Testimonials

Gavin Friend, Director, Kittiwake Development

“Graham has brought much needed direction to our business to help us through tough trading conditions. He rolled up his sleeves and got under the skin of our business and initiated practical solutions to the problems we faced which have had a significant impact on our margins and profitability.”

Simon Bartlett, Managing Director, Woodbase Joiners

“Over a two year period Graham has provided a wealth of support and advice to focus on improving the business. He is a great coach, mentor and sounding board; providing a good balance of critique and praise. Implementing his ideas and suggestions has allowed us to overcome barriers and achieve objectives. Graham continues to provide support on a quarterly basis as part of a "health check". He has my full recommendation.”

Bruce Sutherland Managing Director, Sabre Telecoms

“Graham’s experience and wealth of ideas makes him useful to any company. His service is flexible, cost effective and professional.”

Mike Connick, Managing Director, Connick Tree Care

Brian Leppenwell, Managing Director, Crawley Industrial Services

“Graham has worked with us on several occasions as a Business Advisor. He has immense knowledge and experience to impart and does so with grace and good humour. He is a pleasure to work with and I wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone.”

Stephen R Hillier, Managing Director, Hillier Associates

“I was most impressed at the time that Graham spent with me and his understanding of my business model. His comments, which were followed up with a detailed action plan, helped me to iron out some of the glitches in my initial business plan. And whilst as a designer I am always looking at the long term goal for any Masterplan – Graham helped me re-focus my energies on my short term priorities. I very much needed an objective opinion on my plans for an ecotourism venture in Sussex. Graham came along at just the right time with a good lateral mind and gave me a great deal of sound advice and importantly some much needed encouragement.”

Charles Hooper, Director, Forest Garden Shovelstrode

“Graham has been instrumental in helping me to understand that my market can change with an economic downturn as well as changes in legislation. Driver Training always used to be regarded as a 'near recession proof' industry, but I have seen many of my competitors really struggle because of their lack of diversification within the core business.
Graham has helped me to target the most profitable areas of my training portfolio and to produce a business strategy for growth in this difficult time. I have to say that the strategy has opened up so many new doors, that I feel my business will be in a very healthy situation for when the recovery starts. His ability to focus and explain certain aspects of the business which I had not given enough attention to, enabled me to see why Graham is so successful and such a valuable asset to any organisation.”

Howard Redwood. DSA ADI; Dip DI; MAIRSO.
Managing Director, Awareness Driver Training Limited

“Thanks for Friday which I think highlighted a few interesting things about our business and it was interesting to see how people react to being forced to think.
I always remember in my architectural degree part of the learning process was critiques of ones work in front of the whole group. Having put hundreds of hours into a project it often took some swallowing when someone pointed out that it was all based on a fundamental flaw and start again. The fascinating thing to watch was the students and who became ultra defensive, who could argue their point and who could reconcile the need to change. Needless to say the ultra defensive never continued to learn and fell by the wayside!”

John Patrick, Managing Director, C-Tech Electronics

“Thanks for yesterday – I think you have given me the kick up the backside I needed!”

Linda Johnson, Owner, Ashdown Forest Llama Park

“Just wanted to say that I thought the workshop you did today was really good.
Always a bit of a hard task to please our Prof Services group – as most of the group are - in the politest and most respectful sense - such a bunch of clever and well informed “know it all’s” !! I thought you managed to pitch it very well indeed.”

Lorraine Bell, Profitnet,The University of Brighton

“Thanks for your ongoing support, Graham. Do you need any testimonials by the way? How about:
I genuinely dread to think where we'd be without Graham Green".

Dave Shaw, Efficiency Direct

“The feedback from the workshop is fantastic as well. Thank you so much for making a challenging subject so accessible.
In the discussions after the presentation xxxxx got almost tearful when he was talking about you and the impact you have had on their business.”

Roz Buchan, Profitnet Project Manager, Brighton University

“Thank you for your input on Friday - a really useful & positive session. I have taken all on board & have started to action them. I look forward to the next session.”

Dr James Densem, Managing Director, Bio Medical

“Graham is an associate of Winning Moves and has long used and championed Benchmark Index and it's economic benefits. He has a wealth of experience in business improvement techniques and is a reliable associate, guaranteed to deliver positive results.”

Zoe Wallis, Winning Moves

“Thank you for all your help in developing our future strategy and business plan. The direction outlined utilises our core skills and moves us into services offering higher margins, which has helped to increase sales and improve profit.
Equally we have benefited from your advice and support in the implementation phase, which has helped us to achieve the desired outcome and overcome the many obstacles encountered along the journey.”

Steve Thornton, Managing Director, Thornton Consulting Group

“We were very grateful to you for your help and giving us the benefit of your experience in business strategy”.

Stephen Hollamby, Managing Partner, Bennett Griffin Solicitors

“The Benchmark exercise provided a basis for examining our existing business. Your assistance in analysing our product range, business sectors and competitors enabled us to decide which products should be promoted and which ones should be retired. Following on from this study, we shall launch a new generation of products early in 2009. Due to the nature of the Company, this was not something that would have evolved naturally, it needed an outsider as a catalyst so that the ideas and beliefs could be realised.
We look forward to continuing the good work with you in the future.”

David Dalton, Managing Director, Afriso Eurogauge

“Graham has the contract to deliver our benchmarking service using the DTI’s Business Performance Review. He has carried out over 300 of these reviews in the last 4 years, maintaining a consistently high level of analysis and advice. Customer feedback indicates an appreciation of his insight as well as his ability to identify linkages between problem areas and action needed to improve business performance”

David Ripley, Business Development & Networks Manager, Business Link Sussex

“It was fantastic to get a third-party perspective on things. We have come away from the Review feeling revitalised and positive about future developments.”
 
“ The whole thing was just brilliant - really useful to have somebody from outside with an unbiased view. Thanks for getting us back into a positive state of mind – we just needed someone from the outside to kick us into action again and you did just that.”

Andrew Lambert, Managing Director, Maxamation Limited

“Your help in developing our future strategy and business plan was much appreciated. The analysis identified the most profitable product segments and the plan focused on looking for more business in these segments, which will increase sales and improve profitability”.

Raphael De Clerq, Managing Director, DTL Limited

“Your help & guidance has been fantastic. I shall now plan more confidently for the future using my full potential whilst knowing my limitations and what to delegate.”

Mike Potts, Managing Director, Flightstore

“Thank you for your help in reviewing our sales and marketing strategy. The targeting of our customers has ensured the salesforce invests their time and effort on the customers with the most growth potential and therefore have become more productive. The segmentation exercise has ensured our marketing and new business development effort is aimed at the right target audience and has increased our conversion rate.”

David Dalton, Managing Director, Afriso Eurogauge