Counselling
Our business advisory service can help you start your own business but what about when you are up and running?
Where do you turn to for help and guidance through these difficult situations where you have no previous experience?
Enterprise Hertfordshire has a team of experienced Business Counsellors who will give you independent and impartial advice to give your new business the start it needs. This team has a vast experience of general business issues and over 50 years combined experience in counselling new businesses.
The Team includes:
Michael Veasey
Michael initially trained as an accountant, and then went on to spend 20 years in the furniture manufacturing industry. He worked in family businesses, ran a division of a
PLC and set up and ran his own businesses. During his time in the furniture industry he gained extensive experience of sales & marketing, exporting, manufacturing & operations, human resource management and design.
10 years ago Michael changed career into business and enterprise support, initially with Business Link for
Essex, and since 2005 with SBI.
Michael has also acted as a mentor to a number of different businesses.
Michael holds an MBA and is currently completing an MSc in Business Psychology.
Michael is a Certified NLP Practitioner and a BERR Women’s Enterprise Ambassador.
David Hills
Following a career with the Bank of England David joined Harlow Enterprise Agency in 1995. He continues to provide counselling support for S.B.I. mainly from its Bishops Stortford and Hertford offices – following
Harlow’s Merger with S.B.I. last year.
Prior to leaving the Bank, David was based at the Banks Banknote Printing Works where he successfully ran as the Managing Director, a wholly owned subsidiary company of the Bank. This enabled David to gain a wide range of business experience through the marketing of resources and skills available at the printing works on a commercial basis.
David Wall
A banker by profession, David specializes in Mentoring support for growing businesses. He led business banking teams for HSBC Bank plc in the west end of London, Luton & Milton Keynes, Cambridge and most recently
North Herts.
Since Joining SBI Enterprise Hertfordshire, he has presided over the opening of Stevenage's Business & Technology Centre and created the highly regarded Mentoring Programme.
He Says "I have worked with PLCs, public corporations and over seas companies but nothing rivals the satisfaction of playing the part in the success of hard working owner managers. Their contribution to the economic health of any region should never be over looked."
John Martin
John has been a business advisor for over 30 years and has held senior positions in both the public and the private sector. Throughout that time he has run his own businesses and uses his practical knowledge and experience to help people set up their own full or part time business.
In addition to devising and tutoring business courses John has written articles and publications on the practical aspects of running a business and presented papers and conducted workshops at universities in the United Kingdom and Europe.
John is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and in 1991 formed his own management practice working on a practical level with new and existing small and medium sized businesses.
Mike Williams
Mike spent over twenty years in the retail motor industry, working with Peugeot, Citroen, Honda and Hyundai.
During this time, his focus on customer service, brought many industry awards and his sales training skills, helped launch the careers of some of todays top executives.
He has been a member of the Institute of the Motor Industry and the Institute of Transport Management.
Mike has been working on the New Deal self employment programme for five years and has advised and mentored over 100 new entrepreneurs, as well as being
a volunteer business mentor for the Prince's Trust in Hertfordshire.
Shirley Davies
Shirley is a well respected local entrepreneur who; over a 20 year period, started, ran and ultimately sold her very successful Tea & Coffee House in Hitchin.
Along with Shirley’s wealth of experience at running her own business and employing 22 staff, Shirley is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management and Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, is an advisor to the EEDA steering group for Women’s
Enterprise and has recently become an ambassador for the Women’s Enterprise Ambassadors Network.
Shirley is passionate about helping people to reach their full potential and running her own business has allowed her the opportunity to do this.
SBI were Shirley’s advisers in 1986 when she began her business.
Her desire today is to support SBI, as the local Enterprise Agency, in its drive to cultivate an enterprising culture in North & East Herts in order to help drive economic growth, competitiveness and productivity for the region.
Shirley’s personal view is that enterprise is not just about developing employability, understanding the world of work or simply executing a job in a routine manner, it is about bringing ideas to life and turning them into something of economic value;
it is about contributing to innovation, spotting opportunities, drive, passion, taking risks, dealing with uncertainty, learning from mistakes and much more.
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