element of any business improvement initiative and a first port of call for the business growth services I provide. By uncovering and communicating these ideas to your business, you will begin to engender the culture of excellence that will be the foundation of ongoing success.
If you don't already have this in place and would like to explore;

How are you going to get there?
So you have great vision and an exciting idea of what success could look like but how are you going to get there?
A solid, well considered strategy with a plan and framework for executing it will put your business in a league with the world's top performing organisations
I provide a Strategy Development Process that combines blue chip ideas with a pragmatic, road tested, people focused approach to uncovering strategic initiatives as well as creating realistic plans for delivering them.
I have been helping businesses, both big and small, for a number of years and if you are a motivated ambitious leader of a business, I may be able to help you too.

Getting organised
Getting focused on the right objectives and organised in the right way is absolutely crucial for creating the conditions where great things can happen. Without it, work becomes ever more chaotic and stressful as your business grows.
A business organisation exercise will help identify the critical, core processes as well as defining the right accountability structure so the everyone in your business can produce the best possible results.

Metrics and data
Developing your business so that it is more profitable, more valuable and leaves you with an easier life, is possible.
Identifying and developing measures that can be reported on regularly is a critical element to achieving this because it holds people to account and provides the key insights you need to know when your business is flying along fine and when there are issues you need to dive in to.
You don't need to be a tech business to have a company performance dashboard that is simple to maintain but effective. To find out more;


Engage with confidence


A bit about me
My area of expertise is helping business owners and managers to develop and implement strategies for success so they can grow their businesses and achieve their goals.
I am skilled in organisational development with an MBA from one of the top ranked providers (The Open University) and I am also a member of the Institute of Directors.
I have strategic leadership and organisational development experience and have directed a number of SMEs. I have a broad range of hands-on experience growing and managing businesses in a variety of sectors including health, tech, services, ecommerce, events, tourism & educational governance.
I have overseen the development of a wide range of business areas including manufacture, finance, tech, consumer sales, customer service, marketing, & personnel.
I have directed a number of software development projects and am an active member of the Drupal open source software community.
Previously I worked for 10 years in a medium sized service provider in the intellectual property industry where I was involved in major change initiatives in a corporate environment involving complex programme management.
I can provide organisations with both the experience and technical guidance to get things right as well as the conditions and focus you need to take your business to the next level.
Michael Hanby MBA MIoD





Take Action
If you would like to explore how you can unlock more of the potential in your business, fill in this form and I will get right back to you.