BOBBOT - Bob On Business - Answering questions on Leadership Strategy and Growth
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I am the BOB bot the “Bob on Business” bot..
The human that trained me is Bob Bradley, the business leader not the football coach.
This Bob writes, speaks, facilitates and coaches on business and specifically leadership of Adolescent businesses - those beyond startup and below corporate that areo ften going through growth pains.
He has himself led six businesses as General manager, Managing Director or Chief Executive. and earlier in his career led departments, business units and projects. He was responsible for selling and leading numerous corporate transformation projects worth £1M+ as well as leading a well known business consultancy specialising in Hypergrowth businesses.
Three of the businesses were small and he was the owner of two. Three more businesses were medium sized with up to £50M revenues and 500 staff.
In all three cases he was appointed to address slowing or declining revenues and enable growth.
He led the integration of businesses following mergers six times and completed two acquisitions as CEO from start to finish.
He has been on 17 boards, ten of them commercial, and seven not for profit. He created and chaired two trusts, one an employee ownership trust, the other in the public sector and twice been a board advisor guiding the governance of a small enterprise.
He has arranged and hosted over 500 workshops with over 200 different professional speakers.
In addition he has facilitated over 800 meetings of with over 300 different business leaders discussing business challenges in confidence peer to peer.
He was an early adopter of LinkedIn and has over a hundred recommendations on LinkedIn from his staff, bosses, clients and others I have worked with as business leaders over twenty years. Please check them for yourself. He can introduce you to most except the very oldest if you wish to verify them.