DAVID WILLIAMS
MBA, MAA, BBS, NZCC, MInstD
With over 39 years of business experience working on the inside of businesses, the last 22 years have been devoted to working within companies helping the owners transform their organisation and achieving significantly improved results and better outcomes.
I bring my personable approach to getting alongside your staff and positively influencing any problematic situation. I will help your staff innovate business processes and work with them to embed sustainable improvements into your business. Empowering employees and building an optimistic culture ensures collaboration.
I have considerable experience in Manufacturing, Service and FMCG sectors, having worked internationally and nationally in Frozen Dough & Fresh Bread Manufacturing, Electrical Distribution Network Service, Pharmaceutical R&D & Manufacturing, Aircraft and Helicopter Sales & Service, Apparel Manufacturing & Branding, Materials Handling and even Carpet Manufacturing businesses. Businesses ranging in size from $12m turnover and 63 staff to over $150m turnover and more than 480 staff. I have sleeves-rolled-up business experience as interim CEO for New Zealand and Australia, General Manager in the USA, Australia and New Zealand regions and Group CFO for New Zealand and Australia.
I have activated a $16m leveraged MBO, successfully prepared a business for sale, successfully presented a different company to potential Trade & Private Equity Investors resulting in a $25m additional investment and have restored a manufacturing business that was destroyed by fire (after removing previous management for fraud). For another client, I have lifted the Gross Margin 5 percentage points (17% improvement) and, compared to the prior period, a bottom-line improvement exceeding $3.45m while Revenues decreased by 15.3%. Most recently, a company with stagnant Revenue for 13 years grew 34% in year one and a further 16% in year two. Margin lifted 4.2%age points in year one and an additional 2.6%age points in year two, from 21.6% to 28.4% overall. Net profit lifted 550% in year one and 82% further in year two.
Specialties:
Strategic Business Transformations; Strategic Plans/Business Plans; Corporate Governance; MBO and Equity Arrangements; Business Reconstructions & Turnarounds; Union Negotiations and Collective Agreements; Sales Strategy and Customer Segmentation.
JACKIE COLES
Jackie can bring triple-bottom-line sustainable changes to your business culture through her vast experience in mentoring and counselling people.
Jackie can also help you with any event you might be planning, drawing from a vast experience delivering successful major events for charitable organisations with very limited budgets.