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About Our Company


We are a team of senior advisors with significant experience in assisting our clients deliver business benefits.


Boards and Executive management have only so much bandwidth and need to focus on running an effective business. We apply our experience to supplement your senior resorces to achieve business growth. We bring a blend of management and market growth philosophies to the benefits agenda(s) balanced with deep results delivery.

We are the trusted advisors and mentors to our client’s senior management, helping them improve business performance and achieve sustained business results. Our strength is built on a commitment to rethinking the traditional, costly and invasive style of consulting. Providing advice and guidance based on our frameworks and business experience rather than armies of expensive consultants.

We operate a flexible client management model, catering for short assignments or long term projects with an agreed number of days per month. Our advisors always engage directly with you to provide the correct level of advice and assistance.

We transfer our skills and methods to you during our assignments, helping your business become stronger and more agile.







What We Do

Business Delivery Services

Our focus is to support start up's and Small or Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to deliver their strategy.

Our proven approach and frameworks are used to help clients to establish a balanced and realistic picture of their business proposition.

Working closely with you and your team, we quickly distil your plans into a joined up, “line of sight” format that links your vision – business objectives – performance targets – initiatives –  governance and accountability.  We then help you address the gaps, validate your targets and prepare a robust framework for business delivery.

Dependent upon the complexity and scale of the challenge a client is facing and their available resources, we can also provide the following additional services :




Positioning our clients to succeed on a strategic change journey
Business Baseline
Articulation of the Business Proposition and development of supporting business plans.
Business Performance
Determination/clarification, documentation and monitoring of performance against the targets. This can be on an internal basis but it can also include an external view against market shifts.
Business Mentoring/Alignment
Ensuring the best resources are allocated to the right activities often benefits from an external perspective. We can apply our approach to review your business programs and recommend potential re-alignments from an independent perspective.

Business Mentoring Services
Many organisations fail to fully maximise Executive potential within their organisations to create sustained business value. Our Business Mentoring Framework (BMF) was developed as a result of corporate client demand for independent management support and mentoring to address business, management and personal development challenges. Our unique approach brings to bear our business knowledge, people management and mentoring expertise to establish a purpose built and repeatable leadership development process for the organisation.
Many clients find that:
  • Boards are not best positioned to manage leadership development. They are primarily focused on delivering the strategy and financial results.
  • Internal leadership development programs often fail to deliver due to the lack of business context.
  • People performance objectives are often not aligned with the business. Effective mentoring helps align these  objectives whilst maintaining strict ‘Chinese Walls’ between personal and business goals.
  • People are the most important business asset. Mentoring should be deployed to protect and realise value from this asset as well as helping the individual develop and improve core competencies.
At the heart of our approach is our unique Business Mentoring Framework (BMF) which deploys our proven management tool to identify and align the personal goals to business needs.The BMF can also be deployed  to develop and retain management talent within the organisation.


                                                    


Business Scale-Up Services
Most Small or Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) experience little growth after early stages of their business evolution. While there is a widespread desire for growth, sustained growth is extraordinarily difficult to achieve as growth in the past is not an indicator for  growth in the future.


We find that the key barriers to SME scale-up are:
  • Doing business without articulating their core propositions / competencies.
  • Not considering their customer view of themselves, their services and competitors.
  • Limited strategic vision and aspiration for growth.
  • Not recognising that growth requires a different management mindset and an expanded skill set; managing the operations by hands-on involvement will
    eventually limit growth.
  • Dealing with increasing financial, risk and regulatory challenges facing the business; such as financial reporting, tax, GDPR, employee pension and cyber
    security.
4Change Business Scale-Up Services aims to help start-ups and successful SMEs achieve their growth potential.

We provide advisory services aimed at helping you shape your business and to enable funding to fuel business growth.

Our services are designed to assist you :
  • Transform your business proposition into a deliverable business plan.
  • Obtain and secure any funding required for growth.
  • Connect with relevant business professionals and services firms to support your business.
  • Network with businesses of similar aspirations.
  • By the provision of an ongoing business mentoring service, act as your 'sounding-board’ to guide you through the major challenges facing your business.

Our People
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Shahram Nikpour
Founder and Managing Director
Shahram  has over thirty years experience in business consultancy and operations and IT management in the UK banking and insurance. He has held senior positions in large international consultancies, including Price Waterhouse, Bossard Consultants and Gemini Consulting. Over the past fifteen years, Shahram has founded and managed a number of niche management consultancies in the UK financial services. Shahram is an expert in business strategy and change management.

Shahram has assisted numerous blue chip institutions launch, measure and deliver their business plans and he has been involved in a number of successful corporate finance transactions for mid-size UK companies.

Shahram also has a successful track record in business mentoring, achieved by uniquely blending together his advisory and mentoring skills to mentor senior business Executives in SME clients.
Andy Veitch
Senior Associate and CIO
Andy is a Senior Associate of 4Change. Andy acts as our Chief Information Officer with prime responsibility of ensuring effective implementation of our Business Delivery Services for our clients.

Andy has over thirty five years experience within the Financial Services  sector. He has been IT Director for Legal & General Investment  Management in recent years and previously held senior IT positions for Legal & General Assurance where he implemented a multi-million pound programme with Andersen Consulting to develop and service Life and Pensions products.

Andy has a unique blend of business and IT knowledge to match systems to business needs. He has a proven track record of delivering practical cost effective IT solutions and  introducing innovative IT management processes to support business growth .

Mike Overgage
Senior Associate
Mike has over 30 years' experience in business change, programme management and consulting, primarily within  the financial services sector.

Mike specialises in complex programmes, with a clear emphasis on delivery of business benefits. Mike has also undertaken major line management roles including large-scale programme management, head of business systems strategy, IT Director and other Board directorships.

Mike has worked with many blue-chip clients including RBS, Merrill Lynch, Standard Bank, ANZ Bank, Lloyds TSB, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, Accenture, Legal and General Investment Management, ING, and BP.
Haydn Parry
Senior Associate
Haydn is a Senior Associate of 4Change and founder of Hunter Strategic Solutions; a  consultancy company specialising in helping leaders to develop and recruit high performance teams and to maximise people potential to fulfil collective aspirations.

Over the past 25 years, Haydn has operated at Board level within many sectors (Life & Pensions, Banking, Healthcare, Construction, Defence, Retail and Technology) in the U.K., Central and Eastern Europe and the United States.
Haydn has worked in many blue-chip clients including, Credit Suisse, Hymans Robertson, Hewlett Packard, Prudential, Lafarge, EDF Energy, Net-a-Porter and McKesson.

Haydn is an expert in executive team development, corporate build, culture change and  leadership mentoring.


Senior Associates
At  4Change we deploy a strong team of senior consultants to work on specific  client engagements, when required. Our senior consultants are a diverse  group of highly experienced people with a wide range of expertise, from  management consultancy to business transformation and results delivery.







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