Career Transition Testimonials
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The heart of my executive career was spent investing in SMEs and subsequently sitting on the boards of those investee companies and appointing independent directors too. I ...
Nigel Irvine
Portfolio NED, former banker focused on financing for UK SME’s
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Mike and I met through the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma, during which Mike delivered a presentation about “Securing your First NED Role” and addressed the ...
Jean-Paul Rigaudeau
Portfolio Chair / NED, including Chair, Fairtrade International
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The transition from executive to a non-executive board member requires an in-depth knowledge of the process. Mike helped me understand the nuanced process and provided valuable ...
Isabelle Djian
Portfolio NED, Alternative Investment Sector
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Working with Mike has been really helpful. The career review to identify my key skills and experience to promote for NED roles, the NED focused CV and the candidate ...
Junaid Jafar
Portfolio NED, Investment and Family Office Advisor
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Mike’s coaching skills represent a unique combination of being relentlessly encouraging and upbeat and being courageous and experienced enough to be brutally honest by telling ...
John Dunn
Portfolio NED focused on family businesses & former Partner Jones Day
Featured Testimonial
Mike and I met through the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma, during which Mike delivered a presentation about “Securing your First NED Role” and addressed the participants’ questions. Mike’s insights were extremely valuable for my search process; he emphasized the need to prepare for the search, to assess my suitability for a NED role and to understand the situation to which I would be best suited. A few weeks later, I asked him to help me revise my executive resume into a one tailored to non-executive positions. We also worked on my Memorable Repeatable Message (i.e. my selling line). I have been delighted by the outcome of my collaboration with Mike, and by the quality of his input. Mike is also a great guy to work with: available, responsive and anxious to provide clear and precise answers. More importantly, with Mike’s help I have expanded my portfolio of NED positions; I was recently elected Chair of the Board of one of the world’s largest NGOs in the area of sustainability, I joined the Board of a scientific start up and I am currently involved in the selection process for a NED to one of Europe’s largest retailers.
Jean-Paul Rigaudeau
Portfolio Chair / NED, including Chair, Fairtrade International