We have hit a point in our business where it is time to grow and sometimes as a director you need a bit of guidance with that. I have heard a lot about Phil and heard him speak, so me and the team booked him for a sounding board session. By the end of the session, we had created aims and goals for the year ahead and had the tools to start planning this. Phil made everything so clear and talks to you in realistic terms which was reassuring.
If you are looking to set goals in your business and reach them, just want to bounce a few ideas around then I'd highly recommend speaking to Phil. It can be lonely as a director, but speaking to Phil gives you the motivation to do things right and help you reach the next level.
Ryan Mulhern
Owner
First Frame Productions
Phil’s experience and personality make him unique within the Business Coaching/Sounding Board community. There are many people who want to offer business coaching but few have ploughed the particular furrow which Phil has. He has big business experience and he also created, built up and successfully sold his own business to a major PLC. Not many people in this world have such experience and not only can Phil can talk the talk but he really has walked the walk.
He is a good listener with a friendly enthusiastic approach and knows what are the right questions to ask any business owner, and he does so in a thoughtful and considered manner. Through his Sounding Board process Phil can quickly help the business owner to identify the low hanging fruit, and also think of new creative ways to tackle the not so low hanging fruit!
I would highly recommend Phil.
Julian Rooney
Managing Director
Cammax Ltd
I recently engaged with Phil on a business startup that I'm working on, launching within the online media space. The issues that we had related to;
1. Attempting to build a business in a very competitive market with a very limited budget
2. The structural side of running and growing the business in this vertical with a bootstrap mentality/process
After some excellent feedback and analysis from Phil, we worked on a plan to achieve the end goal with radically different tactics to those that I had originally planned. This helped address and solved the main issues outlined above (and added to the initial plan/offering). What I specifically enjoyed is Phil's probing style of asking questions. I found it fostered an atmosphere that lead me to start to think outside the box and offer solutions myself.
I would strongly recommend working with Phil if you have an end goal in mind but need to develop a roadmap to help achieve this commercial goal. We initially started by bouncing some ideas around and then developed it into a more formal plan. I found the experience to be extremely positive.
David McGinley
Owner
McGinley Solicitors
As a small business owner seeking to grow the companies I run, Phil's sounding board service provided me with a rational, well-conceived approach to planning for such growth and gave me the tools I needed to hire in key areas of the business. The highest accolade I can give him is that he helped me achieve my ultimate goal of falling in love with what I do all over again. He is an inspiration and I cannot recommend his 'Business Sounding Board' service more highly.
Tom Galanis, MD, TAG Media