Chris Shaw

Business Coach

With over 30 years of business experience across Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand Chris has held numerous senior commercial leadership roles including marketing, sales, business development and operations, leading business units sized from a few million dollars sales up to 100’s of millions.

Chris can help you with strategies to grow your business, improve profitability and realise the value you want to achieve as a business owner. From launching a new brand or business unit to turning around performance, Chris has developed expertise across many aspects of delivering business results.

Although gaining significant experience in the corporate world, Chris’s first career was as a consultant in a firm of accountants advising small businesses on business planning, financing, grants, sale and purchase of businesses and was also an advisor to a number of venture capital and regional economic development firms. This gave him a passion not only for all types of business but, in particular, helping small businesses owners.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategy
• Marketing
• Sales
• Operations
• General Management
• Business Planning
• People Management / Leadership
• Finance
• Business Improvement projects
• Change Management
• Organisational Design

Industry Experience

• Life Sciences
• Healthcare
• Professional Services
• Manufacturing

Qualifications

• BSc Management Science
• MBA – Master’s in Business Administration
• Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute
• Lean Six Sigma certification