ALIGNING YOUR STRATEGIC GROWTH – VIRTUAL EVENT SERIES

Thank you to those who joined Rory and our guest speakers, John Hancock from Wolseley, Andy Goram from BizJuicer and Ian Filby ex-CEO of DFS. We hope you found the sessions insightful and you are already putting into practise some of the things you learnt.

Our virtual events series is now complete and we’d like to say a huge thank you to our guest speakers John Hancock from Wolseley, Andy Goram from BizJuicer and Ian Filby ex-CEO of DFS. All our speakers gave some great insights into how they have dealt with different situations within their careers, some really handy tips and of course lots of advice!

Although our virtual series is now complete we do have three FREE Business Breakfasts taking in Lincoln, Leicester and Nottingham in early November and a full day Masterclass at the end of November in Nottingham. To find out more information and to register please click here

SPEAKERS

Rory Underwood MBE DL, Director, Wingman Ltd

Rory established Wingman over 10 years ago and has seen the company go from strength-to-strength, working with a variety of businesses, varying in size and sector, and helping them to achieve their high performance goals.

Rory has a specific interest and expertise in the areas of effective communication and high performance leadership within teams. His experience and insight gained through his stellar rugby and RAF career has allowed him to bring a different perspective into the performance of business teams. He is an experienced facilitator, psychometric profiler and performance coach.

John Hancock, Managing Director, Wolseley Building Services and Infrastructure

John joined us for session 1 of the series to discuss how really understanding the strategy and business priorities has helped his senior team move the business forwards.

John became Regional Sales Director, Regional Trading Director and Regional Director for the North in July 2017, before joining the Leadership Team in 2018 as Regional Managing Director for the Central & Wales Region, with responsibility for safety and health at Wolseley. This wasn’t without a lot of hard work and determination along the way as he held several positions within Wolseley before leaving to widen his experience outside the company with PTS (part of the BSS Group) and Grahams.

John returned to Wolseley in 2010 gaining further experience before becoming the Managing Director of Wolseley Building Services in October 2019 and added Infrastructure to his portfolio in October 2020, as Managing Director.

           

Andy Goram, Owner, BizJuicer

Andy is a business strategy and employee engagement consultant who passionately believes that businesses and brands can be more successful if all their people, especially the ones closest to the customers, really get what you do and they feel emotionally connected to it.

This always starts by designing, aligning, and enthusiastically communicating the solid foundations of a clear strategy and a set of actionable values that set the tone for how the business operates and talks to its people and customers.

Andy has spent years engaging and aligning front-line teams, business colleagues, external partners as well as C-Suite peers on strategic brand, marketing, cultural projects, and challenges. Always with a dual focus on customer and employee experience.

                

Ian Filby, Non-Exec Chairman, Joules Ltd

Ian joined Joules in 2018 following almost eight years as Chief Executive Officer at DFS Furniture Plc. He is on the Board of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Chairman of the BRC Policy Board. He is also Trustee of Pennies charity, Chairman of Her Spirit and Director of IFF Life and Business Solutions Ltd.

Ian has more than 40 years of retail experience, largely at Alliance Boots, where his last two roles were Retail Brand Development Director and Trading Director. He has also held the roles of Chairman of Sofology, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Nectar and Non-Executive Chairman of Shoe Zone plc.

Ian will join Rory for the final session of our virtual series, on Tuesday 12th October to speak of his experiences of working with teams across different sectors and at different levels, including the acquisition of Sofology whilst CEO of DFS.

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