Chris is the Principal of Chartside Associates and an expert Executive Coach and Mentor. Chris also majors in Strategy Design, Business and Cultural Transformation.

Since Chartside’s inception at the turn of the millennium, Chris has been instrumental in guiding Chief Executives and Managing Directors, helping them to become better leaders, make better decisions and achieve better results.

Prior to launching Chartside, Chris was Managing Director of The Rocom Group, the UK’s largest telecoms distributor, where he re-engineered the group’s activities, re-building the organisation to improve market share and profitability. In 1988 he joined Mercury Communications, where he held a number of sales and general management positions, before playing a leadership role in Mercury Communications’ cultural change programme, ‘Imagine Mercury 97′.

Subsequent to his time with Mercury, Chris became Managing Director of The Yorkshire Cable Group, a subsidiary of Telewest Broadband, where he led the design and implementation of a radical business re-positioning and investment strategy.

After leaving Oxford University in 1980, Steve accepted a position with Du Pont ‘carrying the bag’ as salesman in their Medical Division. After 2 successful years he was moved to the European HQ in Germany where he held a number of positions from Business Analyst to Product and Marketing Manager.

Having driven the strategic restructuring of his product range, Steve moved on to run a $100m division within their Printing and Publishing business. Steve was then approached by London International Group and returned to the UK as European Commercial Director for their Surgical gloves Division, quickly moving to the position of Managing Director for EMEA and Asia Pacific. Following a merger with Seton Scholl Healthcare, Steve took over as MD of SSL International for Northern and Eastern Europe, a broad portfolio including FMCG, Shoe shops and pharmacy sales along with keeping responsibility for the enlarged Medical Division.

Steve was part of an MBO Team that bought the Surgical Gloves division from SSL, taking Regent Medical private. The business then merged with Molnlycke Health Care and Steve took over the global Regent operation of some 2,200 people, very much leading the business from the front across a wide range of geographies and cultures, including manufacturing operations in Malaysia. Steve was also tasked with leading the integration of the sales and marketing operations for the newly formed company in Europe.

In 2007 Steve decided to leave Regent Medical and now applies his considerable business experience, together with his lively, forthright style to executive coaching and mentoring and running elements of Chartside’s Leadership Development Programmes.

Janet is a senior consultant with Chartside. She has spent most of her career working in the retail sector, primarily within the finance and operations functions.

Janet trained as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young, before moving to Woolworths and then W H Smith. Her most recent position was as Finance Director of Index Ltd, part of the Littlewoods Group, where she was part of the senior team brought in to develop a new strategy and business mentality for the company and its people.

Janet has extensive, hands-on experience in leadership and management development and, since joining Chartside, has used her considerable capabilities in these areas to assist business leaders in a variety of organisations.

Her naturally extrovert manner is beautifully complimented by her years of experience spent in structured finance roles, enabling Janet to lead and coach in an enthusiastic and engaging, yet controlled style that produces outstanding results for her clients.

Mike has spent the 34 years of his career to date working with businesses across a range of industry sectors. He is a qualified Personal Coach, as well as a successful and experienced business leader and holds Non-Executive Director positions with a number of Small to Medium Enterprises.

As Chief Executive of a London Stock Exchange listed UK SME (European Colour plc) from 1985 to 2002, he added team building and personal motivation to his skill-set, as key components of delivering sustained strong business growth.

Since joining Chartside, Mike has specialised in helping growing SME’s to continue to develop beyond the point at which the Owner-Manager can no longer “do it all”. The transition from being an entrepreneurially-led business, to becoming team led with clearly defined and communicated objectives and action plans is the key that unlocks a business’ full potential.

Mike’s calm and considered, yet incisive style, allied to his wealth of business experience and knowledge, helps him to bring the best out of his clients, enabling them to realise their true potential as Business Leaders.