A successful Executive, Non-Executive Director, Mentor, Business Coach and Investor with over 20 years’ experience embracing, managing and monitoring change within businesses of varying sizes and across many geographical locations.
I combine leadership skills with critical thinking, creativity and effective communication to offer independent advice on business strategy, in a diplomatic way. My strong commercial background in fast moving markets, allows me to assimilate, assess and analyse information quickly, and provide a well-founded critical response.
I am a dedicated, highly motivated and enthusiastic professional with a tenacious, meticulous and flexible approach who is keen to gain new knowledge and skills to develop competences further.
I am an experienced Executive who has experience in taking businesses from pre or early revenue through to company sale.
I am an experienced Non-Executive who has taken positions such as IT Director and Chairman.
I have been a mentor for several succesful businesses. I pride myself on giving independant, pertinent advice based on my experience.
I currently hold a spread of investments in several early stage and growing businesses.
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A light-hearted look at the differing advice given to Entrepreneurs and which are of value.
An light-hearted exploration into the world of mentorship.
A light-weighted speech on the luck needed to be succesful in business.
I have been involved with the media covering areas of entreprenuarship, business management, mentoring and investment.
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I worked with Howard for 6 months during 2016 on a number of projects encompassing data capture, management information systems and various web, commercial and graphics based projects. During this time I always found Howard to be very professional and always available. I was impressed with how Howard quickly understood the various project parameters even if they weren’t fully formed from my side; Howards values as a non-invested consultant proved valuable many times. The nature of some of the graphics and web based work I sent to Howard had great complexity which Howard very quickly understood, conversely there were times when Howard had to work with great ambiguity, but as I have now come to know Howard, this wasn’t a problem at all. If I were to over view some qualities Howard displayed as we worked together, I would he is a leader, a motivator, is very detailed, has clarity of thought, is conscientious and cares about achieving the end result. I would have no hesitation in recommending Howard to anyone, and personally I look forward to working with Howard again in the future.
It has been great working with Howard to help me identify the solutions I needed to help me to be able to accurately record, monitor and evaluate the key information I need to enable my business to grow. They have been a pleasure to work with and for any business with a growth plan their systems are a must have.
Howard has been brilliant in getting us started and then giving objective on-going support: it’s great to have someone at the end of a phone who really understands what your business needs and then acts on it quickly and efficiently. A pleasure to deal with from start to finish.
Amazing team that really delivered for us. We are really impressed with the quality of all the advice given. We feel they are a essential part of our team.
I love football! I follow York City, as York is my city of birth.
After football, my next sporting interest is Rugby League. Once again, I support my local team, through thick and, well, thick.
I enjoyß challenging myself through events like The Spine Challenger, a 108 mile endurance along the Pennine Way.
Howard Barton
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As the founder and CEO of a business that relies on its technology to deliver its services, the decision as to who should provide and manage this customer interface was crucial. Individually and as a business we are delighted with the outcome that was delivered both on time and within budget – a welcome combination. That said, this doesn’t reflect the true value added contribution that Howard made to our platform and the way in which we can better engage, track and measure our clients as they use our services. I put this down to the fact that they are not techies, but business people who understood our business challenges and translated our needs through technology. I would have no hesitation in recommending Howard to any business where having a reliable, outsourced partner is crucial to the success of their business.