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
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.
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
Mark led a machinery sales & service business in the usa from $6 million in sales to $20 million in 4 years before the uk parent company collapsed due to poor leadership and decision-making. 400 people lost their jobs; the company survived, just, but was sold to a competitor
A VC firm who asked mark to investigate why one of its investments was almost bankrupt 18 months after a management buy-out said they were ‘humbled’ by his 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
By creating new key performance measures mark proved to a £4 billion nuclear engineering company that it was following the wrong strategy –the business stream it thought was profitable was not, and the business stream it thought was unprofitable was the right one to focus on
Mark was 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. He 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
Mark has successfully coached the uk managing director in a €250 million anglo-french merger, and is credited with saving the client’s job. Mark’s approach has been to develop him as a top 1%-inspired leader, focusing on maximising his strengths in the workplace
For 3 years mark worked with the lead team of a £21 million corporate laboratory to grow its 3rd party business and prepare for various radical strategic change scenarios. After a $6 billion merger he carried out successful troubleshooting which helped create a more effective, sustainable global product development function
Mark conducted commercial / strategic due diligence on a £350 million potential acquisition by a ftse100 plc. As a result of his work, the group cfo decided to withdraw their bid since he judged that the deal would endanger shareholder value
Using rigorous field market research methods, mark 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
The resolve team was called to help rescue a major it project to automate national train planning. We designed and led a programme to engage 900 train planners so that they embraced the changes instead of resisting them
Resolve created and led a global talent management programme in chicago for a major multi-national financial asset management company
One of the uk’s leading children’s hospitals has used resolve to run stakeholder workshops to design an innovative new post-operative care pathway for babies with serious heart conditions, allowing them to be discharged sooner and monitored at home using cutting edge technologies
The resolve team designed and successfully introduced more sophisticated pricing analysis tools to enable a national wholesaler of aftermarket car components to adopt more accurate, sophistic ated and profitable pricing strategies
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