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Make your business bloom
Empowering Leaders to Unleash their Business Potential
What's holding back your business?
What gaps do you have in your team?
Welcome to the Bloom Consortium, a collective of dynamic, professional and experienced specialists available on-demand to help overwhelmed business leaders and their management teams realise their company’s full potential and achieve business success.
Our vision is to empower SMEs to succeed. We believe that too much time, effort, and cost is wasted every day by businesses grappling with challenges that could be easily and quickly overcome if they had access to experienced, proven specialists to plug the gaps in their team’s capability.
We know the impact that your business can make if even just a fraction of that wasted time, effort and cost is diverted towards growth instead.
What we do
We're known for delivering measurable change for our clients by plugging the gaps in the key business functions an SME business needs to flourish.
As proven experts in our individual professional specialisms with extensive industry experience, we know the power that bringing in the right expert at the right time can bring.
Our expertise has been honed over decades of experience in the corporate environment, freelancing, contracting and building our own businesses. We’ve worked with hundreds of businesses in the UK and across the globe.
We’re professional, accredited and award-winning, and we also support good causes around the world.
Who we help
We specialise in working with 6-7 figure revenue businesses in B2C and B2B who recognise the opportunity to do more and be more, if only they had trusted go-to experts by their side guiding strategy, planning and supporting implementation.
As businesses grow, there reaches a point where it becomes apparent that there are gaps in the leadership team, but there is a significant time and financial cost to find and recruit full-time personnel.
We can provide the right resources at the right time and at the right level of support, ensuring both time and cost effectiveness. All services are provided on an on-demand basis, so completely flexible.
Our proven abilities and methods successfully support business leaders to survive and thrive, scale and grow, evolve and transform. We deliver tangible business outcomes.
In addition to supporting business leaders to grow their business profitably, we aim to support them to grow sustainably and with purpose - as that will deliver a stronger business and added value for all.
Expertise you can trust
Plug the gaps in your team
Depending on your needs, select the required specialists from our team of experts. Our services are fully flexible and provided on an affordable consulting basis. We supply the professionals you need as soon as you need them, and only whilst you need them.
If you need more than one of us, you can trust that we already know how to work together as a productive team rather than random unconnected consultants.
Marketing Strategy
Creative Disruption
Sales
Finance
IT & Cyber Security
Human Resources
Risk & Compliance
Legal & Contracts
Operations and Transformation
Sustainability
Governance
Funding, M&A, Exit
Meet the team
QUALIFIED. PROFESSIONAL. EXPERIENCED.
Jarmila Yu
MARKETING STRATEGY
Jarmila Yu is a Consulting CMO, Chartered Marketer and a globally ranked Top100 CMO. She is a Fellow of both the IDM and CIM and is often featured in marketing and business publications.
Having spent 25 years in senior marketing roles, Jarmila knows what it takes to develop successful marketing strategies and how to get the best performance out of teams.
She has a track record for growing and transforming businesses through efficient, effective and impactful marketing.
She has made it her mission to provide the CMO Advantage to smaller businesses through her award-winning strategic marketing consultancy YUnique Marketing Ltd.
Andy Taylor
CREATIVE DISRUPTION
Andy is a Creative Strategist and designer. Through his company Mashuni, he delivers creative and branding solutions that enable his clients to improve visibility, credibility, lead generation, footfall and increase profits.
With 30 years of marketing experience across a wide range of market sectors for businesses from start-ups to PLCs, Andy brings the vital creative edge to sales and marketing strategy and plans, delivering innovative solutions with enthusiasm and passion to creative requirements that really enables businesses to stand out in a crowded market, attract the right attention and have the best chance to win business.
Andrew Buchannan
SALES STRATEGY
Andrew (F.ISP) is a Consulting CRO as well as a sales strategist and coach and CEO & Founder of Future Consulting Ltd. Andy helps companies achieve their growth goals by enabling them to win more business. Andy does this using three key pillars:
DEFINE: Defining the strategic sales plan in line with the company’s goals.
ENGAGE: Ensuring all stakeholders are engaged with that plan.
TRAIN: Training & coaching the sales teams to ensure success.
Andy achieves this by drawing on his 37 years of Sales and sales leadership at companies both large and small, combined with his strong mentoring and coaching skills.
Damian Connolly
FINANCE
Damian is a Consulting CFO/Finance Director, a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA), and a senior finance professional with over 20 years experience in 'entrepreneur owned' and private equity backed businesses.
He has helped to drive change and improvement in exciting (and challenging) businesses, through building finance teams, implementing structure, processes and systems while also delivering a number of 'finance led' business projects.
Additionally, as the Managing director of Sakura Business Solutions, Damian helps business owners to better understand the key numbers in their business, improve their systems and processes to support their growth, while at the same time ensuring that business risks are successfully managed.
Damian's extensive 'real world' experience, along with a practical 'business focused' and 'can do' approach combine in his view that 'Business owners making clear, well thought out and more profitable decisions is what the finance function is there for!'
Ben Fielding
IT & CYBER SECURITY
Ben is an experienced Technology Strategist/Consulting CTO and brings a wealth of understanding of how technology can be best deployed to build the IT foundations necessary to underpin business success. He provides support to businesses through all stages of growth.
Having an aligned technology strategy is key to business agility and strength.
Ben's three-step process delivers valuable actionable insights and direct support.
