WHO WE ARE?
Milestones operate a virtual eco-system model whereby we co-opt from a select community of professional experts and business partners the brightest and best into client projects, ensuring that the right people and partners are delivering to the highest standards at all times.
Our clients have been delighted with this approach and seen the benefits of having true experts that have the right culture fit to their organisation, who can operate in a very lean and agile manner.
Put simply, we help you to overcome your obstacles.
So whilst the Milestones Focus and expertise is very much on Strategy, Performance, and Growth consultancy with a wrap-around of Leadership Coaching & Business Mentoring, we have carefully selected associates and partners who specialise in other business-critical areas to ensure that we have the bases covered:
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Accounting & Tax
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Finance & Funding
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IT & Technology
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Legal & Property
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Marketing & Sales
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Systems & Process
OUR BELIEF SYSTEM
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We are very quality and excellence led business that believes passionately in 'doing it right first time'
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One of our founding principles is around questioning ourselves and challenging ourselves about 'How can we do it better every day'
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Milestones operate in a fair, transparent and open manner at all time and work to high levels of honesty and integrity
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As such, we select associates and partners who possess and share our passion
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We want to make it enjoyable and positive, so we will flex the way we work to suit you. We can be as real or virtual as required, but we like to embrace technology to help us work in the most efficient and effective partnership with you as possible
ABOUT MILES
Summary
An experienced and time served; NED, Chair, Board Adviser, Leadership Coach & Business Mentor, Strategy/Performance/Growth & Transformation expert, D&I Talent Acquisition and Staffing & Recruitment sector BPO specialist. W ell versed and practiced in using best practice business planning & strategy tools, operational excellence processes and project & process methodologies, along with leading organisations through compliance & quality standards.
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Background
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Provision of NED Advisory and leadership coaching and business mentoring since 2015
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Experience committee chair & member (strategy, business development, governance, risk and performance)
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Group CEO, CCO & CSO experience in the Recruitment, Invoice Finance, Bill & pay back office, intermediary/Umbrella, practice/psc accountancy and talent tech sectors
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Provided management and business consultancy with proven track record of delivering successful project results with over 60 clients since 2004
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Worked heavily in and around the staffing, recruitment and talent sectors since 1998
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Deal Structuring & Funding, MBO, M&A and trade sale experience since 2012
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Delivering business and leadership solutions into both Elite and Grassroots/community sports organisations since 2020
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Career Highlights
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Concept to launch of unique Diversity, Equality & inclusion led ‘consciously inclusive talent acquisition BPO’ for sport business globally, in Level=
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Chair and NED of E3Recruitment for 4 years, developing strategy and plan, overseeing six fold increase in profitability and growth of business from 8-26 FTE £4- £12m t/o
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Successful fund raise of £3.3m (equity, debt & IF) for UK based Intermediary MBO
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Conceived and fully project managed start-up of Zodeq to trading in <12 months and onto six figure trading profit in year 2
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High Net Worth funded (c£1m) Buy In and MBO of Oriel (rebranded to Outsauce) invoice finance, bill & pay back off services business in 2012. Led transformation change of organisation as CEO (75 staff), growth of 86.1% of GP and 64% throughput to £121mpa. Split business in 2015 and trade sales of both in 2017 & 2018
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Fully managed transformation change project of Kinetic plc, overseeing BD strategy & growth resulting in a 520% increase in net profit including start up to £1m+ pa/38% profitability perm division and establishing a technology led MSP/RPO provision