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Resolve inspires great results by instilling the purposes and behaviours of the top 1% most successfully consistent performers
About Resolve
FOUNDED BY MARK ASHTON IN 2006 AND LED BY HIM, RESOLVE IS AN ECOSYSTEM OF EXPERT INDIVIDUALS AND NICHE SME PARTNER CONSULTANCIES, WHICH EXISTS:
To inspire great results by instilling the purposes and behaviours of the Top 1% most successfully consistent performers
To solve tough business problems with flair and ingenuity
To help companies on both sides of the Atlantic to establish and grow profitable long-term transatlantic business
The Resolve services ecosystem
Mark Ashton
- Top 1%-inspired Leader, Mentor, Coach & Trusted advisor
- UK/USA business growth expert
- 30 years business-to-business sales
- 20 years strategic consulting in the UK/Europe and North America
- Master’s degree in Engineering Science from Cambridge University and an MBA with Distinction from Warwick Business School
Who we work with
Our clients and business partners are often:
- In business in the UK and/or North America
- Professional services
- Science or Technology
- Engineering or Manufacturing (STEM)
- Small to mid-sized, revenues of £5m to £250m
We work with:
- Start-ups
- Early stage businesses
- Family businesses
- Privately held/private equity-owned businesses
- Occasionally large multinationals
We work with leaders and organisations who have open minds, a genuine desire to strive for better and better personal and collective performance and the courage to confront uncomfortable truths and adopt healthier attitudes and behaviours which reduce risks and breed long-term success.
We inspire and support them every step of the way, as long as we are wanted and needed, and we create outstanding value whatever it takes.
We are Resolve
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Colin Russell
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David Dower
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Elizabeth Pearson
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Garry Sanderson
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Jayne Mezulis
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Jeremy Culverhouse
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Judith Crow
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Paul Maslin
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David Grundy
USA (WHITEHALL ADVISORY GROUP)
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Michael Teden
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Sarah Peeler
- Individual experts in bid & tender preparation, behavioural science, business-to-business sales, business matchmaking, business planning, business research & analy tics, change management, corporate strategy, export & import, leadership & management training, project management, strategic marketing
- Average of 25 -30 years’ business experience
- Well-connected in UK and North America
- Shared values & commitment to outstanding client service
Our Expertise
Safe, effective start-up and early stage growth
Organic Growth
Successful turnaround or response to adversity
Transforming change and bold vision inc. M&A
Transatlantic
Key services provided include:
- Research into North American markets
- Development and testing of robust market entry strategies
- Matchmaking – direct introduction to partners and customers via our powerful North American business networks
- Search for suitable agents and distributors
- Business incubation and representation in North America
- Advice and support on all accounting/tax, hiring, immigration and legal matters
- Negotiation of discretionary (unpublished) incentives on new/greenfield AND routine/annual/maintenance USA capital expenditure
- Access to a USA portfolio of third party best practices for profit improvement
Through our own expertise and close partnerships in the UK, US and Canada Resolve supports exporters to North America and helps UK/European businesses to improve transatlantic profitability if they are already established there
Resolve offers similar services to North American exporters and companies already established in the UK/Europe
Case Studies
AFTER A $6 BILLION GLOBAL MERGER CARRIED OUT ORGANISATIONAL TROUBLESHOOTING TO CREATE A MORE COHESIVE MULTI-NATIONAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAM IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY BUSINESSES
BROUGHT IN TO HELP RESCUE A MAJOR IT PROJECT TO AUTOMATE NATIONAL TRAIN PLANNING. CREATED AND LED A PROGRAMME TO ENGAGE 900 TRAIN PLANNERS SO THAT THEY EMBRACED THE CHANGES INSTEAD OF RESISTING THEM
ASKED BY THE CEO OF AN AIM-LISTED £40 MILLION SOFTWARE COMPANY TO RECOMMEND WITHIN 2 WEEKS WHETHER TO SHUT DOWN A £5 MILLION SUBSIDIARY. WORKED WITH THE NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM TO CREATE AND IMPLEMENT A SUCCESSFUL TURNAROUND PLAN, AND SUPPORTED THEM THRO’ TO A PROFITABLE TRADE SALE 4 YEARS LATER
SUCCESSFULLY COACHED THE UK MANAGING DIRECTOR IN A €250 MILLION ANGLO-FRENCH MERGER. CREDITED WITH SAVING THE CLIENT’S JOB. APPROACH HAS BEEN TO DEVELOP HIM AS A TOP 1%-INSPIRED LEADER, FOCUSING ON MAXIMISING HIS STRENGTHS IN THE WORKPLACE
WORKED FOR 3 YEARS WITH THE LEAD TEAM OF A £21 MILLION CORPORATE LABORATORY TO GROW ITS 3RD PARTY BUSINESS AND PREPARE FOR VARIOUS RADICAL STRATEGIC CHANGE SCENARIOS
CREATED AND LED A GLOBAL TALENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME IN CHICAGO FOR A MAJOR MULTI-NATIONAL FINANCIAL ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY
CONDUCTED COMMERCIAL / STRATEGIC DUE DILIGENCE ON A £350 MILLION POTENTIAL ACQUISITION BY A FTSE100 PLC. AS A RESULT, THE GROUP CFO DECIDED TO WITHDRAW THEIR BID SINCE HE JUDGED THAT THE DEAL WOULD ENDANGER SHAREHOLDER VALUE
USING RIGOROUS FIELD MARKET RESEARCH METHODS, CONVINCED THE MAIN BOARD OF A FTSE100 PLC TO ENTER A $1 BILLION BUILDING MATERIALS MARKET IN NORTH AMERICA BY ACQUIRING THE NO 1 PLAYER
LED A MACHINERY SALES & SERVICE BUSINESS IN THE USA FROM $6 MILLION IN SALES TO $20 MILLION IN 4 YEARS
CREATED RADICAL NEW KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS WHICH PROVED THAT A £4 BILLION NUCLEAR COMPANY WAS FOLLOWING THE WRONG OPERATING STRATEGY. THIS WORK CONTRIBUTED TO A RESTRUCTURING OF THE UK NUCLEAR INDUSTRY TO CREATE THE RIGHT STRATEGIC FOCUS
DESIGNED AND SUCCESSFULLY INTRODUCED MORE SOPHISTICATED PRICING ANALYSIS TOOLS TO ENABLE A NATIONAL WHOLESALER OF AFTERMARKET CAR COMPONENTS TO ADOPT MORE ACCURATE, SOPHISTICATED AND PROFITABLE PRICING STRATEGIES
A VC FIRM NEEDING TO UNDERSTAND WHY ONE OF ITS INVESTMENTS WAS ALMOST BANKRUPT 18 MONTHS AFTER A MANAGEMENT BUY-OUT SAID THEY WERE ‘HUMBLED’ BY OUR FINDINGS. THE COMPANY HAD BETRAYED EXISTING CUSTOMERS & 400 STAFF BY PURSUING A RECKLESS HIGH GROWTH STRATEGY DRIVEN BY THE MANAGING DIRECTOR’S GREED AND EGO
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Contact
ask@resolvegetsresults.com
Tel:01756-529952
(Outside of the UK +44-1756-529952)
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