- Understanding the business goals, the technology footprint and performance
- Aligning skills, solutions and supplier relationships to support the objectives
- Setting a strategy for ongoing technology management and supporting future goal setting
In business today to underpin your growth ambition, ensuring your IT systems and services align with your company strategy is vital.
Pippa Dennitts
HUMAN RESOURCES
Pippa (CMCIPD) is a consulting HR Director and qualified Executive Coach. She has over 20 years’ experience supporting boards and business owners in all things people related.
Her specialised combination of business experience, HR knowledge and coaching skills enables her to deliver board level insight and expertise which supports business transformation through improved communication, accountability, engagement and productivity. Pippa’s consultancy business, Strength In People has developed the People Ecosystem TM which provides a lens through which organisations can identify the connectedness of Strategy & Culture, Performance & Behaviours, Process & Activity and Data & Compliance so they can disrupt the patterns which sabotage organisational performance.
Jeff Alcock
RISK ASSESSMENT
Jeff is a Risk Resilience Consultant and Insurance Broker, he has been working with businesses of all sizes and structures for over 35 years. He “De-Risks” businesses by carefully identifying their main risks and then develops a strategy to manage, eliminate or insure those risks.
Being an experienced risk professional and CEO of JCA Resilience Group Limited ensures that his clients and all their stakeholders get the best risk support and the most cost-effective insurance cover possible. This gives entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors the confidence to grow their business.
Operations
We appreciate that it’s often only when organisations navigate intense periods of change brought about through business improvement projects or due to rapid growth, that the need for a distinct role of “Operations Officer” becomes vital. Ideally the role will be created during the growth readiness phase.
Quite simply during growth or scale the CEO or MD will be unable to continue to carry out all the roles and responsibilities to the depth required and will benefit from a critical friend and co-pilot. The Operations role will guide and direct resources with a focus on effectiveness and efficiency; prioritise organisational requirements; oversee business transformation projects; drive operational performance measures, keeping the attention on delivering maximum value from investments.
Legal
We know the legal requirements that can arise in business can be broad, and that they need timely and reliable support. We also know that a growing business will require a range of specialist legal advice to support its different and changing needs, especially during times of business growth when legal support needs to be cost-effective.
Typical legal needs that can arise:
Business Structure & Set-up – Corporate & Commercial Law – Contracts & Deals – Employment & HR – Intellectual Property – GDPR & Data Protection – Property – Fundraising –International Trade & Expansion – Exit
Sustainability
Building sustainability (social and environmental) into a business’s strategy and operations is not only the right thing to do but it can be highly effective in creating business value. We know the added value that reducing our carbon footprint, being inclusive and sustainable can bring. All things are not created equal, no two businesses are the same, there is no single blueprint to follow to build a sustainable business. The readiness to embark on sustainability programs and skills to take the necessary actions to become carbon neutral and then to achieve NetZero will be different for each business; based on many aspects not least organisation type, focus and maturity. That’s where having support from sustainability specialists who can swiftly provide an appropriate and actionable path that leaves your existing teams free to focus without distraction on serving their clients and managing their teams is invaluable.
Frequent requests include:
B Corp Certification & Re-Certification Support – Sustainability Strategy, Design and Delivery – Carbon Measurement & Benchmarking – Net-zero Target Setting – Climate and Carbon Reporting - Green Energy Procurement – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Governance
Good governance makes your business more trustworthy, reliable and stable. Even if you are just starting out or you’ve grown into a sizeable but still small business, having solid and sound corporate governance will support your future growth and aid regulatory compliance and business culture. Companies do not exist in isolation. Successful and sustainable businesses underpin our economy and society by providing employment and creating prosperity. To succeed in the long-term, directors and the companies they lead need to build and maintain successful relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. These relationships will be successful and enduring if they are based on respect, trust and mutual benefit. Accordingly, a company’s culture should promote integrity and openness, value diversity and be responsive to the views of shareholders and wider stakeholders. Corporate governance is the system by which businesses are directed and controlled. A key task of any director is to deliver effective governance at their organisation.
Common support requested:
Building Governance Frameworks – Establishing a Board – Effective Collaboration between the Leadership Team and the Board - Financial Reporting
Funding, M&A, Exit
Whatever your reason for considering exiting your business or restructuring the ownership of it, you’ll want to maximise your return from having invested your valuable time, effort and money into building your business. Ideally, you’ll be planning the “business life event” well in advance to ensure you can get the best deal possible. It pays to plan! Some entrepreneurs and business leaders even plan their business exit from day 1, ensuring everything built leads to the most successful endgame. Whether you’re thinking about potentially selling up or looking at the various options to fuel a pivot or your next period of growth, leaning on the expertise of business sales or investment readiness professionals can help optimise your results.
Typical support requests:
Business Sales – Employee Ownership – Growth Capital Transactions - Company Buybacks - Management Buyout – Mergers - Acquisitions - Joint Ventures - Deal Negotiation – Business Sale Readiness - Reoganisations - Demergers - Corporate Restructuring - Private Equity - Venture Capital - Listing Rules - AIM Rules - Equity Capital Markets - Investor Readiness
Contact us for a confidential, no-obligation discovery call
Find out how we can free you to focus on growing your business and help your business bloom.
Empowering Leaders to Unleash their Business Potential
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